!44: Bounty Napkins Right Now: January 2012

!±8± Pirate Girl Party Ideas and Accessories - Pretty in Pink!

Plan a Pirate Girl Party using pink party accessories. With Pirate Parties being all the rage today, girls want to get in on the fun and why not, there were, after all female Privateers too. Some of them are just as popular as the dastardly guys we always hear about. Besides, why should boys be allowed to have all the fun? Pirate girl accessories look pretty in pink, but don't let that fool you...these lady buccaneers can be just as tough as the guys. Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two female privateers, would put on men's clothing and fight on the high seas along side of their shipmates.

Send out some pink invitations...with a Skull and Crossbones on them.

Party Plates and Decorations

Pink Pirate accessories are easy to find online. The plates, cups and napkins are pretty in pink with a white skull and crossbones on them. What a lovely table these will set. Finish of your decorations with some pink balloons and some pink and white streamers. Serve your "grog" in Skull Cup, it comes complete with a straw.

Pink Skull Party Favors

Pink Skull party accessories were designed with the lady privateer in mind. A unique party favor is the Grow Your Own Pink Skull! You put the little skull in water and it get bigger...and bigger. These grow your own things are pretty funny. I saw a Pink Skull Coin purse that would be another great favor idea. Your lady buccaneers will be able to put all their bounty in them. There is even a Pink Skull favor kit that includes tons of pirate treasures. The favor box is shaped like a purse and in it you will find lip gloss, cell phone shaped notepad, a gel pen, body crystals, some jewels obviously stolen from some looted ship and a pink skull sticker...any lady buccaneer would say that's a fine pile of loot for a day's work.

Take Party Pictures

Make sure to have your camera ready! You are going to get some great pictures at this party. Make sure to get a "crew" shot and send copies to each guest along with your Thank You cards! Photos are wonderful keepsakes to share.

Play Pirate Games

Find or make up a pirate name for each girl and give your ladies some lessons in pirate talk. Have them give walking the plank a try, fall off and you loose your turn. All you need for this game idea is a 2 X 4. Let each girl walk across it without falling off. It's easy to set up. Don't have a 2 X 4? Just draw lines on a driveway or sidewalk with chalk.
Pink Privateers like pinatas so get one in the shape of a ship. Hang it out in the yard and let the girls jump to pull the string if you got a pull string model, or let them hit it with a stick if you got the regular pinata we are used to. Watch everyone scramble to get the loot when it breaks!

Sing some old buccaneer songs and then let the crew set off on a Treasure Hunt. Print out the maps on pink paper and make the X that marks the spot dark pink or red. Put all the buried treasures in pink foil or paper.

Have a relay race...split the guests into two teams. Set a course they have to follow in the yard and the game is done when each member of one team completes the course. Put a twist on a plain old relay race by adding some Dress Up fun to the game. Get some old clothes and accessories that each team player must put on before running the course! Make it look like a girl pirate costume if you have the clothes to do it. You can always look in a consignment store for a girls costume or buy one on sale from a costume store online.

If you are going to plan a menu for the party give the food some funky names like: Pieces of Eight, Seaweed Salad, Shipwreck Soup and Buccaneer Buns...make labels so everyone can share the theme idea. For you final act of the day finish off the fun with some pink frosted cupcakes with some Skull and Crossbones on them. Make your cupcakes as usual, frost them with pink icing and draw a Skull and Crossbones on them with a tube of white decorator gel. You can also buy edible sugar cupcake toppers or plastic rings to put on top of each cupcake. Cupcakes designs are easy to make and the mini cakes are so very easy to serve. Now send your tired crew home to their own ships...AARRGG.

Pirate Girl Party Ideas and Accessories - Pretty in Pink!

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!±8± Plant The Culture Seed In The Right Place

Your company has, either by intention or by chance, created a culture. The culture is based on your vision (or lack of a vision), your values (or lack of values), your mission (or lack of mission). You may have thought long and hard about your culture or it just might have happened willy-nilly. Either way your customers understand your culture; your staff does also.

If your company's culture has just happened by default, it is not too late to change, but if you want to change, please do it right. Some companies decide, all of a sudden as if by a lightening bolt struck the building, "we need a company culture" and go out for pizza and a few beers to craft it. Lo and behold a company culture is born, written on a soggy napkin. Please do not do that.

A company culture is a delicate thing, in its early stages it is akin to a young seedling growing in a field. At planting time, farmers and gardeners prepare the land. They remove the stubble left from last year's crops, till the soil, then carefully plant the seeds, water and fertilize, then weed and nurture the plants as they germinate and grow.

It is the same with the cycle of creating a new culture. The stubble of the old, used up culture has to be removed to allow the new one room to flourish and all the steps need to be taken with care if it is to be planted in the minds of customers and staff. It too must be carefully nurtured so it can grow and flower into a beautiful thing. You can't plant it in concrete; it must be planted with care and thought in the right place at the right time. If all the steps are taken properly, the new culture will spring up and replace the old one and help bring bounty to those who took the time to carefully consider what they plant, how they plant it, and why they plant it, and what it is going to become when it grows up.