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Take an ordinary terracotta pot.  Dust it with desert sand in fiesta colors.  Pop in some wild rosemary with marigolds as a punch, and you’ve got a brilliant centerpiece for your party tables.

Materials:

Terracotta pot

Elmers Glue

Colored Sand

Rosemary plant

Marigolds with stems

Tools:

Paint brush

Garden scissors

Shallow dish for sand (one for each color)

Instructions:

Starting with a clean terracotta pot, paint the glue around the body of the pot, leaving the brim in its terracotta finish.

Lay the pot on its side and roll in the dish with the sand until the glue is covered, let dry

Plant your rosemary, trim any dead pieces

Stick your marigolds in too, various heights and towards the center, as if they are growning in your pot

Hint:

Add a southwest flair to any table you like.   Saddle blankets and tribal paintings loaned us the inspiration for these patterns while the skies and colors of the desert gave us a beautiful palette to paint with.

Materials:

½” plywood cut into squares            

painters masking tape

painters masking paper

sand paper

spray paint in various colors 

Instructions:

Sand around the edges of the squares until smooth

Lay the masking tape in strips, crossing vertically and diagonally across the board

(think “southwest”)

Use the masking paper to cover up all sections but one

spray paint the first section with a color, let dry

repeat the process of block off, spray, let dry, until the table is complete.

Hint:

If Gold is the standard of excellence- then these are some excellent Piñatas.  Now, take it to a new level and give your donkeys the stature they deserve- paint them gold!  We even put a moustache for some character.  It’s not a Fiesta without a Piñata, right?

Materials:

Piñatas –preferably a donkey or a bull

Gold Spray Paint

Party favor stick on Moustache

Instructions:

Spray paint your piñata making sure you get it covered, let dry

Stick on a moustache, and laugh

Hint:

Walk this way! Step into the other world of autumn's wonder with me.

Take me away with shadows and light.... carved and etched gourd from Senegal.  Almost looks like 'music', don't you think?