No matter how old you get, there's nothing like a girls night that makes you appreciate the good things. Like the grownup version of a sleep over where you talk about "boys/girls/romantic interest" (they still have cooties), work (isn't it funny how homework never really leaves you), and how your extracurriculars are going (how much sleep you're getting after rush hour). However, one startling departure is everyone actually listens to their bedtime.
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Juice and snacks have been partially supplanted by wine and snacks that you get to pick out. Even if they're the same snacks you had before minus the oatmeal raisin cookies. No more will they masquerade as the superior oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. Celebrate friendship and a night out-yet-in by supplying the hardware. Cheers!
Components
Wine glass
Wine Charm
Cloth Napkin
Coaster
Wine Glass and Charm
You can always get incredibly fancy and paint the wine glass's base and
use that as a marker so you don't accidentally (I see your
"accidentally") drink out of someone else's glass. I like to go the
wine charm way because a) whenever I try painting it never turns out the
way I want it to, b) I have lots of supplies for making wine charms
holed up in various places around my crafting materials. I made this really easy: just add some seed beads to a wire ring in different color patterns. You can add a charm for personalization. Or make some using shrinky dinks.
Cloth Napkin
Feeling classy with your wine? You're already getting fancy with the
charm. Plus you need something with which to wipe up the crumbs of
baked brie. That was a bad example, you should never have crumbs of
this god-like party food. Maybe from... carrots. Yeah, veggies....
*chews more baked brie*
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| Yeah I did it first. My Bad... |
Materials
pencil with flat eraser
blank cloth napkins
fabric paint
Using the rubber eraser of a pencil as a stamp, create rows of dots across the napkins. For bonus points, measure how long each end of the napkin is and place dots evenly down the row. Combo breaker: draw on a grid in pencil over your napkin and stamp the corners. I went with option 1; the rows have "personality" even if a few of them are of someone who didn't have a firm grasp on the concept of straight.
I decorated this bag with the same pattern. And I might have totally repurposed a
Brit Kit for this. Which is more fun: popcorn or wine? Popcorn with beer is also an accepted answer. I used the white chocolate for the covering of Irish Car Bomb Cake Balls. Appropriate.
Coaster
Because putting the glass down on a nice wooden surface is the
ultimate faux pas (It leaves a ring! It's not even your furniture!
Coasters are the coolest! Respect the bar!), if you're going to provide
glassware, you should provide the accompanying coaster. You can make
some
bottle cap coasters if you know the gals in question are beer or soda lovers.
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| Or Cheerwine lovers! |
Or
you can take ordinary tiles to new heights by using alcohol inks.
These work wonders with rubbing alcohol and non porous surfaces.
Materials
alcohol inks
white or light tile
rubbing alcohol
sealant (like ModPodge)
sugru, small rubber feet, or no-skid pads (4)
Pour a
bit of rubbing alcohol on tile & spread around. Before it dries, apply drops of color across the tile itself. I went all of one color, then added the next 2. Sometimes the later color would "eat" the space you thought you had for one of the first colors. In that way I recommend not going overkill on the darker colors.
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| It spreads all over the place |
After the ink dries, seal with the sealant. Put feet into each of the corners or use the sugru to make small equal-sized balls for the feet.
Extras
Because nothing is complete without some emergency chocolate, put in your favorite candy bar. Add some for this kit and it's complete! You can wrap the wine glass in the napkin for some protection, or fold it nicely and place it in the glass
Bring gifts + good wine to your next event because you know as soon as these are opened, they're going to be put to good use. & don't forget the brie. & sampling it to make sure that this batch was good cheese.
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