Jazz up your party with fabulous, unique Mardi Gras Invitations. No matter what you’re celebrating, we have the perfect original invitations for Fat Tuesday invitations, Bourbon Street invitations, Cajun Cooking Invitations, French Quarter Invitations, Masquerade Invitations or Mardi Gras Extravaganza invitations. Our collection of party invitations are sure to spice up any Mardi Gras Party.
An Irish Leprechaun couple, surrounded with green clovers, dance a lively jig on our Leprechaun Boogie St. Patrick’s Day Party Invitations – perfect for any St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
Featured Announcingit invitation: Leprechaun Boogie
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Leave the dudes at home and get the girls together to celebrate Galentine’s Day! February 13th is the day that was coined Galentine’s Day by Leslie Knope of the TV show “Parks and Recreation.” (watch a highlight of the episode below.)
Featured Announcingit invitation: Hot Pink Hearts & Swirls
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The hurricanes are flowing, the prized beads are piling up, our Mardi Gras Revelers are painting the town New Orleans style while they hide behind their mardi gras masks enjoying the best of Mardi Gras on our Revelers Mardi Gras Party Invitations.
Featured Announcingit invitation: Revelers
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If green beer is a must for you on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s easy to do at home or for your party. Just a drop of green food coloring in the glass or mug before you pour the beer, will result in a fun green concoction everyone will enjoy. For the greenest beer, you’ll need a light colored brew. A dark or stout beer may produce green foam, but it will be hard to tell it’s green when the foam is gone.
Our Green Beer on Plaid St. Patrick’s Day Party Invitations is the perfect invitation to invite guests for green beer and malarkey at your St. Patrick’s Day party.
Featured Announcingit invitation: Green Beer on Plaid
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Poinsettias are traditional Christmas plants that will last through the Christmas season and beyond. It is important to select the best plant for your home environment.
The following are a few selection pointers:
■ Choose a plant with dark green foliage down to the soil line.
■ Choose bracts (modified leaves) that are completely colored.
■ Do not purchase poinsettias with a lot of green around the bract edges.
■ Do not choose plants with fallen or yellowed leaves.
■ The poinsettia should look full, balanced and attractive from all sides.
■ The plant should be 2 1/2 times taller than the diameter of the container.
■ Choose plants that are not drooping or wilting.
■ Do not purchase plants that are displayed in paper or plastic sleeves. Plants held in sleeves will deteriorate quickly.
■ Do not purchase plants that have been displayed or crowded close together. Crowding can cause premature bract loss.
■ Check the plant’s soil. If it’s wet and the plant is wilted, this could be an indication of root rot.
■ Check the poinsettia’s maturity. Check the true flowers which are located at the base of the colored bracts. If the flowers are green or red-tipped and fresh looking the bloom will “hold” longer than if yellow pollen is covering the flowers.
■ When you take the poinsettia home, be sure to have it sleeved or covered when outdoor temperatures are below 50°F.
Information from the University of Illinois Extension Poinsettia Pages.
Many invitations state appetizers and/or hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Are they just synonyms or is there really a difference?
What is the difference between appetizers and hors d’oeuvres?
Hors d’oeuvres are served BEFORE the meal and can be associated with finger foods, i.e. no utensils provided.
Appetizers are served DURING the meal as a first course.
Some examples of hors d’oeuvres would be something on a piece of bread, toast point, cracker, etc. such as pate, smoked salmon and caviar, etc.
Also, if you see that your invitation says heavy hors d’oeuvres, that means that there is no meal afterward, they ARE the meal vs. appetizers, which usually means there is a meal to follow.
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If you’re invited to a cookie party for the holidays or just want a fabulous recipe everyone will love, these low-carb Snickerdoodles will be a favorite for the calorie counters in the crowd.
Ground almonds create an “almond flour” which is a wonderful substitute for wheat flour for many baking recipes.
Low-Carb Snickerdoodles Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
Directions:
In a medium bowl, beat butter until creamy.
Add half the ground almonds, 1 cup Splenda, egg, vanilla, baking soda and cream of tartar. Beat until well combined.
Beat in remaining ground almonds.
Cover and chill in bowl for 1 hour.
Pre-heat oven to 350 F.
In a small bowl, combine the 2 tablespoons Splenda and the cinnamon; mix well.
Roll chilled dough into 1-inch balls.
Gently roll each ball in the cinnamon-Splenda mixture to coat and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes until lightly browned at the edges.
Carefully remove from pan to cooling rack to cool completely.
Makes about 26 cookies. Note: 1.5 net carbs per cookie
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Mailing your guests paper party invitations sets the tone for your party and creates buzz around your bash. But, are paper invitations really necessary?
My sister got into a discussion with her hairstylist about paper invitations versus electronic and the stylist described how technology was changing and she had just received a cute emailed invitation that flying birds and how cute it was.
Cute or not, I’m sorry, but when I get an electronic invitation, my first reaction is “Really?”
Is this a last minute party?
Am I a last minute guest?
They couldn’t afford paper and stamps?
Yes, for a last minute cocktail party, I’ll text my friends or call them, but I just don’t trust something as important as their attendance is to my affair to their email inboxes.
Call me old school, but there is just something fabulous about the feeling you get when you open the mailbox and there’s something in there besides bills and ads.
Aside from the fact that I own a company (this one) that prints party invitations, I’m always surprised how cheap I feel when I get an e-invite or an invitation that looks homemade or a postcard the post office has mangled and made almost unreadable. (There are ways to make homemade invitations look fabulous and those aren’t the ones I’m talking about.)
Your invitation is the first impression people have of your party. They can’t see the amazing food on your menu, the incredible way your house is decorated or how much fun it’s going to be. A laundry list of facts printed on a piece of copy paper and folded into an envelope that looks like a bill, is not going to make it to the top of the pile when it comes to scheduling upcoming events on your guests’ calendars.
You can’t post an electronic invite to your fridge. Well, I guess you could print out some of them, but you’ll lose the flying birds and a lot of its appeal when you try to get it to print on copy paper.
We understand that cost can seem like an issue when you compare it to doing-it-yourself or free emailed invitations, but you only get one shot to make a first impression. If your invitation doesn’t make the grade, having a bad turnout for your party can be depressing as well as expensive in wasted food, drinks and time.
For the do-it-yourselfers, we do sell some of our invitations blank so you can print them yourself. If you’re not familiar with how to typeset an invitation or how to print on anything but 8-1/2″ x 11″ paper, we suggest you skip the hassle and the learning curve and let us print them for you. We’ve been printing invitations for over 20 years, we have the cool fonts you would have to search the internet for and if you screw up when printing, you’ll have to buy more invitation paper.
We suggest you skip the stress of DIY and use your time for the million other things you will need to do for a successful party. And, of course, for the best party turnout, go old school and mail party invitations that will excite and entice your invited guests to attend your event.
Witches are a fun theme for Halloween for all ages. They can be scary, funny, humorous or even whimsical. I love all the fun ideas that you can find with witch themes for Halloween.
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