Lizz's Vintage Punch

Having a party? Need a good, non-alcoholic, vintage-esk, but totally fabulous party punch?

Look no further.

I made it for my Grad party a few weeks ago and again today for the 4th because it is that fantastic!

Lizz's Vintage Punch

Lizz's Vintage Punch

These ingredients filled both these pitchers, with a little left over and was CHEEP!

1 Quart Raspberry Sherbet

2 Liters of Sprite

1/2 Gallon of the Wal-Mart Brand Fruit Punch

Pour equal-ish parts of sprite and fruit punch into a large bowl and mix. Add the sherbet in scoops. The more the sherbet is melted the better because it tastes FANTASTIC when all mixed together. Be prepared that people are going to love it, so it'll go fast.

I've also tossed in frozen fruit to keep it cold, and then when it melts it is a delicious treat in the punch.

If it is too sweet, mix 2/3 Sprite and 1/3 Fruit Punch to even it out a little more.

It's Delicious! 

Grad Party Details

At my party we worked on dying everything! It was easy and such cute little touches!

The first things I dyed was fruit for the punch. I dyed it and then froze it to keep everything nice and cold. it worked great!

Dying Fruit for Punch

Dyed Oranges, Lemons, and Limes

Graduation Party!

Since I just graduated with my MLIS I needed a bit of a celebration to really kick off life without school. My friend said this party was Librarians Gone Wild, but it as so much fun!!

Lizz's Graduation Party

Step one, I grabbed an old Reader's Digest Condensed Version that would have been thrown away and it started my whole theme. I made the flags for decoration inside and out by cutting triangles and then stapling them together. It was seriously easy, I made a million, and they looked SO cute!

Step Two - I pulled a bunch of pages (didn't even trim the uneven edges) and laid them out on all food surfaces. They made everything look so put together and it only took me a second.

Step Three - Food decorations! I made those little flags out of scrapbooking paper and skewers I had in the drawer. I used colored staples to hold them to the skewer (after wrapping the paper tightly around) and then cut some of the edges while leaving others plain. 

Graduation Party Desserts

Step Four - FOOD! Boy, did we make A LOT of food! All I managed to grab pictures of was the dessert table. But we had meatballs, little weenies, hot bean dip, veggies, make your own chicken salad sandwiches, and spinach dip. 

For dessert we had Chocolate and Mint Cupcakes, Lemonade Cupcakes, "Good Cookies", Rice Crispy Cookies (classic and with Fruity Pebbles), and chocolate dipped marshmallows. In addition there were little mason jars of skittles, peanut mnms, pretzel mnms, and orange slices all over for people to snack on.

To drink we made Lizz's Vintage Punch and coffee punch (both recipes can be found here) as well as LOTS of water bottles that we took the labels off of and wrapped with duck tape (it is the little things that make such a difference)!

Graduation Party Decor

Did you know a fan can help ward off mosquitos? We didn't have any problems with bugs at this party! You can see some of the flags in the background here!

Check out that mason jar on the fence! It is a simple jar, with some blue play sand, and an electronic candle (the whole state of Colorado is on fire, we couldn't have lit candles). It was so easy and looked great for the whole party.

Lawn Jenga

This is Lawn Jenga (and the reason my friend commented about Librarians Gone Wild). SOOO easy to make (find some tips here). Might be safer to play it on the ground next time, because when it falls, it falls HARD!