Blue and Gold banquet

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As you know I have been working on the Blue and Gold Banquet for several weeks. If you remember we are doing a space theme. Well tonight was the big night. I have to say it all came together with very little complications.

These are the rockets I made for some of the center pieces I found the idea Here. Instead of confetti like they used I just used gold glitter because that is what I had.

Here is the subway art I made and posted about earlier put in frames. The frames are not my favorite, but they were the right price and the gold coloring worked good for what we were using them for.

Here is the other subway art. I alternated these on each of the tables.

I found this cute idea from this site HERE and decided they would be really cute on our tables. So I ran out to Lowes and picked up paint chips in the colors we needed. I had to make 80 of them so I made several trips to get enough

. I just sewed the two together on my machine and then using the cuttlebug I cut out the scalloped shape. I wish I had made them a litttle bit bigger, but it was too late. I then used photoshop to make cupcake toppers using our logo and then printed them 12 to a sheet and used the cuttlebug again to cut them out.

We were fortunate enough to borrow some decorations from my SIL's friend so the styrofoam squares with the garland are hers. I had seen this idea before, but they used a half circle to make them and I they were pricey. I didn't think about using square ones, I wish I had though, because they were so cute on the tables. We put some colored paper under each center piece to give it a little pop of color.

We ended up having to add a few more tables, so we did not have enough of the rockets and styrofoam squares for each table so we placed them randomly around, but each table got a subway art print.

Here is the table with the plates and silverware holders and centerpieces. Besides the clear cups, I think it turned out so cute.

We strung blow up space shuttles(which were also borrowed) between the basketball hoops. We also borrowed the photo op that you can see in the back of the picture, and the constellations that you can see around the room.

We had each boy/family bring a space themed dessert and had a contest. This is K's cake that his Aunt so nicely made for him. He won the award for the cake with the most blue and gold.

 Doodle the alien

K and Doodle in space.

This is the only picture I got of the dessert table. We had some really cute and fun desserts. There are some creative boys in our pack.

I had a so much fun planning this and hope I get to do it again next year, but I will say that I am exhausted and am glad to be getting a break soon (well at least for 6 weeks after we have the baby right)

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Space subway art

I am a cub scout leader in my Church which gives me the opportunity to plan the Blue and Gold Banquet. We have picked a space theme for this years big event.  This is my first time planning one of these so I am treating it just like a big party, not sure if that is what I am supposed to do but it's what I am doing.

I am very much loving the subway art all over the internet and pinterest and have discovered that I can make my own so I decided to do one as a center piece in a space theme.

I designed it to be an 8x10 and will be putting it on the food table, but I also made it into a 4x6 so that I could put it on each of the tables along with some other decorations.

This is the 4x6. I am having them printed at Costco.

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