Please Be Seated!

I have to say, my favorite part of hosting parties is setting the table.  Not necessarily making the food, but setting the table... I'm lovin' it!

Ladybug Picnic

Before lunch, I served a few appetizers in the grass.  The grass being green paper shred~

Red pots held the napkins and silverware. 

And a black metal ant held "Ant Kim's" Fruit Salad~

Directions to the Picnic Shelter

And I posted the picnic menu, so the guests would not fill up on the appetizers!

Walnut & Rosemary Oven Fried Chicken

Penne with Spinach & Sun Dried Tomatoes

Lime Gingered Sweet Potatoes

Cheese & Quinoa Stuffed Red Peppers

Baked Beans

Corn Off The Cob

My favorite kind of garden - A Chocolate Rock Garden~

I piled up lots of rocks and added some grass and dried flowers.

Little tins were filled with chocolate rocks and a leaf I cut with my Cricut.  Ready for the guests to take home~

Yes they are rocks...chocolate rocks!

Now, it's time to be seated!

Each glass had an ant holding the place card~

Everyone was a "Lady"~

I was "Lady Gaga"

The ants are actually table cloth weights!

The Lady bug butter~

Covered with a screen to keep the ants away!

Every Lady had a Bug~

A Lady Bug Cookie that is, to take home~

AND a picnic basket full of ants~

Or some would call the ants chocolate covered espresso beans!

Our shade tree was covered in ladybugs and ribbon~

Which kept us cool, calm and collected. 

Just me, Lady Gaga!