Past Party Monday! {Teen apartment warming party}

June 04, 2012

A couple months back, my baby moved out on his own!

He's nearly 19 years old, but he'll always be my baby.

To help celebrate such a big milestone, I gave him an apartment warming party.

The challenge for me: Keep it teen-friendly, and not too sophisticated!

I let my son Brady pick out the colors. He wanted black & silver.

I added neutral tones, and I think all the colors worked well together.

Please forgive my dark photos. My son didn't have any lamps yet,

so I had to work with the apartment light fixtures : )

I made the backdrop with 2 black foam boards. {from Dollar Tree}

I added some silver paper fans left over from my NYE party.

To add the neutral tones, I cut out circles from craft paper, and

attached them to the paper fans. I also added a box under the cake stand.

I created some fun cupcake toppers to reflect my son's new living arrangement.

Since my son is a very healthy eater, {unlike his *cough Mom *cough}

I tried to add as many "healthy" food items as I could.

I displayed the veggies in individual cups.

I saw this neat idea on Pinterest!

Another idea from Pinterest was fruit stuffed waffle cones.
Don't they look delicious?
Also displayed on Brady's table, was a neat basket filled w/kitchen utensils.
The basket not only served as a party decoration,
But my son was able to keep the utensils for his new kitchen!