A {Bee} in my Bonnet~ Secretaries Day Luncheon

 I decided to switch gears and show you what I have been up to the last week or two. I will share the other masculine cards I promised but I was so excited to share all of the fun things I put together for the secretaries at my son's school for "Administrative Professionals Day". We had a "bee" evening at church in March and I helped decorate and made some bee tags for the favors. I didn't quite get the bee theme out of my system so I decided to continue with it for the secretaries. Last year I did a strawberry theme which was super fun, too.

 You can see the honeycomb detail at the bottom of the invitation here. I thought they turned out cute. I really liked the vellum overlay which softened the whole look. I know that was super popular in the early 2000's but I thought it worked nicely with this.

 I do apologize for the photos. I was so excited to get photos taken but by this point, I had teachers coming into the lounge to eat their lunch and I realized later my camera was on LANDSCAPE! GRRRR....I was NOT happy. I worked so hard on everything and then my pictures didn't turn out. At least you can get the overall feel of the luncheon.

Here is a photo of the cupcakes I shot before I headed down to the school. The toppers were made by stamping the bee image which is from Anna Griffin onto kraft cardstock and then attaching it to a gold glitter paper hot glued onto tooth picks. I ended up not liking how the frosting cam out on the swirls..it was KILLING my hand because it was so thick and I didn't have control. I switched to the cute little peaks which you can see in the left corner. I added edible glitter and silver balls for some fun sparkle.

 I ordered these adorable honey jars from amazon but I didn't like the blue gingham lid so I added some gold foil candy wrappers (found in the candy making section of Hobby Lobby) attached with black baker's twine.

 I was so happy to use some of my "pins" from Pinterest for the cute honeycomb printable on the bulletin easel and the awesome food signs. I actually ended up tailoring my menu around the printables since they were so cute. If you would like the links to any of these, just comment and I will add them. The notebook tags below were printables as well.

 I love this quote so much: The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. I thought that was so fitting for the cute secretaries. I decided to make some book marks which are super hard to see. I had a lot of fun putting this luncheon together. The teachers were super jealous but I assured them that they would be getting all kinds of fun things during teacher appreciation week which starts tomorrow. Look for a post recapping all of that fun next weekend! Thanks for fluttering by!