Charity Girlfriend Party and Kitchen

Hello Sweet Friends.

The holidays just flew by.  I got all my decor down this past weekend.  Looks so sparse now. :(

Trying to find some cute Valentines Decor to brighten things up.

Girlfriend Charity Party:

For the past 16 years I have been giving this Girlfriend Party for my girlfriends and now my daughter's friends too.

I traditionally have this party each year on the first Saturday in December.  

With the first Saturday this year being later in the month I decided to wait and have the party in January.

So many of us had so much going with Thanksgiving being late and Christmas on the fast down hill slide right after.

January is quiet and dreary here in Illinois so this party might just be a nice perk up after the holiday let down.

The whole idea of the party is to celebrate our friendship and to remember how blessed we are to have each other in our lives.  

I was excited to find these party cups and plates at Home Goods.

The premise of the party is each girl brings a girlfriend exchange gift that the proceeds from buying her gift go to a charity.

Each year the girls amaze me with the gifts they find and how that charity has touched their lives.

It is a pajama party and each girl will be wearing these cute cocktail pj's. Because we all know it if more fun to party in your jammies!

I think a lot of you know Diana from her Nana Diana blog.  

Diana and I have become friends through blogging and she comes each year to the party and brings her daughters and DIL.  

Well as most of you know Diana is not only the sweetest but she has such a great sense of humor.  Diana this year made our tops to go with our cocktail pj bottoms.

Yep these are the tops we will be wearing!  

Get it wink wink Girls that Give since we are a charitable group of gals!!!!!

Thank you Diana for our sweet and fun tops.

The theme for this year's party is Let's get together and "wine"a little!
Two of the prizes are these cute wine bottle bags.

Loved the saying on these bags.  Perfect for this girlfriend wine themed party.

These are two more prized.  

Cute travel wine coolers with the upside down cups attached at the top of the bottle.  

 It is hard to see the upside down wine glass at the top.

Another couple of prizes are these bath bombs.  They are no ordinary bath bombs!!!

No Sir!! these bath bombs after they are melted in your bath have a wonderful gift inside.  

The gift is a ring.  

Here is the fun part every 2500 of these bombs they make have a real diamond ring inside. 

One of the girls that wins this prize may just have the lucky bath bomb with the diamond ring.

 Otherwise the rings given inside are really quite nice.

Remember the post I did about Michele's daughter making and selling these wonderful soaps and sugar scrubs.  I got a set for a prize for this party.

You can see that post on her soaps here.  

I love that she gives back to her community with the sale of these soaps.  This makes for a great gift for my charity party.

 Found these cute prize bags.

I get each girl a tote bag from Home Goods or TJ Maxx.  

They are the best tote bags for 99 cents.  

I use these bags for everything.  Each girl gets one to take home all the goodies from the party.  

I folded each one and tied it off with a little pink ribbon. Love the bike theme.  Makes me dream of summer to come!

One of the fun games we play is the saran wrap ball game.  Each girl gets a chance at unraveling the saran wrap and prizes then drop out of the ball.

 It is a fun and fast game.  While the one girl is trying to unravel for prizes the girl next to her rolls two dice.   As soon as she rolls doubles the ball gets passed to her and she gets to unravel for prizes.  

It is so much fun.

The best game we play is Left Right Center or LCR.  

Each girl brings 3 $1 dollar bills and the game begins.  By the end of the game one girl will win the whole pot of dollars.  

It can add up with over 20 peeps at the party and each person contributing 3 @$1 bills.  

We laugh and have so much fun with this game.  We also play this game at all our family parties too. It is sooooo much fun.

I made up these favor bags for each girl to take home.  Hobby Lobby carries these cute bags and tags.

I also made up these adorable to go cups I found at Home Goods.  

I filled each cup with a Starbucks gift card and tied them off in cello bags.  This is my favor to each girlfriend.

I then put them down inside the favor bags.

Gotta love Home Goods for those cute cups.

That is what I have been working on this week for my party. I cannot wait to celebrate our friendships and have a night of fun and good food and drink.