A Parisian Shower- Toilet Paper Roll Party Favors (Merci Beau coup!)

This project was one of my favorites.

I truly do not care for party favors in general. I know that they are small gifts to give thanks for those attending the event. However, I do believe that it can be an unnecessary expense. In my experience most people do not even realize if they do not receive one! Therefore, if I was to do it, I decided that I definitely did not want to spend a great deal on the favors. But of course they had to be cute!

I had been finishing a project that involved toilet paper rolls and I still had many rolls left over. I began to research what I can do with the rolls when I came across this picture on Pinterest.

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I read the blog's instructions and I found it to be easy enough. My first action was to find the perfect scrapbook paper. At the craft store I found some nice ones. What caught my eye was a glittered pink swirl paper, but the price turned my eye away. It was 99 cents. This may not seem steep to you, but by my calculations, I was to spend $20 on the scrapbook paper alone... we were expecting 50-75 people. I just couldn't do that.

Luckily, it was the holiday season, and I came across some gorgeous wrapping paper for $2. This was a lot more satisfying! Although it wasn't pink, the paper still matched the color scheme we were going for (pink, black, white, with a touch of silver)!

I decided to do round printable labels that I found at the craft store. I had a coupon for them and ended up spending only $2 for about 50 labels. I also used a coupon for the Mod Podge, and it came up to be $3.29. Lastly, the pink ribbon I found at a dollar store.

With those extra supplies, pink Merci beau coup labels were printed, and I created slits at the top and bottom to weave the pink ribbon seamlessly through to tie around the favors! The lovely maid of honor purchased Hershey Kisses to fill! We ended up making a lot more than we needed, so I'm glad in the end I did not spend much on them. If I could change one thing, it would be to make the words much larger!

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Toilet Paper Roll Merci Beau coup Favors

Toilet Paper Rolls: $0 (I gathered over time)

Wrapping paper:$2

Mod Podge (including sponge): $3.29

Labels: $2

Pink Ribbon: $1

Hershey Kisses: ? (maid of honor purchased)

Total: $9.29

Fifty party favors, for nine dollars, excluding the Hershey Kisses??? Not to shabby!

Blessings,

Sara

A Parisian Shower: DIY Flowers

I was very excited, earlier this year, when one of my closest friends, was getting married and I was asked to be the matron of honor. This meant I, as well as the bridesmaids, were in charge of the wedding shower, and the Parisian theme seemed to fit the couple perfectly! We wanted it to have a feel of a Parisian cafe in the spring... so I was thinking flowers would be a great start.

Wracking my brain of how to make this come alive, I scoured Pinterest and I found coffee filter flowers. The one I attempted was from here. I went to the Dollar Store and bought coffee filter and floral wire. I already had in my possession a glue gun and floral tape.

The color theme of the shower had to have pink! (The bride's favorite color!) I already had pink paper tissue in hand, so I found a small plate and traced a few circles on the tissue paper and repeated the steps for the coffee filters. That way I didn't have to food color the filters to get the color I needed. I sent some pics to the bridesmaids to see what they thought! Thumbs up all around!

As you can see I was watching TV...

I also fell in love with these paper roses I also found on Pinterest.

The roses are from the Elli blog which I love! It has awesome templates. The rose template is one of my favorites. Luckily I had all the materials I needed for this project! (I had a great amount of card stock from my wedding) You just print those bad boys out, cut, curl, fold and glue, and viola! Lovely paper roses! Love them! I decided to use these flowers as part as the centerpieces. I made about 3-4 per table and they were in pink and white!

Coffee Filter Flowers

Coffee filter: $1

Floral wire: $1

Floral tape: $0

Glue gun & glue: $0

Total: $2

Elli Handmade Paper Rose Flower

Card stock: $0

Skewer: $0

Glue gun/glue: $0

Total: $0

I only spent $2 total on the flower projects! It still makes me smile!

I'm glad I was able to share this process with you! I hope you like! Comment if you like!

Blessings,
Sara

A Leap of Faith

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be starting this blog! For those who are reading....I may be writing to thin air…my name is Sara. I like, think, plan, coordinate and dream of parties and events. It’s a hidden part of me that I finally must express! Since I follow too many blogs, I thought I should take a leap of faith, join in and express myself.

I plan for my blog to be everything event planning. However, what I realized is that events can be quite expensive…and what I am is usually broke. I want to spend money on expensive things, because I do have expensive taste, but sadly I do not have proper funds. So! Everything I do is always on a strict budget, and is almost always DIY. I try to be money conscious in all things so I will likely break down prices on how I've done things. 

I do love the whole process of planning an event, from A to Z and I hope you follow along and comment (please comment!), even suggest things that you would do differently! I am taking this step by step, and I am definitely learning along the way. My favorite pastime is to live in Pinterest Land and find as many ideas as possible. So please share any ideas that you have!

Thank you for allowing me to vent. I would and could not have done this without, first and foremost my husband, who embraces me, crazy ways and all. I would not have had the courage without him by my side. Secondly, my lovely siblings who for over a month, helped me find the perfect title (Special thanks to Bex). To Tania and Josh who gave me the final prayerful push, and to Becky, Jovi, and Gaby, who knew my secret from the beginning.

My journey will probably begin with a Parisian-themed shower!

Till then...blessings,

Sara