We live in a neighborhood filled with great families. The kind of folks you would choose to live by if you could, somehow, choose your neighbors. (And by the way, I know I'm constantly gushing on and on about my family, my in-laws, my friends, my folks, now this...but, sorry, nice people abound in my life. And it's good because it makes me try to be a better person to deserve them.)
It is not at all uncommon for the phone to ring on Saturday morning with a casual invite from this or that household, asking if we are free for supper later that day. Somehow the invite always seems to fall on a day that I could especially use a night off from cooking. "Bring the kids" they'll say, knowing that a babysitter can wreck our solo-income budget.
We try to reciprocate hosting but are way, way, behind. And because I know our various neighbors well enough to know (and appreciate) that they will continue to have us over many more times before we could ever settle the score, I wanted to have some wine tags ready--we try to at least bring over some decent wine...and a dessert, too, if I'm allowed.
I found some hang tags in my stash of things to upcycle--I think they came off of some flip flops from last year. I thought they were super cute so I mod podged some decorative paper to the backs and brushed on a few layers of chalkboard paint on the fronts. There. Done. Quick, easy, no fuss allowed--just like these neighborhood dinners. And as an added bonus, the tag can be wiped clean and reused by our neighbors when they're inevitably invited up the street...
