Scrabble Party

I had the privilege of celebrating my sister-in-law's 40th birthday this weekend. A wonderful woman, friend, mother & wife who loves words.  Anything with words.

So we thought we would throw her a Scrabble Party!

 

I found a knife block at the thrift store and thought it looked just like a scrabble tile so I painted a "J" (for my SIL's name) on it and used scrabble tiles to spell out Happy Birthday for the cupcake toppers.  Knife block: $1, scrabble tiles: free (I had them already)

My SIL also LOVES lemons and basil so we used those as accents around the table.

I found vinyl letters at the local drugstore and thought they would look cute on balloons, spelling out her name.  Vinyl letters: $3, Helium balloons: $5.68

I printed Happy Birthday letters using the News Gothic MT font (very similar to the Scrabble font) and put a wood background on each page to make them look like Scrabble tiles.

A sweet friend of ours asked all of us to bring one word that best describes my SIL, and put the words & descriptions in a scrapbook as a present to her.  How lovely to read these and realize what a gift she is to all of us.