Wild West Dinner Party Decorations
We decorated the house and Ray went all out to create working saloon doors and a jail with real bars! He is an overachiever lol. They were awesome!
Jail:
Saloon Door with card surrounds:
I used a lot of the free printables you provided to decorate with. I printed some in colour and some in black and white. Then I coffee-stained them. I then took a match to them to burn the edges.. note.. do this outside or your house will smell of burnt paper lol.
The brick wall was some wall stickers I picked up at a Dollar tree store where everything is a dollar. I probably got 40 if I'm honest, but they are removable and I can use them for other DIY projects like a back splash or something so I consider it an investment.
The table setting is a cheap plastic table cloth; the dinner plates and chargers I already had. It's a camp dinnerwear set. I used toy money from a previous game of the 1920s (Maple Mystery Games Speakeasy game) and cigar box. The glass mugs also from DT “dollar tree”.
The dice I took from your idea and wrapped a couple different size gift boxes with red Christmas paper and added black stickers for dots. I created the little flower arrangement with items I already had in a vase I had and wrapped with leftover material and a ribbon.
I also used your idea with the big playing cards which I found cheaper at a craft store than online and used a regular playing deck to decorate with as well as the suit garland at the front door. Now I bought that but it could easily be made and cut out. I used handkerchiefs for napkins. And they doubled as swag gifts. We also found some old-fashioned candy that I didn’t get a picture of but will shortly; we gave them as swag gifts as well.
Food for Cowboys - and Saloon Women!
We wanted to keep the meal part of our dinner party simple so as to focus on the fun of the game. We made a wagon wheel dip with chips and quick draw poppers, jalapeño peppers stuffed with cream cheese mix. A chuck wagon stew with cheesy buttermilk biscuits and for dessert, Hand picked from my garden fresh blackberry cobbler with homemade ice cream. We served root beer in ice-cold mugs and Sweet tea.