cocktail party planning
Ever since my birthday in February, I have been asking Sam what he wants to do for his birthday. Throwing a cocktail party doesn't seem so underwhelming when you consider that more than three people might be there, now that we have made some new friends at the bike co-op. As always, I get way too excited about things like this. It's about two weeks away, but I am already beginning to daydream of the menu, the invites, the decorations, and Sam's birthday cake.
In honor of the francophones, Provencal devilled eggs.
Okra and tomato kebabs are for our Southern vegetarian friends, and because it's summer!
Bite-sized North Carolina pork barbecue
Marinated mushrooms.
Vege temaki for our vegetarian friends.
And of course, cocktails. Mint juleps, mojitos and martinis.
The biggest source of excitement is because it is also the weekend our friends, Maude and Olivier are coming to visit from Toronto.
We haven't seen them since we moved here. We have been planning for them for a while, in small ways: purchase an extra bike or two for guests, talk about framing the artworks they gave us as Christmas gifts, get the conservation lab organized again as a guest bedroom, with shelves for storing my materials. Someday, the extra room will be a guest bedroom that just happens to have shelves with apothecary jars filled with pigments, adhesives, and binding media. Oh, and some antique map drawers for flat storage, that could double as a sewing table.
In honor of the francophones, Provencal devilled eggs.
Okra and tomato kebabs are for our Southern vegetarian friends, and because it's summer!
Bite-sized North Carolina pork barbecue
Marinated mushrooms.
Vege temaki for our vegetarian friends.
And of course, cocktails. Mint juleps, mojitos and martinis.
The biggest source of excitement is because it is also the weekend our friends, Maude and Olivier are coming to visit from Toronto.
We haven't seen them since we moved here. We have been planning for them for a while, in small ways: purchase an extra bike or two for guests, talk about framing the artworks they gave us as Christmas gifts, get the conservation lab organized again as a guest bedroom, with shelves for storing my materials. Someday, the extra room will be a guest bedroom that just happens to have shelves with apothecary jars filled with pigments, adhesives, and binding media. Oh, and some antique map drawers for flat storage, that could double as a sewing table.