An All-Time New Year’s Eve Party

Happy 2013! I know I am a little late here, but the holidays have been crazy, and I haven’t had much time to write. Anyway, at the last minute, we decided to host a family party for New Year’s Eve, so I went to Pinterest to look for some entertaining ideas. There were quite a few, and I decided to go with these:

Clock cookies

Clock decorations

and Fortune Tellers.

First I started with the cookies. I used a basic roll-out cookie recipe from Wilton, which I cut into circle shapes.

Next, I used a small icing bottle to make white circles on the cookies. I used a basic poured cookie icing recipe for this:

2 TBS milk

1 TBS corn syrup

2 cups of confectioners sugar (add more or less to achieve thicker consistency)

Whisk together.

The icing then dried overnight.

Then I used a prepackaged black icing from Wilton to decorate the clocks.

Next, I made the paper clocks to hang in our front hall. On the Fiskars site, there are instructions about how to cut and make your own accordion circles, but when I went to the craft store to buy the paper, I found these by Martha Stewart:

Once I had put the circle together,  I used Sharpies to color clock hands which were made from craft sticks,

and then I attached numbers to the clocks along with the hands, which were decorated with various jewels and glitter that we had around the house.

The clocks were hung in the front hall from the ceiling using thin lanyard and 3M poster strips.

For the fortune tellers, I continued with the clock theme, using scrapbook paper that I found at the craft store.

The paper was folded to make the basic fortune teller,

and then I used stickers to decorate the outside, and a label maker to write the “fortunes”.

I made several of these and placed them around the house for people to just pick up and play with. Overall, everyone had a good time, and it was a fun way to ring in the new year.