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Plainfield high school mourns Joliet girl killed in New Lenox crash Honor student was a member of the pom squad The day after a 16-year-old Joliet girl was killed and two other teen girls injured in a car crash, friends and classmates grieved, bid their farewells on a social networking page and comforted each other at school. Read more on Chicago Tribune

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Israeli building inflames tension, ‘humiliates’ Biden – Feature Jerusalem – The height of diplomatic folly, is what Israel’s largest opposition party called it. Why on earth would Israel announce the construction of 1,600 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, just as Vice President Joe Biden is in the country, an… Read more on EARTHtimes.org

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In was only a few years ago when fancy dress was restricted to children’s birthday parties and rowdy hen nights – today people all over the country people are discovering the sheer amusement at spending their weekend dressed as a pirate!!

Whether you choose to showcase your weird and wonderful costumes at your local club/pub or in the relative privacy of a house party – fancy dress is a great way to have a brilliantly different night!

Many local suppliers have disappeared for specialist online retailers like Novelties 4 Parties http://www.novelties4parties.co.uk to offer an easy online alternative.

Regardless of how much money you have to spend there are loads of options available for the fancy dress connoisseur! Feeling Flush? Why not splash out on ready made costume with all the trimmings? Watching the pennies? Then put on your best Blue Peter hat and get creative at home. Whatever your budget being dressed up has a great effect on people and is bound to result in an amusing night! Remember selecting your fancy dress costumes is just the start as selecting the matching accessories is also important.

So what makes a good fancy dress costume party theme..? you will want a theme where the costumes, whether made, bought or hired will be reasonably light comfortable to wear. A few ideas would be; Beach Party, Hawaiian Luau, Roman Toga or Mardi-Gras themed parties depending on the weather. These themes also have the advantage of being able to be created cheaply and this maybe something you would want to take into consideration.

Fancy dress retailers are reporting a huge surge in the Stag and Hen market in the last 2 years and interestingly, the costumes being chosen are moving away from the Stag Antlers and naughty accessories traditionally associated with these markets.

Hen parties are now opting for a more themed ‘group’ look with costumes such as cowgirls, nurses, fairy-tale inspired characters such as Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy, police officers with fluffy handcuffs, female Batgirl and Robins, Pink Ladies, schoolgirls, bunny girls and 60’s hippy-inspired mini-dresses. The choice is overwhelming!

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You’re about to start planning a party, but don’t know where to start. You run to the grocery store, looking at this and that, deciding on a few things you may need, knowing the whole time you’ve forgotten something. Now it’s time to head over to the local department store for some decorations. You follow the same unguided principles you went through at the grocery store. Then once again you missed a few things at the liquor store. You’ve also forgotten to send invitations to so and so and a few others and the party is only a few days away. Suddenly you find yourself scrambling back to all the same stores trying to find the items you missed the first time around. Then out of nowhere the night of the party arrives and you realize you don’t have enough food for all the invited guests. Then the worst possible thing happens, you hear a knock at the front door. It’s as if a new and frightening nightmare has blossomed out of thin air. You feel the shakes coming on and your stress level is reaching new and incredible heights. I could go even further, but I think you get the idea. If only you had begun your planning by keeping track of all that you need, every purchased item and menu dishes prepared. If only you had made a party planning checklist none of the awful party mistakes listed above would have happened. Now that I’ve gotten the point across about how important a checklist is I will now inform you about what it needs in order to make it work.

A party planning checklist should consist of the type of party you plan on having, it’s budget, the guest list, venue, decorations, food and beverages and the time and date of your party. Start by writing yourself a header. Something like, ‘Luau party planning checklist’, will do just nicely. The reason it’s a good idea to create a headline is it will make it more difficult to deviate from your parties theme if you keep reading it over and over.

The next aspect of your checklist should definitely be your budget. Creating a budget and keeping track of all your spending is very important. Your budget will be the key reason for many of your up and coming party decisions. The checklist is a way of keeping everything in order so you don’t overspend in one area and leave another area short.

The item listed after the budget on the party planning checklist is usually your venue choice. If you are planning to have the party away from home the venue choice will cost money and will come out of your budget and a time will have to be arranged for decorations and so forth. If your party is going to be at home, and you have to hire a professional to come and clean some unwanted stains out of your rug the parties budget will be affected, making it an important listing in your checklist. Of course, if your home needs nothing besides some freshening up you may leave it off your list for now.

The checklist is about to be hammered with information and the reason for this is you’re about to create your guest list. Here you should write out the invitees names, phone numbers and addresses. You will be needing this information for the invitations and it makes it much easier than trying to look through your address book and try and remember who was invited, what their numbers are and where they live.

The menu should be added once you have completed the above. Now you will have a clear idea as to what you need and how much. List the items you need, then check them off the list once purchased, while also keeping track of prices. The same goes for decorations.

The information listed above should help prevent problems created by trying to ‘wing it’. If not, there is plenty of available information out there, you just have to know where to look.

Good luck on your up and coming party and have a great time.

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I’m having a graduation party and I’m looking for party supplies with teacher or school themes since the grad will be a teacher. No luck so far with internet searches.
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Seidl’s Party Supply & Rental 760-787-9455 www.yellowbook.com

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What does a party girl look like? (in detail)
some people actually said i looked like one, but they didn’t even know me. I dont drink or go to partys at all.. so i guess they shouldn’t judge a book by its cover
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Facebook’s location feature expected to launch next month Facebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. The rumor comes courtesy of anonymous sources who have been “briefed on the project” speaking to the New York Times , who said that Facebook will announce the feature at Facebook’s annual f8 conference in late … Read more on Ars Technica

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Across the USA News from every state News from every state Read more on USA Today

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