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Holiday / Birthday Party
- How one family set up a birthday party that incorporated major holidays, i.e. Christmas, Halloween, New Year, 4th of July.
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Holiday Cook
- Holiday recipes, menu suggestions, bulletin board, and links.
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Better Homes and Gardens: Holidays
- Entertaining guide for more than a dozen traditional observances.
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Halloween Activity Ideas
- For children.
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31 Sensationally Spooky Halloween Ideas
- Eerie eats, spirited snacks, and tips.
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Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) Celebration Tips
- Some recipe ideas, entertaining tips. Decoration ideas is a link to a sales site.
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Halloween Tricks and Treats
- Recipes, decorating tips, and ideas for creating a spooky atmosphere.
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Home Haunters Paradise
- Contains decorating ideas and tips for Halloween and haunted houses and yard haunts. Information on how to make special effects, props, lighting, scenes, and other spooky items.
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AllRecipes.com: Halloween
- Includes party and costume ideas and recipes.
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The eGG's Haunted Halloween Party
- Suggestions for food, themes, drinks, music, and decorations.
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Ghoulishly Grown-up Halloween Party Tips
- Features an idea for an adult Halloween party including invitations, decorations, menus, and games.
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Goosebumps Goulish Gathering
- All about planning a Halloween party.
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A Halloween Birthday Party
- Epinions.com advice on throwing a Halloween birthday party for children.
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Halloween Birthday Party
- Ideas for Halloween birthday parties, primarily for children.
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Halloween Party
- Ideas for decorations, food, snacks, games, crafts.
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Halloween Party Central
- Resource for adults only Halloween parties, from food to drinks to costumes to decorations.
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Halloween Party Ideas
- Instructions for older children throwing a party.
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Halloween Party Ideas
- Parties for children, includes food and activity ideas.
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Halloween Party Planner
- Snacks, decorations and games that'll make for a memora-boo-l Halloween party for kids.
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Halloween Recipes and Party Ideas
- Scroll down for a list of Halloween party idea links.
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Halloween Special
- Suggestions for children's frugal party planning for Halloween.
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A Harry Potter Halloween Party for the Whole Family
- How to host a Harry Potter Halloween Party for adults and kids.
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Howlin' Halloween Party
- Party ideas from Kraft.
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Planning Your Child's Halloween Party
- Halloween parties for kids, from About.com.
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A Slimy Halloween Party
- Slime-inspired ideas for a fright night celebration.
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Theme: Halloween Party Wedding
- The complete guide for planning your Halloween wedding, from your About.com Guide
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Vampire Halloween Costume Theme Party Ideas
- Suggestions for party themes that involve guests and their costumes.
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Club Girl's Halloween Haunt
- Offers a selection of Halloween party themes including ideas for invitations, decorations, and costumes.
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Better Homes and Gardens Halloween Party Ideas
- Ideas for Halloween decorations, invitations and themes. Includes craft projects, games, and recipes.
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Halloween Parties
- Ideas for a Halloween party including table decorations, recipes, and games.
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Preparations, the Big Day
- This section of this large and comprehensive Thanksgiving site, deals with detailed planning for entertaining on Thanksgiving day.
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How to Capture Thanksgiving with Your Camera
- How to best photograph this family event.
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Give Thanks
- Thanksgiving planner, pre-holiday preparation.
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Thanksgiving Graces and Psalms
- Collection of graces to say at the meal for adults or children.
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Quick and Easy
- Easy-to-make Thanksgiving decorations for the home from Better Homes and Gardens.
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Thanksgiving Entertaining Timeline
- A vegetarian entertaining timeline, from Vegetarian Guide.
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Thanksgiving No-Brainer
- An entertaining planner with timetables, suggestions, and suggested menu with recipes.
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Better Homes and Gardens Thanksgiving Success Guide
- Includes turkey cooking tips, baking basics, and suggestions for entertaining.
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Holiday Entertaining Ideas
- Activities to keep both children and adults entertained after the family Thanksgiving dinner.
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Party Ideas for Thanskgiving
- Tips for decorating and suggested activities.
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Five Thanksgiving Projects
- Decorate the Thanksgiving table with a turkey centerpiece, corn print place mats, pilgrim place cards and other quick crafts.
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About's Thanksgiving Projects
- Offers ideas for Thanksgiving entertaining, menus, decorating, centerpieces, tablesettings, and a November planning calendar.
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Eat, Drink and be Merry
- Recipes, entertainment ideas and frugal decorations for the holidays make a great family Christmas.
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Victoriana.Com: A Victorian Christmas
- Collection of articles reprinted from 19th-century magazines provide tips on decorating, entertaining, and celebrating in classic style.
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Holiday Houseguests
- How to entertain holiday houseguests and make it fun.
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Hosting a Healthy Holiday Feast
- How to host a healthy meal and keep everyone happy and satisfied.
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Organizing a Christmas Season Brunch
- How to plan and organize a Christmas season brunch.
