Last week, I teamed up with my friend Carey to host a holiday crafting party a few days before Thanksgiving. We had both seen an article about a similar party in this year’s BH&G Christmas Ideas magazine and thought it looked like great fun. Carey has a cute design studio where she creates beautiful floral designs for weddings and events (check out her site here), and we were able to host it there.
The whole process was a bit of an experiment for us. We each invited a handful of “guinea pigs”, all with different levels of craftiness, and set up three different stations with the themes of paper, moss and nature. (We also set up a hot drink station and served mini-desserts at each table.) Each guest was able to make and take home two different projects.
Here are some photos from our fun night . . .
Tomorrow, I’ll show you the specific crafts we did at each station (and what we learned).
This looks like it was so much fun! Can't wait to see a closer look at the crafts you created :)
ReplyDeleteCrafting w friends is fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! Love it.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea and it looks like so much fun! Looking forward to details!
ReplyDeletexo Heidi
FABULOUS girl party idea and what wonderful results! I am inspired!
ReplyDeletexo Nancy
Powellbrowerhome.com
Heading to Joann's for craft supplies today. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! I have hosted regular small crafting get togethers for a handful of friends, but usually we each work on our own thing. Love the idea of stations and specific projects as well as the larger group. Can't wait to see the particulars of your projects.
ReplyDeleteCathy @ Room Rx
I love this whole party. It looks like so much fun. Can't wait to see how to do the projects.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful idea and it looked like a blast!
ReplyDeleteToo much fun!! Thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea!!! So much fun. Love how everything turned out.
ReplyDeleteXo-L
simplylowcountry.blogspot.com
That looks like a blast! I would love to do something like that with friends...and take home those projects!
ReplyDeleteThat looks like so much fun! I love the theme of the projects. They turned out great.
ReplyDeletewow!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous idea! I so need to do this next year!
ReplyDeleteWe had a craft group, once a month parties, thirty years ago in the neighborhood. Your blog today brought back some fond memories.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you ladies had a lot of fun! And the projects look like they turned out really nice! Hope your readers check out my blog too! www.mendezmanor.com
ReplyDeleteOh how fun! I wanna come!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like so much fun! I love that huge wreath!
ReplyDeleteHow FUN! I love this idea! Can't wait to see the how-to's!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!! It looks like you all had a blast!
ReplyDeleteThis looks so fun, what a great idea! I wish I had local crafty friends.
ReplyDeleteWhat an absolutely fun idea! They ladies look like they did a great job too! :)
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ReplyDeleteSo fun! I love craft nights with the girls. Everything turned out fabulous! I love the book page trees. I am dying to know where you got the fabulous paper runner with the knife and fork print on it?!?
ReplyDeleteWe already knew you were superwoman and supermom...now we see you're superfriend too! those girls are so lucky to know you! But why aren't you in any of the pics?!?!
ReplyDeleteHave a friend who hosts this very kind of party. Her blog is called You Could Make That. We made the paper trees from book pages one year. Pretty, fun and easy even for those of us less crafty. Fabulous party idea!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I'm totally going to have to do something like this with my friends...they would love it!
ReplyDeleteKim
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