Naw Ruz Celebreation and Pinterest Challenge #7

So this activity was actually before I decided to to my Pinterest Challenge, but I am including it because I got the ideas from Pinterest. Every March the Bahai's of Moscow hold a Naw Ruz  [nouˈɾuːz] celebration.  This marks the last day of the 19 DayFast which started March 2nd and the beginning of the Baha'i New Year.  Naw Ruz always falls on the First day of Spring, though there have been times in Moscow it has been snowing, this year it was actually decent weather wise.

This year I decided to tackle the table decorations. I am actually very happy with the way they turned out.

First the Pinterest Inspiration pictures:

Such a cute piece

Baha'i Nine-pointed star

Now for my result- I combined the idea of the above two. The flower piece is a Mason jar filled with green tissue paper, pipe cleaners and paper flowers from the American Girls Collection Paper Pad. Creating the Nine-Pointed stars was interesting, and not something I recommend doing after your normal bedtime. It is amazing how complicated rolling paper can be when you are tired. The jars have little ladybugs, butterflies and bumblebees on them as well. Overall I like the way they turned out. I used one of the American Girl Felt Flower Bouquet Kit to make something to hang on the door people walked through. I think it turned out really neat and it was nice to have something on the door. However, the stickers that come with the kit aren't really strong enough to do anything so I would recommend hot gluing everything together. I did the flowers with hot glue, but used the stickers to stick it to the base. I need to go back and hot glue everything together as well as make the other one I purchased. I don't have a picture of the felt bouquet all done. If I remember to take one I will try and remember to post it.

My Version

Transportation of  Center Pieces-not the easiest thing.

Door Hanger-not put together

The Venue-Schierman's Event Center

I also created a banner that says "Happy Naw Ruz". The banner hung behind the food tables. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was very nice to have a little something on the walls. I got the Letters and Shapes from Shanty-2-chic.com. I printed them on brightly colored card stock the tied them together with some ribbon. I want to see about getting the banner laminated for future use.

Banner

Here is the cake, well cupcake cake to be exact that was the centerpiece of our dessert table. It was yummy, but I felt guilty being the first person to take a cupcake and breakup the beautiful artwork Safeway did. However that guilt went away when I tasted it.....it was delicious.

Naw Ruz Cupcake Cake

We also had Safeway do a little cake just because.

The Sweet Adeline's provided some beautiful music.

Sweet Adeline's

Peter and Jolie Haug graced us with singing some Red Grammer songs, of which singing along is required.

Check out one of my favorite Red Grammer songs "I Think You're Wonderful"

Pinterest Challenge #2

I am behind on my posting my weekly Pinterest Challenges, but I have been doing them. The second Pinterest challenge I did was a little piece of artwork. Wedding Song Lyric Art. I did four different versions, but only ended up framing one. Below are the two ideas I came across that I liked.

Pinterest Inspiration 1 

Pinterest Inspiration 2

Ok, so how did mine turn out?  Here you go. What do you think? Our wedding song is Love is on the Way by Saigon Kick. The font is hard to read in the pictures so I have included the lyrics and a video of the song.

In the fame

A close up

 Lonely sidewalks, silent night

Bring the evening, deep inside
Hold me darling, touch me now
Let the feelings free tonight

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight baby

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight

Time of season, wipes your tears
No rhyme or reason, no more fears
All the dreamin', is far behind
You are here now, and everythin's alright

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight baby

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight

And in the morning I'll be gone away
All the things I left behind
If you need me I'll come night and day
Let's stop the hands of time

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight baby

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight baby

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight baby

Love is on the way
I can see it in your eyes
Let's give it one more try tonight