Hi everyone...Beth from the blog Plum and June emailed me with a link to a Blog Hop she's having. It's such a wonderful idea, I wanted to share it with you.
The Blog Hop participants are NEW bloggers who starting blogging in 2011-2012 with a primary focus on quilting!! Each day, the participants, who are assigned a special day, will post a wonderful project.
The best part is each day we can "hop" over for a visit and enjoy all these great tutorials. The hop started May 22nd and the tutorials so far are amazing!! The schedule is booked into October, so it looks like a fun hop into Autumn too.
If you are a new blogger, love to quilt and want to participate contact Beth or Click HERE to a link for more info. Scroll down a bit for the Hop Details.
If you've been blogging for a while and just need some fabulous inspiration, bookmark the Blog Hop or "Follow" along by clicking here to visit Plum and June.
As a side note...
The ideas are turning in my head again. To think...there are Blog Hops and Give Aways out there in blogland that aren't getting the attention they need has me thinking.
I am going to add another linking party on the SAME post as Find a Friend Friday. Each Friday, I will have 2 parties...one for sharing your blog to find new friends and the second to spread the word about Blog Hops and Give Aways. If you're having a give away or blog hop, YOU can easy link up at the party to share the fun! That way, we can have all that great information all in ONE place.
Look for it this Friday if you have a give away or blog hop you want to share with everyone!!
Thanks for stopping by here and "HOP" over to Beth's...you won't be disappointed.
Have a great day,
~Karen~
Fresh fruit served in individual treat cups (these are from Shop Sweet Lulu).
Delicious Caprese Salad, one of my favorites! (Tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, dressed with salt and pepper)
I often make these Chicken Salad Sandwiches for parties. The chicken salad can be made a day or two in advance, and they are always enjoyed!
For the sweets, I made Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting, and topped them with simple, pre-made flowers (from Sweet Estelle's Baking Supply). I also made decorated Sugar Cookies, some to be enjoyed at the party, and others wrapped as favors. 
The favors were a single, special sugar cookie, decorated with a little bunting design (full tutorial soon). I packaged the cookies as I've show HERE. The personalized labels and the finishing paper trim on the packages were from Paper Jacks. I displayed the cookies in vintage milk glass, and Hull Pottery. 
Here's another look at the favor cookies, which were inspired by the custom invitations by Swish Designs, and then packaged with perfect labels and paper ribbon from Paper Jacks. Donna of Swish Designs did a great job creating a special invitation to incorporate the look of the fabric bunting. 
In the kitchen, I had a table for drinks (iced tea, lemonade and water). I used extra fabric from the bunting I'd made to tie around mason jars, to be used as drinking jars. I carefully calculated the number of different fabrics I had, and then used 4 different colors of straws (from Shop Sweet Lulu) and was able to have each jar have a different combo of fabric and straw color, thus identifying each glass (without name tags).
...it was just dreamy! 
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