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Banana Cinnamon Muffins

Banana Cinnamon Muffins


3 overripe Bananas
1/4 C Maple Syrup
2 Eggs
1/2 C Greek Yogurt or 1/2 Package of Cream Cheese (bar)
1 TBSP Coconut Oil
1-1/2 C all purpose Flour
2 TSP Ground Cinnamon
1/4 TSP Ground Cardamon
1/2 TSP Salt
1 TSP Baking Soda
1/4 Macademia Nuts

Mash Bananas and mix in the rest of the items in a mixing bowl.
Line muffin tray with Tulip Style Baking Cups then using an ice cream scoop spoon in mix.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins

Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins


2 Cups Organic Einkorn All-Purpose Flour (can work as Gluten Free)
3/4 cup granulated sugar or stevia
2-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 Tsp cardamon
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup Coconut Milk Yogurt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter melted & cooled slightly or 1/2 C Coconut Oil
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups ¼-inch-diced rhubarb & strawberry mixed
For the topping:
3 tablespoons Brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch of salt
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Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 400°F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper or foil baking cups.
  • In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt and whisk to blend.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together the Coconut yogurt, melted butter or Coconut oil, eggs, and vanilla until smooth. Lightly stir the yogurt mixture into the dry ingredients with a spatula until the batter just comes together; do not overmix. Gently stir in the diced rhubarb. This is a thick batter.
  • Evenly divide the batter among the muffin cups. The batter should mound a bit higher than the tops of the cups.
  • Make the topping: In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon and mix well. Sprinkle a generous ½ tsp. of the cinnamon-sugar mixture over each muffin. Use your fingers to gently pat the topping into the tops of the muffins.
  • Bake the muffins until they’re golden brown and a tooth pick comes inserted into the centre of the muffin comes out clean, about 25-35 minutes.
  • Let muffins cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes before moving them out of the pan to cool on a wire rack. Best served warm.

Pistachio Cran Macs

Pistachio Cran Macs

1tsp baking soda

2-1/4C All Purpose Flour

1/2tsp Salt

1 C Coconut Oil

1-1/4C Raw Sugar

1-3oz Package of Pistachio flavored instant pudding mix

1 egg

3/4C Chopped Macadamia Nuts

3/4C Craisens or dried Cranberries

Directions:

Mix baking soda, flour and salt in a bowl and set aside.

In a large mixing bowl cream together butter, sugar and dry pudding mix.

Add egg and beat until smooth.

Now add all the dry ingredients mix untill well combined.

Stir in nuts and then cranberries.

Spoon onto Baking sheet lined with parchment or silicone matt.

Bake at 350 degrees for 9-10 minutes until edge is slightly browned.

Makes 2 dozen cookies.

Origami Box Tutorial

Origami Box Tutorial


This is my favorite go to easy box when I need one for something small fast.  Follow the video steps below.

You will need 2 pieces of paper.  I recommend card stock. You will cut the card stock to squares that are 8″ & the other piece to 8-1/2″.  You can make any size box. You will just need to size the paper up accordingly.

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You will cut the card stock to squares that are 8″ and the other piece to 8-1/2″.

Then Fold the paper in half both ways.

Then fold each corner into the center.

Fold all four corners into the center.

Then Fold the side up to the center, do both sides this way.

Then Unfold and start forming your box.

Fold the sides in and then the ends up

Then you will fold the end up and over creating a sort of lock. You can put tape or glue here if you want to.

Then do the same to the other end of the box.

Complete the steps again for the other piece of the box. Or use the box as a lil dish.

The pieces fit nicely together

You can decorate the box.

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Does Natural Weed Killer Work?

Does Natural Weed Killer Work?


