Chicklet1
06-03-2001, 03:10 PM
Well, I ran myself ragged all day friday getting decorations up. I will be putting up the pictures tonight or tomorrow. Lemme describe what it looked like. This could get really long but it's neat. We live in a neighborhood, on a quiet cul de sac if that's how you spell it. We live up on a hill, so the driveway is sloped. We had torches lit up the driveway. We put three or four palms out front and had torches in the front and side garden. Those were smaller ones. There were docking posts (you use them for landscaping too, they are posts hooked together with thick twine) up the entrance sidewalk to the front door. That looked really cute. I had colored fish net covering the front door.
Once inside you can either go up or down and going up on both sides of the banister I put grass skirts and big tissue-paper made flowers in all kinds of colors. Along with store bought tissue-paper-tummy cut outs. The kind you open up and it's like acordian folded. I had parrots and fish mostly. I also made a big poster board sign with lots of colors that read LUAU and had a totem pole on the front (looked like a big cup) and a bamboo skewer with pineapple, ham, onion and green pepper slice stuck to it. That went over the cup). It was cool looking and I hope I got a picture of it.
Once up the stairs the entry way to the kitchen had another big poster board that I did in glitter that just read ALOHA! and I stuck those big flowers I mentioned to that too. The entance way has opening doors that swing open on both sides and I had it covered with grass skirt stuff too. Then to the right was the restaurant. Lots of the stuff I wanted to do didn't happen because of the rain. It rained in the morning, and clouded and was COLD all day. I wanted to do the restaurant thing. I don't know if I told any of you about it or not. I made menus and contact papered them and the front read Jordans House of Luau. A great place to eat, where you just never know what you're going to get. Basically it's true. The things they could order were like Harpooners Delight. But they didn't know that was a fork. So they had to order three courses with three things on each course. They might get a fork, knife and orange. Or plate, spoon, and cherry. BUT this didn't happen because they just were too WILD. (More on that later). So I tried turning the upstairs living room into the restaurant. Mom and I hung these HUGE backdrops that were just gorgeous of Hawaii that the Womens Reformatory here where I live painted. They do these for proms and vacation Bible schools a lot. It gives them some kind of credit...I don't know what that's all about. But this thing covered TWO whole walls in my living room. I stuck another poster I made that read Jordans House Of Luau inbetween two palm trees that were painted on the backdrop. They paint them on sheets. This one was yellow. We set up two tables in that room, put plastic table cloths on them and taped them down and then up under the table so it wouldn't hang down. We then taped grass skirts to them all the way around. We put vases with hawaiian flowers in them, some shells, some hawaiian like candles and such. It was nice. We hung more colored fish nets from the windows. Had plastic crabs, and star fish. Before all that went up though I took all kinds of colored streamers and streamed 7 or 8 colors from the four corners of the room. I hung one of those huge tissue paper flowers from the light fixture in the center of the room where all the streamers met.
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Once inside you can either go up or down and going up on both sides of the banister I put grass skirts and big tissue-paper made flowers in all kinds of colors. Along with store bought tissue-paper-tummy cut outs. The kind you open up and it's like acordian folded. I had parrots and fish mostly. I also made a big poster board sign with lots of colors that read LUAU and had a totem pole on the front (looked like a big cup) and a bamboo skewer with pineapple, ham, onion and green pepper slice stuck to it. That went over the cup). It was cool looking and I hope I got a picture of it.
Once up the stairs the entry way to the kitchen had another big poster board that I did in glitter that just read ALOHA! and I stuck those big flowers I mentioned to that too. The entance way has opening doors that swing open on both sides and I had it covered with grass skirt stuff too. Then to the right was the restaurant. Lots of the stuff I wanted to do didn't happen because of the rain. It rained in the morning, and clouded and was COLD all day. I wanted to do the restaurant thing. I don't know if I told any of you about it or not. I made menus and contact papered them and the front read Jordans House of Luau. A great place to eat, where you just never know what you're going to get. Basically it's true. The things they could order were like Harpooners Delight. But they didn't know that was a fork. So they had to order three courses with three things on each course. They might get a fork, knife and orange. Or plate, spoon, and cherry. BUT this didn't happen because they just were too WILD. (More on that later). So I tried turning the upstairs living room into the restaurant. Mom and I hung these HUGE backdrops that were just gorgeous of Hawaii that the Womens Reformatory here where I live painted. They do these for proms and vacation Bible schools a lot. It gives them some kind of credit...I don't know what that's all about. But this thing covered TWO whole walls in my living room. I stuck another poster I made that read Jordans House Of Luau inbetween two palm trees that were painted on the backdrop. They paint them on sheets. This one was yellow. We set up two tables in that room, put plastic table cloths on them and taped them down and then up under the table so it wouldn't hang down. We then taped grass skirts to them all the way around. We put vases with hawaiian flowers in them, some shells, some hawaiian like candles and such. It was nice. We hung more colored fish nets from the windows. Had plastic crabs, and star fish. Before all that went up though I took all kinds of colored streamers and streamed 7 or 8 colors from the four corners of the room. I hung one of those huge tissue paper flowers from the light fixture in the center of the room where all the streamers met.
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