March
Madness Cocktails and Glitter style!
We are now
in the third month of the year as well as the third month of blogging. We are getting a better hang of it each day
and hope you are still enjoying what we are putting out there. Any and all feedback is welcome. If you haven’t already, be sure to “follow
us” on Pinterest and “like us” on Facebook!
In the month of March we will be…
- Adding more content to the blog, Pinterest and Facebook.
- Loving having sunlight in the evenings, don’t forget to set your clocks for daylight savings this weekend!
- Increasing the frequency and intensity of workouts. Those pounds are going to drop!
- Making a couple of crafts, maybe we will finally get around to those wreaths we got snowed out of making in January!
- Having a big Happy Hour...maybe even two!
- Cheering on the RiverCity Rollergirls at our first ever roller derby, March 16th.
- Treating ourselves to a spa day.
- Traveling and visiting friends.
- Celebrating
Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17th.
- Celebrating the first day of Spring, March 20th.
- Enjoying the unofficial kick off to the festival season, The Irish Festival, March 23-24th.
- Rocking out at The National to see Three Sheets to the Wind, March 29th
- Celebrating Easter, Easter at Maymont, March 30th and the Easter Parade on Monument Avenue, March 31st.
And that is
just what we know of right now! Pure
madness, awesome fabulous madness, awaits us this March!
We started
this month of madness by hosting, along with our friend Mary Catherine, a baby shower for our dear friend Meghan. The theme was Star Wars-chic and it was
awesome! Our guest of honor and her
husband are fans of Star Wars and based on the very cool gifts they received
and the shower theme, apparently, all their friends and family are aware of
this fact. The idea of
the theme started off small with Mary Catherine designing the shower invitation
with a baby Yoda and a couple of subtle Star Wars references. After a snowy coffee date to plan we had come
up with a menu of “grown up” kid
foods such as peanut butter and jelly sushi, baked brie with Yoda stamped on
it, tater tots, chic fil a chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese bites, cupcakes from Pearls and of course fruit and
veggies.
Kate used
the coolest craft tool in the world, a Silhouette, to make a Star Wars mobile and a
banner tying in the reference from the shower invitation. As part of
the mobile there are baby pictures of the parents-to-be at all stages of
childhood. This was a neat touch and
everyone loved looking at the photos. Each of these will be hanging in the baby’s
nursery.
Mary
Catherine has a fabulous flair for the vintage and we were able to use her collection
of antique cake stands, drink dispensers for cranberry-pineapple-almond punch (see Pinterest for the recipe) and family heirloom
green depression glass plates. We were
all very pleased with the way it all came together and have no problem saying
it was very cool and not nerdy at all...well maybe a little nerdy but in a nerdy-chic kind of way!
Another personal touch we added was that we had each of the guests decorate a square building
block. All the guests got very creative and
the end result was special one-of-a-kind toy for the baby. Adding to the special-ness was that the
blocks were handmade by the father-to-be’s own father. Keep this craft in mind for a baby gift or
party favor.
We will
post pictures of everything before the week is up!
Cheers!
K&H
Awesome idea with the blocks!
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