Inspired by designer Pamela Hovland‘s hand-drawn place settings, we’ve just ordered a 48″ x 200′ roll of kraft paper
In the days after the party, Pamela cuts out the plates, attaches mailing labels and sends them to each guest, so they’ll have big memories of the wonderful day.
If you don’t feel up to drawing anything, kraft paper, as is, makes a perfect simple table covering. Dig the beautiful table at Canal House Cooking (whose new cookbook we’re giving away), much in the style of a French bistro.
Kraft paper is endlessly useful stuff to have on hand. It makes wonderful wrapping paper — you can draw a ribbon right on. It is available at art, crafts and some hardware stores, and also comes in white.
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This is a great idea. Thanks for the “krafty” inspiration (sorry, that one was too easy to let pass).
Love your blog!
We’ve made towns with roads, houses, and buildings on the kraft paper and played with Henry’s cars on the long 12’table at Pamela’s house also. She is very” krafty”!!! I should know – I’m her mom!!
Well Ms. Hovland, you have one AMAZING daughter there. As you know, she’s been a huge part of ‘the improvised life’.
Everything published made a lot of sense. But, think on this, what if you were to create a killer post title?
I ain’t suggesting your information is not solid, but suppose
you added a title to possibly get people’s attention? I mean kraft paper table “cloths” and place settings is kinda boring.
You should glance at Yahoo’s front page and see how they write news headlines to get people
to open the links. You might add a related video or a related pic or two to grab people excited about everything’ve written. Just my opinion, it could
bring your website a little livelier.
I used to think up cool, oblique titles for articles until I realized that search engines couldn’t figure out what they were about, and that people could find Improvised Life more easily with titles that truly said what the content was. If anyone knows otherwise, I’m game to hear it.