A Disco Dancing Karaoke Party

Dear friends,
Thanks so much for joining me...so sorry my blog postings have been so few and far between.....you know how it goes...LIFE happens.

Well, it's time for another birthday (or 2) over here at The Brew Crew household. Our sweet active dancing sassy girl is turning 9 years old next week. She and I have been searching pinterest and making lists of plans for weeks and the day of the party is almost here. We can hardly wait. I don't know who is more excited...her or me!

She decided she wanted a dance party with karaoke singing and make-shift photo booth. All pretty easy to set up and inexpensive to pull off.

By the way, my daughter shares her birthday with Mr. Brew Crew as well.

Here's our decorating for the party...I will try to share some actual photos from the party this weekend later next week.

Hope you all have awesome weekends....

The Photo Booth-

The dance floor is ready for some serious dancing-

The DJ Karaoke Station is all set-

The goody bags are packed-

Some other decorations-

Rings that flash and glittery necklaces to share-

Someone is super excited-

 

 

Oh to be 9 again! I'm feeling about as giddy as a 9 year old myself! May we all find some child-like joy this weekend.

 

 

Happy decorating & living,

Megan

Springtime is here

Hi Friends,
Happy Spring! How does spring look where you are? One fun fact about where we live in North Carolina: a thick green film of pollen from the many pine trees coats everything and I mean EVERYTHING!!!! I have never in my whole life seen pollen like this! It's almost like you don't want to go outside because every surface is coated with it. On a walk yesterday I even saw 'pollen clouds' literally clouds of the green gross stuff being blown from pine trees. Yuck!


Here are some spring time pictures from inside (where I even find the gross green stuff on surfaces). Okay, enough complaining, it should be gone soon enough.

 

Happy decorating,
Megan

Brayden's Magical 7th Birthday Party

Hi Friends,
Thanks for joining me today. So sorry that I haven't posted anything since Christmas. Needless to say, there's been a lot going on in the Brew Crew household the last couple of months and decorating fell to the very bottom of the priority list. But, I'm happy to be back with you briefly to share with you some pictures from my son's recent birthday party at our house.

This story kinda starts out as a sad story. This was really my son's first birthday party in a way. We did attempt to have a birthday party at a local sports place (it did happen) 2 years ago for his 5th birthday but unfortunately due to bad timing (Spring break!) only a few friends were in town to join him (he did still have a lot of fun though). Also, last year, he chose to go to Great Wolf Lodge for his birthday. Our family's birthday tradition is, you may choose to go somewhere fun (that costs a bit of money) or you can choose to have a birthday party (also costs $). So, this year, my son said he'd like a party at home. When I asked him what he wanted, he said he really just wanted his friends in his backyard running around and playing with him. I must admit, I thought to myself: a group of wild boys running around the backyard for hours? Lord, help me!! But after a while I warmed up to the idea and began planning. I saw how fascinated my son was with my magician's kit that he received as a gift for Christmas and did a search for local magicians. Voila! Idea hatched! Bring on the Pinterest! What did I do before Pinterest? Here we go......

Happy Magical 7th Birthday Brayden

Pinterest decorating ideas inspired 4th of July decorations:

Pinterest inspired food treats: Bunnies popping out of magician's hats and magic fruit wands

By the way, the timing of the party worked out beautifully so my boy had a good 25 minutes left at the end of the party to run around the backyard with his friends (and they had balloon guns and swords thanks to the magician and were on a sugar high from tons of candy also from said magician). My son and his friends had a blast!

Thanks again for joining me. Sadly I don't have a picture of myself being levitated on the magician's table to share with you. Good times!
Happy decorating & living,
Megan