rootedinthyme-HipHopDX: June 2013

Thursday, June 27, 2013

~Whimsical Journals & Simple & Sweet Fridays~

I love being creative.

After a birthday party for a friend we made Journals.

We celebrated my friend, Mary's party with a

"Breakfast At Tiffany" Theme.

It was such a fun party!

After lunch, we made Journals.

I collected lots of pretty trinkets for my girlfriends.

Ribbons, pearls, lace, beads and inspirational sayings.

The birthday girl's creation!

Virginia's had a fun bird theme!

Linda's inspirational Journal!

Tami's Sweet Vintage Design!

Yuri's Floral Design With A Birdcage.

A Paris Theme For Me!

It was a wonderful finale to a memorable party!

Hope this inspired you to make a journal too!

So many great ideas for journals, you could do;

inspirational quotes, garden notes, travel journal,

words of meditations, poems and a diary journal.

The ideas are endless!

Thanks again for joining the party every week!

Can't wait to see all your inspiring projects.

Happy Thursday everyone!

Last weeks Simple & Sweet Favorites!

This weeks features:

The Rococo Roamer

Simply Vintagous by Susan

Common Ground

My Salvaged Treasures

Alex Haralson

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

~(Breakfast At Tiffany's) Birthday Party For Mary~

We finally were able to surprise our friend, Mary, with a wonderful birthday party!

The Theme was "Breakfast At Tiffany's".

We celebrated the party at Tami's beautiful home.

All the girls; Tami, Linda, Virginia, Yuri and me have been planning her party for months now.

Mary has always given all of us wonderful parties, now it was her turn to be pampered. She also has a wonderful blog called,

"La Bella Vita Design And Inspiration".

You have to check it out!

Getting all the decorations together was so much fun.

I painted a box to look like Tiffany's.

We used it for the centerpiece. So pretty!

I made lots of Poms Poms!

Stamped some name tags with music notes and a chandelier.

You know me,

I had to stamp the name tags!

I wrapped presents with lots of tulle.

Mary,

Our Queen Bee.

Virginia made the best Lemon Drop Martinis.

The sugar around the rim was the perfect touch!

Appetizers were:

Brie with Orange Fig Jam

Vegetarian Grape Leaves

Tami found all the wonderful napkins, tulle, candies

and accessories to match the theme at Party City.

Linda made the prettiest Tiffany cake I've ever seen.

Marzipan and fondant icing( brought back from her recent trip from England) and pearls added to the Genoese Cake.

The filling of fresh whipped cream and strawberries

was so light and delicious.

She served it with a Chambord creme sauce.

She even placed white gladioluses and

a Tiffany bag with pearls to it.

Just spectacular!

Tami made white chocolate dipped strawberries

and I made some madeleines.

The table looked so pretty with all the decorations.

I used some of my mother's black gloves

and hat for a Audrey Hepburn look.

Of course, we needed a compact and old lipsticks.

Pearls Everywhere!

Lots of pretty presents!

The gazebo was the perfect place for Mary's party!

Tami arranged pretty white roses with baby's breath in the center.

I bent wire and added pearls for our initials.

Tami made Zucchini Soup.

Rosemary Lemon Salmon with Capers and

Cheesy Potatoes for the birthday lunch.

Yuri made a Mango Strawberry Salad.

It was a meal, we'll never forget.

So good!

Yuri surprised us with cookies made

from her friend, Julie Otsuka.

They were so special!

We all had such a wonderful day.

There was a craft table too with all kinds of trinkets

to decorate a journal.

I'll share with you all our creations on this week's

Simple & Sweet Fridays Party!

Happy Birthday To A Very Special Friend.

We Love You, Mary!

Thursday, June 20, 2013

~A Little Kiss and Simple & Sweet Fridays #68~

I couldn't resist saying "A Little Kiss".

These fairies are so cute, just like they're posing for us.

When my daughter, Carly, came to visit she surprised me with a new pumpkin for my fairy garden.

It is just the right size for my fairy basket!

Now the fairies have a new pumpkin home.

Here's another miniature spot in a terrarium I have.

I found the barn at Michael's and painted it red. I also found the little chalet house at a thrift store and the tractor at Home Goods.

So cute!

I bought some new vegetables for the garden.

Some lettuce, black beauty eggplant and spinach.

I found the prettiest Basket of Fire Purple Chili Peppers.

Filled in one of the raised beds with all the vegetables I just got.

The other one has Carrots, Japanese Eggplants and Swiss Chard.

Look in the background, one of the sunflowers is so tall!

The purple artichoke flower is so pretty in bloom!

Stan helped me hang some beautiful pots,

that I found at a French Store.

Love them on the fence!

Our first big crop of veggies!