Flower Pot Centerpeices

My baby brother (who is no where near a baby anymore -- he's 18) is having his Eagle Scout ceremony this weekend. We're going with a USA Theme so I'm going to make centerpieces of flower pots wrapped in fabric.  In my head,  I think they'll turn out great, but I'll have to let you know (and update a pic with the finished product). I'm concerned with getting the fabric to stay on the flower pot with just my trusty glue gun. I also want to make sure they look "guy" enough. 

Hooray for Hollywood- Oscar Party Feb 25,2012

So I threw my first annual Oscar party on Sunday night. I've been wanting to do this for years. My sister came over early to help me set up and then my girls came over.  We drank champange, munched on appetizer type food and voted on who we thought would win which categories.

For the colors, I decided to do red, black, silver and gold. Those colors seemed elegent and Hollywood to me. I used white serving dishes.  Here are some pics of how it turned out.

My sister made these AMAZING Oreo and NutterButter truffles. She sprayed them with edible spraypaint and they had gold and silver stars on them too. They were so good and didn't take very long.

Next year we're all going to dress up in glamorous dresses and  get a trophy for whoever wins the voting. We had too much fun.

The Trouble Starts

Lately I've been very unhappy in certain areas of my life. Feeling things have been out of my control and it's been killing me. I tried dyeing my hair. That only helped alittle. AND the box dye was so crappy the color only lasted a week.
I need to do something to get back on track and to distract me at the same time.  It finally occured to me. I want to be an event planner. It's the best of every world...planning, designing and partying. I'm in the process of looking into programs becasue if I'm going to do this, I want to do it legit. In the mean time, I'm high-jacking every family event I can; I'm going to have  a party at every opportunity because I realize, it makes me incrediably happy to do this. I may not be a professional...yet. But I will. In the mean time watch me try and take control of this silly situtaion that is my current life situation and watch me bitchslap it in the face. Welcome to my adventure in happiness.  Enjoy the ride with me.