Birthday Backdrops

We have had a few 

first birthdays 

around here. 

I may or may not

have gone a little overboard with

 Maddie's.

But I'm her grandma.

She's our first. 

And her mother said I could.

Something I have noticed in checking out all the 

fun party ideas on line is the use of 

backdrops.

I think they really help to set a

table off and make a fun

focal point for the festivities.

For Maddies' party I hung

streamers from a curtain rod.

I helped Viki out for 

Eliana's birthday with this:

That is just two colors of table coverings

 that I stapled

 (one on top of the other)

to thin latice strips.

I cut them into strips

and then knotted the two colors together at the top.

Here Viki tacked balloons to the wall:

This was in the garage which is probably the 

only place you could do this. 

That would be a lot of holes in your

dining room wall.