Ugg! As in what a mess!

I just looked at my last post, and you can plainly see that, truthfully, I suck at this! I guess it's a learning curve, only my second go around, so have pity on me and excuse the layout and the many typo's, please. I swear I'll do better next time.

Three Little Princesses came to Play...

On Sunday I hosted Miss Malia Sunshine's 1st annual Valentine Tea Party. We had two of her little friends, Miss Kaylee Ann and Miss Moriah Grace along with their mommies and my sister and my cousin. Of course I didn't take any pictures of us grown up princesses.(we were, in fact, wearing our tiaras) but the girls were soooo stinking cute! I set up a "glitter station"where the girls primped and put on heart bead necklaces and bracelets.

I set up this little "glitter station" for the girls when they came in. They primped, and glittered themselves(and us) up and put on heart bead necklaces and bracelets.

The girls menu was heart shaped PB& Jam, with strawberries, Hot Cocoa to drink with really cute pink and white heart shaped marshmellows. (BTW, after the party I had like 3 minutes to stick my nose into the new Romantic Homes magazine and what did I spy but my pretty little marshmellows from the Dollar Tree and my gorgeous black tea set from Rosanna! I love that!) I also made them red velvet cupcakes with my secret fluffy frosting.Those were definately a fave. I also made a pretty red punch, and gave the girls red licorice straws to drink from.

On the menu for the mommies- I served 3 different tea sammies ( ham salad, egg with dill and cucumber on rye), I made a salad of mixed greens with toasted pecans and dried cranberries and some mini quiche lorraines. I also put together a chocolate fondue with strawberries, bananas, pound cake and more pink heart marshmellows. I also made a cake(red velvet) using one of those Tiara Dessert pans. Anyone remember those? I mad a triple berry filling and more of my secret fluffy frosting on top. I love when an experiment turns out good.

I have to say, I have thrown a whole mess of parties and this one was one of the best. I think everyone had a good time, it was the right group of people, which is sometimes hard to plan for. Up next- Girls Night Out's Ocsar Party.

whew, i need a drink!

Look At My Booty!

I love thrift stores, sorta grew up in them. In high school, I shopped at thrift stores because I was broke and wanted to be different. Now I shop for the thrill of the hunt. Nothing better than finding treasures that others can't seem to see. Especially when it's cheap! Of course, my husband calls it all junk, he only likes new stuff with big price tags(the cretin). Opposites really do attract! So back to my booty, this picture is just a fraction of what I found this week(it was a good week). The three metal cannisters were only $1.50, the books were .25 a piece(a music book, a beautiful cookbook and a book of miniture art) the tidbit dish was $2.50 and the very recent copy of County Living was only .10! Whoo-hoo! I'll try to post more pictures of my treasures later... but for now I need to work on setting up my new Blackberry. (An early Valentine gift) It is a very pretty red, with a lot of technology- and I am not very technical!