Dedication to Mix, Mingle and Glow

I went to The Special Event in San Diego in January. For those of you not in the event planning industry...this convention is huge! It is full of classes, seminars from seasoned event planners...masters of design and decor! Just a cornucopia of creativity and ideas. I met many of my event planning heroes. (I wanted autographs but didn't want to seem like a dork)
So one of my classes I attended was taught by Robyn Bomar and it was life changing...okay maybe that's too strong at least business life changing. Her class was about blogging and how it could help your business. Since now I am going full time into my passion upon retiring from the Marine Corps after 21 years- I took copious notes and I'm finally started my blog. Hope you enjoy.

So it only seem right that my first blog would be dedicated to the woman who inspired me to blog in the first place. In her blog, she has started doing tablescapes from items found in dollar bins from various stores. I have always adored Dollar Tree and find so much stuff to transform into fabulous decor. Now many other stores have jumped onto the bandwagon and have dollar bins as well. So, I used ideas from Robyn's zoo theme party ... hope you enjoy. Thanks Robyn!!
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Found the bags at Target for $2.50 and used them as chair sashes. I found some Animal Planet books at Dollar Tree and many zoo items from Oriental Trading to put inside bags.

The masks came from Oriental Trading. I used Robyn's idea for putting the silverware in the slipper and added a flower sucker as the napkin ring. The zoo favor boxes also came from Oriental Trading and it was stuffed with "animal" trinkets all found from either Dollar Tree or Oriental Trading.

I used the bath mats from Target and put a Dollar Tree plastic plate on top as well as animal bowls and plates also from Dollar Tree. The sippy cups also came from Dollar Tree. Boy, I really LOVE Dollar Tree, huh? I really do....I find so much stuff there.