Posts Tagged ‘party april’
Party April. Celebrate achievement.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
No perfect attendance awards, no buttons, no trophies. Unless you’re on Dancing with the Stars, being a grownup can be sorely lacking in public attribution.
One of my favorite times of year is our bocce team awards ceremony. We head to the local pizza parlor, order pitchers of root beer and more pizza than we can eat. At the end of the meal, everyone gets a certificate with their special award on it.
It’s been a rough year for some folks. Why not gather them together and give them an award for being awesome?
Certificates, pins, medals, trophies, all are fair game.
All are welcome.
Party April. Picnic on the floor.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Rain, rain, rain. April showers, May flowers. Just when you’re excited to get outside, a gloomycool rain wrecks all your plans. So throw a picnic on the floor instead.
Drag out that picnic basket you received for that birthday, that basket that takes up valuable storage space.
Play summertime music, a great album for this would be Martha’s Summer Entertaining CD.
Oh look! I have the track listing right here:
1) Summerfling — k.d. lang
2) Sunshine Superman – Donovan
3) Groovin” — The Young Rascals
4) So Nice (Summer Samba) — Bebel Gilberto
5) The Coast — Paul Simon
6) Summer — War
7) Do You Know the Way to San Jose — Dionne Warwick
8) Sweet Feelin” — The Doobie Brothers
9) Soul Food to Go (Sina) — The Manhattan Transfer
10) Crusin” — Smokey Robinson
11) Dancing in the Moonlight — King Harvest
12) Starless Summer Sky — Marshall Crenshaw
13) Water to Drink — Victoria Williams
14) Under the Boardwalk — The Drifters
Party Breakdown
Invitation: Another party where the invite is more casual. Do it via email, Facebook or Evite.
Time of week: This is another great weeknight party. The food doesn’t take much time to prepare and the party cleans up easily.
Preparation: Spread a large blanket on the floor, toss some floor pillows around for comfort. Set out plastic or melamine plates and plastic tumblers. The novelty here is eating on the floor and pretending you’re outside.
Food and drink: Picnic food. Cold fried chicken legs, potato salad, cole slaw and chips. All can be purchased or made ahead of time and pulled out of the fridge right before serving. Chill cans of beer, lemonade and soda in an ice-filled cooler on the floor.
Party April. Photo tagging party.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
So I’m doing my own posting every day in April thing around a parties.
Every day, a new party idea and some hits for execution.
Some I’ve thrown, some I want to throw and some I just think you should throw.
But a photo tagging party?
Sounds awful, right?
Why not share the load?
But I’m pretty sure no one but Kottke has all his photos properly tagged and titled. And you’ve probably been meaning to get to that, but it’s just that you have hair to wash and Moms to call. And this doesn’t only have to be online photo organization, but offline photo organization can work too. Bring your photo albums and loose pictures from that college vacation.
The Breakdown
Invitation: Via email, Facebook or Evite. No need for fancy paper invites and stamps. Let the invitees know they’ll either need to bring a computer or those pesky unfilled, untitled photo albums.
Time of week: This could be a good weeknight party. You wouldn’t want this to last more than two or three hours as tedium or drunkenness could wreck your plan.
Preparation: Make sure you have oodles of outlets for the laptops.
Food and drink: One handed food. Panini, appetizers and dips, soup in cups. Keep the food part away from the computer/photo album part. Since this is a weeknight party, offer a fun non-alcoholic beverage that could be punched up (so to speak) with a liquor.
Helen Jane’s Photo Tagging Punch
Ingredients:
1 quart lemon sherbert.
1 2 liter bottle of ginger ale.
2 cups of pineapple juice.
1 quart cranberry juice cocktail.
Scoop the lemon sherbert into the punch bowl by spoonfuls, add the ginger ale, pineapple juice and cranberry juice. Put out bottles of vodka, Limoncello or Tequilla in case your guests would like to doctor their own punches.