The Fort: April 2014

Normally this blog is dedicated to activities and projects I do with Little Boats. Today I'm shaking things up! Today is all about mommy and her ladies. About a month or so ago I decided I wanted to have a get together with my lady friends, I have a couple of different "groups" and thought it would be fun to do something all together. So after so hard thinking (about 30seconds) I decided a murder mystery party would be the way to go! I had always wanted to do/go to one, so I figured this was the perfect time. So here is my Ladies Only Murder Mystery:

First I needed a story/plot/theme. Jumped on my BFF, google and found an excellent site. Its called Night of Mystery( nightofmystery.com). Searched around on their site until I found this:

Happily Never After

An Enchanted Evening Filled With Your

Favorite Fairy Tale Femmes

BOOM! SOLD! So I made a list of my favorite people, sent out texts, emails and FB messages to see who would be interested. Once I got a pretty good RSVP list (took a few days) I picked out the appropriate guest package and got to work!

One of the first thing I did was get my costume together, because as the host of this thing I didn't want to have just a last minute thrown together mess. I was to play the part of Gretal the WoodCutters daughter. First stop was GoodWill. Was lucky to find all the pieces for the costume in my first try. The day of the party I added a few accessories, like candy bracelets, gold painted ring pop and my first jail house tattoo (that whole pesky pushing witches in ovens thing……)

The next big thing I had to come up with was decor. How to transform our little house into a evil queens palace. Easy, GoodWill! LOL. Actually I started with a color theme. Because it was suppose to be royal, gold was a apples played a HUGE part in the theme. I used two grey/silver table cloths and ivy (left over from the dinosaur bathroom) to create a stonewall backdrop for photos. And like I said, GoodWill was a huge help in finding little things here and there (including my gold and red fine china-Christmas section!). Food also played a big part. Used pumpernickel for the tea sandwiches so they looked "sinister". My friend, the Evil Queen brought some poisoned apples. And we had mini-red velvet cupcakes for those with a sweet tooth

given. Add to that it was the Evil Queen from Snow White's joint,

After a month of planning, and one day of scrambling all over the place because I of course forgot to buy EVERYTHING, it was time to sleuth and PARTY!! Our cast included:

The Queen of Hearts

Contessa (Evil Queen)

Rapunzel

Red Riding Hood

Snow White

Cinderella

Bo Peep

Gretal

Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)

I started the night off with a quiz about the original Grimm Brother stories. That was a fun ice breaker. Lots of "DISNEY LIED"cries! The lady with the highest score won herself a Grimm Brother Story Book. After that, the game was afoot!

After the mystery was solved and the appropriate person was detained it was time for the "award ceremony" Contessa won best dressed and Bo managed to solve the whole thing!