Favorite Things Party
This weekend I had a Favorite Things party with my friends on my street. Our street has a party every few months and I felt it was my time to throw the party and when I saw this party idea, I had do to it. Immediately!
Here is the jist of the party: Each person brings their favorite thing (anything you like.. lotion, baking item, decorating item, treat, etc). It can't cost more than $6, and each person brings five of the same thing. At the party you write your name on five slips of paper and throw them in a bowl. One at a time each person introduces their favorite thing and then picks five names from the bowl (making sure you don't pick your own.. or two of the same name) and then passes out their gift to those five guests.
After everyone at the party has presented their favorite thing, each person should end up with five gifts to take home.
The theme was of course from the Sound of Music and the Sound "A Few of my favorite things", so the color scheme had to match. As stated in my invitation post found here.
It was really a great party and so much fun to socialize, learn about each other and of course take home gifts!
Here are the details and if you click on the image, you will be able to see the details a bit better.
THE DRINKS: my favorite drinks are Italian sodas! They are so fun and out of the ordinary, so they were perfect. I bought these cute mason jar lids where you can put straws through them. They are so darn cute! If you haven't had Italian sodas, here is the recipe! most of the girls hadn't had one before that night, so that was fun too!
THE FOOD: On the invitation, I asked the guests to bring their favorite dessert or appetizer. I made one of each. I made "fancy" rice krispie treat lollipops! Since I love rice krispies. I saw these krispie treats here and had to make them. And a Caprese salad. On my salad, i added cucumbers and avocados. The cucumbers add crunch and what isn't better with an avocado on it! I meant to take a picture of the table with everyone's food on it. It was beautiful and so yummy! Seriously, it was a sight to behold!
For the rice krispie treats, I used the melting chips from Wilton, instead of real chocolate. It melts so much better and is so much easier to work with. And I could get the chips in the Tiffany blue, so they were perfect. 
THE TABLE: I made food tags to match the invitations. I had the girls email me what they were going to bring and then I made tags for their food. I also bought cream silverware, brown napkins and wrapped them in blue satin ribbon.
MY FAVORITE THING: For my favorite thing I gave the girls bottles filled up with flavored syrup. Since I served Italian Ice for the drinks, I thought it would be fun to send them home with the syrups to do it themselves. I bought these cute glass bottles from Ikea. I decided to etch (here is a great link on how to etch glass) their initials onto the bottles to personalize them. You can't see the etching on the bottle with the syrup in them, but the small image in the collage shows the etched bottles. I loved how they turned out. Then I poured the flavored syrups into the bottle and attached a tag with the recipe for italian ice and wa-laa.
I also decided to make personalized bags for the ladies to put their stash in afterwards, so they could take it all home easily. I used my other favorite thing Martha Stewart glitter.
I didn't take a picture, but for the piece of paper to write the names on.... I cut out strips of paper and hole punched a circle in the corner and then tied thin tiffany blue ribbon into a knot and placed them all in a basket. 
THE LOOT: Here are a few of our favorite things that I and my sister ended up with. Some of the things were: Bath and Body soap, Starbucks gift card, stationery, a fall pumpkin, socks and cookie cutters.
It was a great night enjoyed with great friends. I am pretty sure this will become a yearly tradition!
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