Pirate Party Prep - Part 1 (Food & Labels)

This year for Halloween I am having a pirate themed party. I am a little OCD and have a thing for themes.  I've already starting working on it as I have to buy a little for it with each paycheck so I can afford it in the long run!


I was finding a lot of children's pirate party ideas online, but this is for adults and I really wanted it to look nice. I decided to go for more subdued colors, mostly black/white/sepia/grey feel. Even with paper plates and cheap snack food, I wanted it to at least look halfway "pirate posh".

 I found these super cute and fancy looking paper plates and napkins from Joann Fabrics on 40% off. I don't know how "Embalm and Scary On" relates to pirates, but it had a skull & crossbones so I was sold! I got two sizes of plates, both black/white/grey with skulls & crossbones.

 

 

I already have almost the entire menu planned! I have quite a bit of it purchased already too.

 

I gave everything "pirate" names and made labels our of scrapbook paper I already had and used my label maker with fun font. I bought a new fun scissors too.

 

 

Here is the menu so far:

 

 

1. Coconut Shrimp (no cool name for this yet....)

2. Fish Sticks in a bowl surrounding by Cape Cod chips (Fish 'n Chips)

3. BBQ Wings - because they are always a demand by my friends (Parrot Wings)

4. Spinach Artichoke Coffin Dip (Dead Man's Dip)

 

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE: http://halloweendevilishdelights.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html 

 

5. Bone Breadsticks (Hangman's Bones)

 

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Breadstick-Bones

 

 

6. Black Olives (Black Pearl Olives)

7. Apples (Barbossa's Apples) - from Curse of the Black Pearl

8. Peanuts (Jack's Peanuts) - from At World's End

9. Pirates Booty Aged White Cheddar Puffs

 

  yeah....these don't really fit the fancy pirate theme I was going for, but I'm running out of cheap ideas here.....

 

10. Goldfish/Whales (Catch of the Day)

 

 

11. Chocolate Gold Coins (Aztec Gold)

12. Sand Cake (Rum Runners' Island)

 

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE: http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/sea-island-sand-cake-recipe/1/

 

*Note: I won't be using a bucket for mine, or the lobster sucker...

 

Other things to add to sand cake instead: Swedish fish, coconut M&Ms (the grey ones look like rocks), candy rocks, pirate/boat toys, plastic palm trees, treasure map with black icing for dotted lines and red for "X"

 

I am definitely adding these cuties!

 

 

CLICK HERE FOR HOW TO MAKE ADORABLE CRABS: http://thesevenyearcottage.com/2011/sand-crabs/

 

Okay, so all that talk about "Posh Pirates" went out the window with the island cake................maybe I will have to do something else...but I already have the Oreos....hmm I could always eat them....

 

Obviously, you could make something like a fancy island cake but I am just not good enough at any of this stuff for that yet! Those crabs are so simple and even they look daunting to me!

 

13. I bought Tyson frozen chicken poppers on a great sale & I might use those too. Maybe call them "Pieces of Eight" (from At World's End)

 

14. I made a tag for "Eye of Ragetti" and am bound and determined to find something "eye" related to make, which there are a TON of ideas out there!

 

Still working on the drinks.....found a lot of drinks with rum but I'm looking for a non-alcoholic beverage too. We'll see....I have a whole month, right? Yet somehow that month disappears so quickly......



 

My Bucket List

Languages:

1. Become fluent in Spanish
2. Become fluent in Sign Language
3. Become fluent in one other language
4. Learn conversational/basic French
5. Learn conversational/basic Arabic
6. Learn conversational/basic German
7. Learn conversational/basic Italian
8. Learn conversational/basic Japanese
9. Learn conversational/basic Russian
10. Have my future children learn a second language along with English

Music:

1. Learn to play the piano
2. Learn to the play the guitar
3. Have my future children learn an instrument
4. Teach my future children about music of all genres and decades, their influences, their messages, etc.

