It’s time for a birthday! Let’s take it back to a Jurassic level with DINOSAURS! Raawwwwwwrrrr! (If you can’t read that, just ask the birthday boy or girl.) Dinosaurs are great! Most are huge, awesome looking, and they’ve been dead for a while so they can’t actually hurt anyone. We wouldn’t want a live T-Rex […]
How Much Should I Serve? {Your Guide to Meal Planning}
Whenever party time comes around, I am so stressed out! Thoughts like, “Why did I agree to this thing?” And, “Didn’t I leave everything to the last minute the last time we had a party?” Pop into my head. We’re always up late scrubbing floors and stashing underwear and hoping that everyone shows up after all […]
Stay On Your Toes With A Ballerina Party
The curtain is up, the lights are pointed at the stage, it’s time to celebrate your little ballerina! This party is going to involve a decent amount of tulle, glitter, and pink. You can absolutely change the color palette if your Prima Ballerina is into a different hue, but a pastel shade will work the […]
Throw A Swashbuckling Pirate Party for Kids
Yo ho, and a bottle of punch. It’s time we rounded up these scurvy kids and had a party! Give them each map leading to the party location, and leave the cutlasses at the door. After swabbing the back porch, raise a mainsail banner behind your table of vittles. “Yo Ho! Let’s Go!” It says. […]
Delicious Slider Recipes for Your Super Bowl Party
The only thing better than football is a great slider to stuff in your face while watching it. Don’t believe me? Try hosting a party without food. Who’s going to go to that? That’s why I’ve gleaned the webpages of slider-ness to find twelve recipes, PERFECT for whoever might be coming. The first tasty morsel is […]
How to Make the Cut with a “Chopped Challenge”
Anyone can host a cooking class get-together. I know; I’ve done it. Get fancy with your friends by inviting them all over to get Chopped! this time around. What is Chopped!? It’s only one of the strangest cooking competitions on TV: a timed challenge where chefs are given some pretty incongruent food items and told they […]
Woman up with a Galentine’s Day Partay!
Ah, Galentine’s Day. It’s the best ladies’ holiday besides Half-Price Chocolate Day (February 15th). Would you like to have your besties celebrate this February 13th? Let’s get planning! As always, start with some snappy invitations. You may go with “Happy Galentine’s Day,” “You’re invited,” or “Will you be my Galentine?” Plan the event at your […]
How to Catch a Leprechaun
You do not know how lucky you are! History is chock-full of stories about The Little People, and people’s attempts to finally catch just one and steal his treasures. All you had to do was click here, to this page, and I will tell you The Secret. First, as everyone knows, leprechauns LOVE gold. As such, […]
The Best Bite-Sized Party Snacks
Often when I attend parties, I want to try all the food. It’s a bit of a weakness I have. Most people stick to a standard of 8 slices to a pie, a spatula-size to a cake, and enough servings of non-dessert that I’m already full before the pie and cake. I am, therefore, a HUGE […]
Go Under the Sea With a Mermaid Themed Birthday Party
So, you dream about throwing a mermaid party? Well, what more are you looking for? Invitations? We’ve got plenty. Swim around online shops, or create your own from a few metallic prints. Michael’s has a HUGE paper section. Seriously. How many papers can one aisle hold? Now for the fun part: decorating! The seaweed is […]
