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Make your own_____ (food stations)

I put together a little round up post in January 2012 about party bars/ food stations/ make your own _______ . It was titled 16 party bars. Lots of folks have left comments and links to their ideas for party food stations, so today I’m sharing a brand new list of 24 ideas to personalize party food.

1: Carmel apples

2: Grilled cheese sandwiches

3: Fondue cupcakes

4: Trail mix

5: Pancakes

6: Mimosas

7: Taco salad

8: Banana pops

9: Yogurt

10: Fruit kabobs

11: Sandwiches

12: Ice Cream Sundaes

13: S’mores

14: Sno cones

15: Hot dogs

16: Waffles

17: Chili

18: Burgers

19: Salad

20: Dessert pizza

21: Juice

22: Ice cream sandwiches

23: Tacos

24: Potato skins

What is your favorite party station food idea? Have your ever used any of these or done something completely different? Pizza is our go to for get together with friends at home. Oh and if you liked this post, here are 16 more fun food station ideas!

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Thank you cards

Mar 12 posted by Jamie Dorobek

Contrary to what people my think, you do get presents even if you don’t have a big ol’ wedding!

Since only 4 people were at our wedding, I thought it would be fun to make a picture thank you card to send out. I collaged 6 pictures and and added text using Picassa. I did lots of versions and manipulating… but hours later, we finally decided on this image…

I put this image on my jump drive and took it to Fed Ex Office to be printed on fancy card stock. I learned that textured card stock is not good for printing pictures! I printed 2 cards per sheet of card stock. I used a paper cutter to cut and then folded them in half!

And here they are… all 40 of them:

People always ask me if I sell anything on etsy.com… and as much as I love etsy I can never think of anything that I would want to make again and again. Until, thank you card making! Just out of curiosity, how much would you pay for a pdf file of a personalized thank card that could be e-mailed to you and printed on your own? Or would you rather the cards printed for you? I’d love to hear…

Psst… Here is the whole wedding saga if you’re interested: the wedding announcement and plan is here, and then Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of the living room ceremony. You can find more on the wedding after math here: thank you cards, changing your last name, and the super simple wedding scrapbook.

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Wedding Extravaganza- Part 4 (bands, ceremony, & fancy dinner)

Mar 7 posted by Jamie Dorobek

Extravaganza is about as far from the truth as it gets. It’s was quite possibly the most peaceful wedding day ever. No drama, no worries, no and only a few frills! Just the way we wanted it… A tiny recap (more deets here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). Andy came home from work early on 2-22-2012 to help me make the appetizers and get ready for the 6:00 pm ceremony.

I decided to show Andy is wedding band before everyone arrived… I love, love, love these pictures of Andy… the lighting was perfect and he really was so excited to see that thing! The ring has a funny story too… we actually bought it from his ex girlfriend who worked at Zales and got it for wholesale price. It is a tungsten carbonate ring. Here is a very similar one from Zales. (Andy’s looks almost identical to this one from amazon and it only costs $24.79!)

A few things we learned about tungsten:

Tungsten is a super hard metal. It can not be cut off of your finger… there is hope that the ring could be broken off of your finger.
Tungsten is a darker metal than silver or platinum.
Tungsten resists scratches.

If you’re in the market for a wedding band, this is a great guide about the different types of metal.

Here are our rings. I do not have a wedding band. We’re thinking it will be an anniversary gift down the road That along with tattoos of our initials… or maybe just a bog J for Andy!

We did a pre wedding photo shoot of ourselves before everyone (the 4 guests!) arrived…

The dress details…

Maria, our notary, arrived at 5:30 to go over our paperwork and discuss our vows. Our 4 guests arrived soon after… We chatted in the living room, had a few treats, and performed the ceremony all in oh… 20 minutes. (The actual ceremony accounted for 4 minutes!) The vows were really sweet, I wish I would remember exactly what she said. It was all a happy blur of tears, kisses, and applaud. David snapped a few pictures for us during the ceremony. This was taken right before we started the official ceremony… I didn’t think about the lighting making it so dark on our faces. I picked this window because I love the evening light.

Our wedding party…

Andy’s office had an interesting reaction to our whole wedding debacle. At first they didn’t think we were serious about the living room wedding thing with 4 guests, and at one point the ladies in his office were planning our wedding for the office conference room! In the end, they just wanted our day to be extra special which we really appreciate. Andy’s office gave us a generous gift certificate to Casablanca, a fancy cafe with beach views, for our wedding meal. These are the only pictures from our delicious, fancy, wedding dinner!

I forgot to mention the ladies in his office also decorated his car with red hearts and lots of streamers!

Since we didn’t have a photographer they’re not a ton of pictures of Andy and I. One of these days, we are going to get a real photographer, put our happy day sign back up, bake lemon blossoms and have a pretend wedding! 2-22-2012 was a Happy Day!

Andy’s office gave Andy the day after the wedding day off. We toured the Bonnet House, ate pizza on the beach, and swam in the ocean. It truly was wonderful.

Since C.R.A.F.T. is all about Creating Really Awesome Free Things I feel like I need to give you the love celebration budget break down:

Marriage license- $93.00
Flowers- Gifts
Decorations- hand made and up-cycled with lots of love
Food and beverages- $22.00 for the ingredients I did not already have at home
Invites- hand made and my stash of card stock and a good ol’ XACTO
Wedding Bands- Andy’s was $30 and I’m band less. (The diamond in my ring was a generous gift from my parents!)
The dress- 1st one cost $24.99, the winner was a gift
Notary- $65.00
Wedding night dinner- Gift

Grand Total: $234.99

Of course this type of wedding is not for everyone. And honestly, I’m still a little nervous I hurt my grandparents feelings (and obviously that’s not fun). It was nice that our parents were totally on our side for the simple, DIY wedding we imagined. After all, my parents eloped, without telling anyone, and went to an amusement park in Houston, TX for their honeymoon!

Psst… Here is the whole wedding saga if you’re interested: the wedding announcement and plan is here, and then Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 of the living room ceremony. You can find more on the wedding after math here: thank you cards, changing your last name, and the super simple wedding scrapbook.

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