Mandi Gubler

Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere

Last week I took a little plane to Atlanta for Haven. Now. Normally I don’t post conference recaps because it makes the people that were there sad if you forget to mention them, and it makes the people that weren’t there sad, because they feel like they missed out. Sads does not equal friends. But I just had to share with you the creative process and decorations that we did for the Tide/Oxi luncheon.

I have really loved working with P&G for Home Depot (the peeps that made this happen and this entire room makeover) so when they came to me and said “Mands, we want you to do the decor for our Haven luncheon” I was totally excited. Luckily they also asked my blogging bestie Brooke. We came up with a few ideas but you know when you are just having SUCH a creative block about it?

Some of the problem were the restrictions we had, 1. We had to be able to ship everything to ATL and have it not be $5,000,000. 2. It was for TideOxi so it had to represent their brand enough that people made the connection. 3. It had to use supplies from The Home Depot.

I love seeing peoples ideas that didn’t work out, so here you go folks. One that didn’t make the cut. The hashtag that they use is #brightideas so I thought light bulbs would be cute. We made this one with a 36” balloon, a sharpie, and a piece of pipe sprayed gold. It was A.DORABLE. I think it is the cutest thing in the world, but it just wasn’t right for this project.

One morning after over thinking this thing for weeks, Brooke said “What if we just did bubbles?” That was the crack in the freaking idea dam that we needed. Everything came together in a matter of minutes from that point.

So do you want to see what we did?

We shipped everything out here and assembled our guts out.

This is a peek at our hotel room:

So 150 succulents, 147 embroidery hoops, 120 36” balloons, 112 honeycomb balls, 30 4×4 planters, 10 Himmeli spheres (those suckers took a long time to make…), 5 last minute bubble machines (genius idea Jo!), 4 giant helium tanks, and 2 exhausted bloggers and their best friend/assistants later, we somehow survived. (shopping sources linked!)

It was like walking into a seltzer bottle.

We used eye hooks to tie all of the fishing line to the planters, so they not only were cute, but they anchored the entire thing.

Riddle me this: Why is it so hard to capture the actual size of things on camera? The balloons were huuuuuuge and the balloon pillars at the center of the tables were 20 feet tall. It was intense and so so pretty.

It was also a great day for a photo bomb…

I love that last picture so much I want it at my funeral.

I had the best time dancing the nights away (yes multiple) with all of you adorable Haven Mavens. I am always blown away at the talent and kindness that exist in this DIY world. Thanks for letting me be part of it. And a huge thank you goes out to my friends at P&G for teaming up with me on this luncheon, it was a fun challenge to stretch myself beyond the norm!

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