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Mele Kalikimaka!

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My hus­band’s birth­day is in the month of Decem­ber and since he’s a surfer boy (which is a tad chal­leng­ing see­ing as we live in the desert!), I thought I would add a bit of a trop­i­cal Christ­mas theme to the fes­tiv­i­ties! Since this month has been extreme­ly hec­tic and jam-packed, we decid­ed to go for a cel­e­bra­to­ry din­ner and return home for the most impor­tant part: dessert!
I focused on trop­i­cal, Hawai­ian-inspired decor by pair­ing tra­di­tion­al Christ­mas col­ors of red and green and some yellows/golds for a pop, along with neu­trals to reflect the sand and nat­ur­al ele­ments. I uti­lized burlap fab­ric as a table cov­er­ing, along with a strip in the cen­ter of the back­ground that not only added some tex­ture, but also hid a cab­i­net in our din­ing area!
Fol­low­ing along with the meld­ing of island life with the hol­i­days, I took the tra­di­tion­al gin­ger­bread house and con­vert­ed it into a surf shack! To save time, I pur­chased an already baked house and added fon­dant dec­o­ra­tions, such as a palm tree with a string of lights. When I was brows­ing through the “dol­lar” aisles at Tar­get, I found some acces­sories to dec­o­rate your own snow­man, so placed it on some white cot­ton can­dy to show it melt­ing in the hot, trop­i­cal sun!
The adorable “Mele Kaliki­ma­ka” San­ta tags came from Starynight that so gra­cious­ly offers free graph­ic down­loads for dig­i­tal scrap­book­ing. The lit­tle orna­ment hold­ers came from Michaels, which I found at 50% off in the dol­lar sec­tion. Love great finds AND deals!!!
The fon­dant cup­cake top­pers includ­ed San­ta mak­ing “sand angels and Rudolph wear­ing a lei, among oth­er trop­i­cal and hol­i­day designs. They topped choco­late “lava” cup­cakes and were dis­played in wood­en bowls with brown sug­ar to resem­ble sand.
Some oth­er treats offered were pineap­ple cakes topped with fon­dant gin­ger­bread men and women, decked out in their bathing suits and lay­ing out and catch­ing some rays on their fon­dant tow­els. We also had rice marsh­mal­low treats serv­ing as a stage for the hula danc­ing pen­guins, along with fon­dant surf­boards and flowers!
Accents on the table includ­ed the cen­ter­piece arrange­ment with tra­di­tion­al palm leaves and red birds of par­adise embell­ished with glit­tery red and gold bulbs. I also pur­chased some emp­ty glass orna­ments, which I filled with sand and seashells (left­over from the mer­maid lagoon sta­tion from my daugh­ter’s Find­ing Nev­er­land par­ty ear­li­er this year ~ I love it when I can re-use sup­plies!). I had also seen a com­mer­cial on t.v.by Big Lots for these hilar­i­ous gui­tar-shaped Elvis con­tain­ers filled with pop­corn that I just had to have! My sis­ter-in-law had giv­en us some cute Tom­my Bahama pil­sner glass­es and I filled them with small orna­ments, topped off with a pineap­ple orna­ment. Addi­tion­al­ly, I used some items I already had as decor, such as beach bags and the per­fect starfish orna­ment paint­ed as San­ta that usu­al­ly adorns our Christ­mas tree!
As favors, we gave away Egg Nog in a Bag from Cost Plus World Mar­ket that, as the bag reads, you can sim­ply “shake, freeze and squeeze”! Also from the Tar­get dol­lar bins were some liqueur-infused choco­late boxes.
I had so much fun with this theme that was so fit­ting for both my hus­band and the hol­i­days! We, of course, lis­tened to Bing Cros­by’s clas­sic “Mele Kaliki­ma­ka” song since it’s “Hawai­i’s way to say Mer­ry Christ­mas to you”!!!

Merci Beaucoup!



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  7. Your ‘Miss Pig­gy in Paris’ led me to ‘Trop­i­cal Xmas’…I might men­tion one or both (with 1 of your pho­tos) on ‘Serge the Concierge’ if you don’t mind.

    You should like this Wooly Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, DIY Christ­mas Scene with Kni­tiv­i­ty on ‘Serge the Concierge’

    A bien­tot

    Serge Lescouarnec
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    Food, Wine, Trav­el since March 2005

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