I have been wondering if natural weed killer works.  I really don’t want to use any products with glyphosate.  It has been linked to so many bad things happening in the environment.  So I thought let’s do a test. Try out the natural stuff see if works.
Recently we relandscaped our front yard area that is in our large circle drive.  We live in Southern California in the coastal city of Oceanside.  I would describe our climate as fairly dry and but coastal and moderate.   When we relandscaped our circle drive. We dug out the existing dead grass and a few other plants that were not really looking very good.  Then we laid down weed cloth. Then over the weed cloth, we unloaded several loads of gravel.  The gravel was also donated by a friend of our landlord so that was wonderful. Then once we got the gravel spread out we went back and added plants.  I put out a notice on Nextdoor asking if anyone had any large Foxtail agaves I could have for free and low and behold one of my neighbors had a bunch.  So we picked them up and profusely Thanked my good-hearted neighbor and proceeded with planting the agaves.  We made holes in the weed cloth and dug out enough soil and then inserted the foxtail agaves. It was pretty easy and cleaned up the space from looking rundown to having some curb appeal.

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Here is a during the process photo.

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Here is a completed photo.

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Well after having hauled and heaved 3 truckloads of gravel on this frontyard and then to see weed springing up let’s just say I was disappointed in my weed cloth.  So upon the discovery of weeds, we decided we need an easy way to spray them and get rid of them. So hence the need to try the natural weed spray as mentioned above. So here are some photos of the invading weeds.

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I purchased a sprayer from Harbor Freight. And I went ahead and just wrote the recipe right on to my sprayer.

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Here is the recipe I used

Although I didn’t have Dawn I used Ajax Grapefruit Dishsoap because that’s what I had under the sink.  And I also used lavender-scented Epsom Salt, again that’s what I had. I bought my 1 gallon bottle of vinegar at Costco.
Here are my results after one day of spraying them.

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The center root has died just some long tendrils were still green.  They did die off after a few more days.

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These were dandelions. They to after one day were shriveled and dead. Now I need to go to work pulling all the dead weeds. So in this instance, I have shown here in Southern California in these conditions the Natural Weed Killer works well.  I will use it again.

The World of Bunko and Creating Community

The World of Bunko and Creating Community


Summer has kicked in full force over here and I thought it would be a good time to have a Bunko Reunion.  About 14 years we were living up in South Orange County, in the San Clemente Trestles Community. At the time I was home with my brand new baby girl Ginger.  I met some of the neighbor girls and they were starting a neighborhood Bunko group.  Not knowing what Bunko was I had to get an explanation which went something like this.  We get a group of women together, you put in $10 dollars towards the game

The host provides apps and drinks and a few of the players walk away with winnings. We all have a good time visiting and each month a different person hosts. For being a stay at home Mom fairly new to the area, it sounded awesome. It was some much-needed adult interaction. Our group got together for about 6-7 years on a monthly basis. Let me tell you having those women to relate to and talk parenting and adulting was a godsend. These girls supported our jewelry business over the years as well. Our Bunko nights turned into themed events with costumes and often included Holiday bunko with spouses so we could meet everyone’s other halves. We also branched off into Halloween Parties and Birthday parties.  Many of these women became my closest friends.

Recently Paperless Post hit me up to try out their product and I thought it sounded like a great opportunity to get the Bunko group back together. Let’s do this.

So Paperless Post is an online invitation web site.  You purchase coins or credits and then you can set up an event. You start with creating an online invitation and input your guest’s emails. The site tracks RSVPs and your guest’s questions. There is also a message board where you can post photos as well as set up reminder emails, so your guests don’t forget!

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I have created some Fun Bunko Downloads similar to pictured above that you can purchase and download for printing at home in my Etsy store here. 

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I have created some Fun Bunko Downloads similar to pictured above that you can purchase and download for printing at home in my Etsy store here. 

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We have discovered that readers are now needed for Bunko.

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Murals in your home

Murals in your home


So years ago I had come across this image on Pinterest for a Chinoiserie Mural.  The designer had painted it on her wall.  The design is based on a wallpaper & fabric design by Schumacher Chiang Mai. I have seen the design around on various sites and admired it.  And after seeing the cost of the wallpaper a square ft. I thought I want to create a similar mural someday. Chiang-Mai-Mural-gorgeousshinythings

Here is an example of the Schumacher Chiang Mai Wallpaper

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So when we moved back to Oceanside, California from Hawaii, I thought this would be a good time.  My husband Brad was waiting on the arrival of our shipping container from Hawaii, so we thought the perfect time to take on a mural.  Brad loosely sketched the design on the wall freehand and then we went to work painting the design with various acrylic paints

The progression is from complete to start below, we painted the wall a nice blue that matched our retro stove.

