Oopsies and Lessons

So the party went AWESOME!

The ONLY bad part was that the flow of the party didn't quite happen, and I planned for too many people party favor wise.

So I've learned, of the people who say they're coming, you should probably only expect half of them to attend. Make enough food to feed the full amount, but only make favors and what not for half, and have some back up just in case.

The flow of the party ended up having to mingle less and enjoy myself more. Everyone gathered around to play poker and roulette on their own, and REALLY got into it. There wasn't a dance contest, but one of my friends came in and did some 1920s dance, full out. And awesomely. We ended up playing a card version game of Mafia instead of doing a murder mystery. But it ended up being a lot of fun anyway, and everyone sang happy birthday and HARMONIZED :D And my cakes were GORGEOUS and made by my mommy.

As far as the calendar planning, it REALLY helped. The homemade root beer also went off without a hitch!

I'm glad I overplanned on everything except the party favors, but it was still awesome =)

Thanks to everyone who made it so great. <3

Since the party is over, I'll use this blog to either post funny/interesting/random things or to plan others' parties or my own.

:D It's still a few days before my birthday! <3 So I still have some awesome partying to partake in <3

Flow of Party

This is basically a schedule and flow chart for my party so that there will always be something interesting going on. I've also decided to do a murder mystery within my party :D yay

So here we go:

7:00 PM - Guests begin arriving, socializing, ice breaking, mingling, etc. Introduce Poker Tournament and Dance Contest.

8:00 PM - Introduce murder mystery and hand out roles

8:30-9:00 PM - Dance Contest

9:30-9:45 PM - LIGHTS OUT, Murder begins

10:00 PM - Birthday Cake and singing

11:00 PM - End of Poker Tournament

12:00 PM - Murderer is revealed

The Murder Mystery is Murder at the 4 Dueces.

PARTY DRESS

Lookylooky!

Party dress




BEEP. Enjoy!

10 days left until the party!

Fail schedule

With school starting, and my mother's birthday August 27th, I'm a bit behind in my schedule for my party, but it's not too terrible. I took my mother out for her birthday this past weekend, and as such I was unable to buy the items for party favors, but that's alright. If I don't have the party favors made this week, it's alright. As long as I remember everything else. It won't be difficult to buy all of the favors and decorations all at once and work on the favors over a weekend.

I'm not upset, I'm rather relaxed about this issue.

I have pictures of me in my dress for the party, I will try to get those up and posted soon. I have yet to decide what to do with my hair.

ALSO, we're ahead of schedule in the sense that ALL of the root beer has been made and is fermenting (the CO2 is trapped, so it will not ferment in the way that beer does, which needs the CO2 to be released, plus Root Beer ferments hot, while beer ferments cooler).

Hope to see you kids at the party :D

(PS. I still need music if anyone wants to give/suggest more)

Preparation Calendar

So coming up with the idea, the budget, and the items for the party was the easy part. Now we're getting into the nittygritty. With a mere 48 days left until my party, I've started a preparation calendar.

August 22nd-

Begin buying party favors. Have made by the end of the week (August 29th)

August 30th-

Begin buying decorations (including Roulette Wheel).
Have all decorations by Sept. 12th
Buy items to make headband.

September 1st-

First reminder e-mail to group for party.

September 8th-

Second reminder e-mail

September 12th-

All decorations in hand.

September 13th-

Begin cleaning

September 15th-

Third reminder e-mail

September 16th-

Begin decorating
Buy ALL food

September 17th-

Finish decorating
Bake any food that is not precooked/set out to defrost
Send out FINAL reminder e-mail

September 18th- (THE BIG DAY)

Morning/Early Afternoon (or until done):
Begin cooking food
Start setting out snacks/drinks
Reclean, touch up decorations
Set out party favors

Early evening-
Get pretty!
Put up animals
Open up home

7 PM

EVERYTHING GOES DOWN

Within this calendar, I'll put in when we need to buy the items to make boot leg root beer and how long it will take to ferment, as well as when we need to start and if we want to bottle or not. When we make the root beer, I'll detail the account of how to make it. It will probably start on September 4th.

I'll update this as the time comes closer for me to start getting stuff down and ready.

Much love, kids <3

I've been gone!

Sorry I haven't updated in a long while. I've been in Houston, kidlings. I loved it.

I'm doing a huge photo and art upload today, so hopefully I will post again later with pictures of me in my dress.

I've decided to make a feather headband. I'm going to look at some designs and see what I can do. I have some peacock feathers and other such things right now from past art projects, so hopefully I won't need to buy anything more.

BAD NEWS

I will have the worst paycheck on the 8th :C VERY SAD FACE. So I have to be extremely careful with my money right now. I have a list of things I need to buy for now, and I can't go over that.

Happy 4th of July!

Blow up things! It's what our founding fathers would have wanted.