Cast Gift idea: Wood-Burned Keychains

 Hey everyone! Here is a quick cast gift idea for theater folks and directors who may want to give their cast a personal, custom but affordable gift. I bought these keychains at Hobby Lobby or Michaels on sale and wanted to do a wood-burned keychain for everyone but I ran out and could not get to Gainesville that week. So the first cast gift idea is to use a wood burner and carve out the characters along with the actors' and actresses' names on such keychains. I like to give each cast member a personal gift, as well. The second gift used Dollar Tree chalkboard tags, chalk taped onto to each so they could be drawn on, and I painted with white acrylic paint a show symbol (for Addams Family I did a snapping hand) and the actor's or actress's name on each. These types of gifts could really apply to any group of people, though. 

Thank you for visiting, I hope you enjoyed! 

-Lauryn 

Cinema-Themed Father's Day Party (2020)

Hey everyone! This is coming late, but today I am sharing a Cinema Father's Day party, and this theme could really work for birthdays and other events as well as for Father's Day next year. I wanted to do a new, unique theme for Father's Day that I thought my dad would like. Movie themes have been done at least a million times before, but I've never seen a movie or cinema party theme for Father's Day so I decided to go with that. I wanted a very subtle but colorful color scheme of primary colors, so I used dark yellows, blues, and reds with kind of a vintage style. I made the poster with acrylic paint and markers. With another poster, I painted blue strips that I folded and hot-glued together to make the wheel, painted and cut out the yellow star, and painted and cut out the black video camera silhouette. made the ceramic circus-tent bowl in a ceramics class, printed the popcorn cones from this great free printable resource (I printed mine on golden-brown card-stock), and had the other supplies on hand as decor around our house or in my party stash. The decor is very simple, especially since I had to throw the party together in a morning and literally the day after I threw together the party I shared in the previous post for my cousin Riley. I hope you enjoy and find this inspiring for upcoming events for men you may be planning.

Thank you for stopping by! I look forward to sharing a belated Fourth of July party and tutorials with you soon! 

-Lauryn

Jacob's 18th Musical-Themed Party, Part II

Hello everyone! Today I present part II of Jacob's musical-themed 18th birthday party, which uses the same decor but a different setup, slightly different favors, and shows the posters which I did not photograph at his first party. I made new mugs, but I did musical theater/movie puns I made up: "The Greatest Cocoa" instead of "The Greatest Show", "This Is Tea" instead of "This Is Me", and the bean/green song lyrics from Into the Woods with coffee beans, along with a silhouette (from The Wizard of Oz). The posters are minimalist, and I made up some while I found other ideas online. I will not tell what each symbol represents (I leave that to the viewer, so it's kind of a fun mystery to solve) but here's a hint: they are all from the same musicals as the playbills that comprise the banner. I think I pretty much covered the other details in my previous post, so I will leave the description at that. 

I hope that you enjoyed! Thanks for visiting!

-Lauryn