Labor Day was Baby P's first holiday, so it felt only right to have a BaByQ. 'What's that'? you ask? Oh, just a BBQ honoring a baby of course. ; ) This was actually two days of celebrations where we had friends over Sunday night & family over on Monday, which was really nice because we had 2 parties & one setup. Legit.
So of course I did my OCD faux setup before the party started. Usually I start this a couple of weeks in advance if I can, but this party was thrown together in a couple of hours just because of time. I went with gingham, wood, stone & white as my patterns. I love cast iron pots & wood & gingham both feel very BBQish. The white I went with mostly out of necessity. I set up all the serving dishes I needed & arranged them until they fit & looked ok on the table. You know I love decorating with a crate, so I threw that up there too. I decided to turn the table & put it in front of the old window (see that project here) I have hanging in my kitchen. I decided the window would be cute to hang a little banner from. There is also a little chalkboard that I write my menus for the week on that I thought I could write our BBQ menu on. Disclaimer: once I write my weekly menu out on that chalkboard...it usually stays that way for months, but it is the perfect cover for me to look like I am really on top of things. ; ) I wanted to make a large banner & a small banner. I used my little cutouts sheet of letters for the small letters & my larger cardboard cutouts set for the large letters.
The gingham scrapbook paper came from Hobby Lobby. These banners were nothing fancy because of my time crunch. I used brown cardstock to trace the letters & brown ribbon leftover from my Boy Meets World banner. I hung the large banner across the window & the small banner reading "Peyton" across the crate.
I love a good little chalkboard for menus. I need one that can sit on a table by itself, but I haven't graduated to anything that fancy yet. ; )
I tied burlap & gingham ribbons around the different serving pieces & around the mason jars holding the candles.
The last addition were some flowers on sale at the grocery store. Sometimes you just need a bouquet of flowers to make a party table & this was one of those occasions.
For the BaByQ, we served BBQ, baked beans, salad, chips, fruit, rolls & cookies...ala the traditional BBQ menu. Everything was delicious & pretty easy & it was really wonderful to spend time celebrating the holiday & baby P with our family & friends.
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