It's a Pirate Party!

[valarltd]

Mid South con is coming around.
I have a novel coming out at the same time.
This can mean only one thing:

LAUNCH PARTY!!!



So, a pirate party for grown-ups is different than a pirate party for 9 year olds.
And not just because we can have rum.
(the grown-ups are much less willing to play "Keelhaul the Captain" which is just "Red Light Green Light" with a pirate hat on the light)

So I'm thinking as follows:

Invites:
Hall fliers that look like treasure maps
Gold pieces with the room number on them, passed out by costumed minions

Music: burn pirate songs to CD

Decor:
Collins’s pirate flag in a visible place--Crossed red swords on a black field
netting
beads and coins and chests
Skewered skeleton atop chest (how about a cave made of cardboard boxes, with chest and skeleton within its mouth?)
inflatable palm tree

Food: (still taking suggestions)
Cannonballs-chocolate cake with nutella and chocolate jimmies
Hershey’s nuggets
Sweet potato bread
Popcorn, goldfish, Swedish fish and gummy worms ="fish bait."
Veggie Palm Trees
seagull and barnacle puffs

Drink: (open to suggestions here
Rum
Rum punch
Pot O Gold punch (OJ, pineapple juice, gingerale, float rainbow sherbet on it)

Activities: pimping Kestrel, Door prize drawing, Pirate movies on TV/Computer (Both PotCs, Captain Blood)

Comments

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

Get a party sponsorship from Pirate's Booty?

[sailorcelestial.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun! If all goes as planned, I'll be seeing you there!

[skogkatt.livejournal.com]

Have a talk like a pirate contest? Give a suitable prize to the one voted winner on by his/her peers.

Non alcoholic "rum" (Apple juice in litte jugs or bottles?)

[gkingsley.livejournal.com]

I was at Michael's the other day, and in the scrapbook aisle, in the individual paper section, there was a lovely old world map that might work very well of your invites.

For my annual Halloween party I always include a costume contest, which my grown-up friends compete in with a vengence. Honestly, they act like a bunch of kids about it, except with better costumes. So don't automatically exclude "kid" activites. (Okay, I would exclude that Red Light Green Light game, but you know what I mean.)

Have a great time!

The D-Man checks in

[(Anonymous)]

Arrr... T'would that I lived closer. Odd Question: "Pimping Kestrel?" I am not familiar with that game. Being as the kestrel is not a songbird, I'm thinking it's not a singing contest, so what is it? Might also suggest, pirates being what they be, and the time period should be about right--as the sport was a good carry-over from earlier times--Passing The Cloven Fruit. "Ah... Now there be some fond memories."

Re: The D-Man checks in

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Kestrel on the Horizon is the novel we're launching at the party.

"Pimoping kestrel" means handing out cover cars, having excerpts available, and holding a drawing for a CD copy of it.