{"id":408,"date":"2014-06-23T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:48:30","slug":"1950sgreased-lightning-theme-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/1950sgreased-lightning-theme-party\/","title":{"rendered":"1950s\/Greased Lightning Theme Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 4 years I have had the privilege of arranging the theming for\u00a0an\u00a0annual\u00a0scrapbooking camp held at Totara Springs just out of Matamata.\u00a0 This year the theme was &#8216;Greased Lightning&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0For most of the weekend\u00a0the theming stretched only as far a name tags,\u00a0room labels and work table decorations,\u00a0but on the Saturday night\u00a0for dinner we went all out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While the campers donned their full circle skirts, cats eye glasses, tight black leather pants and pink wigs I set to giving the dinning room an overhaul.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-412 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1950s-2-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1950s \/ Greased Lightning Image 1\" width=\"770\" height=\"1006\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-411 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1950s-1-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1950s\/Grease Lightning Image 2\" width=\"770\" height=\"1014\" \/><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\">Party D\u00e9cor Favourites:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>I loved working with the Pink, Turquoise and Purple colour scheme.\u00a0 They added the necessary pop of colour among all the black and white checks.<\/li>\n<li>The ice cream soda centrepieces were another favourite.\u00a0 I wanted to incorporate the neon lights we tend associate with 1950s so I filled the tall cone vases with acrylic ice and ran a strand of battery operated lights through them.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, the final touches of the theme coloured chocolate gems\u00a0(similar to Smarties and M&amp;Ms) as a self serve favour bag and the &#8216;Grease&#8217; movie trivia card really finished it all off perfectly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any questions or comments regarding how we put this theme together or if you would like us to create a party for you then please contact us either via email or through the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 4 years I have had the privilege of arranging the theming for\u00a0an\u00a0annual\u00a0scrapbooking camp held at Totara Springs just out of Matamata.\u00a0 This year the theme was &#8216;Greased Lightning&#8217;.\u00a0\u00a0For most of the weekend\u00a0the theming stretched only as far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-you-wish-events-latest","category-parties-for-adults","category-planning-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}