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So our design is based on our loose interpretation of Schumacher’s Chiang Mai Print. I just love this fabric.  It is a fabulous designer fabric textile and makes a great mural too.   If you’re interested in purchasing the fabric it can be purchased here at Decorator’s Best.

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Here are some other Chinoiserie Chic images using this fun pattern. I have a whole board of Chinoiserie Chic on Pinterest you can check out here.

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Boho Bedding

Boho Bedding


I have a love of textiles. I absolutely love fabric and pattern design. Pattern, design, and color are usually what draws my eye to something I see and adore.  I have been playing with different types of pattern design and my own creative creations.  I just love embroidery and these patterns are some that caught my eye that I thought would be cool in another format

So I reworked them into larger scale designs and bedding.  They are for sale up on my SilverBotanica.com site as well.

Here are some of the designs. I think they would look really good say in your Bali Vacation Rental.  Maybe on a cool hand carved teak bed.

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How can we make Trump’s Wall a good thing for America

How can we make Trump's Wall a good thing for America

So last night I was thinking about this post I saw on FB by Don Freeman:

And then I got to thinking “What are some of the ideas that Trump has that people object too”, and how could we create something that could be a win vs bad. And how could we get more people behind the idea and make it a great idea.  So my wheels starting turning and briefly a photo I saw somewhere went through my head of a pink wall described as what Trump’s wall might look like.

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And I thought no that’s lame.  What if this wall, could have all sorts of “GOOD” packed into and people would want it built.

What if the wall was large,

sort of imagine The Great Wall of China.

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But a modern version of it.

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And What if the wall was built from “good things” liked recycled plastic that they pulled out of the ocean like this product below by ByFusion from New Zealand.

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Here is a video on the product.

And what if the top of the wall has a Solar Road way on the surface, like this idea by Solar Roadways:

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Where the surface of the road looked like this.

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Or this, heck Solar Roads already has a contract with US DOT in place.

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And what if this solar road on Trump’s wall did things like this:

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And in areas where bridges are needed what if the wall looked something like this:

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And generated wind energy.

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We could take this wall even further, what if the sides of the recycled plastic bricks are clad in Tesla’s Solar Roof Tiles like this:

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How much energy do you think this wall could generate?  Maybe it would be 100% LEED Certified?

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And last but not least what if this wall had two more components, such as providing low income housing or housing for homeless within the wall, maybe something like this:

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And last but not least what if we built Trump’s wall by putting all the unemployed millennials that love tech and can’t find jobs, to work creating this wall of the future that maybe we should rename Trump’s Smartwall.

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Put America back to work.

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And so in closing, I side with Senator Elizabeth Warren, “Let’s put aside our differences and work with Trump on this task.”

And let’s build things that we can all get behind and create a lot of good..

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Sweet Hawaiian Bread with Swiss Cheese & Ham Sandwiches


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1 – 12 pack of King’s Hawaiian Original Rolls
1 package of Blackforest Ham9-Slices of Swiss Cheese
1-1/2 Sticks of Butter
3 Tblsp Grainy Mustard
1-1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
3 tsps of poppy seeds
1 Sweet Onion Diced

Heat oven to 350
Melt butter in skillet add onions,
then mix in mustard, Worcestershire sauce and poppy seeds.

Cut the entire package of rolls in half horizontally, I treat the entire group as sort of one big loaf.
In a greased 9″x 13″ pan, place the bottom half of all the rolls into the pan.  Then spread 1/2 of the onion mustard sauce mix over the bottom of the rolls, then layer on ham and cheese.

Replace the tops of the rolls and pour on the rest of the onion mustard sauce mix over the top of the rolls.
Cover with foil and bake for 15-20 minutes in 350 oven.

Uncover, and cut thoroughly and serve in the baking dish.

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie


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2C       1” Slices of Rhubarb fresh from the garden (frozen works too)

2C       Strawberries sliced

1-2/3 C Sugar

1/3 C+    Flour (if your using thawed frozen fruit I recommend extra to make your pie thicker)

1tsp    Cardamom

1tsp    Allspice

1tsp    Cinnamon

Optional 2Tblsp of butter before putting top crust on.

