You are planning the New Year's party to welcome in 2010 but you only have a shoe string budget so you will have to do the planning of the party very carefully to pull it off, so you go to work making the plans and the first thing to do is invite people with an RSVP invitation.
You pick a design that you want all of the accessories to have it on, like the invitation which you do as a post card with the design on the opposite side of the information on the card. You can print this entire collection out on the computer and let your children help you do this as they are pretty computer savvy. Then, if you are planning a sit down meal, make place cards with the same design on them with the name of the guest below or above the design and the folding to make it stand.
On the internet you can find templates to make little Christmas bags with your design on them, put them together for each place setting and put nuts and mints in them for each dinner guest, who will enjoy them immensely. Put a few decorations around to make it festive and don't take down your tree until after your party.
Have some soft music for the holidays on CD's and put several in the CD player so that you don't have to keep getting up to change them and the music is just right for the mood setting for the New Year. Have discussions on New Years Resolutions on what they are now and what they were last year and did they keep them last year and if they didn't how long did they keep them?
On the alcohol at the party, you can have a bring your own booze (byob) party, but have the three drink rule and that no one will leave intoxicated and this will be enforced by everyone turning in their keys when they arrive at the party and given back when they are ready to leave, but if they are considered intoxicated they won't get their keys back until the morning and they are more than welcome to sleep on couch's or floors or any extra beds they can find. Stress that you want them safe and that's the reason for the rules.
Other crafts for the party are head pieces and noise makers plus planning a dinner that is cost effective is important and if you check after Thanksgiving you can get turkeys on sale pretty cheap and the same is true for hams because the stores over ordered and need to get rid of them now, so pick one up or one of each for later dinners and put them in your freezer. When it's time you will have your main course for your dinner and then add some potatoes, either sweet or white, and some sort of a vegetable and dinner rolls, then some sort of dessert and you have it made without doing a day or two of extra hard work and you being able to welcome the New Year as it comes in.
You pick a design that you want all of the accessories to have it on, like the invitation which you do as a post card with the design on the opposite side of the information on the card. You can print this entire collection out on the computer and let your children help you do this as they are pretty computer savvy. Then, if you are planning a sit down meal, make place cards with the same design on them with the name of the guest below or above the design and the folding to make it stand.
On the internet you can find templates to make little Christmas bags with your design on them, put them together for each place setting and put nuts and mints in them for each dinner guest, who will enjoy them immensely. Put a few decorations around to make it festive and don't take down your tree until after your party.
Have some soft music for the holidays on CD's and put several in the CD player so that you don't have to keep getting up to change them and the music is just right for the mood setting for the New Year. Have discussions on New Years Resolutions on what they are now and what they were last year and did they keep them last year and if they didn't how long did they keep them?
On the alcohol at the party, you can have a bring your own booze (byob) party, but have the three drink rule and that no one will leave intoxicated and this will be enforced by everyone turning in their keys when they arrive at the party and given back when they are ready to leave, but if they are considered intoxicated they won't get their keys back until the morning and they are more than welcome to sleep on couch's or floors or any extra beds they can find. Stress that you want them safe and that's the reason for the rules.
Other crafts for the party are head pieces and noise makers plus planning a dinner that is cost effective is important and if you check after Thanksgiving you can get turkeys on sale pretty cheap and the same is true for hams because the stores over ordered and need to get rid of them now, so pick one up or one of each for later dinners and put them in your freezer. When it's time you will have your main course for your dinner and then add some potatoes, either sweet or white, and some sort of a vegetable and dinner rolls, then some sort of dessert and you have it made without doing a day or two of extra hard work and you being able to welcome the New Year as it comes in.
No comments:
Post a Comment