Style your Flower Clubs 50th Anniversary

My Mum is an amazing lady and an extremely creative one which I am sure is where I get my love for being creative from. As part of the local flower arranging club she has asked me to help plan their 50th Anniversary. I was honoured to be asked as I love to help my Mum out where possible and like to make her proud.


The theme has already been picked by the 'Eversden & District Flower Club' committee so I have been given the theme 'Afternoon Tea' to work with. They have a demonstration by Christopher White planned for the evening called 'The Beauty of Nature' so I will look at combining these two themes together in the decorations, invites and extras which I suggest for the celebration.
I have found these amazing decoration ideas on Pinterest below and so proceeded to put together a mood board for my Mum to present to the flower club committee. 

Alongside my 'mood board' I also created a poster. I went for a basic design by using the stunning image of these beautiful flowers hanging in jam jars from Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/pin/153544668517069129/

The day came for my ideas to be shown to the committee and I am happy to say they loved my ideas and so the joy of decorating their event is mine. Further details about developing and creating my decoration ideas will follow with a write about how the event goes after the 5th July. 

Looking forward to enjoying 2014!

Life has been pretty hard these last 6 months or so with many changes to get used to including dealing with loosing my Nan. So 2014 is going to be my year to enjoy life, be the old Charlotte who loves having fun and being slightly crazy sometimes. I plan to make the most of this year spend quality time with my family and friends and see where this year takes me.

I am sure a lot of you have decided upon some usual & unique new years resolutions. I usually go with the norm of eating healthier and working out more. However this year I am gong to make sure I do not loose myself again and make sure this is a year to remember. I am going to make myself my priority which will include spending time on the things I love including 'Style Your Event'. So I hope you will all enjoy what events I decide to arrange and write about this year.

Style Your Birthday!

Finally I hear you say she has managed to write another post, well I hope that is what your all saying. After a troubled few months I am feeling back on track more positive and ready to face the world and enjoy blogging again.

So I am going to start with the excitement of having recently celebrated my 34th Birthday. I was well and truly spoilt by the family and all my friends, they are all just amazing.

So then how did I style my birthday up well my friend Laura @mclaurs introduced me to the amazing new artwork that is flash tattoos! If you love the idea of having a tattoo just to match your outfit, or to jazz up that little black dress then look no further the flash tat is the perfect accessory. It is a must for your Christmas list if your still yet to write it.

http://flashtat.com

I have to agree with my friend Laura that the best selection of flash tats are the Sofia selection. I chose to have one of the large peacock feathers on my wrist whilst Laura went with a diamond design on her back & Amina went for a diamond design on her arm. They are like any other transfer tattoos and are easy to put on with water. The good news is they also last up to a week so you can wear them for a few events if you have a few things planned in the same week.

http://flashtat.com/shop/sofia 

Laura and Amina styling out their flash tats

My peacock tattoo

We received some amazing comments about these whilst out and I will be purchasing some of these to use for future Birthdays, Christmases and parties. 

Start shopping now & treat yourself to a flash tat. 

Life's little changes...

Life has been rather hectic over the past few months hence the lack of posts. There have been many changes including breaking up with my long term boyfriend which means sharing the hound Harley this breaks my heart every time I hand her over. I know she is only a dog but for all dog lovers out there I am sure you will understand, my house just isn't home without her.

It has also been a very sad August too as my Nan was taken ill and unfortunately she lost her fight after 6 weeks ill in hospital so I have had to say goodbye to an amazing, loving Nan. She is missed everyday, but I have amazing memories of her so will laugh at these whenever I am feeling sad. Particularly memories of playing Wii Dance with her last Christmas she was always up for a laugh and never one to not say what was on her mind. xxx

I have certainly missed writing and am now determined to get my blog back on track posting at least twice a month on events which I organise and also giving others ideas for events which you are arranging. Thank you for being patient with me and I hope you will continue to read and use my event ideas as and when you are arranging an event for that special person.

Style Your Crafting Event 

Late last year I was introduced to the amazing ladies 'Material Girls'. They are two ladies Mel & Donna who love crafting so much that they decided to set up an evening for local ladies who love to craft. Mel is a teacher and Donna is a home maker and they used to meet up on a Thursday or Friday to craft together and decided because they loved it so much they were certain they would be able to run an evening once every few months for fellow crafters who liked to be inspired to make new and exciting crafts and also eat the amazing cakes they made! 

My introduction to them was last November when I attended their Christmas themed evening. I made an robin tree decoration and a christmas tree decoration which was made by using old maps of the Lake District. I loved the evening so much, I was certainly in my element as a keen crafter. 

When I heard about the next catch up and realised I wasn't working I was straight in there to put my name down with my friend Marie. This time the evening was in Comberton, Cambridge. 

