{"id":2793,"date":"2012-09-23T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theenchantedhome.co\/2012\/09\/party-planning-and-mission-accomplished-2.html"},"modified":"2012-09-23T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T13:35:00","slug":"party-planning-and-mission-accomplished-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/party-planning-and-mission-accomplished-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Party planning and mission accomplished!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One thing to my fellow bloggers…nearly had a heart attack when I signed on this morning to feedburner to change my delivery time to my subscribers and saw my thousands of subscribers GONE! Apparently this is a known problem that they are working on…so don’t be alarmed if you sign on and see the same thing.<\/i><\/div>\n
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Wow what a weekend! We had to go to the city Friday night for a function, but it was far from relaxing as the entire time my head was spinning with all had to do for my family party on Saturday….the drinks I still needed to buy, a market list a mile long,  figuring out if I had the right amount of plates, do I have silverware for 50? Yep……panic mood ensued. Getting home never felt so good as I sprang into action to do damage control. Things were better than I expected and I went to bed thinking I could pull it off. <\/center>
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Sat woke up to beautiful skies and a fair dose of anxiety. Several hours later, after lots of little last minute errands and prepping, the party started coming together. I always allow myself to run around and stress up to a certain point, but I always (and this really works for me) set a time where I must be done with any errands and a time where I get my rest time. My ‘cut off” was 1 pm….and sure enough by that time I had no need to get back in my car. Everything I needed was done and at home…..woo hoo.<\/center>
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My other cutoff time was 4 and like clockwork I went up to my room and took a power nap (yes Mom<\/i> I can admit that after all these years of you drilling that into me, they really do work)! So at about 5 I started prepping, getting all my appetizers under way, placing all the flowers where they needed to be, and basically getting the house all “prettied up”. I always get in the party mood when I get to this stage…….<\/center>
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I do not have any pictures to show you of the actual party……everything I must say looked so pretty. But I was so busy playing hostess that there wasn’t a second to reach for my camera and sneak a picture besides think it would have been awkward to be running around on a photo shoot….lol. Next time I need a photographer:) But here’s a recap of everything leading up to it………..<\/center>
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WARNING EXTREMELY PICTURE HEAVY, SIT BACK, GRAB ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE!!<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/center>

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Any time I want to entertain it always has to start with the flowers. Always. Any excuse to buy flowers, especially my beloved white orchids! I do have a local florist who carries beautiful ones but I have taken to doing them myself lately……I get a lot of pleasure out of it. This time I actually did them in the trunk of my car…….yep it became a makeshift florist:)<\/center>
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Batch one of my flowers ready for their makeover…….<\/div>\n

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Containers galore and here we go!<\/div>\n

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A big bag of moss to the rescue….<\/div>\n

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And we are done…..time to bring them inside<\/div>\n
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Finding their new “homes”<\/div>\n

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All the silver getting wrapped up in pretty napkins…<\/div>\n
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Guess whats getting hung!!!! My new chandelier………….<\/div>\n
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Using the sideboard as a buffet for the dinner plates<\/div>\n
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And my new sconces got put up in the living room….well two of them, rest this week!<\/div>\n
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Got a mirror hung behind buffet<\/div>\n
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Moving to the front of the house……..<\/div>\n
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Of course I decorated the front of the house too….simple but I think very pretty<\/div>\n
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Loving the new softer colors of pumpkins…white, celadon and a pale melon….such neat colors!<\/div>\n
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And moving back  inside………<\/p>\n

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 Even my two new dog paintings got hung………..<\/p>\n

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Love “dressing up” a vanity with all kinds of pretties……..<\/div>\n

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Don’t you love my new little cherub soap dish! Just added it to my online store…..<\/div>\n

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Peek into the pantry which was being used as a bar<\/div>\n

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One of my guests sent me this magnificent floral arrangement, its about 3 feet tall!<\/div>\n

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Surprise! Got my new chandelier up in the dining room and its perfect!!!!! I really love it…..brought down a pair of lamps from guest room just to use for the night<\/div>\n

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Another surprise…got my new sconces up in the living room….LOVE them!<\/div>\n

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Stunning aren’t they?<\/div>\n

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The room is far from done, you have to imagine it with the right chairs, getting a mantle finally and the gorgeous chinoiserie paper that will grace the walls<\/div>\n
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Used this small English console as a table to hold the appetizer plates<\/div>\n
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First tray getting put out….sushi always one of the first things to go<\/div>\n

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I had a small round table for a few stationary appetizers and we had passed hor deuvres too (thankfully some left over for a serious eating session later today)<\/div>\n
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Icing on the cake…waking up to some goodies waiting to be opened, flowers enough to open up my own little florist and a box of chocolates from one of my favorite shops……….<\/div>\n
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Look at the mini bananas in this arrangement!<\/div>\n
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So that’s a wrap for how things were on Saturday leading up to my family party. It was a lot of fun, all except for my poor sore feet that are paying the price of standing on them for too many hours so I will prop them up and take it easy today (of course while I am picking at all the leftovers lol). Hope you enjoy your day…gorgeous fall weather over here, loving it! Now excuse me while I go take inventory of the leftovers…………(absolute best part of a party)!<\/div>\n

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One thing to my fellow bloggers…nearly had a heart attack when I signed on this morning to feedburner to change my delivery time to my subscribers and saw my thousands of subscribers GONE! Apparently this is a known problem that they are working on…so don’t be alarmed if you sign on and see the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,184,510,122,116,39,12,147,556,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}