Today's posting is a wee peak at some decorations that I put together for my friend Catalina's birthday. It was a milestone birthday for Catalina and I wanted it to be extra special for her.
For the past three months I've been hitting up a few of Toronto's Value Villages in search of some Mason jars that I could convert into lanterns for both the amazing fruit trees that are in Cat's backyard as well as for the patio and table tops. Knowing that Cat's favourite colour is red, I ventured out to one of my favourite stores here in Toronto - The Paper Place - to scour their selection of decorative papers. I ended up finding a really lovely paper (see image below).
I also stopped by a craft store and picked up some red, blue and green construction paper. With paper in hand I headed home and began crafting a ridiculous number of flag banners (you can see them in the picture at the bottom of this posting). I think I ended up creating about 10 banners and they were all about 8 or 9ft long...I have NO idea why I thought to make so many or where I thought I would put them all (I only ended up using 4). Oh well, I'll save them for the next birthday I suppose! I went with red tablecloths (which I grabbed from a nearby Dollarama...gotta love it) and picked up some flowers on my way to the house and stuck them into some reserved Mason jars.
I have to say that there were times when I started wondering if it would all come together (especially when I didn't think the candles I bought would fit in the lanterns...and when I wasn't able to light the lanterns with regular matches...and when the BLACK heavy storm clouds started spitting rain down at me), but the end product was quite lovely (if I do say so myself). And I'm also happy to report that the weather dance I did seemed to cheer up the bastard clouds that were spitting at us. The rain thankfully wasn't too hard and went on its merry way about an hour after the party got started. Unfortunately the mad dash to the finish kept me from taking photos before the party started when it was still light out, but I did manage to snap a few towards the end of the night. All in all, I think it was a great success!
(Mason jar lanterns)
(notice the variety of empty wine bottles...the sign of a good night!)
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