 I'm at your table doesn't it look so cute I'll come to another hosting vlog if you are new here hi my name is Kinsey I made like lifestyle vlogs and I love hosting you may have seen my hosting closet on tiktok it's spectacular so I'm actually hosting that my grandmother's birthday tomorrow and it's a lunch but it's the same thing as like if I was prepping for a dinner party I have the mini you may have a lot of errands to run today so the party is tomorrow at 3 p.m. never in my life have I have asked anything that I actually like like if I like something I can't ever just kind of like it I'm obsessed it's like everything to me hence the hosting closet hence like pretty much everything in my life right so anyways I'm gonna take you guys along on the entire process from start to finish except for it's not really star I should have filmed when I made the like Pinterest board and got the like mood board vibe she came over and basically who went through a Pinterest board she gave me kind of the theme that she wanted kind of like French country but we're I know like her taste and what she likes so I'm just like kind of carrying it towards that so on the menu we have watermelon salad we have pasta salad that's the only thing she cared about she loves pasta salad I know gardens engagement chicken I made up my family and my grandmother who has had like many chickens in her life so that it was the best chicken she's ever had and she doesn't just hand out compliments like that like she really meant it I'm my sister in charge of summer punch so like we'll see that happens wine we're doing a strawberry shortcake bar I've kind of been prepping and getting things the past couple of weeks time is ticking and we are getting started so I have a lot of errands to run today but first things first I'm going to set the table pretty much like I might not do all the like utensils and stuff but I want to do this just to get the vibe get it out of the way and then also just to make sure I don't need to go pick anything up okay so we're having it inside because it's too hot out right now in Texas ignore the flowers changing those today okay so in the hosting closet you guys are new here I have an entire hosting closet I'm really excited about it I just pretty much made this last week so I'm very excited she requested this set I'm gonna like mix and match glasses and then I got these which are cute and also these little gold these gold candlesticks okay okay so there's I think seven of us coming there's gonna be three on this side it's fine because she's eight so should have done this way before I just totally forgot yeah this is cute okay normally this would be the first step oh wait it actually is a table since when is this not a table runner I'm thinking I'm going to do flowers on this table and I normally do everything is coming together very nicely so obviously I'm not done setting up but I'm going to actually wash all these dishes tonight so I'm not gonna do it all until then one thing for hosting that I always always do I don't have the post-it notes here so I did the committal note is I have all the dishes out that I'm gonna serve with and I normally will put a post-it note here so like this will be the chicken this will be the pasta salad this will be the watermelon salad this will be whatever and that's like the ricotta thing that I'm making so it makes it a lot easier when you're actually serving but I love how this is turning out guys I just cried to speak now on the way here so on the agenda I'm stopping at a wholesale flower shop I'm on a mission right now to find my go-to favorite wholesale flower shop in Dallas so I'm trying Mexican flower right now it's the only one that's really even open on weekends so I'm gonna pick up some flowers I need a grocery shop there was another error and I needed to run oh FedEx I need to write that down I made a little like notes up of my to-dos and then my grocery list and then like to do is I need to do tonight that's how I keep my life organized it's very helpful and I'm probing food today a couple things so it'll just make tomorrow a lot easier kind of a fail they didn't really have anything so back to Trader Joe's like oh but if you guys have good racks let me know back to who I trust the most my flowers Trader Joe's I think I'm gonna do my grocery shopping here too it's cheaper this election here is just so good so many good options and my Trader Joe's flowers always last so long they're stunning so many but stunning this looks stunning I have it all I'm missing a couple things but I think I might have it at home because that was a very successful Trader Joe's trip I got so many flowers they're also like for the week I just love having flowers I love making the arrangements and I always go to Trader Joe's because their flowers are the cheapest and they last the longest but I need to find a place that's like even cheaper that's why I want like a wholesale flower shop like when I lived in LA like the downtown LA like flower market or whatever it was I haven't been there in years I forget so anyways I'm stopping at FedEx I got pretty much everything I needed at Trader Joe's I did put an Instacart order just now because I had credit and I needed a couple more things I will say I got all of that for 135 which is way cheaper than if I would have gone to Sprouts I wouldn't have bought all those flowers either at Sprouts but like I just feel like that's really cheap compared to Sprouts which is my absolute favorite grocery store and it still is my go-to and they have brands that like I care about anyways I'm stopping at FedEx because I need to get some stuff printed I want to get name tags printed a little menus for the tablescape which like honestly might clash with the look now that I'm thinking about it but I feel like it is like adds that little extra touch and it's worth it I'm really having just like the best day these are so cute I went to FedEx on Norpo's highway they were so nice and I got my menus and my name cards these are templates from a host you can't really see it that well here but they're super cute I'm really happy look at how stunning these are this is the first one the second one that I made and these are just two of them and this is a mess but it'll be fine over time I kind of give up on this one but I'm so happy with them okay the pasta salad for tomorrow is ready I made the California spaghetti pasta salad I think my guest sent me this recipe already found it on Pinterest but it looks really good I had a bite and it's actually incredible it's a food that's great for a dinner party in the summer especially because you can prep it and leave it to be ready overnight and I'm also gonna prep the watermelon salad she loves like pasta salads like not like leafy salads necessarily but like salads like pasta salads in general and the watermelon