Crafty Imaginings & Silly Things: It's a FIESTA!

My Granny turned 80 today! We wanted to celebrate this milestone with a fun family party full of little surprises for her yesterday. It was great! She was so happy!

Since we live in San Antonio, a Fiesta-theme isn't hard to recreate and she already loves the style. I searched Pinterest and started pinning ideas and recipes. You can check out my board here: Granny's Fiesta. All of the recipes turned out tasty, so be sure to check them out.

We had a "photo spot", fun take-home gifts, tons of yummy food, and colorful decorations.

I started by making a lot of tissue paper flowers to be the bulk of the decor.

Just a FEW flowers!

I used many of these flowers and colorful crepe paper to make a "photo spot" in the entryway. My mother made a bucket of "accessory props" with her Cricut. She attached the glasses, lips, mustaches, etc. to colorful drinking straws with tape. She also brought a couple of tiaras and glitter hats. I added a stuffed rose and my selfievstick to the bucket too. The little man was also part of the Cricut cartridge...just enlarged.

Everyone had fun posing in the entry and playing with the props!

The rest of the flowers were used around the living, dining, and kitchen. Dollar store plastic tablecloths in bright colors along with cascarones and confetti made for easy table decorations. I used empty Mexican canned good cans to hold the colorful flowers and flatware.

The banner above the windows was a custom cut my mother made with her Cricut.

The decorations were easy to make but they made a big impact and definitely set the FIESTA scene! We had fun with them!

Now on to the food......

For appetizers, I found some easy and yummy recipes on Pinterest. The Skinny Taco Dip and Tortilla Roll-ups were big hits! The Mexican-spiced Cheese Crackers are super addicting!

Granny requested a fajita lunch....perfect for our surprise party theme. I marinated both the chicken and beef the night before. My Uncle Juven (Family Grillmaster) grilled them on party day! Tortillas, lots of taco fixings, and salsas made up the "taco bar". Spanish Rice and Uncle Juven's famous bean soup made perfect side dishes

We had a special cake my Uncle and Aunt had made in the Houston area. And, surprised Granny with her favorite treat.....Bahama Buck's. They offer a cool party pack with everything you need to make Sno at home! So fun!

After dessert, the ultimate surprise arrived....a local Mariachi group came and sang for her! She was thrilled and the tears of joy said it all!