Our 31 Bits House Party

The Cause

31 Bits.

I was going to post a link to my 31 Bits Charity of the Month post, and just realized I never did one, I only featured them in my holiday gift guide. I'm appalled, to be honest. Expect them for July's Charity of the Month :) Meanwhile, you can check out the amazing work this charity is doing here.

The Food

I bought these straight from the farm. Probably the sweetest strawberries I've ever had.

I made an improved version of the strawberry dessert with some recommendations from Jeff: I put them in plastic martini cups, and topped them with a whole strawberry with a toothpick through it. No picture, but imagine it. It was glorious.

I had too much cake though, and not enough martini cups, so the last layer of cake stayed a cake. Improvisation. Not half bad, huh? We were going to have a birthday girl in attendance, so it was actually quite perfect.

This is perhaps the coolest coffee table I've ever seen. Abby painted it with this chalk board stuff, so you can literally write on it with chalk, and wipe it off. And you can use it to let people know what cheese is what. GENIUS!

Self explanatory.

Johnny's spinach and artichoke dip, with fresh wheat french bread, yum!

Spinach and strawberry salad with balsamic vinaigrette, and almonds.

The Jewelry

The People

The Host and Hostess

Family coming out to support :)

Taking orders!

Picking and choosing...such a difficult task

<3

These two. Thanks for being incredibly awesome and supportive!

Seriously. This has to be the new face of 31 Bits!

Absolutely LOVE this picture of Rebeca and her 31 Bits piece

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to support 31 Bits and the amazing work they're doing, you guys are amazing.

A special thanks to the Hubby for playing photographer for the day

Decorating, Cooking, & Hosting, Oh My!

Abby and I have decided to co-host a jewelry party fundraiser for 31 Bits, and we're quite excited about it. There's a huge chance it'll be the two of us a a little more than a handful of the ton of people we're inviting, but I'm honestly just excited to cook some new appetizers and desserts, and decorate Abby's place all vintage-y. We were inspired by this blog.

This past Saturday we woke up earlier than you should on a day off, and did some garage sale hunting. We found some cool vases, and THIS beauty:

That shiny, beautiful red lantern was only $0.50! The camera belonged to my grandfather, and my mom has loaned it to us, along with these:

See that ruler? That's what back in the 1950's was called political propaganda! Pretty cool, huh?

And these beauties...I found them when Jeff and I were in Old Town Orange looking for the door handles for the jewelry thingamabobber project (which, if it turns out good and vintagy enough, we might also use to hang some cool jewelry on at the party). I kept joking that I wanted to find a "$5 deal" which was ridiculous: prices at these antique stores are, well, ri-di-cu-lous. Then I found these containers...and I was expecting prices of about $25 for each of them, which would be in line with everything else...

But no! They were $7 and $9! Even the guy who rang me up was shocked by the price...it almost seemed like he was debating on whether he should sell them to be for that price or try to come up with some excuse to hold on to them. But alas, I got them, and got as close to a five dollar deal as I was gonna get. But I'm really, really happy with my find/purchase.

I'll save the menu for another post :)