Jake and I are fully enjoying his new weekends off schedule and have a lot of things scheduled for this summer. We started July with a little open house for his birthday and the end of intern year, and then I'm hosting the open house next weekend.
I made sangria for the first time. I am planning to write up the recipe in the near future.
The sangria was part of the biggest drink selection that I've ever put together for a party. We also had bottle/can drinks in a cooler outside.
I can blame Pinterest for giving me the inspiration to make my own cupcake toppers. Jake got a lot of comments from people who claimed that they had no idea how old he is. :) And yes, you can see that I did use one of my favorite color combinations here. I am also planning to write an article about how to make your own cupcake toppers in the near future.
The cupcakes were just a little part of our food selection.
Of course I took a bunch of pictures before people arrived, but did I take pictures of people enjoying the party? Nope. Many apologies.
We get a lot of gifts from my father-in-law's True Value that for one reason or another can't be sold. We got the table with 3 chairs for Jake's birthday last year. One chair from the set was broken so we got the 3 good ones, and they also gave us the table. Obviously 3 chairs isn't a great number. We finally added some more to the set this year.
Two days after the party, there was still ice in the cooler, even sitting out in the heat the entire time!
I have been working on open house projects for the entire past month, but I'm in full swing now that we're down to the last week. I will still be offering loose magnets that people can make into sets however they like, but I've been putting together some sets, too. I know that the one on the right is upside down!
I'm going to put those sets in bags with toppers.
I have some bottle cap magnets ready to go, too.
I have a whole bunch of new items to price tag. Does anyone else put that off until they have an upcoming show?
