Bachelor Premiere Party Plans

December 14, 2015
by Emily

One of my favorite events with my girlfriends is getting together to watch The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.  It’s so fun to get together for the premieres and finales and watch (okay, mock) the show together.  Everyone brings a snack or drink to share and a few of us provide the additional entertainment.

Last season, we watched as Kaitlyn and Shawn got engaged at my recap party and in just three weeks, we’ll watch as Ben Higgins looks for love with a new group of women.

I absolutely love the Evites I sent out.  they’re so pretty and perfectly fit the rose theme.  I opted for this hot pink petals theme from Evite.com.

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On top of my cute evites, I put together an official bracket so everyone can enter “Bachelor Madness” and a lookbook so all the ladies can make notes or just have pictures and background info to refer back to.  PDFs can be downloaded here and here.

Bracket

Bens Ladies

One of the best things about these events are that they’re really good for introducing people from different parts of your life.  Of course, I invite my girlfriends, but I also have my cousins and aunts and some of the girls from work!

Looking Ahead: 12/11-12/17

December 9, 2015
by Emily

With so much to do during the holidays, between work parties, friends’ gatherings, shopping, baking and decorating, we don’t have much spare time for other events.  If you do, here are a few to check out over the weekend!

Friday, Dec. 11th

Santa Crawl City Loop

8 p.m.
Wilmington (Trolley Square, Riverfront, Market Street)
$5 entry, free with a Santa hat, buses provided between the three districts

5 course dinner at De La Coeur Cafe

7 p.m.
De La Coeur Cafe
1836 Lovering Ave., Wilmington, DEFive course seasonal dinner prepared by chef and owner Gretchen Brizendine. $80/person

Saturday, Dec. 12th

Grilled Cheese & craft Beer Tasting

3 p.m.
World Cafe Live – upstairs
$40/person.  This month’s tasting is feature Stone Brewing Co.  I went to this last month with my dad and I can say it was delicious!  Definitely go with an empty stomach.

The Nutcracker by The Wilmington Ballet

2 p.m., 7 p.m. (Also Sunday, Dec. 13th 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.)
Playhouse in Rodney Square, Wilmington
$15-$45.  No better place to check out the Nutcracker than the Playhouse Theatre in downtown Wilmington!

Charlie Brown Christmas

7 p.m.
Baby Grand, Wilmington
The Eric Mintel Quartet performs a jazz holiday concert featuring music from the Peanuts.

Sunday, Dec. 13th

Yuletide Brunch with Santa

9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Winterthur, Wilmington
Winterthur’s Sunday brunch featuring Santa (9 a.m. – 11 a.m. only).  $34.95/adult and 50% off for children under 12.  Children under 2 are free.  Reservations required.

 

Clay Tile Class at the Brandywine River Museum

September 29, 2015
by Emily

Since I’ve been on yet another hiatus from Dela Darling, I thought I’d come back with a really fun post.  Allllllll the way back in July I took a clay tile class at a local museum with two of my girlfriends.  I had seen the event on the museum website and with a pricetag of $20 for the class with my own tile to take home I couldn’t say no!  (It doesn’t hurt that it was BYOB.  I’ll pretty much attend any event that’s BYOB!)

When we arrived the tables were all set with the materials we would need and there was a separate table with all of the snacks.  I couldn’t resist at least one sweet treat while I was there!

The program started with a look at the tiles on display and some background on the style and artist.  Since I have close to no artistic abilities I’m always so impressed by collections like this.

The tiles were a collection done by Henry Chapman Mercer (Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, PA) and were originally created for installation in a single home.  This series, Moravian Tiles of the New World, originally consisted of 29 tiles, but Mercer eventually created over 70.  We were able to see 25 of the original 29 and I snapped some pictures (above) of the ones that really stood out to me.

After being given directions by our teacher, we were left to start creating.  Essentially we just carved the pieces that would “pop out” and then overlaid them on our original tile block, gluing them together.  I even created my tile from scratch.  That’s right: no stencil or ghost artist!

I just loved how my little Alphie turned out and can’t wait to figure out how to display him!