Is that a talking hoagie?

Check out this fun little site where you can dress up your own hoagie! And guess what!?! You can make it talk too, you just type in a message and then play "listen" to hear your hoagie talk. It is so fun.

You can send it to your friends to brighten up their day!

Valentine's Day Party for Kids

It's almost here and we have to get ready. Hearts, flowers and candies galore. Who doesn't love Valentine's Day!

There's no doubt that everyone loves Valentine's day, especially kids! So if you are thinking of having a kids party, here's some great new ideas!

Craft Ideas:
All kids love making crafts so pull out your construction paper, tissue paper and beads...

• Have kids paste candy hearts on construction paper
• Make a flower out of tissue paper
• Trace their hands with red construction paper then tape them as a cover on a heart. The hands open and they can write their message inside
• Purchase heart beads and make bracelets and necklaces
• Grab some pipe cleaners and make flowers; you just make loops and cut, then take a green pipe cleaner as a stem. Twisting everything together into a bouquet
• The local craft store likely has heart cut outs; kids love these, they can glue them on cards, a blank frame or even pasted on a cool little album for Grandma
  

Have a Happy Day Party

The other day my daughter looked up at me with her sweet little brown eyes and said, "Mommy, I want to have an Ariel party."

Ariel, from The Little Mermaid, is now her absolute favorite character of all time. I'd say, she is a little obsessed. She even occasionally introduces herself to others as Ariel. I just chuckle and see how far she takes it. At two and half, it's still okay to pretend! So I hesitated for a moment thinking, well, it's not a birthday party, maybe we can just do a "happy day" day party and Ariel is the imaginary guest of honor.

So I leaped into the twinge of the excitement longing in her eyes. I pulled out some cake mix, grabbed a few left over balloons and blew them up, gave everybody a party hat and we had a party! The kids made pretend decorations for Ariel and then got to decorate the cake with crazy left over stuff like cool whip, raisins, peanuts, sprinkles...anything I figured that would be fun. They loved it.

It turned an ordinary day into a "Happy Day."

80s Party Planning

Guess what? Another 80s party is in the making!

Yes, due to lots of fanfare over last years' 80s party...we're doing it again. So, we'll fill you in with tips and info on how to plan the best 80s party.

I know you're thinking, what, plan an 80s party? YES! It's the newest thing...book a hall, grab lots of friends, hire a DJ and Party like it's 1999. I mean 1989.

Ready to hear about how we are going to make Prince's head useful, Madonna's gloves the new new rage again, or how to set up the coolest 80s entertainment, then tune in later fore more 80s party planning!

First off is planning the right music. What is your favorite 80s song that really makes you dance?

My top 5:
Footloose (Kenny Loggins)
Dress Me Up (Madonna)
Let's Go Crazy (Prince)
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
It Takes Two (To make a thing go right) Rob Base

Invitations: Get in with the new!

Good old fashioned paper invitations are gradually becoming a thing of the past. Nowadays, there are some new ways to invite people to your party!
Just try using these sites!

Evite
Sendomatic
Facebook

If you are not into using an online site consider even creating a PDF of your invitation and emailing it versus sending old-fashioned snail mail. People nowadays are appreciating getting things faster and have it for easy retrieval...versus if you accidentally lose the paper one. You can always go back and print it again!

Drum roll....please

And the winner to the FavorAffair.com contest is....

Malleycc! Randomizer chose lucky #94. Congrats Malleycc! And she has a little blog called the Guessing Game, go check it out!

Thank you for all those who entered. We hope to have more contest coming and lots more fun posts about parties soon!

Do something to dazzle for any party!

Need a new way to dazzle your guests at your party Make up your own mixed drink! Yep, who says you can't have a fancy mixed drink made up totally by you. Grab some juice and different liquors and try out something new. Then name it anything you want. How cool would it be if they came to your party and the next day said, "Wow, I was at Gene's party and he made this cool drink he called 'Blastin' Orange Coke-A-Lina!"

This is great to do for New Years Eve parties, Tiki Parties, Pool Parties, Halloween Parties, or just an anytime party!

Announcing the Favor Affair Contest!

We are pleased to announce a new contest here at Pippin Party!

The prize is a $25 gift certificate to FavorAffair.com. This site has the neatest favors; everything for elegant weddings to birthdays to girls' night out parties! Finding cool favors for your party is going to be so easy; they have a huge selection! Most importantly, these favors will really wow your guests.

These favors are not only unique and classy but most of all, affordable! If you don't believe me, just go check out their Girls Night favors. You will find some of the neatest things for your party.

So if you are getting ready to host an event and want the to impress with some fabulous favors, come on and enter!

Here's the deal:
1. Visit http://www.favoraffair.com/girls-night-out-favors.html and comment back on 2 items you found most interesting OR if you have a blog or website, post a link back to this contest.

2. The contest will run from today to January 8th. The winner will be chosen at random and announced Friday, January 9th.

3. Contest only open to U.S. residents and those over 18 years old. No anonymous comments please.