Hi,
I wanted to do a party with friends for New Years Eve, but because we moved to Germany, I have to ditch that idea. So instead of party with friends, I’ll be doing party for two. I don’t think that just because I’m stuck with only my husband for the new year celebration it’s not worth celebrating. I think we all need a bit of glam in our lives, and new years eve celebration is a perfect excuse to make it glitzy 🙂 . Since I am a bit sick of black and gold new year eve theme, so I want to think about some other theme for our new year celebration.
My husband isn’t thrilled about spending a lot of money on celebrations so this time I’ll also listen to him. Besides, I want to make it more party like and less like sit down event. Just because we’ll be sitting down most of the time doesn’t mean we need to have formal dinner. For new year celebration I want it fun and easy with a touch of glamour. Sheesh, I think I’m asking too much 😀 .
New year celebration theme
So… Let’s start with the theme. Like I said, I’m a bit sick of everything being gold and silver and black. That said, if you check the big image on this page, you will still see something similar. And that is yellow and gray with touch of white. Now for me this combo works perfectly. My entire apartment is in similar colours. I even have a coffee table in yellow colour, so not much things to do here. but I still need to do some things.
New year celebration drink
We bought plastic glasses, because my hubby did not want us to buy glass ones for bubbly wines (cause he does not want to move so many things when we move to the next apt). But I’m quite pleased how they look like. The only thing I don’t like is the declaration on the bottom of the glass. So I figured since we’re going to have yellow for main color to buy some yellow colour and paint the bottoms so the declaration is no longer visible.
I also bought a carambola (or star fruit) and will add it to our bubbly. If you are adding star fruit to your wine, then make sure to use semi dry (semi secco), because carambola has a bit of acid (since we’re in Europe, we get carambolas in green state, so they don’t really develop a lot of sugar).
New year celebration food
For food I’ll also serve us some yellow things. I’m currently crazy about baked cheese, so I’ll make us baked cheese, and serve it with carrot sticks, bread and ham. We also bought snacks with potato chips and cheese balls. These are also yellow :D. Cakes that I’ll serve are profiteroles and makovnjača, it’s a sort of sweet bead filled with poppy filling (I think in Poland it’s called makowiec).
Entertainment 🙂
For the entertainment we bought cards and dice and are going to play some card games. I still have to learn to play bela, I’ve been learning that for almost 10 years now and I just can’t remember the rules. For me logic is the main means of studying and in this game, you simply have to memorize some things that have no logic. I was never good at learning something by heart. Oh well, it’s going to be a long night anyway :D.
Happy New Year!