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photo from marthastewart.comWe're strangers in a strange land, so we haven't had anyone other than family or neighbors over to visit our new house. So we're particularly excited to have a couple of friends over today to celebrate Independence Day by eating a ton of food and hopping in the kiddie pool. Did I mention the sparklers? Good fun for the under-2 set. I have been too preoccupied to do much by way of July 4th crafting, but I did scope out some cute ideas if you need them, like these great pom pom centerpieces from Martha Stewart. I probably love them because I'm just generally a sucker for anything in a mason jar. Flowers, drinks, whatever. I just love them.
Martha, in all her crafty wisdom, also has a cute project if you've got some patriotic colored ribbon around. Basically you shape it int0 a little star, glue it on a sucker stick and voila, instant cute cupcake topper or drink stick. Or, string them up and you have a neat little banner to hang in your backyard.
Most years, I also have spare tomato cages laying around, but this year all hands are on deck for our awesome garden, so I'd have to go buy one for this project. It's a really cute paper tomato cage lanterns with stars that would light up the backyard so cute for your outdoor party.
I wish I could say I whipped up a fab little BBQ party this year, but alas I did not. I whipped up Roseanne Cash's Potato Salad (which is the closest substitute I've found for my mom's recipe, for which there is no recipe) and some beer cheese dip and some chocolate cupcakes. I did go buy some little flag toothpicks to stick in the cupcakes, so at least they'll be a little festive.
Tomorrow I think we might have another wee Pumpkin first -- fireworks!
What's going on at your place this weekend?
2 comments:
Ummm, I coulda totally used your advice on this yesterday. It's a little too late for our party. Oh well. We've got lemonade and watermelon and beer, so the essentials are covered. Hope you have a swell partay!
We've decided to go out to a neighborhood 4th of July celebration. It's always nice to let someone else be in charge of everything. Of course the downfall is that if we want to eat something we'll be shelling out the big bucks for a street vendor, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make to not have to clean up afterwards.
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