Happy New Year!! Can you believe it's 2015?? We're living in the year that Marty from Back to the Future II comes to prevent his son from ending up in jail! But instead of taking you to the future, I want to take you into the past. The year is 1922, the music is pumping, the drinks flowing, and the dance floor shaking from The Charleston. Welcome to Gatsby's.
For this NYE, I teamed up with my good friend Becca to throw a fabulous Great Gatsby party - and wanted to transform the house so our guests would feel like they were stepping into a different era. The center piece of the kitchen was our bar - we bought cardboard letters and numbers to spray paint gold, and wrap in gold tinsel... all gold everything. We also made a Happy New Year banner with strips of gold fabric (similar to the one from this party) And a miniature Happy New Year banner for the cake! I think I became asthmatic from all the balloons we blew up, and my hands still smell like latex...but who doesn't like balloons??
We also set up a photobooth with my camera on a tripod so guest could come and go taking pictures. There were fun props to use as well!
Everyone looked very dapper and flapper - I think everyone enjoyed themselves:)
And now, it's my BIRTHDAY! I was almost the New Year's baby in a tiny hospital in Georgetown, Ontario - but some little boy beat me by an hour, and now HIS picture on the front page of the local newspaper is in MY baby book to remind me everyday how close I was to that great honor. Alas, I will still enjoy this day immensely with my close friends and family.
Cheers!
Naomi Joy
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