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Divorce and Easy Holiday Entertaining
- Practical suggestions for those who are starting over on a shoestring budget.
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About's Christmas Holiday Decorating Ideas
- Ideas for wreaths, table decorations, holiday trees, mantles, decorating how-tos, and tips to make the holidays easier.
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Christmas Games and Party Ideas For Kids, Family and Classroom
- Despite the title, focuses primarily on party games for children; includes links to other Christmas sites.
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Christmas Recipes and Party Planning
- Planning and links page from Reader's Digest.
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eHow to Throw a Christmas Party
- Step-by-step instructions and tips.
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Holiday Party and Gift Time, Money, and Stress Savers
- Practical tips and advice to make holiday entertaining more enjoyable.
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SoYouWanna Throw a Christmas Party?
- A guide to planning the perfect Christmas get-together, including how to plan, decorate, cook some holiday treats, and entertain the guests.
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A Tree Trimming Party
- How to plan and host a Christmas Tree Trimming Party.
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Winter Holiday Party
- When you don't want to host a particular holiday party, but do want to have one in December.
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eHow to Decorate Your House for a Christmas Party
- Step-by-step instructions and tips.
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Better Homes and Gardens Christmas Party
- Features party themes, planning basics, menus and tips.
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How To Decorate For a Holiday Party
- A simple how-to about decorating your home using a theme, candles, glitter, bows, and personalized touches.
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Superbowl Countdown to Party Fun
- Time to start preparing for your Superbowl party with these tips, and invitations.
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Kick Off a Great Party on Super Bowl Sunday
- A few suggestions for planning a Superbowl party, plus links to shopping.
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Super Bowl Party Tips
- NFL Girl Talk gives suggestions on how to end the football season with a bangup party.
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Feeding Your Super Bowl Bunch
- Tips on party decorations and pacing the snacks.
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Use Creativity for Super Bowl Get-Together
- Table decorating tips and how to pace the snacks during the game.
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Epinions.com: Superbowl Party
- Superbowl party planning if you are not going to the stadium.
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eHow: Super Bowl Party
- How to throw a superbowl party.
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Superbowl Party Tips
- Tips for putting together a successful a Superbowl party.
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The Ten Commandments of a Successful Super Bowl Party
- Tips for making the event go smoothly.
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Planning Your Super Bowl Party
- Party basics from an About Guide.
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Chinese New Year Party
- Symbols and decorations are suggested to plan a Chinese New Year party.
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New Year's Eve Party Tips
- Tells how much drink to serve, and also has links to alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink recipes.
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eHow: Celebrate New Year's Eve With Family and Friends
- Step-by-step guide with simple instructions.
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New Year's
- Decorating, fashion and beauty, food and drink, gift-giving and holiday survival.
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New Years Crafts
- Craft and project ideas for celebrating the New Year.
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eHow: Decorate Your House for a New Year's Bash
- Step-by-step instructions with simple suggestions.
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eHow: Celebrate New Year's Eve at Home
- Step-by-step simple instructions.
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eHow: Plan a New Year's Eve Mystery Party
- Plan a whodunit party.
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eHow: New Year's Bowl Party
- Celebrating New Year's day.
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How to Throw a New Year's Eve Party
- Article from AskMen.com provides a step-by-step guide.
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Have A Valentine's Day Party
- A simple guide to making invitations, baking a cake, and decorating.
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Valentine's Day
- Ideas and suggestions for making a romantic, grown-up Valentine's Day celebration; from Parentsplace.com.
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Valentine's Day Planning Guide from Party411
- From a sales site, party-planning advice and suggestions for Valentine theme parties from celebrating the single life to planning a party for a hospitalized child.
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Heart Party
- Detailed suggestions for planning a children's birthday party as a Valentine's Day party.
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Valentines Day
- Extensive list of online games, printable coloring pages, invitations that can be made, cards, and treats for a party.
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Child Fun's Valentine Pages
- Crafts for kids, recipes, printable coloring pages, fingerplays, songs, preschool and schoolage activities for Valentine's Day.
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A Romantic Evening at Home for Mom and Dad
- Make Valentine's Day special with this planning guide for a romantic dinner.
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AskMen.com: A Valentine's Day to Remember
- Article on planning the perfect Valentine date.
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FamilyFun: A Valentine's Day Celebration
- Creative ideas for planning a Valentine's Day party including handcrafted invitations, decorations, and gifts.
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Valentine Rap
- A rap song, with fill-in-the-blanks to personalize it, that you can use at a Valentine's party.
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Valentine's Day Menus
- Selection of themed menus and recipes for a Valentine's Day brunch, luncheon, or dinner.
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Valentine's Party Ideas
- Ideas for invitations, decorations, treats, and games.
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Better Homes and Gardens: Valentine's Day Party
- Themed party ideas including crafts, refreshments, party favors, decorations, games, and party success tips.