Due to my new love affair with
Pinterest... I am becoming even more cheesy than normal! Typically on holidays, I just wear an outfit with the appropriate colors. But not anymore!! On
Pinterest I was seeing all kinds of cute 4
th of July foods and ideas... so I HAD to get involved!!
We had Ty's family over for dinner on Sunday July 3rd, but it was close enough. My dessert table was all red, white, and blue...
The Fruit Plate...
The whole
sha-bang. (not a ton of food- but there were only 9 of us eating)
The cupcakes!! I used vanilla cake mix and split it into thirds. In 1 bowl I added blue food coloring and in another I added red :) I ended up with STRIPES!! You can see the stripes through the paper a little. And since we had "red" on top, I made homemade strawberry cream cheese icing to go on top!! YUM!!
The inside (this one didn't have a lot of red, others did)
Without the flash the colors are more vibrant, but the clarity is gone. You get the idea.
On the 4
th of July I took a meal to a friend who is on bed rest for 10 weeks. TEN WEEKS! and since she was "missing" the 4
th of July, I took her some of my red,white, and blue cupcakes... PLUS... this fruit jar!!
strawberries, fruit dip (equal parts cream cheese and marshmallow fluff), and blueberries. topped with a cute fabric and ribbon (to hide the fact that this was indeed my spaghetti sauce jar from a few days earlier)
And that was my red, white, and blue 4
th. (By the way, I wore red, white, and blue all day while we were working in our garage, but FORGOT to pick out red,white,and blue to go watch fire works. What was I thinking??)
And this is my table every other day... I love the linen cloth and the turquoises- makes me feel beachy!
close up of the place setting
I love the peacock!! (small plates from World Market, large blue plates from Ross or Marshalls)
The centerpiece... 2 bags of assorted balls on clearance at Anna's Linens in my pretty pottery bowl from Colorado.
The breakfast table in the sun room has a TEA theme... the bronze tea set in the middle...
and each place setting has one of these tea dishes on it- each is different! so cute!! Thanks to my mama for this cute set!
FYI- when my house still was a disaster from the construction and I had junk piled EVERYWHERE... I chose to set the tables. Yep. My priorities are weird. But it makes me feel happy inside :)
