Glam Thanksgiving Dinner Part Deux

There is nothing Diva Doggie and I enjoy more than details.  For today's project, we decided to pimp out some napkin rings for our 1920's Hollywood Glam Themed Thanksgiving Dinner.  Why not buy fabulous napkin rings, you ask? Well, we found a set of four we absolutely loved and guess what!  They were on sale for $199!  Considering we need 12 of them, we opted for making our own!

Once again, to get you excited, here is a photo of the finished product:

Gorgeous, right??

We found the how to for making the 'brooch' here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9puwAsBJZM

They are super easy and we love the woman's accent which we felt made these even fancier!

For the 'ring', we used a plastic glittered ribbon we purchased from Sam's Club but you can use your imagination for that!  We purchased the pearls, gold bead ribbon, and crystal bead for the center from Michael's during their 40% off all beads and findings sale (which goes on pretty regularly!)  See below:

This was a super simple project that we busted out while watching our favorite On Demand Trash!  Deelish!

We will continue to keep adding the little elements we are making for this Glam Theme so keep checking us out...we will always have a glass of wine and an extra glue gun!

Small DIY Floral Arrangements For An Elegant Dinner or Reception!

After a rather long hiatus, Diva Doggie and I are back in action, baby!  We are planning an elegant soiree for Thanksgiving this year and, as usual, we are both long on ideas and short on dough-re-mi!  Our theme is 1920's Hollywood Glam and, since we are starting early, we are going to make items for the table that will look like they belong with champagne and caviar as opposed to next to an RC and a Moon Pie  (not that we serve RC's and Moon Pies for Thanksgiving dinner....although we could because they are deelish....but we don't...mostly.).

So here is our elegant finished product to get you excited to learn how to do this for yourselves:

 We are going to be creating 5 of these for the table to scatter about.  The best part about it is that, including the floral foam and crystals, but excluding the flowers, each of these cost $2.65!  We may try putting a candle in the middle and using larger flowers for the dinner but we did have these on hand and its divoon to experiment!

How To:

This is how simple this project is.  DD and I went skipping over to Dollar Tree and bought the glass candle holder and a pack of 4 of the cut crystal looking plastic bowls.  I absolutely love Goop for use on glass/plastic but superglue gel at Dollar Tree works well, too.  You can get floral foam there but, since we want to use live flowers, we went to Garden Ridge and bought the floral foam you soak in water.

 We drilled tiny holes at the base of each scallop with the smallest drill bit we had because we wanted to add crystal drops (I am not ashamed to say that I have amassed quite a collection from going to estate sales even though Diva Doggie laughs like a hyena every time I show her my most recent crystal drop purchase.  Who's laughing now, eh?).  I have included in the price of $2.65 for drops you can get on ebay.  Without the drops or floral foam, this is what $1.25 looks like:

These would be beautiful with stones in them and a candle for a wedding, too!  So simple and elegant and super easy to make!

Tomorrow we will post how to make elegant napkin rings on the cheapity cheap!