1. Wreath | 2. King Cake | 3. Bead Coasters | 4. Masks | 5. Cookies | 6. Cocktail
Mardi Gras is next week! We’ve collected six must-have items for a proper party. From DIY projects to Etsy finds, these items are delicious and festive ways to celebrate Mardi Gras!
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The February weather in North Carolina is really throwing us all for a loop. It’s in the 70s today and we are not complaining! To celebrate the melted snow and encourage this early Spring day, we’d like to share a fruity treat!
Aren’t these ice cubes beautiful? They are so easy to make and are great to have on hand to add to any drink!
Ingredients: fresh fruit, silicone ice cube trays, and filtered water.
Directions:
1. Wash your fresh fruit.
2. Cut any fruit that is too big to fit into the ice cube tray. Citrus fruits can be cut in thin slices like these limes!
3. Prepare your water. Make sure you use filtered or bottled water for your ice cubes. It will freeze less foggy than tap water. If you want it even clearer, try boiling the water and letting it cool. We boiled our water once and the cubes were still foggy, but it might have needed to be boiled a second time!
4. Fill one ice cube tray with whole fruit like blueberries.
5. In a second ice cube tray, fold lime slices in half once or twice and wedge them into the tray.
6. Cover fruit with water and freeze!
Add the fruit ice cubes to a glass of water, a clear soda, lemonade, or even a cocktail.
There are so many options when it comes to these ice cubes. You can even add herbs or edible flowers! The possibilities are endless and so very beautiful.
Happy early Spring, everyone! Let’s hope this weather lasts!
If you’re a red velvet cake lover, then this cocktail is most certainly for you! You can serve this at your Valentine’s Day party or as a dessert after a romantic dinner for two.
Ingredients:
2 oz Cake vodka
2 oz half and half
Splash of grenadine
Strawberries or cherries as garnish
Directions:
1. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled champagne or martini glass.
2. Cut a slit into the tip of a strawberry and rest on edge of glass for garnish.
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Cheers!
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You might have seen this pretty picture floating around Pinterest lately and, if you’re like us, you got really excited and pinned it! Well, we searched high and low for more examples and came up empty handed. The only thing left for us to do was the try it out ourselves! We hate to disappoint, but cotton candy and Perrier actually looks like this:
While is seems like pouring a carbonated beverage over the fluffy treat creates little floating sugar drops, we think the popular picture shows nothing more than some out-of-focus bubbles.
The good news is that the drink is still a fun treat for your little ones and can be a great addition to your New Year’s Eve celebration!
Ingredients: Cotton candy and sparkling water. You can get cotton candy at the dollar store (or right here). Swap out the sparkling water with Sprite if you want it to be extra sweet!
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Directions:
1. Fill glass with cotton candy.
2. Pour sparkling water over cotton candy slowly and watch it dissolve and change colors!
We put blue and green in one glass and pink in another. We like the look of the blue better, but they are both fun to watch!
Check out Perrier’s YouTube video on how to make the drink here.
For more ideas for ringing in the new year, follow our NYE Pinterest board!
It’s time to get festive with some holiday drinks! Here is a simple and delicious cocktail that’s all decked out for the season (complete with yummy sprinkled rims to wow your holiday party guests!).
Pear & Cranberry Holiday Cocktail:
1 oz pear vodka
3 oz cranberry juice
a splash of sprite
maraschino cherry for garnish
See a full tutorial on the sprinkle rimmed glasses here!
Here’s how we made the metallic confetti tumblers from our Summer party!
We love the way Zandi from Radical Possibility made her Anthropologie knock-off confetti tumblers, and decided to make our own version to match our Summer party!
Materials:
-Glass tumblers
-Metallic glass paint (we used Martha Stewart’s Opaque Glass Paint in “Champagne”)
-Rubbing alcohol and a paper towel
What to do:
1. Clean the tumblers using a paper towel and rubbing alcohol.
2. Using your glass paint with the detail tip, start making concentrated dots at the base of the tumbler and spread them out as you move up (we suggest you practice a dotting technique on a paper plate first so you get into the rhythm of it, otherwise your first dots may be a different size than the rest).
3. Follow the directions on your glass paint for how to set the paint. We let ours air cure for 21 days, but you can also bake them in the oven to set them!
4. Make a fancy cocktail and pour into your pretty new tumblers!
Check out some of the other fun DIY projects we made for our Summer party too!
Today we pulled together some of our favorite DIY decor and treats for this white-inspired Summer party! We absolutely LOVE parties and table settings. What better way to celebrate Summer than with a crisp white set up? And in this heavy summer heat, baby’s breath, cupcakes, and cocktails definitely helped us stay cool.
Here are some of the elements we used to create our simple Summer party:
Paper circle garland
Tissue paper pom poms
Cupcake flags by Vicky Barone
Button Bouquet
Linen napkins by Pottery Barn
Placemats by Threshold
Pearl Cluster Napkin Rings by Pier 1 Imports
Metallic confetti tumblers
Happy Summer and stay cool!