Ring in the new year!

Nothing like a get together with friends to ring in the new year!

This may have been the first year that we have had a house party as we normally venture out into 'town' to get elbowed in the face and punched in the mouth (yes that has happened - but for me only realised a few days later while putting on makeup...) - anyway this year we would stay away from the drunken hooligans and have a sophisticated evening...it starts that way until the alcohol starts a flowing, but then again your with friend so all you do is rat on each other and tell them to shut up. 

I did the classical Silver and Black theme since I started preparing the decoration a few days before the party. I didn't want them to cost a lot, so I printed the 'Happy New Year' on paper at work (as you can see I don't do a lot here at work :p) getting the black pattern of the Internet and threading it together with black ribbon. For the hanging decorations I brought white dollies (would have got silver if I could find any) had the sequin fabric left over from a Red Sonia costume I made and had stars and cups under the sequin fabric left over from my 26th Birthday - I just threaded the fishing/craft nylon string through the fabric (cut in squares) and attached it to the cup then sticky taped the stars and dollies to the thread. I also made black felt moustaches attached to skewer sticks for photos but we never took any cause we were too busy holding them to our faces :D