Ugly Christmas Sweater Parties are more popular than ever. I think people just like to kick back and get goofy. Here are some of the best Ugly Christmas Sweater Party ideas I've found around the web. Pick your favorites and have fun! 1. The Ugly Christmas Sweater Cake: arrange cupcakes in the shape of a sweater and add plenty of … [Read more...]
White Elephant Gift Exchange Party
Have you ever been to a white elephant party? It's a great way to recycle some of those unwanted gifts from last year. Each person brings "a white elephant gift." If they don't have an unwanted gift to bring they can bring a joke gift. It's a lot more fun than a regular gift exchange! You can do a regular gift exchange this way or play various … [Read more...]
Christmas Mice Cookies Recipe
These adorable mice are made of candy and perched atop a cookie. The head is an unwrapped Hershey's kiss and the body is a chocolate-dipped maraschino cherry with the cherry stem serving as the tail. Pretty easy! Just dip the cherries and assemble with slivered almonds stuck in for the ears. You can use dots of frosting for the eyes. So cute! … [Read more...]
DIY Ugly Christmas Sweater
If you get invited to one of those ugly Christmas sweater parties it's hard to find one at the last minute sometimes. Here a way to have possibly the wildest sweater at the party. Use any sweater as the base, do a little surgery on a Christmas themed stuffed animal & add some some jingle bells. Hilarious.Don't forget there are ugly Hannukah … [Read more...]
Holiday Drinks: Scandanavian Glogg
We used to have neighbors from Sweden that we enjoyed very much. At Christmas they would invite us over for a Christmas party and hand us a cup of glogg. It seemed like they pronouned it more like "glug." It's a hot spiced wine and you definitely wouldn't be glugging it down. It's for sipping. I liked the fact that it had raisins and almonds in … [Read more...]
5 Tips for a Classy, Frugal Holiday Party
Instead of the kitty litter suggested to hold candles, I'd get kosher salt. It looks a lot prettier & doesn't have the "Ewww" factor.I also cringe at the idea of spraying real fruit with gold spray paint. You won't be able to eat that fruit afterwards because of the chemicals. If you want that look, why not spray paint some cheap artificial … [Read more...]