Travel/Places to Go/See:

1. Drive Route 66
2. Tour a castle in Europe
3. Tour an old church in Europe
4. Visit all 13 original "colonies"
5. New York, New York  (was there for a very short period of time and want to go back!!)
6. Eat a hot dog in New York
7. Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn, New York
7. Universal Studios, Hollywood
8. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA
9. San Francisco, CA
10. Ride in a taxi (In Mexico & Chicago so far, still pulling for New York too)
11. Ride in a subway
12. Ride a city bus (I'm from the lame suburbs/small town life....)
13. Seattle, WA
14. Mexico (went to touristy places with family)
15. REAL Mexico (want to visit friends' home towns, etc)
16. Attend a Broadway musical in New York
17. See New York lights in Christmastime
18. Snorkel to see a ship wreck
19. Go rock climbing
20. Spend time living/working on farm
21. Spend time living in a big city (i.e. Chicago, New York, etc)
22. Spend time visiting/living in North Carolina with older brother as we never got to know each other growing up being so far apart in age, and to get to know my sister-in-law and nephew more.
23. Paris, France
24. Italy
25. Spain
26. Ireland
27. Nashville, TN
28. Los Angelus, CA
29. London
30. Set FOOT in every state
31. Anywhere and everywhere that I can - from small, unknown American towns to European top sighs to see to third world countries and everywhere in between.

Family:

1. Be a foster parent
2. Adopt a child
3. Have a large family
4. Pass on a family heirloom to my child

Animals:

1. Own a husky
2. Go horseback riding (went in Girl Scouts)
3. Go horseback riding as an adult, as often as possible!
4. Own a horse (yes, some of my goals are fictional!)

Hobbies/Things to Learn:

1. Learn how to play chess
2. Lean how to knit
3. Learn how to sew (by hand)
4. Learn how to crochet
5. Learn how to box
6. Learn how to kickbox
7. Learn the basics of some other form of self-defense (karate, etc)
8. Become good at archery
9. Learn how to shoot a gun
10. Learn how to throw knives (....what can I say, I have 2 older brothers)
11. Successfully change my own oil
12. Successfully change a tire

Education:

1. Get a college degree

Work:

1. Work in a movie theater
2. Work in a bookstore
3. Work in a hospital/clinic
4. BECOME A TEACHER (or social worker...or ...whatever God has planned for me!)

Miscellaneous:

1. Finish Book Bucket List
2. Have a small library
3. Discover my life's purpose
4. Read the Bible in full
5. Become a "sister" in Big Brothers, Big Sisters
6. Volunteer in children's hospital/ward
7. Go on a mission's trip (or several!)
8. Get a book published (or several!)
9. Get a poem published
10. Act in a play/musical outside of school/church


There are probably more that I am forgetting here....I left out some of the really fictitious ones.

In The Beginning...

In the beginning...there was a girl.

A girl unsatisfied with her place in this world.

A girl <stuck> in the mud of life.

A girl...who decided to start a blog.


Every few months (or years...) I dust off my diary and attempt to get back into writing in it daily.

That NEVER happens. I usually just end up summarizing my life for the past however many months it's been since I've last written, stay on track for a few days, and then fall off.

As I go back and read those entries I realize something.......

THEY ARE THE SAME!

So maybe I have a different job or new roommate, but essentially, nothing changes. I am not growing as a person and I am in no way pushing myself any closer to any of my dreams.

Enter the blogging world.

Not that I envision anyone taking the time to read this, but on the off chance that it might happen, this creates ACCOUNTABILITY. Now I have to get my rear off the proverbial couch and get it in gear.

Whether that's my non-existent work out routine,
my guitar that hasn't been practiced since my first lesson,
my piano which I promised myself one day I would learn,
my Spanish that I am losing without practice
the Italian/French/Sign Language/Japanese/Russian I told myself I would at least learn basics in,
the TEACHING CAREER I had wanted to have ALREADY!
the knitting/sewing/crocheting I never learned,
the COLLEGE I have to GO BACK to in order to get my dream of being a TEACHER,
...and everything else that if I list and think about right now might just give me an ulcer.

So, this is for me. But, if you happen to me reading this, I extend a virtual hug (or handshake if that's more your comfort zone) and my thanks for somehow reading all my drivel.

Here we go...Kelsey Langlitz, say hello to life....