Happy New Year!

Happy New Year friends!

2008 was a busy year for us at Cry If I Want To. In addition to working on parties & events, we had our big move over to our new spot. By the time Dec. 31 came around, although many of our friends went partying, believe it or not we were tired of the big stuff and decided to do something more low-key to ring in the New Year.

I called our dress code slobby chic: track pants or PJs, anything comfortable, with one basic nice thing (jewellery, shoes, or something!)

This year's "menu"consisted of the following things that we could easily get from our own store, around our homes, or at a nearby grocery:
- some delicious dim sum from our local chinese grocery - wontons, shrimp, and spring rolls - served with sweet chilli sauce
- cherry chocolate fondue (our Luxe dessert sauce was awesome) with sliced bananas
- Alize Martinis
- videos & tv reruns to entertain us!

And in the morning with breakfast, our twist on the mimosa. To make:
1 part hibiscus syrup
2 parts orange, passion, guava juice (we had minute maid's drink)
2 parts champagne
You can have this with regular orange juice instead -- that's what we started out with until it ran out -- but the orange-passion-guava made it extra good.

Garnish with a hibiscus flower and enjoy!

A quiet start to the new year was a great way for us to kick-off 2009, which promises to be an amzing year full of fun events that we're planning for you, so as usual ... stay tuned!

Hope that your New Years celebrations were great also! Tell us, did you also have a low-key celebration, or did you go all out?