An 80th Birthday Celebration, Cowboy Style!

Welcome to the 794th Metamorphosis Monday! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Sheri’s hubby, Mike, just hit a major milestone, so it was time for a big celebration! Sheri wrote,” We celebrated Mike’s 80th birthday in Cowboy fashion! We had a special guest, John Wayne, and enjoyed a real western hoedown day!

The table was set with cowboy plates and salad bowls, and mugs for our ice tea. We enjoyed a real cowboy dinner of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, mac and cheese, hot rolls, and pinto beans, some of Mikes favorites. Dessert was a chocolate sheet cake (I wonder how many I have made over the years) and his favorite cherry pie, and cowboy cookies. I made all the decorations and had fun with the cowboys on the fence and the wanted poster.”

Sorry about the blurriness of this first photo, we weren’t able to get it to transfer correctly, but I think you can still it well enough to see how Sheri set this cowboy/western-themed table. Love the bandana tablecloth and the metal dinnerware—so perfect for a cowboy themed party! If you would like to recreate this look (I think this would be fun for my grandsons!) I found a set of 10 stainless steel plates available here: Stainless Steel Dinnerware.

Sheri said, “I made my table cloth from bandanas and the napkins were also bandanas tied with twine. We picked up the tin plates at garage sales and antique malls over the years, and the salad tins are actually small cake pans. Mike likes how cold they keep the salad. I used plastic baskets and gingham tissue for the hot rolls.” (Note: Mason Jar drinking glasses are available here in various styles, sizes and colors: Mason Jar Drinking Glasses. I especially like the ones with lids and straws.)

About her centerpiece, Sheri said, “I have several large, wood slices I use for centerpieces. We had a great time! It was hard to decorate with Mike around, but the day before he had errands to run, so was gone for several hours! I hurried, and he was thrilled and surprised with it all.”

Love the cowboy silhouettes in the windows—so clever!

Sheri set up a side table for the food, gifts and other “fixins” for this special 80th birthday celebration. If you would like to create a western themed party sometime in the future, you’ll find a lot of great western/cowboy themed decor and dinnerware here: Cowboy/Western-Themed Decor and Dinnerware.

Thanks so much to Sheri for sharing this special birthday celebration! I would so love to throw a party like this for my grandsons, I think they would love it! Looking forward to all the wonderful Before and Afters linked for this week’s Met Monday!

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