Teenagers dream of being rock stars or love to follow their favorite stars. The Rockstar Teen Birthday Invitation features a cool orange and yellow background with stars highlights a silhouette of a rock star singing and playing his guitar.
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Haunted House decorating tips for your Halloween Party
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Halloween is a great holiday to put your family’s imagination to work, starting with a Spooktacular haunted house! If you’re having a Halloween party, here are a few decorating tips to make sure your guests have a ghoulishly good time.
- Choose a theme. The first thing you need to do is decide how scary you want to make your house
- Plan an entrance and an exit
- Add eerie lighting. With some black and red light bulbs, you can change the overall atmosphere of your house. Strobe lights are very effective for disorientating your guests and revealing shocking scenes in little bursts
- Black lights add a creepy touch when they’re paired with flourescent paint or glow-in-the-dark cut-outs
- Include lots of unexpected scary sounds and music. You can download them from the internet (including the Haunted House sounds)
- Make it dark using black trash bags or blankets to cover the windows
- Fog is easy to create by mixing dry ice and hot water. Find a local retailer here, just enter your zipcode.
- Any house can look abandoned if you cover most furniture with white sheets and then place fake cobwebs in the corners
- Use peeled grapes as eyeballs, placing them where people will touch them in the dark.
- Use Styrofoam heads from a beauty supply house and turn them into monsters
- Spritz visitors’ faces with cold water in the dark or have visitors walk through spider webs made of stretched cotton or silly strings
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Summer Invitations and Watermelon Art
Monday, August 2nd, 2010I would love to have this carved watermelon as a centerpiece at a summer party. It’s too pretty to eat!
Having an “End of Summer Party” or a Labor Day barbeque, we just love this invitation. Beautiful golden summer sunset over water with palm trees – the Tropical Sunset on Water Party Invitation is perfect for any summer invitation.
Etiquette Challenge #1: Talking on cell phones when…
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Is it ok to talk on your cell phone while you’re getting your hair done, ordering food, standing in line at the bank, casually strolling the racks at a trendy boutique?
We’ve all been there. You’re in a public place and your attention is snagged by a person’s personal cell phone conversation and you:
- Try to ignore it
- Silently fume while sending them dirty looks
- Move closer to eavesdrop
- They guy on phone is cute, so it’s ok
- The girl on the phone is so snotty you wish you could disconnect her call
- They are talking way too loudly for the surroundings
- You leave
- You complain to your friend
- You complain to a manger
What would you do? What do you think? What have you done in the past? When is it never ok to talk on a cell phone? Chime in, tell us how you feel, email us other etiquette challenges.
The Etiquette Challenge is a regular blog feature we’ve brought over from our Facebook page.
Halloween Invitations and Brains on a Cracker Appetizer
Sunday, August 1st, 2010How about adding your own scary food concoction to the party? Fill a plastic brain mold with a pretty pink shrimp dip for the ultimate gross-out grub on Halloween. This “smart food” will serve 100 guests (if you can get anyone to eat it!)
Ingredients:
- 1 cup(s) mayo plus 1 tablespoon
- 1 can (10 ¾-oz.) cream of mushroom soup
- 1 package (8 oz.) of cream cheese, softened
- 1 envelope of Knox unflavored gelatin, dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water
- 1/2 cup minced scallions
- 1-1/2 lbs cooked bay shrimp
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 pinch salt
- Cocktail sauce
Directions:
- Use 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise to grease a 6-cup brain mold or a bunch of mini brain molds; set aside.
- Pour contents of soup can in a medium saucepan and heat over medium until warm.
- Stir in cream cheese until melted.
- Stir in dissolved gelatin with water until blended.
- Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Remove from heat and pour into brain mold.
- Chill until firm.
- Unmold on to a platter, top with cocktail sauce and serve with crackers.
Enjoy!
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