A House Warming Party
So we’ve been in the new house for just over a month now. Before we moved we talked about having a house warming – we agreed that we would like to have one. Given my new love of planning and checklists I was excited to find a website that could help me with event planning.
Party planning can be a real headache. I’ve planned a lot of parties in my lifetime without checklists, without any kind of organisation, without much thought. Something always goes wrong. Now if it were just me, I’d be fine with it – but when it is a party I’ve invited people along so when things go wrong I tend to panic. Seriously.
In fact during our last dinner party – the first time we had my parents to the new house to eat, The Other Half said “We’re never doing this again” because he saw me freaking out. I was trying to do about 6 things at once. I think if I had a plan I would have a better chance of getting through it without those moments of panic.
So what kind of party am I going to have? I like something fairly informal, something that involves the barbecue, and we now have this fantastic balcony – check it out!
I think we’ll move all the plants to the further end away from the BBQ just for the night to create more room. The balcony is private and not overlooked at all. We’ve been repotting a lot of the plants over the last couple of weeks so it is a little messy. We still have some work to do out there. Even so the balcony has quickly become one of my favourite spaces and my office window looks out onto it. I can’t wait to have a party out there on a nice warm night.
There’s two weekends we can have the party on before the end of the year but one of them is only 2 weeks away so it might end up being in early December, but then everyone is doing holiday season things. We might leave it till January. I’ll talk it over with the other half.
If we can leave it until then, the site will be out of testing mode but in the meantime there’s plenty of party ideas there already, many of them added to the site by the creator. It looks incredible graphically – very polished. I truly love the design and there’s not too many websites I can say that about.
Developing a website is such an exciting process. I’ve done it myself a few times now. You want to release it to the world but you’re torn because you want everything to be ready. I think the folks at Best Party Ever have got the best of both worlds here by launching it a little early and getting people involved in the process. They are very open to new ideas and that’s how good sites become excellent sites.
As yet many of the features are still to be added but knowing the value of checklists in my life I can only say once the features are available this will be the most powerful party planning tool available on the net. I don’t have kids but if I did, I’d be using this resource constantly – birthday parties, sleepovers, all the things I used to love doing when I was young.


