At the beginning of the month we had our church's Christmas party. I was in charge of decorating. Our theme was "Give S'more" When you think of s'mores you think of a warm toasted fire. So here is the one I made
I went by an appliance warehouse and got a refrigerator cardboard box that they were throwing away. I cut a hole for an opening and spray painted it red and added some brown lines for bricks. I stacked some wood logs like I was going to make a fire. Our church doesn't allow real fires in the building, so I wrapped white lights around the logs and stuffed with red and orange tissue paper.
Then for the tables I had them lined with mini fires as well.
Here is a closer look. I just made a skinny rectangle box, painted it brown, and stuffed with some more red and orange tissue paper. (If you want more exact measurements of the boxes I will post a tutorial later.) In between each fire box we had our little "Give S'more" handouts for the sisters to take home when they were done eating.
You might remember these from my previous
post. I just packaged mine a little differently.
I also thought that a Hot Chocolate Bar would be good to keep us warm by the fire. Some ingredients we had...crushed Ande's mints, peppermint sticks, orange peelings, chocolate covered spoons, and of course marshmallows. I also had flavored creamers, but I forgot to pull them out until later after I already took the picture. The flavorings were vanilla, gingerbread, & sugar and spice.
The whole bar picture. My favorite combination was the crushed Ande's mints stirred with a peppermint stick. Mmmmm....
We had a beautiful musical number done by some very talented sisters in our ward. I had never seen a harp in real life before so I was excited
Here are the sisters caught in action. The pictures don't do the room justice. All of the lights were cut off except for one set. The room had a warm glow with all of the christmas lights surrounding around everywhere.
Remember this Holiday Season that you can never GIVE enough. There is always room to "Give S'more" Merry Christmas to all
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I usually don't throw birthday parties, but I have decided that I would probably throw one for my kids this year. I went to Party City 2 months ago and bought all of their Under The Sea party decor. I know that it was December and my kids birthday isn't until August, but I couldn't let things go by me that were 90% off. That is a steal! I have stashed everything in my closest just waiting for the perfect time to pop out for the summer. Well, as I was blog surfing I came across CupKate's Event Designs. She is very talented and AmAzInG! She threw this beautiful party and took pictures of all the details she created. Of course I fell madly in love with it right away, because HELLO it already matched the theme I was going to do. Thank You CupKate you have taken all the hard work out of my party planning. I had to put you on my blog so I wouldn't loose your post in fabulous blog world. Thank You
I went by an appliance warehouse and got a refrigerator cardboard box that they were throwing away. I cut a hole for an opening and spray painted it red and added some brown lines for bricks. I stacked some wood logs like I was going to make a fire. Our church doesn't allow real fires in the building, so I wrapped white lights around the logs and stuffed with red and orange tissue paper.
Then for the tables I had them lined with mini fires as well. 
Here is a closer look. I just made a skinny rectangle box, painted it brown, and stuffed with some more red and orange tissue paper. (If you want more exact measurements of the boxes I will post a tutorial later.) In between each fire box we had our little "Give S'more" handouts for the sisters to take home when they were done eating.
You might remember these from my previous post. I just packaged mine a little differently. 
I also thought that a Hot Chocolate Bar would be good to keep us warm by the fire. Some ingredients we had...crushed Ande's mints, peppermint sticks, orange peelings, chocolate covered spoons, and of course marshmallows. I also had flavored creamers, but I forgot to pull them out until later after I already took the picture. The flavorings were vanilla, gingerbread, & sugar and spice.
The whole bar picture. My favorite combination was the crushed Ande's mints stirred with a peppermint stick. Mmmmm....
We had a beautiful musical number done by some very talented sisters in our ward. I had never seen a harp in real life before so I was excited
Here are the sisters caught in action. The pictures don't do the room justice. All of the lights were cut off except for one set. The room had a warm glow with all of the christmas lights surrounding around everywhere.
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