Piano Recital, My Parents' Visit AND Our 200th Post!!

On June 10th I had my end of the school year piano recital. The theme was brightly colored flowers, and I took the color scheme from my floral tablecloths. I used my Silhouette to cut out the shapes for the invitations. The font I used was Janda Stylish Script.

I even had some computer paper with a bright floral border that I used for the program.

 I did something new this year and made a piano keys backdrop by using sheer white curtains and some black satin runners that I ordered very inexpensively off the internet from CV Linens. I put up rope lights along the top of the wall above the backdrop. I carried my floral theme onto the piano with more flowers.

This picture is mostly to show the front layout, with the screen for the slides that I showed during each song that was played.

A few shots of the students performing.

 Here's the piano keys cake I usually make for my summer recital.

 I had two chalkboard signs made for me last year.

I made tissue paper flowers to put up on the wall behind the refreshment tables.

 I used colors that were found in the tablecloth.

 I used music note wrapping paper to make the centers.

 I found paper plates with a floral border at the Dollar Tree, and used solid colored napkins.

I LOVE this backdrop for the group photo!!

My parents came into town on the Tuesday before the recital. I don't have any other pictures of them since on Wednesday and Thursday Mom and I made baby blankets, and on Friday we spent the day getting ready for the recital. They returned home on Saturday afternoon.

 To start off the recital Kent and I performed our version of Billy Joel's "Piano Man", changing the words to "Piano Teacher". I'd taken pictures of all the students during their lessons that week and showed the pictures in the background on the big screen while Kent was singing and playing the harmonica.

We didn't run our camera correctly and didn't get the song recorded when we performed it at the recital, but we went back to the church a couple of weeks later and got it recorded. I tried to add a video to this blog post, but it wouldn't load because the file was too big. I posted it to my facebook page, at least.