Popcorn Party!

So last night i threw a "Popcorn Party" for an amazing lady! My best friend Brittany Andrews is getting married in September. I didn't know some of the other bridesmaids and I thought a movie night would be the perfect idea for a "getting to know you" event. I would say it went over perfectly!

                                                 

[Brittany and I at my wedding in November!]

[I decided for my January party (I get one party a month...yes, i have an allowance!) I would use some goodies we got from Christmas (A wonderful popcorn maker and all the fixin's from my amazing MIL!). I love hosting parties and hope to host many more this year...like, oh, eleven more!]

The Line Up:

Since I was just coming from work I needed something a little more solid before i filled up on popcorn so I thought i would fix some finger sandwhichs and then have a dessert to round off the evening. So the menu ending up looking like this:

Honey Mustard Finger Sandwhichs

Popcorn

Toppings

Chocolate Shooters

Apple Dumplings-Tinis

I bought these cute little shot glasses and mini martini glasses at my new favorite store Pier1. I think they are the cutest thing in the world. Mom and I bought one each and stood in the store for over 30 minutes trying to decide when "mini" glass we wanted. They had a lot to choose from for hot OR cold dishes. So you can image we had to list all the possible ways in which to use them...and then decide what we would do most.



So for the shot glasses we did a chocolate dessert...super easy. Pudding, Oreo, cool whip. Done. I added a Vanialla Oreo stick to the glass to dress it up a bit. Super easy and I was able to make a head of time. Last minute, I just put the Oreo stick in the glass right before everyone walked in. So it looked like this:

The Apple Dumpling-tini was even easier. We made a 9x13 dish of Apple Dumplings and then put them in glasses...super hard, I know. Again, I was able to make it ahead of time and them placed them in glasses right before them came over. These need to be served warm so I just had the girls heat them up before they ate them since they wouldn't be eating them the second they walked in the door. These looked like this:

So for the popcorn, I just got shakers of different flavors: cheese, kettle corn, butter. I also had M&M's and white chocolate to mix in with the popcorn. I had the popcorn ready to go in a fish bowl so everyone could mix and match what they wanted on their popcorn. This is my table after I had everything ready to go:

I also had a fun little pink punch that I just kind of found the ingredients for in the freezer...Kyle had some crazy things in the cabinets and freezer when i moved in and I'm finding things and saying "Why did you need this?!"...pink lemondae was one of those things...ha! So I had some frozer pink lemonade, raspberry lemonde, lime juice, splash of cranberry juice and Serria Mist and mixed it all together, topped it off with some Strawberries and TA-DA! PUNCH!



One little trick that I saw in another blog was lining the rim of my glasses with Kayro Syrup and them dipping them in sprinkles. A you get them super cute glasses!! I love the added detail. Also my silly looking framed sign...well, if you are going to throw a party, make sure you have a printer that has ink...so my cute sign didn't turn out so i made a make shift one 5 minutes before...i think i should have just set up my computer witht the picture intended...haha.

All in all we had a wonderful time. So much fun that we didn't take any pictures because we were talking and laughing too much!

I'll post recipes later, I need to jet off to a Mary Kay party...If you see me today and I blind you, i'm sorry. I just really really wanted to wear shorts today...i'll self tan tomorrow. These arent the end of 65 degree weather. Hurry spring!