The Oaks Lily – Official Drink of the Kentucky Oaks

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The Oaks Lily - Office Cocktail of the Kentucky Oaks Horse Race

The Oaks Lily® is the official drink of the Kentucky Oaks, run at Churchill Downs the day before the famous Kentucky Derby. There is one thing you need to know about the Kentucky Oaks, PINK is its signature color.

The winner of the Kentucky Oaks, America’s premier race for 3-year-old fillies, is draped with a garland of hot pink and white stargazer lilies, so what better color than a pink cocktail to celebrate this day of fillies and lilies.

To make the Oaks Lily®:

1 oz. Grey Goose® Vodka
1 oz. Sweet and Sour Mix
3 oz. Cranberry Juice
Splash of Triple Sec

Serve with crushed ice and garnish with a cherry and orange wedge.

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How to Make Green Beer for St. Patrick’s Day

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How to Make Green Beer for St. Patrick's Day

Green beer on St. Patrick’s Day! All the pubs will be serving it, but if you decide to have your own party, how do you make your beer green for St. Patrick’s Day?

  • To turn beer green, you can use either blue or green food coloring
  • For a shamrock green beer color, use blue dye, especially if you are serving light or yellow beers
  • For a bright lime green beer color, use green food dye
  • If you’re not sure what color to use, food coloring is inexpensive, so you can buy both colors and experiment to get the color you want for the party
  • No stirring will be required if you add 2-3 drops of dye to the bottom of your mug before you pour the beer
  • For kegs, it’s almost impossible to dye the beer in the keg, so you should put the dye in each cup as you pour each beer (designate one person to control the dye so it doesn’t end up where you don’t want it)
  • Be careful with the dye as it can color more than your beer if you’re not careful

13 million pints of Guinness are served on St. Patrick’s Day, more than double a normal day. What beer will you be serving?

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13 Things to NEVER Put on an Invitation

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13 things that should NEVER be on an Invitation

Shhh Black Polka Dot Surprise Party Invitations

With today’s “anything goes” attitudes, there are still some traditional rules that should be followed.  This is especially true when creating party invitations for any occasion. Here are 13 things that should NEVER be on party invitations:

1.  Tense:  Invitations are always versed in third person.  Use “Anderson Marketing invites you to their annual barbecue…”, “at their house”. Never “our”, “my”, “mine” or first person.

2.  Punctuation:  Invitations use line breaks or blank space between paragraphs to act as punctuation and periods are never used.  Be sure to go lightly with the commas, exclamation points and when in doubt, leave it out.

3. Capitalization:  Never use capital letters for each and every word on an invitation.  Save the capitals for the beginning of a section or the first word of each line, proper names and other words that are normally capitalized. Use a bold or a larger font for emphasis, not all caps.

4. Abbreviations: Always spell out Street, Road, Apartment and names of States. The state is not required if all your guests are local or the state is  obvious with cities like Chicago. Atlanta, New York. Numbers 1-9 should always be spelled out such as Two Park Place.

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Mardi Gras Cajun Shrimp Casserole

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Cajun Shrimp Casserole

If you are searching for recipes for Mardi Gras or if you just love shrimp, you’ll love this incredible seafood casserole that is spicy, cheesy and filled with shrimp.  I don’t care for okra, so I only used about a cup in mine, just enough to be able to ignore it was there. If you like cheese, put extra on the table for guests to add more if they wish.

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Valentine’s Day Treat Boxes, Bags & Shred

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Valentine's Day Party Favor Boxes, Bags and Supplies

Valentine’s Day is fun for every age. Create beautiful treats and favors for kids to give out at school or for any reason. You’ll love our selection of DIY Valentine’s Day Party Favor supplies. Boxes, bags, ribbons, colorful paper shreds and more in red, pink, brown, black, gray and white and many other popular colors.

Pink Packaged Moët & Chandon Rose Champagne

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Pink Boxed Moet & Chandon Rose Champagne with Gold Pen

I love this pink boxed Moët & Chandon Rosé “Tag Your Moët” set!  The set comes with two champagne glasses and a gold pen to write your message on the champagne bottle. This would be a fabulous keepsake for a wedding, an anniversary, a proposal or engagement party or for your perfect Valentine wish to your sweetheart.

If you can’t find the boxed set, you could always buy a bottle of the Moët & Chandon Rose Imperial champagne and a gold marker to create your own version of this special addition box.

What an amazing gift to give and to receive!

Valentine’s Day Romeo and Juliet Cocktail

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Romeo and Juliet Cocktail

Looking for a tasty cocktail to serve on Valentine’s Day for a party or a romantic dinner for two? Try the Romeo and Juliet Cocktail. It starts with my favorite, Patron Silver tequila, and the mix of Grand Marnier, Chambord and peach juice is fabulous.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Patron Silver tequila
1/2 oz. Grand Marnier
1/4 oz. cherry or Chambord raspberry liquor
2 oz. chilled peach juice
3 maraschino cherries, garnish
Orange spiral, garnish

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; add tequila (you can substitute Absolut Apeach), Grand Marnier, cherry liquor and peach juice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds and pour into a chilled fluted glass or large martini glass.

Place orange spiral on the lip of the glass so it drapes down the side. If you’re using a fluted glass, drop a cherry into the drink.  For a martini glass, you can skewer three cherries on a swizzle stick and lay it across the lip.

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Why Are All My Thoughts In Blog Titles?

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Seriously? Why Are All My Thoughts In Blog Titles? (and what category do I pin this to?)A funny thing happened on the way to making my blog more personal.  All my thoughts turned into blog titles! Really! Big, flashing, titles in all caps!

Seriously. I’d have a thought and would immediately think “I need to write that down. That could be the title of my next post that will go viral!”

As the owner of a business, a blogger, a Facebooker (is that a word yet?), a Tweeter, a Pinner, every waking thought — and a few dreams — become targets for the next big post that will draw hundreds of thousands of clicks and comments to my website that will raise my Goggle Page Rank and hopefully, my sales, and the word “V – I – R – A – L” appears in flashing neon lights somewhere off to the right of my line of sight in purple neon tubing.

Just this morning while I was busy pinning away on my Pinterest account from my iPad while still laying in bed watching the sun come up, I wondered, “What time do Pinners start Pinning?” as no one had repinned any of my stuff in the past hour…then, Oh! that could be the title to my next post (so don’t steal it before I have it written, please.)

I mean why do we all do it all? “It” uses up a TON of time we could be doing other things, like reading the next up-in-coming chick lit best seller, painting our nails, cleaning the kitchen…NOT. What drives us to blog, to pin, to post to think in Blog Titles or Post Titles or Pins?

Please leave me a comment and let me know why you do what you do so I have some more justifications for doing all this and my hopes for viral blog titles might become a reality. And while you’re here, would you mind shopping or browsing our party invitations, party favors, note cards…?

P.S.  I think the pinners are awake and pinning as I now have 3 more Pinterest followers in the time it took to wrote this post…thanks!

Pink Valentine’s Day Brownies

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Valentine's Day Pink Brownies

I LOVE brownies and pink brownies for Valentine’s Day are an unexpected twist friends and kids will love.

1 box strawberry cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil

Mix ingredients together and spread in a greased 9″ x 13″ pan.  The dough will be thick and will spread thin in the pan. Bake at 350 for 14 minutes and test for doneness by a toothpick inserted in the center coming out clean. For pink brownie glaze, mix 1 cup powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons milk or water. Pour over warm brownies.  Enjoy!

Please come back and leave us a comment if you made these…we’d love to hear from you!

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