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Are You Ready For Some Football?

Superbowl Sunday is almost here, and well, since the Patriots aren’t playing this year I’ve made other plans.  Who am I kidding, I’m not a football fan at all.   I AM, however, a fan of decorating!  When my husband told me he was hosting the football draft party for his buddies I decided I needed to spruce the place up.  Now, I didn’t go crazy psycho pinterest and start making all football shaped food, I did the smart thing and ordered from Redbones.

I did, however, make the silverware pretty!  

I also made some simple centerpieces for the picnic tables.  A football banner…yes please! And don’t forget the drink table.  Granted, most of the guys were drinking the coolers full of beer, but how refreshing is a bottle of Coke served in a vintage ice chest on a hot summah day?

This next tip will send you running to Amazon to make your own Turf Tablecloth!

What better way to cover your table for the big game?  Best of all, you can fold it up and use it again and again.  (ps:  Am I the only one who thinks about the Brady Bunch any time I see artificial grass?)

Big shout out to my design assistant Andrew, who added his helmet collection to the tablescape.   He’s my kid for sure!

Now I know that all of these details were completely lost on the guys.  If nothing else, adding just a little bit of football ribbon will turn me into a fake football fan any day!  Cauz when I hear the words Brady and Football together, I really think of THIS!

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Lordy Lordy…

Over the past month and a half I’ve put together SEVEN (no joke) parties.  Some were small, some where humongous, but this one…the last of them…was the funnest of them all!  Lordy Lordy my hubby turned 40.

To say my husband likes blackjack is putting it mildly, and no card counting here, but man he is good!  So to have a Vegas themed birthday party was perfect for him.  Of course, I went all out with the decorations, and I promise that I’ll share everything with you eventually, but today I wanted to show you the front door!

WELCOME TO FABULOUS…Salvation Army!

Yup, that’s right…that beautiful frame and canvas was thrifted for only $7.99, and as much as I loved “dottie’s flowers”  I had bigger plans.

Believe me now?!?

I simply popped Dottie’s masterpiece out of the frame,

and used spray adhesive on the canvas and attached the little somethin’ I whipped up on Photoshop.

For a total of $28, my front door was ready to greet our guests!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

(Side note: those two little ones were sent home with Nannie after a few lessons of roulette, black jack, and craps.  Look out world, we’ve got a couple of sharks on our hands!)

 

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