CPC's 25th Anniversary

Last night my church celebrated it's 25th anniversary at the Hilton. It was a fun night with former pastors back for a visit, delicious food, and a glorious cake by Little Sister Cakes. I was asked to do the decorations for the tables, stage, and cake table. They wanted something simple and elegant. What better colors for a silver anniversary than silver, white, and green. I also used a lot of natural elements.

One of the table decorations was a wooden candlestick spray-painted silver with a globe of baby's breath.

A second table decoration was simply a vase of branches spray-painted silver with rice to anchor. Silver painted leaves were also in the vase.

A third table decoration was a simple cylinder of pine cones with battery operated white lights. (Not the greatest picture and I evidently only took one.)

There were three reserved tables that had simple arrangements of blush roses, baby's breath, and greenery.

For the stage I used two large tulip shaped glass vases that had curly willow spray-painted silver with cream roses, bells of ireland, and baby's breath.

For the cake table I used grape vine that I found in the woods behind my home that was sporadically spray-painted with silver. I strategically placed silver leaves and pine cones to appear to grow out of the vine.

So Much Burlap

After the hoedown, I had a lot of burlap left. I hate to throw perfectly good things away so I found the perfect use for the fabric. Recently, we found the perfect table for the den. We had been using a glass table, but it didn't give quite the visual weight needed in the room. This table was perfect and it was on sale. The metal was gold and the chairs I had were black, so I spray painted them an antique gold and covered the black paisley seat cushions with the burlap. I still need to find a way to fix them to the chair. I don't really like the trailing ribbons usually used, I find they always need retying, but I might end up doing just that. Maybe a rougher fabric (the old ones were satin) will not untie itself so often.

I also reused the white pumpkins from Brittany and Jody's wedding, the orange pumpkins from the hoedown and the leaf garland and lights.