One week to go...Picado's all a-glow | Week 42 | #52wonderfilledweeks
Another week down and we're suddenly a week away from our big double, Dia de la Muertos party. I was determined this week to finish up everything we had planned for P's Coco bday party. When you think of a Day of the Dead party you probably envision an out door affair with lots of lights, candles, food, marigolds (lots and lots of those!) and Papel Picado ! We knew from day one that we would have papel picado and tissue marigolds as decorations at both parties...but we waffled for a while on how we would to the picado...I had settled on ordering tissue paper and having P help me cut them ourselves...but as the weeks went by and P's party evolved into a black light, Land of the Dead, theme we opted to still make them ourselves but with the Cameo. The first problem we encountered was getting paper that was black light responsive. I won't bore you with the details but let's just say not everything will glow under a black light...I went through no less than 5 dif...