What Happens in Vegas…

Viva Las Vegas! Last Novem­ber, my incred­i­ble grand­moth­er cel­e­brat­ed her 90th birth­day!!! What an amaz­ing mile­stone! Every­one who meets her can­not believe her age because she looks so young, but also because she can usu­al­ly be found par­ty­ing it up at the Vegas casi­nos! Due to her affin­i­ty for gam­bling, we decid­ed to cel­e­brate with a casi­no-themed par­ty and dessert table! Since we had planned an entire week­end of fun, includ­ing a cou­ple of nights at the Palms Casi­no Resort, we set up the desserts in her room and sur­prised her with it.

Here are the details…

For the back­ground, I want­ed to write her name, Lucia, in mar­quee let­ters, which can be super expen­sive to buy! So, I decid­ed to make my own. I pur­chased paper mache let­ters, red spray paint and gold and round Christ­mas orna­ments {I lucked out since it was close to the hol­i­days!} from craft stores. After punch­ing holes in the front of the let­ters with a screw­driv­er, I insert­ed the gold orna­ments to resem­ble lights. Most of the orna­ments were secure enough, but I did hot glue a cou­ple that weren’t as stable.

To cre­ate the paper prod­ucts, I pur­chased dig­i­tal clip art from the Etsy shop rev­ide­vi and cre­at­ed cup­cake top­pers {not fon­dant… can you believe it?!}, decor and buf­fet labels, which I added to a gold spark­ly chevron back­ground. Lol­lipop dice were dis­played inside sou­venir shot glass­es, pas­tries were placed on play­ing card-shaped dish­es and Las Vegas ash trays were propped up as addi­tion­al dec­o­ra­tions on easels.

I was inspired by dice vas­es I had seen so beau­ti­ful­ly done by Kel­ly Lyden of The Par­ty Dress for an HGTV fea­ture and decid­ed to re-cre­ate them. Because I did­n’t have square white vas­es, I uti­lized hard white felt to line the inside of clear glass ones and added round, black cir­cles in var­i­ous num­bers to each side. Red and yel­low car­na­tions filled the vas­es and matched per­fect­ly with the table.

Pri­or to our dessert bash, we took the birth­day girl out on the town for din­ner and cel­e­brat­ed Vegas-style! We are so very for­tu­nate to have been able to par­take in this incred­i­ble mile­stone and to have her close by in hopes that her wis­dom and ener­gy rubs off on us just a bit! ♥

Merci Beaucoup!

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