We hosted a graduation party this past Saturday for my husband George. He graduated with an MBA in marketing. My oldest brother and his new wife Michelle drove in from New Orleans. We celebrated with our wonderful family and friends and it was a blast, but I must admit that I was sweating this party a little bit and heres why.
I invited a large number of people versus the amount of seating space I have available inside my house. Since we have had really mild weather without rain here in Austin (we've been experiencing a severe drought), we were thinking that we'd put tables on our back porch and patio to make up for the seating we don't have in the house. I didn't want to rent out a hall, too impersonal for us. We wanted a house party, so we thought we'd be all set for inside and outside. Well, just when you pray for rain 365 days a year, who would have thought that we'd be lucky enough to have rain on the day of our party. Well, we were more than lucky, cause it rained substantially.
So, the week before when the weather channel said a 70% chance of rain, I believed Mother Nature and headed over to Party City, one of my most frequented shops as of late, and filled up on party deco for our garage. Yes, I said our 2-car garage. Well you might be thinking that as a professional organizer, my garage must be neat and organized. That's very possible, but that wasn't just my doing, you must give a lot of the credit to George Lyman, the other half of the Lyman family. George isn't a professional organizer; he has some organizing challenges, but in our garage and backyard shed he is as organized as anyone can be (short of being a professional at it). That's cause he loves his tools!!! He knows how to fix everything inside and out, and "has the right tool to do the right job!" He also finished the garage floor with a lovely blue epoxy finish this past summer. He is incredible!!!
Anyway, the reason I started this blog was to show you how I decorated the steel Gorilla utility shelf in our garage to make them party ready. I used blue mylar streamers from Party City that were held up by magnets onto the shelf. We also had all kinds of other decorations and had seating in the garage for 20+ people. There's also music in the garage, so everyone was rockin'. Next time I have to entertain there, I'm going to use candles on the tables to make it more of an intimate environment. Happy celebrating!!!
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