Everyday Event Planner

Micro-community Building

2009-10-02T01:29:00.000-07:00

I just had an AHA moment… It’s 12:30am, I had finished watching my recording of today’s Oprah Show, and I was discuss the future of women including myself, with my grown-up, very wise (takes after me!) daughter Ashleigh. The topic on the show was how empowering women is at the heart of turning war-ravaged countries into peaceful havens, changing calamitous economies into

How Do They Do It?

2009-09-16T16:32:00.000-07:00

We have been enjoying the company of a school friend of my eldest daughter, Ashleigh. Rachel is spending some time with each of her college friends while she waits for her very new husband to finish Officers' Training. While they have been separated, she came up with an interesting concept for a workshop to discover the origins of inspiration and motivation.Here's the question Rachel poses to her

A Party State of Mind: Using the Power of the Party to Create World Peace

2008-11-17T12:57:00.000-08:00

Each year, fifty million American moms plan some three hundred million birthday parties. That’s more than 820,000 parties a day. What if you could use these parties to build something bigger? You can. Whether you’re a CityMommy, a hockey mom, a soccer mom, a ballet mom, a violin mom, a theater mom, a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, an older mom, a younger mom, a single mom, a gay

Everyday Event Planner does TV

2008-11-16T14:53:00.000-08:00

See pictures of our first TV interview with Darlene Carmen of The Painting Gourmet, this past summer. We were a little nervous, very sweaty, but we had a blast. Go to www.everydayeventplanner.shutterfly.com to see what happened.

One Year Later...

2008-11-11T12:30:00.000-08:00

It's been a year since we last posted to our blog...now, it's not a lack of work that has caused this situation, we've been writing, designing, drinking coffee, and whining. Our website is nearly ready for prime-time, and our invitations are definitely ready for sale! This blog will now devote itself to helping our readers rescue their events from the angst and anguish that frequently plagues

Birth of a Website

2007-10-25T12:13:00.000-07:00

Our website has a logo! It's not fully operational at the moment; however, we have hired a web expert who speaks in bytes and acronyms that we don't understand, but which the computer seems to comprehend completely. Our official launch date is 02.01.08. The website will have all the party themes featured in the Everything Baby Shower Book, links to resources for party planning, ideas, suggestions

Baby Showers in the Workplace

2007-10-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Miss Manners recently commented on the appropriateness of baby showers and other personal celebrations in the workplace. The comments were in response to a male reader who wanted permission to opt out of showers in the office. The advise from our esteemed collegue was that personal celebrations had no place in the work environment and should be held outside the office.Au contraire!With the

Birth of Two Bloggers

2007-09-23T17:49:00.000-07:00

Having just finished the second round of edits for our first book, The Everything Baby Shower Book, (which will be released in February 2008) we decided that we should get down to the business of creating a blog to chronicle our journey as everyday event planners, share some party ideas, and find out what other people do to celebrate the everyday occasions that are really events.We have been