Have a Merry Lilly Christmas!

As mentioned in my post from Tuesday, here are all the details of the dinner party I put together for my family in Folly Beach last week.  Originally, I had planned to cook for this party but became a little nervous about that idea since we were staying in a rental we weren't familiar with yet.  I was not sure what utensils, pots and pans, etc we would have when we got there.  So when my mother mentioned my sister had requested my parents bring some of my dad's chili, I jumped at the chance to use that for my dinner party.

I mentioned my color palette would be pink and green and I added gold to that to complete it.  One of my projects for this was transforming ordinary shells from the Dollar Tree into gold shells by using a gold leafing pen.  I used these shells to act as place cards as well by writing names on the inside of them.  I also made salt dough sand dollars and starfish and use the gold leafing to dress them up.  I managed to purchase most of the items that I had to buy for this in the bargain section of Michaels, the Dollar Tree, and on major sales at Hobby Lobby and Target.

I found a glass shell dish at Goodwill in the beginning stages of my planning and decided I need to get it.  I made some "sea glass" hard candy to put in the shell dish.  I also took along some of my Christmas sugar cookies.  I played up the pink and green theme in my sugar cookies this year and I love how they turned out (I even made some lime green alligator cookies but those didn't survive the 12 hours drive to Folly Beach).

I found glass pineapple Christmas ornaments at Target and decided I would get some to use as decoration and then gift to my parents and to my sister so we all have a pineapple ornament to remind us of our trips to Charleston/Folly Beach.  I had also completed another DYI for my mom and my sister.  I used the wrapping paper that Lilly Pulitzer brilliantly sent in the mail as part of an ad to refit some gift boxes that I had picked up from Target and switched out white ribbon for pink to gift their ornaments.  I also purchased a Lilly Santa Lion bow tie for Wyatt (to match my bow of course) and sat that out at his place setting.