Getting Ready For Girlfriend Charity Party

Hi Everyone.

Happy Sunday.

Where did the month of October go ??!! Now we are only a few weeks from Thanksgiving and then the down hill slide into Christmas!!!!  I love this time of year but hate how fast everything moves.

Each year I have a Girlfriend Christmas Party.  I have been doing this party for many years.

Each year I have all my girlfriends come to my home on the first Friday of December to celebrate our friendship.

The idea of the party is each girl brings a girlfriend exchange gift where the proceeds had to benefit a charity in some way.  The gifts the girls come up with each year are just amazing. The stories shared about why they chose their particular charity is so touching and up lifting.

The best gifts are given from the heart and it is even more special when your gift not only benefits a dear friend at the party but also helps someone else too.

Each girl wears her comfy Christmas jammies and we eat, drink and have a great time all together.  Let's face it eating, drinking, laughing and having fun must be done in comfy jammies!!!

Girlfriend Christmas Party from Last Year 2015.  You can see the post here.

Girlfriend Christmas Party 2014 Post.

The past few years I have been doing walking tacos as one of my appetizers.  

Have you ever had walking tacos?  They are a crowd pleaser and yummy.  So today I am going to share with you my walking taco preparation and a sweet treat idea too.

Walking Tacos are easy to do if you have a large crowd or small.  Perfect for everyone and fun.

You take the small lunch size Fritos or Dorito bags and they become the base for your walking tacos.

 I will set up a taco bar with chicken and beef taco fillings and several taco toppings.

Everyone gets a taco bag and then can fill it with their desired filling and toppings and you can walk and talk and have fun as you eat your taco.

Here is how I give the walking taco Frito bags a little more stability and fun.

Here are some of the supplies I got to put my walking taco boxes together.

I found white gable boxes at Michaels.  They came 10 in a box.  I just folded down the gable part of the box to make this smaller box/bowl to put the Frito bags in.  Instead of each girl having to carry the taco bag alone these boxes will give the walking taco a little more stability.

Found these cute reindeer tags at Home Goods to tie off my napkins and forks.

Easy Peasy to do.  Wrap the fork up in the napkins and tie off with the reindeer tags.

I lay the taco bags on their sides to give more room to add your fillings and toppings.  Just cut across the top of the bag.  I also found these cute Christmas tags at Walmart.  20 in a pack for $1.49.  I thought these would give the front of the boxes a little festive bling.

So I glued the tags onto the front of the white boxes and then put in the Frito's and reindeer forks and napkins.  All together and ready for the Taco Bar.

I put them into a white gift box that I will set on the Taco Bar. I will set this at the beginning of my taco bar fixins!  That is it.  Fun and easy and a real crowd pleaser.  You can find lots of great ideas and recipes for Walking Taco's on Pinterest.

Every year I have some kind of sweet treat for each girl to enjoy at the party or take home.

Found these sweet little snack bag kits at the dollar bins at Target.  Gotta love those dollar racks at Target.

Each kit came with heavy lined bakery treat bags, white doilies, and a tag that says So Very Thankful for Sweet Friends Like You.

So I just glued each of the bags with the doily and tag.  Easy Peasy!!!

I usually do cupcakes for desert so these sweet bags will be nice for each girl to take home a sweet treat.  Nothing like having a cupcake roader for the trip home from a party!

I found these cute napkins at Home Goods.
This is one of my favorite sayings and so wonderful for my bff's at the party.

Just a few of the ideas I have gotten done for the girlfriend party.  I will be working on some favors and fun party ideas that I will be sharing with you soon.

Are you thinking about the upcoming holidays and fun things to do for get togethers?

The time will fly with list making, decorating, shopping, and baking.  I love this time of year.  So much fun to get ready to share the love of family and friendships.

Have a great new week ahead.

Hugs,

Kris

Coffee Table Change

Hello Everyone.  Happy Friday.

Terry made me this coffee table awhile back and I have loved it but I felt it needed a little change.

It is a pretty little coffee table but the light pine top just was not mixing nicely with my darker floors.

I decided I was going to white wash the top.  That was my first step.  Easy peasy just dry brushed the top with slightly watered down white paint.  

I then took some antique glaze and applied it to the top of the table with a rag.  Wiping off the glaze with another dry rag.

The antiquing stain gave a more gray tone to the pine w00d underneath.

I added this vintage door knob to the backside of this table to give her some character.  Easy peasy change up to give a new look to this table.  It is just fun to take some paint and experiment to see what different looks you can achieve to a piece you already have.

Have a great Friday and wonderful week end.
Going to see the release of the new movie Trolls with my granddaughter Abby today.
Should be fun.
Kris

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$2.99 Goodwill Make Over

Good Morning everyone.  Hope your Halloween was Spooktacular.

I want to show you what $2.99 and a man with tools can do for a sweet grandgirl!

Abby our 6 year old granddaughter wanted her grandpa to make her a special lego table.  She is so into being creative with legos.

Terry and I found this Lane piece solid oak at the Goodwill for $2.99

Terry said he could not buy good pieces of wood to make the table for $2.99 so we grab this chunk of wonderful wood and took it home to be re loved into a lego table for Abby.

Abby went with us to pick out the color of paint.  She loves purple so she picked out grape jelly for the legs and a lighter purple color for the main part of the table.  Looks pink with the way the light was hitting it but it is a light purple.

Dollar Store Bins with lids to store each of her lego kits.

Target sold the lego squares so it took 3 squares to make the base on the top of the table.

I could not resist these sweet fur stools I found at Hobby Lobby in the clearance.  So we painted the legs to match.

There is the "crew chief" sleeping on the job!!!!!

So here it is a lego table big enough for two to four kids to build for a $2.99 Goodwill find and a can of paint $20 and a sample $3 for the darker purple,  and twelve $1 bins. Terry said he probably could have gotten the lighter purple in a sample size too for $3 which would have been even more cost savings.  He said those sample Valspar paints go a long way.  So if you are thinking of doing a smaller paint project on furniture think about just having them mix up a sample for you.  Saves $$$$$.  Lego sq's for the top $15.  So for about $55 dollars you have a fabulous lego table.
I have seen these lego tables sell on Etsy for over $200.

Happy New Week.
Have a fabulous week.
Kris

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