cinco de mayo

since my daughter's 1st communion was on may 5th,

we decided to celebrate with a cinco de mayo party.

it was just our immediate family so i wanted

to try and keep it low key.

i saw a few cute ideas on pinterest

and kept them in my head while decorating.

 i love these colorful layer cakes that i've been seeing everywhere.

it came out cute, bu i learned my lesson and will definitely

upgrade to gel food coloring next time.

i did use raspberry juice to reduce the red food coloring a little.

 i put the guacamole back into the avocado skins

so that they could be carried around.

the vases/candle holders are just glass cylinders

with streamers wrapped around.

{taco shell bunting}

we got a taco salad bar catered from moe's southwest grill.

it was really fun and came with those yummy taco shell bowls.

but we also wanted to offer traditional tacos as a choice.

isn't this a fun way to have the taco shells out?!

these napkins from target were perfect.

they have a really cute line of summer entertaining dishes

and accessories.

 {chips and dip sombrero}

funny right?!

i got the sombrero for less than $4 at party city.

it worked perfectly with a small glass bowl.

 {tissue bunting}

another easy/cheap decoration.

i bought tissue paper at target ($1.99 each)

the pink and orange came together so i only needed 2 packs.

using the folds that were already in the tissue,

i cut them into smaller pennants.

before hanging, i cut the slits.

i hung the string first and then just draped the pennants over.

(i doubled up the tissue pennants)

the party store had a kit for doing this but it was almost $10.