I know you pretties like to party, so I though you might be interested in my new How-To site – You Are So Entertaining.com.
Righto, as you were.
Archive for the ‘party’ category
Shameless self promotion
September 12th, 2009You could become the Face of Voon…
September 9th, 2009The wonderful and amazing Kylie sent us this hot scoop from the Voon website. Voon is a great designer clothing store centered right here in Wellington. Go on…send them your pics.
BECOME THE FACE OF VOON
Have you got what it takes to be a Voon girl or do you know of someone who would enjoy being the face of Voon? We are always on the lookout for fresh faces to model our seasonal collections & range of bridal wear.If you are approximately 170cm or taller with an outgoing personality & enjoy looking fab then please email 2 or more photos of yourself to voon.wtn@gmail.com. The images should show at least one full length & one closeup (head & shoulders) shot. Please remember to include your full contact details including mobile number. All correspondence will be treated with the strictest confidence.
And the drinks were all violet
July 26th, 2009
Around the time of our three-month party, I created us a signature cocktail called a Pretty Pretty Pretty, which is one part Parfait Amour shaken with two parts vanilla vodka and a drop of rosewater. It’s delicious made with the cheap VOK Parfait Amour, and I can only imagine how fantastic it would be made with the quality stuff from the Hawthorn Lounge.
It turns out that we’re not the only ones who like dressing up and drinking violets. I just saw that Dita Von Teese has been working with Cointreau on a series called Cointreauversial, and as part of that she (or some anonymous mixologist) has created a drink called Cointreau Teese. It’s made with apple juice, Cointreau and violet syrup, and rimmed (heh heh heh) with ginger sugar. Oh it looks so very pretty. I want one right now!
Vintage Clothing Extravaganza this weekend!
July 24th, 2009You no doubt know that we love us some dressing up and vintageness, ala Amy’s 30th, so we were quite stoked to receive this from Kylie:
Vintage Clothing Extravaganza this weekend!
This Sunday 26th July 1pm onwards at the Kelburn Church Hall, 81 Upland Road
Do you want to look the part but don’t know how? Are you looking for inspiration? Do you need some new threads? Then this event is for you!Join two of our resident vintage gurus Amy Jansen-Leen and Ness Kirkham as we step back in time to educate you on the vintage world of style from the 1920′s jazz age through to 1940′s wartime. We will cover fashion, make-up advice and hairstyling tips for both men and women and everyone will receive a booklet to take home to refer to.
Shopping galore!
We have well over a hundred pairs of shoes for sale from $5-30, several racks of vintage and vintage inspired clothes from $5-80 and lots of accessories catering for both ladies and gentlemen so make sure you bring plenty of cash along (or visit the ATM down the road before you arrive) as it is CASH SALES ONLY!Order of proceedings:
1pm – Ladies to be seated, styling session to commence
2.30pm – Ladies shopping session with Amy and Ness on hand for advice
3.30pm – Gentlemen to join us as we break for afternoon tea
(everyone to bring a pretty plate of savoury or sweet nibbles for the table)
4pm – Gents styling session
4.45pm – Gents shopping session with Amy and Ness on hand for advice
5.45pm – Curtains close on ‘The Extravaganza!’Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 on the door (limited ticket availability on the day) and can be purchased in class or reserved by emailing vanessakirkham@hotmail.com or calling 021 345 716. Friends, family or colleagues interested in the era are very welcome to join us.
On behalf of the Full Swing Team “)
www.fullswing.co.nz
If you’re going along, do let us know how it went, please.
It’s a different website’s anniversary and you’re invited
July 7th, 2009This might not be considered strictly PPP business, but I know a lot of our readers like to dress up, and I know that I like to party with you guys, so I’d love it if you wanted to come along to help me celebrate TEN YEARS of my own personal site – www.hubris.co.nz. Here’s the invitation:
Swonderful
June 22nd, 2009
Cupcakes of Awesome
May 1st, 2009I recently saw on Flickr that the divine Miss Sue has been making cupcake towers out of vinyl records. How awesome! But I was so sad to read that she says she says she sucks at making cupcakes, because really, they’re so easy to make! I make cupcakes all the time, so I thought I would share my super top secret recipe for Piña Colada cupcakes.
These ones are a sinister green colour because I made them for the first birthday of my favourite cafe Green Land, but you can make them any colour you want. Here’s how:
- Get yourself a box of vanilla cake mix. You can use your brand of choice, but I have a personal preference for Betty Crocker.
- Make the batter according to the box. Drain approximately half the juice of out of a can of crushed pineapple or pineapple chunks, and either save it for drinking or throw it away. Add all the fruit and the remaining juice to the batter. Add in a cup of desiccated or shredded coconut. Stir it all well.
- Put the batter into muffin tins lined with paper/foil cases. If your local supermarket only has boring paper cases, check out your nearest $2 store or Spotlight for more interesting ones.
- Bake for about 15 minutes at 180 degrees.
- Toast some shredded coconut either under the grill or in a nonstick frypan. You can tell it’s toasted when it starts to smell lovely. If you want to replicate grass, add a couple of drops of food colouring.
- Your cake mix may have come with a packet of icing – if so, make this according to the directions. You’ll probably want more than it’s given you though, so add in extra icing sugar, soft butter, and also a spoonful of rum for flavour. Feel free to add food colouring at this stage if that’s how you roll.
- Slather the icing on top of the cupcakes and sprinkle with toasted coconut. Decorate how you see fit. In the photo pictured I used “Happy Birthday” confetti from the Dollar Save Store. They have all kinds of awesome stuff there.
- Share the cupcakes with good people. Enjoy!
Enough about us, let’s talk about you
February 25th, 2009Hi! We are still alive, and we are still using many lovely products. We’ve just both been insanely busy though. Updates as normal will follow shortly, but until then, two things:
- We’re going to be having a BIG one year anniversary party in March or April (date to be confirmed) and as part of that there’ll be another clothing swap, so please start saving clothes to trade.
- I love the cover for the new LOVE magazine so much:
- What’s a new product or regime you’ve tried lately? Details please!
Another tip from the MK partay
February 4th, 2009
Here’s me and Jo at the Mary Kay party last week. Jo’s demonstrating another tip from Karyl – after applying a light base colour eyeshadow, apply dark eyeshadow in a ‘V’ around your brow bone, from outside corner to middle of you eyelid. And then blend, blend, blend.
btw if you wanna join Mary Kay to earn extra moolah just contact Karyl here (look at bottom of that post). Until end of February, joining fee is $99 (usually $229). Karyl is the loveliest lady ever, and she’ll be happy to chat to you about it.
Mighty party Jo!
December 11th, 2008
Jo’s South Pacific party last Saturday was fantastic! Sun, bbq, cocktails, snacks… oh, and a tiki shack!
I went in Pearl Harbour garb (1940s-esq). I got the idea for my hair from pursebuzz (of course) See her video below..
