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Monday, January 23, 2012

Gung Hay Fat Choy

 


Happy Chinese New Year!

We are having my in-laws over for dinner tonight to celebrate Chinese New Year - of course I decorated!

First I hung some store bought lanterns from Walmart.  Then I draped yellow and red crepe streamers and curly yellow ribbons over the curtain rod.   I wanted to fill the window with streamers but this is all we had. Since we have quite a bit of red felt, and some red embroidery thread, I made a few DIY decorations - bumpy felt streamers, and dangling felt O's!!!

This is my first time decorating for Chinese New Year, did I do ok?

(I had to pull out the flash for these photos)
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14 comments:

  1. a Girl Called KimJanuary 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM

    you did great!
    the most we ever bothered to do was to stick a few of these (http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2012/01/21/219852-chinese-new-year-2012.jpg) up when the family came over for dinner.

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  2. Michelle @ AM Dolce VitaJanuary 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM

    It looks awesome! And put me to shame. :-)

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  3. Sundeep @ DesignwaliJanuary 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM

    looks great! happy chinese new year!

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  4. Jordana @ White CabanaJanuary 23, 2012 at 12:24 PM

    Happy Chinese New Year! Love the decorations and I'm sure your dinner party is going to be happy and yummy!

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  5. April @ Money Pit LoveJanuary 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM

    So pretty!

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  6. Natalie MyersJanuary 23, 2012 at 1:56 PM

    So colorful and fun. I like it and that is very considerate of you.

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  7. Shannon8foot6January 23, 2012 at 1:59 PM

    my husband is making two organic beer can chickens...i'm making the best broccoli ever and putting on some white rice...we have pork and noodles and dessert coming too...simple, and delicious!

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  8. Shannon8foot6January 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM

    it is for the kids!! you know?! i want them to be excited about Chinese new year since it is such a big deal!

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  9. Shannon8foot6January 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM

    cuuuuuuuuute!!!

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  10. Amelia @ House PrettyJanuary 23, 2012 at 6:18 PM

    Nice job! Love the combo of store bought and DIY decorations.

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  11. Brunch at SaksJanuary 24, 2012 at 12:03 AM

    Beautiful decorations and photos!

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  12. Shutter BugJanuary 24, 2012 at 12:07 PM

    Nice decorations! You did it in a tasteful and chic manner. Chinese decorations can be quite tacky and gaudy if not done right! You did good! :)

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  13. DABITOJanuary 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM

    Happy New Year, Shannon! I think you did awesome. I'm get excited from just hanging red lanterns. Sometimes, my mom just tapes a red envelope on the wall and calls it a day. She's silly like that. Ha. Did the kids get a lot of lai see?!

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  14. Ginger TaylorJanuary 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM

    Ah! So inspirational. I just had a baby in December - his god-mom is Chinese. Next year or the year after, we plan on going to Hong Kong and China with her to celebrate. I never thought of decorating; I'm so all over that!!!

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