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How To Host The Best New Years Party

12/15/2017

How To Host The Best New Year’s Party

The New Year is right around the corner and if you are like me, you love to ring in the new year surrounded by family and friends. However, sometimes it can be overwhelming planning and hosting a New Year’s party. There are a few things you can do before and during the party to help ease some of that stress and allow you to start the new year off right.

Section Off Your House For The Event

When you are having a party inside, guests can tend to wander or congregate in different parts of your home. By setting a goal to keep everyone in just a few rooms, you leave the rest of the house free of potential mess. If there are kids at the party, you can make one room the kid’s room. If you want you can even take a plastic tablecloth, cover one of your tables, and have a craft for the kids to do to keep them busy. That way the adults can all spend time together and the kids are kept busy and are still having fun.

Rearrange Your Furniture To Watch The Ball Drop

We all know one of the biggest parts of a New Year’s party is sitting around the television and counting down the seconds until the ball drops and the new year begins. This is an occasion where it is socially acceptable to all be surrounding the television instead of talking. If you have already sectioned off your house, make sure one of the rooms you are allowing guests into has a television and that it can be easily viewed by everyone. If you need to, you can add extra chairs and rearrange your furniture so that your guests have the perfect view of the ball dropping. You may want to do this ahead of time so that you can be sure to vacuum and clean up if you have not moved your furniture in a while.

Prep Your Kitchen With Small Hors D’oeuvres

Usually parties like this do not have a formal dinner, but I always like to have something to feed my guests. Plan ahead and have a few hors d’oeuvres ready to go for your guests to munch on. They do not need to be anything fancy but just something to pass around if they are planning to stay all the way until the ball drops at midnight. In order to prevent a mess, have serving trays with your hors d’oeuvres on them and depending on the food, you can have toothpicks or a small plate or napkin to place them on so that your guest can hold them and to help the cleaning process later. At the end of the night or once they have all been eaten, you can go around with a trash bag and quickly pick up the small trash left behind.

Have A Liquor Corner

New Year’s parties are known to have at least a champagne toast to the new year, and if that is the case, have a corner of the kitchen or living space designated to have your liquor. This prevents empty bottles or glasses being left around and also keeps guests from taking liquor you may not want them to be having. By putting out the options in a designated spot, you lessen the chance of a mess occurring and helps you have an easier clean up later on.
Welcoming in the new year is always fun and even if you are hosting, you still want to be able to enjoy your night. If you try these tricks, you can help lessen your load and destress before the new year begins.
Have A Happy New Year!

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Tips & Tricks to Make Your Holiday Bright

12/4/2017

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Tips and Tricks to Make Your Holiday Bright

   It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The holiday season is finally upon us which means it is time for holiday decorations, holiday crafts and activities, and of course, the mess that comes from all of these things. In order to help make your holidays bright and keep your home looking nice and clean, there are a few tips you can try.
   The inside of the house always becomes the biggest mess if you are like me and love to decorate every inch of your house in holiday décor. Before you start pulling out the new decorations, I suggest taking your fall decorations and putting those away first. We like to rotate our decorations and have them organized in our storage unit, that way they are easy to find when we need them again and our storage space stays clean.
   Once the fall décor is put away, it is time to bring out the holiday decorations. If you want to be even more organized, you can store your holiday decorations by the room they go in. You will be able to decorate efficiently and you won’t be running around each room or end up with a huge mess of decorations in one place. Bringing out the holiday decorations is also a great time to clean/rearrange your home. Before putting out the new decorations, take the time to pull out your furniture and vacuum under it, dust the fans, clean up any messy areas, and make sure your house is ready for the new decorations to be put out. The changing of the seasons is a great time to really deep clean your home.
   Now that your home is clean it is time to decorate. If you want your tree to be the center of attention, make sure to place where everyone can see it. Be careful though to make sure it is away from the fireplace or any heating vents because those could dry your tree out quickly and could also be a fire hazard. With the tree all set, you can move into decorating the rest of the house with holiday touches. One of my favorite are holiday candles. They make your home smell wonderful and really make you feel like the holidays are here. They are also good for covering bad smells or just to help make your home smell clean.
   With the inside of your home ready for entertaining, you can also add a few touches outside. My favorite thing to do is to add some pretty lights outside. They are especially great since the sun sets so early in the winter. You can even hang a pretty wreath on your front door or a garland on your porch. These extra touches are inviting and make your house look beautiful.
   The holidays are a wonderful time to show off your decorating skills, but they can also be stressful because you want everything to look perfect. Use these tricks and I promise you, your home will be holiday ready in no time.

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