My husband and I hosted our Third Annual Summer BBQ this weekend. Our daughter Savannah showed up in her little car and charmed all of the guests. :)
It was outside, so we went more minimal on the decorations. To make that personal impact and show that we really put some thought into it, I made the food and table more decorative instead of lots of actual decorations.
We did manage to remember to take a picture of the pork...
We neglected to take enough pictures...It's so hard with a group of people at your house! I had full intentions of taking pictures of the whole table with all of the food and completely forgot. I did take pictures of some of my favorite things from the BBQ, though.
Top Left: Watermelon Grill. Yes! We just cut the watermelon in half and scooped out the insides. I put oranges and blackberries in the bottom to look like hot coals (The red from the watermelon and orange from the....orange :) looked like it was hot under the blackberries). Stuck some skewers in for grates, then attached the lid with toothpicks. Ta da!! Grill! We made fruit skewers with the extra fruit and scooped watermelon and placed them on the grill, too.
Top Right: Food Labels. I love these! I got stickers at Michael's craft store that were just plain black, and got a white paint marker. I wrote what each food or drink was and stuck them on the serving container for everything. This has a couple of purposes. 1: They look adorable. 2: Labeling everything makes it so your guests can see what they're going to eat/drink without having to ask you. That way, you can entertain guests and they can figure out what everything is on their own.
Bottom Left: S'Mores Fire Pit! I put marshmallows on a skewer and dipped them in melted milk chocolate. I then rolled them in crushed graham crackers and let them sit so the chocolate could harden. I placed them on a Silpat on a baking sheet, but even just a plate would work for this. Once they were set, I used a dark metal planter from the Dollar Store that had floral foam in it, placed some scrunched tissue paper on top, then stuck the skewers down into the floral foam. Once they were all in there, I chopped the tissue randomly to look like flames. We all know it doesn't look like real fire, but it came out really cute and was a great centerpiece on top of being delicious!
Bottom Right: Hot Sauce Bar. We have a lot of hot sauce fanatics in our group. My husband and I grabbed our 5 favorite sauces in varying degrees of spiciness and I used the food labels again. We thought of fun names to call each one that let people know how hot it was and just stuck them over the actual label on the bottles.
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