Carpe Diem - Framed Hermes Scarf

I wanted to share with you another of my scarves which I framed. I really like this one because of the many different and beautiful colors, the amazing sun and of course the symbolism of "Carpe Diem" (Seize the Day -- I must remind myself each day to do this!)

You may also be interested in seeing another framed scarf I posted about a few months ago click here .

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Flower Show

Going to the Macy's Flower Show in San Francisco has been a family tradition since we were tiny little children. When I was a little girl we looked forward each year at Easter time to going downtown to see the amazing flower and beautiful plant decorations. Afterwards we would have lunch and do some shopping for Easter. This year we went with my daughter and parents and had a fantastic time!!!

Easter 2010

We had an absolutely wonderful Easter. It was raining this year so we were unable to do an Easter egg hunt for the children, but we still had little Easter baskets for them filled with scrumptious sugar cookies and little eggs. We served a buffet for Easter this year. We had ham topped with homemade brown sugar, apple cider and Dijon mustard topping. Homemade macaroni and cheese, potato salad, green salad and roasted asparagus. For desert we had cookies, cupcakes and a pistachio cake topped with raspberry sauce and whipped cream. A fun time was had by all.

Mad Hatter Tea Party

This is just an amazing Mad Hatter Tea Party table that is on display at Bloomingdale's in downtown San Francisco. I just love all the colors and combinations used. What makes this table even more spectacular is that the center rotates around slowly.

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

I have not been able to set up my Easter table yet that I will have for Sunday but I hope to take pictures of it when I do on Saturday night. I plan to have it similar to my teatime table I set here, but I will serve a buffet instead of tea.

Have a very Happy Easter!!!!!

This was entered in the fabulous and beautiful blog : Between Naps On The Porch's - Tablescape Thursday. Be sure to visit, you will be very happy you did!

Fun Girls Party - Pink Jeweled Boxes - IV

Another fun activity I had planned for the girls was this decorating project with little wooden hinged boxes. I purchased them at Michael's and painted each one inside and out in pink. I also purchased a huge bag of jewels which were super fun. At the party I had little stickers with each girls name which they placed at the bottom of their box. I spread the entire bag of jewels over the table so each girl could choose which jewels she wanted for her box. Then my mom, sister and I had glue guns and the girls brought over their boxes with the jewels and we glued them on. (It is important to be super careful with glue guns and children) In this way the jewels would stay on and we would not have a huge glue mess anywhere.

When the girls were finished I removed any spaghetti glue strings from their boxes then wrapped them in tissue paper and placed them in their goody bags which also had their names on them. The girls seemed to enjoy this project.

On Friday this will be in Cindy's Show and Tell Friday at the beautiful My Romantic Home.

On Saturday it will be entered in the fabulous Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound. This is one of the funnest blog parties there is!!!!

Fun Girls Party - Cupcake Decorating - III

These are the boxes that I prepared for each girl to place her 4 cupcakes in after decorating. Each girl decorated 2 white frosting cupcakes and 2 chocolate frosted cupcakes which I made the night before. Each box was prepared with each girls name on it.

Then I made a variety of sugared decorations. These are little purple hearts with pink flowers. We also had lots of fun sprinkles and jelly bean decorations.

Here we have some yellow flowers with little purple flowers on top.

These little pink butterflies were my favorite.

These were little purple tulips with pink flowers and yellow dots.

I wish I had the chance to have taken pictures of the girls finished cupcakes but as soon as this project started it was as if time sped by and I completely forgot about taking pictures :-(

Fun Girls Party - Party Tent and Puppies - II

We started out the party by playing out in the garden. I gave each girl some bubbles and they all ran around and blew them running through our little party tent that was set up. After, the girls all wanted to see our new baby scottie dogs -Hopscotch and Butterscotch. This was a huge hit with the girls.

We thereafter all washed our hands and we then went back to the garden and had refreshments :-)

After playing we passed out some of the "winner" medallions.