The Style Sisters: August 2013

football cupcakes

Football Cupcakes

By The Style Sisters - Saturday, August 31, 2013

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Fall Tablescapes

Simple Fall Tablescape using Marigolds

By The Style Sisters - Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Centepiece Wednesdays

Centerpiece Wednesday #90

By The Style Sisters - Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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gourmet Smores

Gourmet Smore's

By The Style Sisters - Monday, August 26, 2013

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dining room tid bits

Dining Room Tid Bits Guest Blogger Jennifer Woodward

By The Style Sisters - Monday, August 26, 2013

Welcome to Dining Room Tid Bits!

Our guest blogger is Jennifer Woodward from Thimbles, Bobbins, Paper and Ink Jennifer was inspired by her gorgeous sunflowers growing in her yard and decided to make quilted sunflower table linens!

Jennifer said - I grew up in the mid 1950's and 1960's. My memories center around the kitchen because we did not have a formal dining room. My mother took great pride in presenting a lovely table and teaching us table manners as well as sharing the day's events with one another.

A "tablescape" was not a term we were familiar with, but in retrospect I think my mother knew what it was all about. The kitchen table furnishings were hand made from the beautiful embroidered table cloths that were cross stitched by my grandmothers, to place cards made by any one of my 4 siblings or myself, to learning to fold napkins in fancy folds. The centerpiece was often a bowl of fruit or cut flowers from the garden, or wild flowers presented to mom from one of us kids.

I still like to present my table centered around a theme and it is, most often, things I've made, sewn and even grown.

Right now my garden has presented me with beautiful giant sunflowers. They are huge, sunny yellow and gorgeous.

I decided I wanted to bring indoors the sunflower theme and I made a quilted table runner, placemats and napkins based on the Sunflower theme.

Jennifer made these darling Sunflower Napkin Rings!

Using a yellow Sculpey III Oven Bake clay, I rolled out the clay, stamped it with a sunny flower stamp and used black dye ink. I cut the shape with a biscuit cutter, created a hole for threading the jute through and then baked them in the oven for 15 minutes at 275 degrees. Voila! Instant napkin rings.

For our salad I made a salad topper of sauteed sage and cranberries, maple syrup and Sunflower seeds.

Thank you Jennifer for submitting this post and sharing your sweet memories with us and letting us take a peek into your creative world!

To see more of her Sunflowers and salad topper recipe go to her blog Thimbles, Bobbins, Paper and Ink

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birthday party ideas

Photo backdrop for 18th birthday party

By The Style Sisters - Friday, August 23, 2013

My adorable niece just turned 18 and a bunch of her friends along with my sister gave her a surprise birthday party. My sister was trying to come up with some inexpensive quick ideas for decorations to use at the park. I don't know if you have ever tried to decorate a large space like a gym or a park but you have got to have large scale things to make an impact.

I happened to have to have just read an emagazines called souvenir lifestyle by Heather Bullock I believe it was last years summer edition and it highlighted some really cute photo booths to make like these:

A white background with tons of fun words written all over....like "friends", "fun", "summer" etc... Then they added cardboard cut into shapes attached to sticks and painted with chalkboard paint so guests could write their own sayings. Sooo cute!!

Or here is a more elaborate one that involves lots of paper flowers that you could make and attach to a light green background. You could use paint or what about wrapping paper?

The day of the party my sister...Tiffany.....was running around like a crazy person getting one kid to the doctor, taking a car to her hubby because his had to go into the shop, stop at the grocery store which BTW is 45 min. away from her house!!! and try to make a bunch of cupcakes!

Then get all the stuff ready to take to the park and figure out a cute way to make the photo booth!! Phew!! I don't know how she does it!! Anyway this is what she came up with.....seriously so cute!!

Tiff had some grey fabric and hung it as the backdrop..she didnt have time to paint the backdrop so this worked perectly...then she hung some white butcher paper in front and she wrote lots of words on it and attached some paper flowers that she made...kind of a little combination of both ideas! Tiff brought some of her chairs that she recently painted. Remember when she painted her chairs HERE

To greet all the guests...Tiff used a large chalkboard....that she had hanging on her wall in the kitchen and she yanked it down for this party and added this cute banner and strung it across the top.