Girls Night In

Hello beautiful ladies in blogland and welcome to Cuisine Kathleen's Challenge for a girls night out.I decided to go out side the box and create a Girls Night In  instead.

I asked my coworkers what would they want to do for a girls night out and one suggested a Girls Night in. well what would do if we stayed in? the amazing answers ranged from avocado and oatmeal masks , medis and pedis. crafts of different mediums and how about game night. Back up there for a second Games? what kind of games and what do I have in this old mans house? Well I have a mission to find something to resemble a game night.Ta da dice cards dice yatzee that says fun to me and lets make it very atrractive for our group of exciting ladies some Purple cosmos yum yum yum. 

My purple marten plates came home with me as did the purple napkins and added purple and pink decor

 

I love the work of these plates and paired with my white coral plates giving a web edge around the plate 

I pulled

 out my new pink rose tablecloth I have been seeing on everybody 's 

 tables so soft and pretty

I ADDED STAR GAZER LILIES THAT WERE ON THE PLATES EVERYBODY GETS A LITTLE BIRD BOX TO LEAVE WITH (MAYBE WITH THEIR WINNINGS IN) I PUT THE YAHTZEE ON A DEEP PURPLE CAKE PLATE AND MORE DICE ON THE PURPLE AND PINK RIBBONED CAKE PLATE

TWO PLATES GOT PEDDALED CHARGERS THE OPPOSITE TWO WERE PURPLE ROUND CHARGERS

ALMOST A STRAIGHT IS THIS FIVE CARD STUD?

I USED MY EVER READY PURPLE PANSY VASE WITH DANDELION LIKE FLOWERS

 

hERE IS THE TABLE FROM ABOVE VIEW I LOVE THE COLORS AND NOT ONLY DOES IT LOOK LIKE FUN I THINK THE GIRLS ARE GONNA HAVE A BLAST WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN US WE CAN OPEN UP THE TABLE TO FIT YA?.

WELL COME JOIN OUR GIRLS NIGHT IN PARTY THANK YOU CUISINE KATHLEEN FOR SUGGESTING THIS. IT SURE IS FUN.I'LL ALSO BE JOINING SUSAN AT BETWEEN NAPS ON THE PORCH,FUNKY JUNK INTERIORS, AND LETS JOIN THE SCOOP COME AND LAUGH CRY CREATE AND JUST BE IN THE MOMENT WITH ALL OF US YOU'LL ENJOY YOURSELF.SUSAN

solo vacation

Recently I treated myself to my very first solo vacation. Between all the events  of divorce, moving twice two deaths and three different job changes I needed to do something for me something that involved the  FUN word. It seems I don't have that f word in my life and knew I had to make a change.So I packed a back pack and flew to Seattle Washington.

I have never been there and this was definitely a city worth seeing. Hi everbody in blogland. I hope this past week has been good for all of you. I hope Spring has hit you all and you are all enjoying the beautiful weather and all the beauty spring brings. While in Seattle I went to Pikes Market, Chulery gardens the Space Needle, I took a ferry boat out to Bremerton Island where I watched my cell phone fall out of my pocket and wash away in the Puget sound.

Here I am on the waterfront on just a glorious day

 

Cherry blossoms abound every where you look just magnificent

The flowers at the market were such an eyeful and so beautiful they looked almost fake I have never seen such tulips before 

I went up to the top of the space needle and not only is the view breath taking when you look down but when you look up and 360 degrees all around

One building had these 80 feet three dimensional spiders painted on the roof  AMAZING

Just a fabulous view.

These are pictures of the glass sculptures in the garden. words cannot describe these stunning beautiful works they were magical, enormous, fabulous, and truly the most colorful works I have ever seen. If you live there in Seattle you are blessed if you want to visit it is a wonderful city with so much to see and do.I gave my self the gift of adventure and the experience to explore. I hope to be able to call Seattle my home in the near future. Have a great week  and take the time to give your self something maybe not trip but do something special for yourself. it really helps. I'm joining Susan with Between Naps on the Porch ,Funky JUnk Interiors, Lets join the Scoop. hope to see you all there.Susie

Springtime in wanna be Paris

My idea of springtime in paris started with these too cute plates from Home Goods

Hello everybody I hope your weeks have been well I didn't post last week I was out of town and will send a post on that next week but just have to say I had a Wonderful with a capital W  time
This table came about with a giant snowball tree in the back yard that I wanted to use in my table and the glorious pink rosebuds blooming maybe not cherry trees but still gorgeous in spring

I custom ordered this sign on ebay and just love it so that helped inspire me for a table in paris theme.

I had pink Paris napkins I used and while at Home Goods they had these tiny dainty little dessert forks with little jewels on them they just had to come home with me.

I didn't use many plates in the stack just a pink charger a white and silver base plate and the little Paris dessert plates

the flatware looks gold in this candle lite but truly it is very shiny silver colored look at these little forks aren't they adorable?

 I added little Eifle towers I had

here are the snow balls and roses together

 Individual little dessert snack plates at each setting I love to entertain but I love serving mostly just desserts

beautiful crystal stemware for water and some bubbly maybe a chocolate wine dessert liquor

Or maybe some yummy strawberry shortcakes will be splurged on served on a cotton candy cake plate

Heres a view of the whole table now you can see the silver of the flatware and flowers and candles are set

pink and lace tablecloths for that touch of romance I could only imagine a visit to Paris would be like

 

the flowers on the plates look like raniculas but I thought I would use rosebuds
Hope you enjoyed my pretend visit to Paris for a lovely Spring time dessert night I will be joining Susan at Between naps on the Porch this week , Funky Junk Interiors,Lets join the Scoop come out and play with us you'll enjoy yourself with some gorgeous table eye candy have a good week Susie