our cinco de mayo

 

 

Buenos Dias!  We had great weekend filled with great friends, yummy food and perfect weather!  Saturday evening Grant grilled fajitas and we had a small get-together with a Cinco de Mayo theme.  I love Mexican food, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to indulge in guacamole and Corona (really, is there anything better :)  It was all so delish! 

 

I had planned to be better about taking pictures during the party, but I can't seem to pull myself away from visiting and my hosting duties to get that done :)  So these are some I snapped right before the guest arrived.  Back later this week to share the recipe to these wonderful individual seven layer dips.

 

 

April recap

April was an extremely busy month for us.  Let's see...in between baseball/softball practices and games, piano lessons, dance & piano recitals, our wedding anniversary and a family wedding, I did manage to squeeze in a few projects around here.

 

Here's a look back at what's been happening around our home:

 {our home office progress}

 

 {organized the bathroom storage tower & did a $1 wrapping paper update}

 

 {shared this amazing dip recipe}

 

 {summer ready with this refreshing drink}

 

{an update on our patio process}

 

Excited to see what May will bring!

 

 

 

make today amazing

 

 

cinco de mayo {diy papel picado}

 

 

We are having a little get-together this weekend and it just so happens to be Cinco de Mayo, so fajitas, tostadas, and margaritas are on the menu.  I wanted to decorate with a little something festive, so I dug through my tissue paper selecting these bright colors and got to work on a little papel picado banner.  Here's what I did:

 

Instructions

1. Select your tissue paper colors.  Cut to desired size (I folded the whole sheet in half twice and then cut, making four pieces)
2. For my boarder, I used a cup and traced half circles and then cut (you can go here for stencils)
3. Use stencils found here, or trace your own (that's what I did)
4. Continue cutting your arrangement (you can go here for examples) 
5. Hang with string
6. Add reinforcement tabs on corners then punch hole for string

*since the tissue paper was already folded and had creases, I didn't worry too much about folding it to cut the different shapes, thus creating an equal pattern

 

 

Are you making any plans for Cinco de Mayo?

Last year I made this simple little fiesta centerpiece for another get-together we hosted.  If you're interested in seeing the full post, click the link below the picture :)

{diy fiesta centerpiece}

Have a great day!