Love-ly

14 days and (Kelly is) counting, till the last of the Glenn gals is married off! I can NOT believe it, I am having such a hard time with it. I am super duper excited for her to be a wife, I love, love, love being a wife and doing "married things" and all that it entails ;o)
However I am loosing our Kukuck! The girls will miss their morning kisses and after work excitement to tell Kukuck hi and what we have been doing that day. I will miss having her around, she is the best room mate ever. She is fun and exciting and brings friends over and buys nice things that I can steal from her whenever she is not there, which is quite often :o)

We celebrated her entering married life last night and threw her a bachelorette party. I don't know how Leo and I ended up choosing fondue as our meal but we did and so with a how-to lesson from her mama (the lovely and wonderful Ton-ton) and 4 borrowed fondue pots we had a fondue party for 18!
With only a few snafus (I accidentally partially cooked the steak in the microwave instead of defrosting it...oops had to rely on my big sis to bail me out) we had steak and chicken fondue! I have to say... I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I WAS THINKING! I HATE hot oil! I had 4 pots of hot grease tethered to extension cords! I was SO scared someone was going to trip and pull a pot of hot oil off onto themselves! Everyone who came through the door I told no less than 4 times to watch the extension cords. Despite my nerves it was wonderful and everyone loved it. We had baked potatoes and salad and bread along with our meat.

The fun part for me was giving my home just a little pizazz by decorating with things girly and pink and love-ly. Like this vase that previously had a candle with acorns from the fall was transformed for a love themed party with some conversation hearts.





I love that I am forced to use my china when we have company over because it is the only thing I have enough place settings of. I also made these pom-poms that are all the rage lately and I have been looking for an excuse to make for a while now. I got the idea from Erin who got it from Martha. I thought they turned out amazing and I wanted to make a million more!

I did not have the time or enough tissue paper to make one of these napkin rings for each setting, so about every other one got a simple red ribbon. However I thought that it was perfect having them scattered throughout the table. I was also blessed to acquire 3 lace tablecloths along with the dining room set when we purchased it 5 years ago! Score 1 point for fancy!

Most of the other pictures I will leave to your imagination and to save Kelly from red-faced embarrassment :o)