Why Small Business Saturday Calls for a Party Small Business Saturday is an opportunity to support small businesses with your Christmas shopping the weekend after Thanksgiving. It’s a great (and beneficial) alternative to Black Friday’s rampant big box retail consumerism. It’s also prime opportunity for a shopping party! But this looks a little different than […]
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Elf: A Holiday Classic There are two types of people in the world: those who LOVE the movie Elf, and everybody else. If you’re reading this post on how to host an Elf party, I’m assuming you fall into the former category so LET’S GET READY TO HOST AN ELF PARTY!!! Did you know that
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Why to Have a Gingerbread House Party To all you bakers who live for the month of December: don’t just throw a generic Christmas party; embrace your love of the holidays and baking with a gingerbread house party! Building gingerbread houses together is a fun way to simultaneously bring out everyone’s inner child and potentially
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The Inspiration and Background of Nutcrackers Every holiday season, nutcrackers appear as a classic icon of Christmas, mainly thanks to Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. While the Nutcracker ballet has kept a love of nutcrackers alive in the public consciousness over the past century, figurine-style nutcrackers have existed for at least six centuries. Yet only after WWII
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Friendsgiving: The Holiday for Friends Thanksgiving is a tradition when we gather with family to feast and give thanks. But what if we can’t (or don’t want to) gather with family, for any given reason? That’s where Friendsgiving comes in! Friendsgiving is unique in that it’s the one holiday where the focus is friends, not
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When Life Throws You a Circus… Step right up, plan your party! This theme is for all you circus and carnival lovers who want to bring the fun to life in your own home. People often think of the circus and carnival as primarily kids events. Wrong! These amusements are just as much fun (if
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The Inspiration for a Día de los Muertos Party Día de los Muertos is a beautiful tradition that begins at midnight the night of October 31st and lasts through November 2nd. While we formally remember and celebrate passed loved ones during this time, a Día de los Muertos party is also a wonderful way to
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The Spirit of Vintage Halloween The first citywide Halloween celebration took place in 1921 in Anoka, Minnesota. Through the decades we’ve seen plenty of interesting iterations of this fantastic holiday. And we all have fond memories of celebrated Halloweens from our own childhood years. Those basic motion-sensor hanging ghosts that blared a hyper vibrato cry
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What Makes a Halloween Party Classic? Like many modernized holidays, Halloween has scattered origins which mostly trace back to ancient European practices. But Halloween as we know it didn’t materialize until the past couple hundred years. And only within the past century has it become relatively tame. It used to mark a raucous night of
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The Inspiration and Background of May Day Hurray, it’s May! It may not be summer yet (unless you live in the American South), but May Day commemorates the halfway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. In other words, cold spells should finally have ceased but it isn’t yet scorching hot, so we
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