Entertain in style – Barbara Harms Fiber Art

Give Me a Theme and I’m Off and Running

Theme parties, I love them. If I am planning a party that’s nice. But if I can come up with a theme for the party. Now that’s a whole different thing, another level of a fun. I immediately get excited. I throw myself into it with gusto. I get caught up incorporating the theme into as many detailsContinue reading “Give Me a Theme and I’m Off and Running”

ENTERTAIN THE OBSESSIVE WAY! INCLUDES A BONUS,” FIND WALDO”.

These parties were all done in the Obsessive Entertaining style. By definition this involves never knowing when enough is enough, that’s my hallmark. I’ll show a couple examples today and save more for the future posts in this series, known as the Obsessive Entertaining Style.

Cakes update for themed parties, more entertaining, part two

I’m a self taught amatuer and it takes me literally a whole day to do one, not including the baking. At the end of the day’s work. my entire self, kitchen, floor and sink are covered with colored icing & powdered sugar. There’s so many discolored bowls, dishcloth’s and fingers tinted by the cake decorating colors that it looks like an unsupervised 2 year old was let loose, having the best unsupervised time of his life.

Re-decorating on a budget? Think paint!

Re-decorating a room can be exciting and fun. It can also be a little intimidating as well. Where’s a good place to to start? Money a little tight these days? Want some help? In a word -think paint! Read on…. Change the paint- changeContinue reading “Re-decorating on a budget? Think paint!”

Confessions of a china hoarder, quilts, tea parties and pink.

This is a small tea party for a friend who moved away. It involved making and giving a quilt, of course. I confess, I hoard pretty china, how many sets of china can one person use in a lifetime? The dishes you see here were found in a flea market in England and carried back home in a suitcase. I didn’t break even 1 plate! How’s that for packing?