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Hosting a wine and cheese night that suits all diet fads
Now that the holidays have ended it’s time to start hosting non-family get-togethers. Enter the typical wine and cheese gathering. This is also the time of year when everyone seems to be especially health conscious because they haven’t scrapped their New Year resolutions yet. It kind of makes a wine and cheese night a little [...]
Dallas NYE parties \ House party \ New Year's Eve \ new years eve parties \ NYE
How to throw a smashing bash on NYE
Throwing your own New Year’s Eve party can be a lot of fun and a much cheaper (not to mention safer) way to celebrate the New Year. Here are a few tips to make sure your house party as just as fun as the ones downtown: The invite: Send an invitation to more people [...]
Christmas events in Dallas \ Dallas restaurants \ DFW restaurants \ Holiday party
Don’t get stuck with a pile of dishes. Dine out this Christmas
There’s nothing better on Christmas than a home cooked meal with all that yummy Christmas food. Except that when you’re the one doing the cooking it’s quite a bit of work, both before and after the meal; never mind any lackluster culinary prowess. Luckily dining out for the holidays is a growing trend that will [...]
celebrities \ Golden Globe Award \ Hosting \ House party \ Movies \ TV stars
3 tips for hosting a winning Golden Globes party
The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 13, 2013 right inside of your living room. Nope. You don’t have tickets to the Golden Globes. Neither do I. While we could mourn our lack of notoriety we can also decide to get over it quickly and host our own fabulous Golden Globe [...]
cocktails \ holiday cocktails \ holiday decorating \ holiday drinks \ Holiday party
10 Must-haves for your bar this holiday season
Seasonal liquors and beers add a bit of jolliness to your bar lineup for winter house parties. Your bar for the winter holidays should not consist of the mere leftovers from your summer luau party. While some items are fabulous to keep on hand year round (ahem, Patron!) it will do you good to add [...]
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It’s not Christmas without a swap party!
Christmas is a great excuse to have gatherings with friends and/or family, and hosting a swap party is a great way to throw a gathering early enough in the season so it doesn’t interfere with anyone’s family plans. Here are a few ideas for swapping: It’s the white elephant in the room: White elephant parties [...]
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Tips and tricks for hosting a holiday and enjoying it too
Oftentimes when you’re the host of your family’s holiday get together, you end up spending so much time in the kitchen and offering drinks that you end up not being able to relax and enjoy the time with your family. Here are a few tips to help the cooking go swiftly and smoothly to help [...]
Coffee \ cozy winter comfort \ DIY \ entertaining
Transform your rental into a hip coffee haven for winter
Become a savvy, self-made barista to entertain friend on cold evenings or simply skip the coffee shop and save yourself a few bucks. We will show you how: Stocking the Kitchen You will need a few things to get your home coffee shop off on the right foot. Bean Grinder: While there’s nothing wrong with [...]
holiday entertaining \ holiday guests
Helping overnight guests feel at home
It’s unavoidable: we are marching head on into the holiday gauntlet and with the holidays often comes the overnight guest. When hosting overnight guests it’s important to make them feel welcome, otherwise you can end up with overnight uncomfortable silences. Here are a few tips to keeping up that good ‘ol southern hospitality: 1. Tell [...]
The single guys’ wedding survival guide
Hello, single guy. Sorry about that wedding invitation that’s languishing unanswered over there underneath your unpaid utility bills on your apartment’s kitchen counter. Yeah, that one. The one you haven’t tossed because you know it’s important, but you sure as heck don’t know how to respond to it. Don’t people getting married usually invite other [...]
Celebrate Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese New Year! 2012 will be the year of the dragon. This is an auspicious year to be born as dragons are very significant symbols of power in Chinese culture. The Chinese calendar is on a 12-year cycle, so a dragon year will not come around again until 2024. Traditional Chinese New Year celebration [...]
Anxiety \ Shyness \ Social anxiety
Overcoming your fear of parties
Trapping yourself in your apartment is not how you should spend any time of year (unless the apocalypse is going down outside). Spending time with friends and family will combat winter blues and keep your spirits high. Don’t let social anxieties keep you from enjoying holiday parties and other life events. One rarely overcomes social [...]
Get poppin’, it’s National Popcorn Day!
Want to hear something really great and really strange too? OK, so we’re obsessed with popcorn around here. Making the perfect popcorn is basically the purpose of our existence lately, right after bringing you entertaining blog posts, of course. So, naturally we were very excited to hear that there is such a thing as National [...]
Black cat \ Friday \ Friday the 13th \ Frigga \ Luck \ Superstition
Freaky fun for Friday the 13th
If you’re the superstitious type, you may not want to test fate by pulling out all the stops for a celebration of bad luck on Friday the 13th. In fact, you’re probably cowering under the covers right now, afraid that the broken glass and black cats are canvassing at your apartment door just because you [...]
Bring home The Golden Globes
The 69th annual Golden Globes ceremony is slated for January 15, 2012. The stars will come out in full force, shining radiantly in the latest fashions, accompanied by their romances of the week. If you can’t fly out to Hollywood for the event (and even if you could you probably wouldn’t get in) why not [...]
Cooking \ dinner \ entertaining \ Monday
Start a tradition: Monday night dinner with friends
On Monday nights, the question I ask myself isn’t what’s for dinner, but who is cooking this week? My friends and I started a great tradition about eight months ago that has been going strong ever since. We call it Monday night dinner, because that’s what it is. There are four of us, and we [...]
12 celebrity predictions for 2012
Goodbye, 2011! We sure are happy to see you sail off into the sunset, though we wish you could take Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber with you. These three topped our list of of “Celebrities We Heard Too Much About This Year,” which unfortunately probably means they’ll be back on everybody’s celeb watch radar [...]
Health \ New Year Resolution \ Weight loss
Work out parties can help you keep your resolution
Year after year you make the New Year’s resolution to lose the weight and keep it off. Somewhere around February or March, you lose motivation or your schedule gets in the way. Hosting group work out sessions in your apartment is a fun way to be social while achieving your goals. We all have our [...]
2011 in Review: Products that question whether there is intelligent life on Planet Earth
2011 featured a bumper crop of aggressively atrocious products, here are a few of the most (least?) noteworthy. Read these tea leaves at your own peril, as they definitively ordain that the world is doomed… Polaroid Instant Mobile Printer. Hey, have you ever wanted an instant hard copy of a cameraphone pic? I know, me [...]
Christmas \ entertaining \ Etiquette \ New Year's Eve \ Table manners
Party Etiquette 101
Before you leave your apartment, take these party etiquette tips to heart. Don’t Go Empty Handed: It’s old fashioned and still appreciated to come bearing gifts. People that show up to parties empty-handed are tolerated but people who show up with gifts, food, or wine are appreciated and happily welcomed back. There is no need [...]
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