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2 Pie Crusts – I buy premade rolled in a box I take them out of the box and let them come to room temp before unrolling.

Prebake the first crust in the pie pan as directed on box. Typically 8-10 minutes at 400

Mix above ingredients and put into first pie crust.

Then put second crust on top.

I cheat and use fun pie crust cutters to make my fancy.

I also use pie crust saver like below to keep the edges of my pie from burning.  You can use foil as well.

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Bake at 400 for 40 – 50 min

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Serve with vanilla ice cream

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Tropical Passionfruit (Lilikoi) Bars

Tropical Passionfruit (Lilikoi) Bars


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These Tropical Passionfruit Bars are a great end of summer treat.  You can use both purple passionfruit or yellow lilikoi fruit.
For these I purchased about 6-8 fresh yellow lilikoi at our Hilo Farmer’s Market.

Shortbread Crust:
6 oz or 1-1/2 Sticks of Cold unsalted butter
1-3/4 C Flour
3/4 C Powdered Sugar
1/4 C Coconut Flour
3/4tsp Salt

For Lilikoi Mac Nut Layer.

4 Eggs
1/4 Coconut or rice milk
6 oz of fresh passionfruit or lilikoi juice
1-1/4C Sugar
3T Flour
1/4t Salt
1/2C Chopped Mac Nuts

Oven to 350
9 x 13 baking dish

First:
My daughter prepared the lilikoi this is the hardest part you can also use canned juice.  To prepare the lilikoi juice scrape out the jelly substance out of the fruit skins and into a bowl.  Then put the jelly|seeds through a metal sieve to extract just the juice. Continue until you have 6oz

For the Shortbread Crust:
Preheat the oven to 350F
Spray the 9 x 13″ dish with coconut or nonstick spray.
Line with parchment paper

Put all of the Shortbread Crust ingredients into a food processor and mix:
6 oz or 1-1/2 Sticks of Cold unsalted butter
1-3/4 C Flour
3/4 C Powdered Sugar
1/4 C Coconut Flour
3/4tsp Salt

Spread the dough out into the 9 x 13 dish then put into frig for 15 minutes and then bake for 20-22 min at 350.

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For the Passionfruit layer:

Put all the items in the mixer and mix for 1 min on medium or until smooth:

4 Eggs
1/4 Coconut or rice milk
6 oz of fresh passionfruit or lilikoi juice
1-1/4C Sugar
3T Flour
1/4t Salt

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Then Chop the
1/2C  Mac Nuts

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Pour the Lilikoi mixture over the shortbread crust in pan, then top with nuts.  My daughter requested I only do 1/2 of it with nuts.
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Bake 16-18 minutes at 350 or until mixture is set and hard. Like photo below:

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Gluten Free Quinoa Burgers

Gluten Free Quinoa Burgers


Quinoa BurgersSo this is a large make ahead recipe.  Makes about 18 – 20+ Quinoa Burgers.

Preheat oven to 350.

For Quinoa:
3 C Quinoa
6 C Water
Himalayan Pink Sea Salt – pinch or two

Take 3 Cups uncooked quinoa and put in rice cooker with 6 Cups water add pinch of Pink Himalayan Sea Salt. Cook.

Ingredients:
*When I made these, I halved the recipe below so was just easier to work with. But made two batches to use all my Quinoa. Again, I just made it up so I wasn’t following a recipe at the time.  The numbers below are me guesstimating on what I used total.

12 Eggs
1-1/2 C Mashed Potato Flakes1/2 Onion Minced
2 tsp Minced Garlic (I keep a jar in my fridge of this)
2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
2 T Grated Parmesan Cheese (like the kind you put on your spaghetti)
2 T Steak Seasoning

So I mixed half a batch first.

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In mixing bowl

Whisk 6 eggs
add 1 tsp garlic,
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3/4 C Mashed potato flakes
1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
1 T Grated Parmesan 1T Steak Seasoning
Stir in half of your cooked quinoa.  Mix thoroughly, if it looks to moist add in more potato flakes.

Shape into burgers.

