Adult Party Ideas Archives - At The Picket Fence

How to Make an Appetizer Tree

December 16, 2015

Good morning, and Merry Christmas from redheadcandecorate.com!

Last year, I tried something new for our annual Christmas appetizer party and I’m so excited to share it with you here today hoping maybe you will try it. Keep in mind, this is an appetizer you can use for any celebration.

We don’t usually have a large party, but we do invite our closest friends over, and everyone brings something to share. Then we all lounge around the fire in our kitchen chatting up a storm and sometimes even playing games. It’s one of my most favorite nights of the year. Here’s a couple of photos of our kitchen all decked out for Christmas…

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Spring Baby Shower

March 25, 2015

Spring and new life go hand in hand. With the buds on the trees and the flowers peeking up through the soil it seems like the whole world is starting to wake up.

So when HGTV Gardens asked me to create a Spring Baby Shower table setting the first thing that came into my mind was celebrating new life and the joy of ‘nesting’.

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Turning 40 in style…my surprise birthday party!

May 31, 2012

Surprising me is not easy. I am suspicious by nature. It’s just hard to get one over on me. My friends know this…so imagine my surprise (heheh) when I discovered that instead of going out to a nice quiet dinner for my 40th birthday, that I was to be honored with a fabulously amazing party!! Courtesy of my equally fabulously amazing friends.

These are my besties…Robin and Tammi, my girls, my BF’s forever and ever… and they were good. really good. Rumor has it they had been conniving and scheming for months to pull this off

…and I here it was all worth it just to get photos of me looking like this…

and making faces like this…

Seriously! Is this what I look like when I’m surprised?!

No wonder Bama Boy avoids surprising me too often. 😉

It was so wonderful to see so many of my favorite people there..

My girlfriends threw the party as only Pinterest loving girls can do!

Every detail was perfect. From the framed 40th signs…

To the hand stamped napkins…

To the framed chalkboard. Every detail was perfect!
Of course the best part was spending time with friends…..

and family….

Bama Boy, my “Mom-in-love” and the girl (three generations!)

My dear friend Brian so graciously opened up his lovely home to host the party…and it couldn’t have been a more perfect setting. From backyard swinging…

Bama Boy and my girl

to a pick up game of football

Every moment of this evening is captured in my heart…

As twilight settled Brian built a bonfire…

and we toasted the night…

Indulged in some birthday cake…

and ushered in a gorgeous spring evening…

with my friend Randy generously capturing every detail so that I will always have it to remember! (Thank you Randy!) and…

thank you my dearest sweet friends for honoring my birthday in such a special way...it’s a night I will always remember….

and I cherish you both!

I love you all! More than you could ever know….CHEERS to you for throwing such a fabulous party!