Entertain with creativity, enthusiasm and joy!
Have you found a fabric you’d love to use for an upcoming party–a party inspiration fabric? Miss Party has one in mind for a huge grad party this spring. Use your fabric to set the color scheme, style, and theme of your party! Of course, you’ll also want it to cross over to the paper […]
The french term ‘en masse’ means, of course, there’s a lot of something or a mass of the same object. If you’ve admired those lovely pictures in home decor catalogs of enormous glass vases with all sorts of fillers, but don’t quite get how to reproduce the look or what to fill them with, read […]
Miss Party knows that few hostesses are preparing food just for Thanksgiving dinner. Often, lunch or heavy snacks are needed on Thursday for family who arrive early or if house guests are staying overnight, a nice breakfast may be necessary on Friday morning. For that matter, many hostesses do multiple meals over the course of […]
This post is a continuation of ‘A Grimm Evening’Halloween Theme, Part 1. In this post you’ll find more details on some of the fun fairy tale elements pictured in the first post and how to reproduce them yourself. 1) The invitations for this party are shown in the first image in this series. A few […]
‘A Grimm Evening’ Halloween theme gives you a chance to twist and play on a few of our most famous childhood fairy tales and their beloved characters with a bit of humor thrown in. In truth, many of the Grimm’s tales are pretty scary all by themselves but let’s just see how we might serve […]
Oh my goodness, the ‘Grimm Evening’ Halloween party was a blast! The weather was just perfect (the calm before the storm, perhaps!). A full moon hung overhead and the guests arrived decked to the nines in Halloween costume finery! Ah, but Miss Party is getting ahead of herself… ONCE UPON A TIME, in a land […]
Miss Party has been a busy, busy little bee working on the ‘Grimm Evening’ (Twisted Fairy Tales) Halloween party. Everything is looking fabulously horrifying, if she does say so herself. ‘Creeping’ Beauty looks like death warmed over, Hansel and Gretel look much worse for wear after their visit to that nice old woman in the […]
Miss Party has finally gotten around to photographing her Halloween invites for this year’s party and just wanted to throw them up this afternoon to inspire you! The Halloween party’s sub-theme this year is ‘Grimm and Wicked Fairy Tales’. Take a look at the menu for tons more Halloween invitation ideas, Halloween decorating ideas (for […]
There are so many beautiful, fall fruits and vegetables! You might have a pretty bowlful of apples, pears or mini gourds in your home right now. There are apples of all colors and sizes (ex: tiny Lady apples); pears; Clementine mandarin oranges; miniature, decorative gourds (including the ones that look like adorable, little pumpkins); and […]
Miss Party loves a strong-willed, 19th century woman who can stand on her own two lace-up boots –’cause she paid for them herself! Louisa May Alcott, was just that kind of plain-speaking, hard-working woman and writer. Due to ongoing family financial troubles and her own nature, she also spent the better part of her life […]
The flavors of pineapple and coconut together are synonymous with the Hawaiian and Caribbean Islands. You taste them in all sorts of food and drink, morning, noon and night. They just work perfectly together! Here is a fantastic summer fruit quick bread recipe that is easy to put together and delicious as an addition to […]
This is a continuation post of “Alice in Wonderland” Quotes, Part 2, which are quotable quotes and extremely sensible advice from the characters of Alice’s Wonderland and Looking-Glass world. Miss Party wants you to have lots and lots of quotes to work with as you think of clever ways to use them on your Mad […]
The french term ‘en masse’ means, of course, there’s a lot of something or a mass of the same object. If you’ve admired those lovely pictures in home decor catalogs of enormous glass vases with all sorts of fillers, but don’t quite get how to reproduce the look or what to fill them with, read […]
This is continued from “Mad Tea Party” Theme, Part 2A. The Mad Tea Party table is of critical importance to transport your guests to Wonderland, so Miss Party wants you have lots of ideas to make it the star of the show! Decorate the space above the table, too. Consider streamers (see DIY Fringed Crepe […]
Miss Party is so excited to discover she has a collection of ‘recipes with history’! She LOVES the imagery of cooking and baking from old recipes that have their own personal history! She thought she’d share her own realization, and encourage you to start your own collection if for no other reason than a nice […]
Well, Miss Party is pooped! Yesterday, was her (almost) annual summer party with lots of friends and family and it was a great success! Once again, the weather was predicted to be very iffy, so the food tables were set up inside and space was prepared for everyone to be inside for the duration. Of […]
