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creepy cocktails & candy

We know the holiday season can get a pretty crazy, especially when you think that it runs for about a 100 days from Halloween to New Years Eve. Not to mention the dent it can make in any one’s party budget that if you are like me was blown back in June! So, we decided that for three of our PARTY OF THE WEEK, we would do quite a bit of “recycling” showing how you can do three seasonal parties in one!

First up is our Cocktails and Candy Halloween Party, then we have a Deck the Halls Christmas Dinner Party next month and finishing off with a Black & Bling New Year Eve Party in December. Take note of the list at the end of this post – here we have highlighted what would be a good buy now, as can be used three times over…

STATIONERY

For Halloween, we kept it simple and sent an invitation from TINY PRINTS, do something similar or use any “spooky” picture and then note the party details below. Alternatively, get hold of one of the many Halloween Printable Parties that are available – check out Paper Crave’s round up of the best here and here – and email one of their editable party invitations.

TOP TIP: By emailing, you will save on the cost of printing, envelopes and postage. Plus, you are guaranteed to get your rsvps in quicker.

TABLE

Lay the table with a black linen tablecloth, and matching black napkins. Set each place setting with white dinner plates, side plates and cutlery. To “hide” the all white plate, place folded napkins on top of the plate. For place cards, print Paper Glitter’s Halloween name tags or the like and tie to each napkin.

CENTREPIECES

In the centre of the table, buy a big orange pumpkin, purchase additional pumpkins if you are setting up many long tables in one.

TOP TIP: Forgo the glass vases below and carve out the centre of your pumpkins and use as vases!

Use or source old glasses or jam or Purity jars, the more ornate the glass the better! Spray paint these with white primer paint. This project is totally worth the effort as these can be used for many, many occasions. Use these glasses and jars as vases filling with bunches of orange and dark, dark purple/black flowers. And as this is a cocktail party, add orange cocktail umbrellas to complete the look!

In addition, reuse four clear glass wine bottles or similar (with spouts that are only about 1.5cm in diameter), varied sizes are even better. Push into each spout black dinner candles, if necessary melt the wax to ensure they will remain in tact.

Finally, our table was complete with the Witch paper honeycomb centrepiece that comes in a whole 32-piece kit of goodies – check our Halloween Goodies post later this week for more details.

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Cocktails

For some cocktail ideas check out Hostess with the Mostess’s Facebook page.

Candy

There have been so many great Halloween Sweet Buffet Tables this year, check out the details at Catch My Party Blog here and here.

FUN AND GAMES

Request that each guest dresses up for the party. Then have a few categories: best dressed boy, girl, couple, most original, scariest etc. Then create a little voting sheet and have each guest vote who they think wins each category. Tally up the score and bestow each winner with a prize. You could even have booby prizes for the worst dressed, most confusing etc.

FAVOURS

For all guests, instead of favours, have the guests “knock” on your door and ask “Trick or Treat” and then hand out accordingly.

Check back tomorrow for all the details of where you can get the goodies!

GOODIES FOR 3 PARTIES IN 1

Black Tablecloth (avaialble for hire R30 each)

Black Napkins (available for hire R5 each)

White dinner plates, side plates (also available for hire from R5 each)

Clear Glassware: wine glass, tumbler and champagne flute (also available for hire form R5 each)

Silver Cutlery (also available for hire R2 each)

White Spray painted Glass Jars (glass votives available for hire R5 each)

Four Glass Wine Bottles