Material Girls always set the room out perfectly with areas of fabric, buttons, beads and any other crafting materials you may need. Each time they supply the crafters with a selection of around 10 or more items which they can produce, they provide laminated instructions along with all the items which are needed to produce each of the ideas. You can pick from bunting to a candle holder, decorating a notebook to making a corsage. It is entirely up to you how many different craft items you make in the evening and also how you decorate them, you pick the colour theme and can put your own stamp on the item. 

This time I choose to make a candle holder by using buttons and wire. The colour theme works perfectly in my lounge, you can find an image of my creation at the end of this post. 

As well as their amazing selection of crafting items they treat us all to an array of amazing cakes, all freshly baked especially for us. This selection of cakes is served with tea, coffee and hot chocolate. 

We are all well and truly spoilt by these lovely two ladies 

'Mel & Donna' and I would recommend anyone who loves crafting from the local area to like their facebook page. 

https://www.facebook.com/MaterialGirlsCrafts 

I always look forward to hearing when their next crafting evening is going to be and am sure I will post about what goodies I make next time. 

Style Your Anniversary 

Finally the finale of my parents Wedding Anniversary and the wait to hear how the moustaches went down is over. I can honestly say I was slightly worried that people wouldn't get my sense of fun but I have to say everyone was a great sport and they loved them. 

The idea was to take pictures of everyone with a tash wearing Mums hat then to create a photo album with congratulation comments from everyone. It worked perfectly so my parents know have the perfect album of memories from the day.  

Please find below a selection of images from the day to show how everyone embraced the hat and moustaches. 

My amazing parents trying to recreate the original Wedding picture...

 My hilarious Nan..xx

My brothers our better half's and myself. 

My amazing nephew, although he is way to cool to wear the hat..
I must admit I remember being 12 and would probably have been the same. 

As I have mentioned previously everyone was such good sports when it came to posing in the hat and the moustaches. It relaxed the atmosphere of the party straight away and was a great party starter.

The day ran so smoothy, the food was served over an hour and a half and was absolutely amazing, we couldn't fault any of it. Once the food had been devoured we then went into speeches. Yes a very traditional event for a Wedding but I felt it would be perfect to ask Dad's original Best Man to make a speech. So John kicked the speeches off and had us all in hysterics. Next my parents each did a speech both very moving and funny.  

To carry on the amusement I then got out the game board Mr & Mrs so I started asking my parents a round of questions to see how well they do know each other after 40 years. They did ok however I think the amount of drink which had been consumed by this point added to the wrong answers and made this hilarious. My Dad preceded to ask every couple questions so this game entertained us for an hour or so. 

The laughter continued with a few other games and the day came to a perfect end with the cutting of the amazing cake followed by Tea & Coffee. 

All in all the day was a huge success and my parents had the best time which means it was worth all the hard work and organising. The pressure is on for the next party I arrange to be just as perfect. 

Style Your Anniversary

Style Your Anniversary 

Thank you for visiting my blog again to read Part 2 about my parents Ruby wedding Anniversary.

As I have mentioned we hired a room at the Felix Hotel Cambridge. It was ideal for us as we could all sit around the one large table, the perfect sociable layout. As you can see from the picture below we hung the bunting between the paintings on the walls on both sides. We placed the favours, heart shaped bird seed and heart shaped florentines on everyone's napkin and added silver '40' sprinkles to the table, next I placed the moustaches on the table in my homemade stands.  

The final decoration for the table was some extra goodies for my parents. I bought them these little books which I said would help them with the next 40 years! Dont's for Husbands & Wife's! Suppose they must have done ok though to have reached 40 years! I found these in Oliver Bonas a right bargain at £3.50 each. 
http://www.oliverbonas.com/homeware/books_1/dont_for_husbands.htm
I also placed some heart shaped chocolate champagne hearts on my Mum's place. 

This completed the table settings so next it was using the items which the hotel supplied for our decorations.First we placed the easel at the far end of the room with a large canvas of one of Mum & Dad's wedding pictures and balanced Mum's amazing wedding hat on the stand.

Whilst borrowing my parents Wedding album I stumbled across their Wedding cards, so it would have been wrong not to display these at the party. Luckily the Felix Hotel had the perfect stand beautiful twigs decorated with fairy lights. So I bought some heart shaped pegs from John Lewis, what a fantastic find. 
http://www.johnlewis.com/store/john-lewis-heart-pegs-pack-of-20/p231461867?navAction=jump&_requestid=1866490#default

I completed the tree with three heart shaped picture frames which included images of parents from over the years. I particularly love this picture of them which my Nan gave me years ago. 

The finishing touches to the event included an amazing cake made by Doreen at Incredible Cakes of Cambridge, it tasted and looked amazing, my parents loved it.www.incrediblecakesofcambridge.co.uk 

Last of all was displaying the Wedding Album so people could view the original pictures from my parents special day. 

I hope I have managed to set up the look of the room for you all and you are now all intrigued to hear how the event went and how the moustaches went down.I will follow with Part 3 later this week which will be an exciting gallery of images from the event.