Today I found this great Bowling Party at Today's Creative Blog. Her friend created this party for her son with many great details. Here is the handmade bowling ball invitation. See additional photos and details from the party creator and hostess...Gordostyle. I love these water bottles as party favors...fill with candy or trinkets. Look at how she used different rub on letters to create the children's names on the bottles...very cute.Find these great bowling pin water bottles and other bowling related items at Amazon.com. Here are some great ideas for hosting a wii bowling party. ... continue reading...
New Year’s/Holiday Decorating
New Year's/Holiday Decorating I know we are all a little tired of the Holiday's...we have over done it with the food and drinks. I know I need a break from it all. I just had to share the wonderful details of the New Year's Party I attended last night. Beauty everywhere you looked...amazing detail to everything. Centerpieces where vibrant with color mixing fresh flowers with sparkly accents. Many loose ornaments surrounded the base of many of the decorations. Ribbons and sparkling snowflakes tied to each wine glass. Candy canes rimed the punch bowl for the kids. In ... continue reading...
Sparkling New Year’s Party
I love the nontraditional blue used in this Sparkling New Year's Party Inspiration! Simple, pretty and inviting to ring in the new year! Check out this Sparkling New Year's Party at Southern Living. Great table ideas, activities and recipes. I love the use of natural branches from the yard as decoration. You can see mine in an earlier post. Cheers to this stylish party and a great year to come. Use ribbons and gems to accessorize the glasses. Turn a flat-bottom glass bowl upside down to create a pedestal for serving dishes. Putting food at different levels on a buffet ... continue reading...
Holiday Cupcakes
These cupcakes are just genius. The creativity, thought and time to create something like this...truly amazing. Find out all the details at Bakerella.The snow globe is made from these small plastic Coke bottles at Wal-Mart. Again, amazing.Moving onto the New Year...find these and other cupcake inspirations at Cupcakes Take The Cake. ... continue reading...
Cookie Exchange Recipe
Many of my friends loved the casserole I made for the cookie exchange, asking for the recipe. So as I emailed it out tonight I thought I would also add it to the blog. It was really delicious and can be made the night before making it great for entertaining. I found it in my Better Homes and Gardens magazine and have provided a link to the site if someone would like to print it out. Chicken Florentine Artichoke Bake Ingredients 8 oz. dried bow tie pasta 1 small onion, chopped 1 Tbsp. butter 2 eggs 1-1/4 cups milk 1 tsp. dried Italian seasoning 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. crushed ... continue reading...
Christmas Cookie Exchange
Here is a photo of my invitation to the cookie exchange. I explained how I made them in an earlier post. I found this pretty green ribbon that coordinated with the invitation, added a thin red ribbon and a red gem to make a napkin ring. I served a simple Italian casserole, salad and bread sticks. I made these "star butters" by softening the butter and pressing it into a rubber ice cube tray. After refrigerating they popped right out.I had these decorative paper squares for each person to write down the kind of cookie they brought. I used a hole punch and threaded a bamboo skewers ... continue reading...
Progressive Appetizer Party
This is the second year we have had a Progressive Appetizer Party. Somehow the progressive dinner is more work. We invite around 10 to 12 couples having 3 host homes. We spend and hour and a half at each home. Two other couples are assigned an appetizer to bring to a designated home. This way the person hosting is only responsible for drinks and one appetizer. It makes entertaining at this time of year so much easier and not so overwhelming.At the Third home we also bring a White Elephant Gift. It is suppose to be some junky thing you have around the house, but this group like things ... continue reading...
Christmas Decorating Ideas
Here are a few things I love about my house this Holiday Season. Inspired by something I saw in a catalog, I went out in the woods, before it got really cold and drug this dead tree branches into my garage. Another warmish day I spray painted them with white paint leaving some of the wood tones to show through. I then very carefully wedged them between the two light fixtures not using anything to hold them in place...they just stayed...can't touch them. I hung a few glittered snowflakes on them. I also reduced the wattage of the light bulb to 60 giving the room a nice glow. I just ... continue reading...
Quick Christmas Party Ideas
The holidays can be such a hectic time for all of us. We want to entertain but find the preparation overwhelming. Her are a few easy and quick things you can do to ease the stress of planning a party.Plan, Create & Manage all of your party events online with Sendomatic Electronic eInvitaions, Announcements and eCards. Create and send Holiday Invitations in just minutes. Buy at Social Couture a Winter Wonderland Party Set. With everything you need to create a lovely table setting. Below is the Christmas Party Set.Make the cocktails easy for yourself by serving a theme drink at ... continue reading...
Christmas Cookie Exchange Invitations
I created these DIY Christmas Cookie Exchange Invitations a few years ago when hosting a lunchen along with the cookie exchange! After looking for weeks for a nice Cookie Exchange Invitation and not finding anything, I came across these pretty blank note cards. The cards were blank inside, so I was able to feed them through my printer before adding the decoration to the front. They originally had a monogrammed “S” on the front. So I used a computer design program and made a type design with "Sweets & Treats Cookie Exchange" outlined in a box. I printed them ... continue reading...
