{"id":908,"date":"2013-11-28T09:34:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:46:06","slug":"november-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelle.brittanyandrichard.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"November Date Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Evening In Paradise<\/strong><\/p>\n

I attempted to re-create a scene from the Arabian Nights…costume and all:-) I created a tent-like structure in our family room and incorporated some Middle Eastern decorations, furniture and food. We enjoyed a bottle of wine and a ridiculous amount of food from a local Lebanese\/Middle Eastern restaurant called\u00a0Beirut.\u00a0My husband\u00a0was allowed 3 wishes. He chose to have a\u00a0foot massage.\u00a0\u00a0The rest can be left to the imagination. It was very relaxing and just nice to actually spend an evening together.<\/p>\n

I created the lamps using a variation of canning jars but any glass jar would work. I painted the outside of the jars with a mixture of Mod Podge and a few drops of paint. It took a couple of coats but it almost gives it a sea glass type of look. Then I took gold fabric paint tubes and decorated the jars with traditional designs. I put the battery operated flickering flameless\u00a0votive candles. For the tent, I screwed tiny hooks in the ceiling and placed dowel rods in the hooks and draped the fabric over the dowel rods. The material was gathered and draped to the center. I used another hook and tied the ends together using a strip of cloth and then placed an edge of the strip into the hook.<\/p>\n

There was also a bucket with dry ice in it that didn’t quite work the way I had anticipated. My guess is that the bucket was too tall and the fog dissipated too quickly. I had hoped to just add to the mystical, dreamy quality of the evening. Better luck next time.<\/p>\n

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