Happy 50th Margie!

So much for trying to post once a week!  Never mind.  I have been very busy.  My lovely sister Margie is 50 next week and we're planning a celebration at our Mum's home a few minutes from where I live.  Margie livers on the other side of the beautiful Blue Mountains with her family.  Three wonderful kids, two big boys and an adorable little girl.

The theme is red (her favourite colour) and black.  My Mum is a cake decorator so she's handling the cake with a big red shoe on it!  Margie looooves shoes! Mum is also doing all the food - she likes to be in control, bless her.  The only thing she ever asks the rest of us to do is organise the tables.  So I'm in charge of that!  A black runner with wide red ribbon down the middle and red flowers all over it.  Some pretty tea lights and red and black favours.  Still have a little bit of shopping to do....

I wanted to do something special.  So I decided to create a banner.  I've never made one of these before so I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was.  I bought some red and black fabric and a patterned fabric to make the letters out of.  The pennants were cut out with pinking shears.  Then I cut the letters out of the patterned fabric and used fusing web to attach them to the pennants.  Here is the result.

Now I need to make a card for her.  I found a fantastic website called http://www.tagxedo.com.  It allows you to create word clouds.  This is what I've made.

Fabulous isn't it! I'm going to try and adjust the colours a bit but I am delighted with the result!

I'll post further pics after Saturday's party so you can see how it all turns out.

Cheers for now

Kathleen