craft shops might have some metallic picks that could be arranged on the wall like fireworks.
link to example
http://www.caufields.com/metalliccascadepicks.aspx
link to example
http://www.caufields.com/metalliccascadepicks.aspx
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can't believe next week is the 4th of July. I have to work, so nothing special planned. any plans?
- Thread starter angak1
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or those funky centerpieces with cascading stars and streamers. take them apart and arrange on the
wall like giant fireworks
http://www.caufields.com/starcascadecenterpiece1.aspx
wall like giant fireworks
http://www.caufields.com/starcascadecenterpiece1.aspx
The program is spare of decor this year...of all times!
The stage is decorated with flag stands - each holds 2 flags, one straight and the second at an angle - all around the outermost edge of the stage on the stage. The front of the stage has a dark blue velvet skirt, and layered over that are 4 ft. wide RWB individual swags, topped with a scalloped light set up that is molded into swag-like shapes, and filled with white lights, topped with RWB bows at the connections.
I found a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty...I think I'm going to make a dark blue Miss Liberty, and mount faux fireworks behind...with the tracers cut out of blue and red paper (heavy, card stock) and use colored wire star garland to make additional tracers... That should fill the wall... Michaels may have RWB patriotic pails....if they do, I'll makes some table decorations out of those...kitty litter in the bottom to weigh them down, graduated flags, flowers, and/or pinwheels to fill up the buckets, topped off with foil shred to cover the litter. I might even use pint canning jars so there's less chance of mess.
The stage is decorated with flag stands - each holds 2 flags, one straight and the second at an angle - all around the outermost edge of the stage on the stage. The front of the stage has a dark blue velvet skirt, and layered over that are 4 ft. wide RWB individual swags, topped with a scalloped light set up that is molded into swag-like shapes, and filled with white lights, topped with RWB bows at the connections.
I found a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty...I think I'm going to make a dark blue Miss Liberty, and mount faux fireworks behind...with the tracers cut out of blue and red paper (heavy, card stock) and use colored wire star garland to make additional tracers... That should fill the wall... Michaels may have RWB patriotic pails....if they do, I'll makes some table decorations out of those...kitty litter in the bottom to weigh them down, graduated flags, flowers, and/or pinwheels to fill up the buckets, topped off with foil shred to cover the litter. I might even use pint canning jars so there's less chance of mess.
This is kind of the inspiration I'm drawing from...
I think I can make it work. In the meanwhile, I found some really nice DIY projects for pinwheels and such. I may survive this yet...thankfully I don't need to actually prepare the refreshments from scratch. Just a little cold liquid refreshment and little sweet noshes. Now my mind is working in other ways...where's that foil helmet???
http://www.alegoo.com/images/home/fourth-of-july/fourth-of-july-04.jpg
I think I can make it work. In the meanwhile, I found some really nice DIY projects for pinwheels and such. I may survive this yet...thankfully I don't need to actually prepare the refreshments from scratch. Just a little cold liquid refreshment and little sweet noshes. Now my mind is working in other ways...where's that foil helmet???
http://www.alegoo.com/images/home/fourth-of-july/fourth-of-july-04.jpg
Well, my brother has deigned to grace us with his presence for lunch on the 4th, so here's the menu:
Barbecued (ok, Baked) Chicken (Ina Garten's sauce recipe) on buns. (I'm tempted to do this ahead of time and serve it cold, since turning on the oven heats up our entire apartment. Anyone know how this is as a cold dish?)
Macaroni Salad
Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Potato Salad (I may nix one of these--three seems like overkill, personally)
Potato chips
Marian Burros's Spiced Plum Cake with whipped mascarpone topping (If I can find raspberries that aren't $3.99 for a half pint, well, that would be, as my mother would say, "Festive.") smileys/smile.gif
Iced tea and beer
This is so simple that I feel kind of stupid posting it...
Oh, and one tiny wrinkle: I love my brother to bits and he always offers to bring something whenever we host him and his girlfriend for lunch or dinner or whatnot, which is very nice, but when I say, "No, don't worry about it; the menu is all under control, thanks" (which is control-freak-sister-speak for "Thank you, but DON'T MESS WITH MY MENU, DUDE"), he ignores that and just brings whatever he feels like...which I then serve, because that's what you do. (And it's never anything that can be used later--it's always bought for that meal.) So, being an obnoxious sister, I feel that this is an overlooked part of his education as an adult and would like to tell him, "Hey! If someone says, REALLY, no need to bring anything, just yourselves, then do just that!" But how to do it...graciously? It seems like a no-brainer, to me--just bring wine or flowers. Done. I learned this from my parents when I was the age of six, probably. Why didn't he?
Or are other hosts/hostesses waaaaaaaay less uptight than I am? smileys/wink.gif
Barbecued (ok, Baked) Chicken (Ina Garten's sauce recipe) on buns. (I'm tempted to do this ahead of time and serve it cold, since turning on the oven heats up our entire apartment. Anyone know how this is as a cold dish?)
Macaroni Salad
Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Potato Salad (I may nix one of these--three seems like overkill, personally)
Potato chips
Marian Burros's Spiced Plum Cake with whipped mascarpone topping (If I can find raspberries that aren't $3.99 for a half pint, well, that would be, as my mother would say, "Festive.") smileys/smile.gif
Iced tea and beer
This is so simple that I feel kind of stupid posting it...
Oh, and one tiny wrinkle: I love my brother to bits and he always offers to bring something whenever we host him and his girlfriend for lunch or dinner or whatnot, which is very nice, but when I say, "No, don't worry about it; the menu is all under control, thanks" (which is control-freak-sister-speak for "Thank you, but DON'T MESS WITH MY MENU, DUDE"), he ignores that and just brings whatever he feels like...which I then serve, because that's what you do. (And it's never anything that can be used later--it's always bought for that meal.) So, being an obnoxious sister, I feel that this is an overlooked part of his education as an adult and would like to tell him, "Hey! If someone says, REALLY, no need to bring anything, just yourselves, then do just that!" But how to do it...graciously? It seems like a no-brainer, to me--just bring wine or flowers. Done. I learned this from my parents when I was the age of six, probably. Why didn't he?
Or are other hosts/hostesses waaaaaaaay less uptight than I am? smileys/wink.gif