when I think she's gonna be like a crab babe these bowls though are amazing got the money Amazon they're into my storefront I use them so often I just got them and I've been using them on stock so I'm gonna put the watermelon in here and then leave them both in the fridge overnight so love this I've also had my like meal prep not like real meal prep I guess but just like a meal I mean it's prep okay whatever just separate like cooking in the background so update so I have the name cards and here's the thing right now oh I've switched to pajamas at like 4 p.m on a Saturday but I've been exhausted I've been standing in that kitchen like three hours okay so I needed comfortable with all the floral going on it's a lot these are just so small I couldn't like switch it out I forgot to put the plates even but whatever like I bought it we did it I definitely could have matched it better but I did it and then we have menus so I did um do all the napkins these are from Amazon I'll also have them on my amazon hosting storefront love them and then I'll be able to actually um like do the utensils and the drinks and the cups and things like that um later once those arrived they're arriving from amazon today so it's gonna look great good morning y'all it's sunday it's like 7 30 I woke up ready to go so here's the table so far the rest of the cups and the utensils got here last night so I'm gonna place them all out I have Pilates this morning so I'm gonna wash everything before that and then put it back out but I'm just gonna place them here to make sure I like it before I wash everything I just had breakfast I got back from Pilates and I have about four three hours until everyone arrived so I've got some things to do and I got my peaches in an hour I'm gonna start prepping the chicken I'm going to bend with them the oven okay this is a 425 I have everything written out to where it makes the most sense but then another huge hosting tip because it's like putting different things in the oven making it all work doing at the same time I mean whatever towards like more like effective and you're not all over the place even though like clearly right now I am all over the place um I'm just getting everything out and I'm in a meeting guys when I'm like getting everything out to make correct I'll probably start with the chicken and then go from there I also need to cut up all the strawberries um so then have them sit in the fridge so that they're like in sugar for strawberry shortcake we have a lot going on I need to organize my fridge I'm gonna work this stuff in so I just chopped off stuff for the watermelon salad and I made a little dressing I really don't love making dressing so maybe it's just doing it it is 1pm I'm running out of the house right now because I just need to pick up my order of peaches you guys saw my tiktok I've been having a lot of drama at the farmers market the farmers market opens at 8 and it closes at noon I normally get there at like nine right peaches right now are sold out by 805 because there are these people who get there and they line up at 7am and honestly like I would be the person to do that but then I realized I could just go to the peach truck so anyways I placed an order on the peach truck I'm pretty sure this is actually where my parents get their peaches like delivered throughout the year so anyways it's my first time I have an order waiting and I am cooking with them today so that's why I had to get them right now and there's only a certain window I don't know fun random stuff that I like really focus it on you know so I'll give you guys posted on my peaches journey all right I got the peaches love that another thing I love about like farmers markets or peach trucks things like that is that I'm surrounded by women who are typically under like 50s or 60s and they're just so talkative especially because I'm in Texas so they're like what do you make of your peaches and we are changing recipes and it was a really great 10 minutes I spent there my other set of utensils should be arriving like within 30 minutes of the guests arriving so I'm hoping that comes I just cut up all my fruit for strawberry shortcakes and I put some sugar on them I'm going to put them in the fridge I'm like out of my fridge so gotta figure that out I'm gonna chop up the peaches to be ready and then cut up my bad guys to have crabs this is probably the last thing I'm gonna make and then at some point I do need to put some mascara on and get dressed and then also kind of just clean up to the last few things and stuff around throw away trash we're getting there oh I just grabbed wine too I'm gonna pick out some wine okay my guess coming to see the big grand reveal a little table oh wow so for the first time in my entire life I actually got the time wrong and was late we said it started at two and not three my the invites at two my grandma and I said three I just totally forgot so everyone started to arrive and I was like oh no so I got ready very quickly and then they just helped me finish like the very last of it so we have the ironing garden chicken we have our peach ricotta like crostini as they were so good everything is about being incredible and then we just had the best time it was stunning it was perfect this is why I love like being extra about stuff like this because it's just a great memory like why just like have a mediocre lunch when you could have this you know what I mean we have finished I am the most like timely person in the world so I do not know how I got the times mixed up to my own party that I was throwing not my own party but that I was throwing anyways everyone loved everything that I made so I will link all the recipes that I use below and then I'm also gonna make some TikToks and stuff which is easier for you guys to find stuff there we had the best time I hope my grandma had a great birthday I've already been doing the dishes and cleaning up because you know Monday tomorrow gotta get it going but I just had the best time I love doing stuff like this I'm always looking for reasons to host and now that I have all my hosting collection of my hosting closet it's even better so anyways I love you guys so much hope you guys enjoy it if you want more like hosting vlogs or things like this let me know love y'all and I will talk to you soon bye move home I always say that like you can always move home just start figuring out all the things you don't want to do but the only way you're gonna figure out what you want to do is by doing a million things that you don't want to do try yoga I hate it okay I really hate it I know it's good for me but I really hate it they might only think too much I mean there are just so many things like that by the way that you're always doing stuff I'm like yeah you're so good about you know getting out but I only do the things that I like to do right but