I used a mini pie press like this to shape the burgers. I also found spraying it with non-stick cooking spray helped to keep it clean each time.  I also washed it every 5-6 times to keep it going well.

Repeat batch above to make the second batch.
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I then placed burgers on Silicone Mat lined cookie sheets and baked for about 30 minutes.
I winged it here.  Checking every so often until burgers looked good and cooked like the photo above.

Upon completion, I packed some in twos in my Sealer and then a large bag full in the freezer with parchment between patties for grabbing at lunch etc.

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Pirate Themed Murder Mystery Dinner Birthday Party in Hawaii

Pirate Themed Murder Mystery Dinner Birthday Party in Hawaii


My Daughter wanted to have a murder mystery dinner birthday party.  So we researched a few websites that supplied Murder Mystery Dinner Themes. We ended up getting this one called Murder Among The Matey’s.  I let my daughter go to the website and pick one of the themes.  I liked the Pirate theme since we had done a pirate circus themed birthday a few years back.  So purchased the Mystery Dinner online and downloaded the Pdf’s.  I will say that the pdf’s are extensive.  So check the pages numbers before just hitting print.  The main pdf is over 100 plus pages of Pirate Goodness, so be ready, you will need to print about 75% of the pages.  We started out with invitations.  I loved the message in a bottle idea.  Which ended up being harder than I thought.  Mostly because we live on the Big Island of Hawaii and our access to arts & crafts supplies is limited.  So bottles are hard to find.  I thought I would try our local Ben Franklin for cool bottles.  On the mainland, I would have hit the Dollar stores.  At Ben Franklin, I found some interesting bottles but they were close to $5 or $6 a piece.  That was overpriced in my book.  So then I thought what if I just bought soda in glass bottles.  I was thinking Jones Soda or something along those lines.  So I hit the local Target where here in Hawaii you do a lot of your grocery shopping at.  No Glass Bottled Soda. Not a single drop.  So I hit Safeway.  I found Creme soda in 6 six packs and on special that week.  So I bought 2 six packs.

IBC_Creme-Soda-BottlesThis brand of soda also didn’t have labels so double score. I didn’t have to fight with removing bottles.  I tasked the kids in that neighborhood with drinking as much soda as they could and burping contests.  The gladly excepted since we don’t but soda around these parts much.  My Daughter Ginger wanted to antique the bottles a bit to look like they had been rolling around in the sand.  So she sprayed them with a Glass Frosting Spray paint that I had on hand. Glass-frosting-Krylon

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. We also added ribbons and wax seals to the bottles to make them a bit more piratey. I love the way they turned out.  We just hand delivered them to guests.

Murder Among the Mateys Message in a bottle invitation

I was a bit overwhelmed with getting a grasp on how the whole murder mystery dinner worked. So I suggested to my daughter that she figure it out, which she did.  Our other family friend also offered to help.  So they got all the paper stuff printed out and we got things like safety pins so guest could pin on their name tags.  You need to have 2 sets of envelopes for each guest and things like fake money and evidence.  That go into the A & B Envelopes.

 

I focused on decorating and the food for the party which are my favorite things. Since we live in Hawaii and good party supplies are hard to find I utilize my online resources.

Here is how the decor and food turned out. I utilized my Pinterest board for Pirate Ideas. The  Night of Mystery has a Pinterest Board called Murder Among The Matey’s with lots of good ideas too.

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My first attempt at a watermelon Pirate ship.  I think it came out just fine.

 

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Since I just love Party Planning for Parties if you need help with your kid-ohs birthday party and your on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Feel Free to reach out I am happy to help with your event.

 

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Here we are in our Pirate get-ups.

Pirate Themed Tween Party

My Skull and crossbones necklace is available on our website here

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I will say that after the party we talked about how it went etc.  I thought all the conversation que cards you are given to help with figuring out the murderer etc didn’t really help much.  We all had fun talking like pirates and mingling.  But, in the end it all seemed to come down to the evidence.  Which hardly anyone saw because it was given out in the second set of envelopes.  And 90% of didn’t even look at it.  I wish maybe that I would have used real evidence Sword or etc.  and that the appropriate people had it and we all discovered it and passed it around or the likes. I feel prepared for next time around.