Windows 8X Phone

Thanks to Crowdtap and Verizon, I had another AWESOME party opportunity, this time for the new Windows 8X Smartphone by HTC!!  Not only did they send me an active Windows 8X phone to try but they also sent 3 swag bags filled with goodies to hand out as prizes for the Pinterest challenge.

The goodie bags each had a cup, 1G USB memory card and photo coasters in it. I couldn't believe how generous they were!

The phone was enough enticement to get people over since most of them had not seen any of the Windows phones yet and they came with all kinds of questions about what it could do which made my portion of demonstrating the phone simple.  Food was the other driver to get people in the door, I had all kinds of new recipes I wanted to try from Pinterest so it was easy!

We had...

 Buffalo chicken pizza strips...

 Crockpot Salsa Chicken...

 

Mexican roll ups...

 Chex mix, chips, cookies and brownies! 

They were all delicious!  Not many of my guests were familiar with Pinterest before the party so I set up a Pinterest station with my computer and walked them through the Pinterest Challenge.  It was so funny! The topics they chose were great to get to know more about people you thought you knew a lot about!

Here's a link to all the boards:  http://pinterest.com/verizonctparty/.

These three photos were from the winning boards:

 Photo of you with friends and family.

 Photo of you with friends and family.

Favorite childhood memory.

It was a great time and ended up being really great timing because three of my guests were planning to upgrade their phones in the next month.  I know one of them went online at the party to look at what other Windows phones were available at Verizon because they liked what they saw. 

Thanks again Crowdtap and Verizon!!

Hotel Transylvania... blah blah blah

Thanks to Crowdtap, I had the opportunity to host a Hotel Transylvania launch party!  Becca and I had seen the movie in the theater and loved it so I was excited to have the opportunity to see it again. 

First I will apologize for the limited pictures.  The other mother told me when she got there that she did not want her kids in photos online.  So you  just get to see my beautiful daughter and sister. :)

While the food cooked, the girls colored the color sheets and Valentines.

Brunch consisted of bats (watermelon cutouts), ghosts (white chocolate covered strawberries), worm pancakes (just like Mavis although I forgot to take pictures after I added the gummy worms) and blood (strawberry milk.  The girls thought this meal was hilarious and kept giggling every time someone said "bats taste good" or "blood tastes good".

Afterwards, we all snuggled in for the movie.  It was the first time any of the girls besides my daughter had seen it. As you can see they were glued to the screen!

After the movie, we moved back to the kitchen to make witch hat cookies.  We took the round chocolate cookies, put icing in the hole and added a hershey kiss to top it off.  They tasted great!

Thanks again Crowdtap for an excuse to have another fun party! My daughter always asks what our next one will be!