Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It's happily celebrated by nearly everyone in the US. And it's a day when I get my carb fix... both in preparing them and in consuming them! Here is this year's Thanksgiving invitation and menu. I decided to combine them.

Those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, do you host or travel to someone's home for dinner? If you host, what is your favorite thing to prepare?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
xo
Patti

Thanksgiving's Almost Here!

My family does a great job of splitting up the holiday hosting duties. I happily host Thanksgiving every year. It's my favorite holiday! I've put together a couple of inspiration photos (found on Pinterest) along with the invitation I sent out and this year's menu. I'd love to hear about your Thanksgiving plans. Feel free to share in the comments.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
xoxo
-Patti

A Weekend of Celebration

Our family had a wonderful weekend full of celebrating! Not only was it mother's day, but my oldest son became a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday. I've shared some of the process along the way with photos of the invitation suite and a few of the party favors. Today I'm showing you a little bit more. As you may recall, the party had a "woodland" theme. I used two existing illustrations from my collection, the snail and mushroom, and I added a third illustration: the fern.

Each guest (or couple) received nine pieces of Woodland Themed personalized stationery...

Each place setting included a dark chocolate covered pretzel rod from Munson's Chocolates and a menu card with one of the woodland illustrations on top. The place cards were also topped with one of the themed illustrations...

Here is a photo I snapped of my son's table. I will share more photos once I receive them from the photographer.

The whole day was absolutely lovely. All were invited to the luncheon directly following the service while only kids were invited to the evening festivities which lasted until 11:00 p.m. A restful Mother's Day was greatly appreciated and I'm not ashamed to tell you I never changed out of my pajamas on Sunday. And to top it off... I took a mid-day nap! Perfection.

Halloween Menu - 2010

As you may recall from one of my previous posts, my family and I are hosting a neighborhood halloween party. You can read about it here. As a follow up, I'm sharing with you the menu I have planned for the evening. Since there will be ghosts and goblins of all ages attending, I designed the menu to suit most anyone. I wanted to insure was that no utensils be used. Since this will be a somewhat large party with people walking around, mingling, dancing, tricking and treating, I thought it best to serve "finger foods". I am making fun labels with halloween names for each item; like the blue corn chips will be labels "Bat Wings".  Tell me in the comments below what are some of the fun things you're doing for halloween. Are you hosting a get together?