The Party Decorations

The Saturday of Miss Pear's birthday was not the sunny California morning we expected. It had rained overnight, so we had to wait to decorate until things dried up a bit.

We put tissue flowers in the tree out front, but the only pictures I have of that include a dancing birthday girl, so I could not post them. But I did get pictures of the back yard.

Tissue flowers in the tree
(attached with the pipe cleaner that holds the flower together)

Tissue flowers along the fence

Inside the house we put bows in the top corners of each window and a happy birthday banner up, but in all the pictures are either family or pictures of family...so this is the only picture to show how the bows were placed.

And of course it would be the picture of the bow the the tails that refused to stay nicely curled! Oh well.

The decorations turned out so well, I was really pleased, and Miss Pear loved them, so that is what counts!

We brought in all the tissue flowers Saturday evening, and it was a good thing because it rained again overnight! That is very unusual because it is not the rainy season and we don't remember it raining in May or June the entire 10 years we have lived here! So we told Miss Pear that God must have sent the rain special just for her on her birthday because He knows the rain delights her.

Sunday Miss Pear ended up with a tissue flower hat once the flowers were joined together. It was so cute.

The tissue flowers cannot be repurposed, so we just played with them.

The bows have already been reused. We put 2 bows on the bench out front to welcome guests on Saturday, and Saturday night they were moved to decorate the wagon that Miss Pear got for her birthday. The bows will all be flattened and reused on gifts or in bouquets.