News and photos

Issue No 37:
15 June 2006

Welcome to our thirty-seventh PartyChitChat. Just to let you know our news first:

• We have created a meet and mingle version for 17 to 30 for Fame, Money and Murder.
• We are working on a meet and mingle version for 17 to 50 for The Balmy Bahamas Cruise.
• We are working on a "Party Book" (working title) full of tips on how to run parties of all kinds. If you have any party tips you would like us to include in our book, please send us an email via info@merrimysteries.com.

In this issue, we have articles about:

• Our photo competition winners
• Decoration competition winner.

Time to relax
and have fun!

Our photo competition winners

It was very hard to decide on the winners this month as there were such excellent entries. We would like to thank everyone who entered. The 3 winners are:

• Martha Greenlee (USA) for a group photo from her daughter's The Love Letter party
• Malcolm Ingram (UK) for a group photo from his Celebrity Celebrations party
• Janet Umlauf (USA) for a group photo from her Mystery In The Library party.

We are commencing a new competition with a closing date of 1 August 2006 (see photos.htm for details).

Our decoration competition winner

The winners are Mike and Jo Long (USA) for their use of props (in this case toy guns) at their Revenge On The Goldfields? party (see below).

We are commencing a new competition with a closing date of 1 August 2006 (see decor.htm for details).

Mike sent in this feedback:

"We love your mysteries.

Mike"

Mike's "Revenge On The Goldfields?" party group photo showing his use of guns as props:

Martha sent in this feedback about her daughter's "The Love Letter" party:

We had a party of "The Love Letter" on April 1st, and we wanted to send a picture of the girls from the party. The girls had a ball.

Here are the pictures of the girls. Don't the girls look cute!

To get ready for the party we decorated the living room with old fashioned pictures, etc. We planned a fancy dinner, buffet style, for the girls, with real cloth napkins and silver serving dishes. My husband was the butler/chef, and helped to serve everyone. The girls were excited about the party from the minute they got the invitations. Dressing up was half the fun, and I found some great dresses at a few thrift stores, just in case one of the girls couldn't find something. They didn't know ithe party was a murder mystery, so when the body was discovered with a scream, they were really startled. When they started getting clues as to motives, they really had fun trying to put two and two together. The girls all had a great time, and the other moms thought it was a fun idea. Thanks for making my daughter's 11th birthday so memorable.

Sincerely,
Martha Greenlee

Malcolm sent in this feedback about his "Celebrity Celebrations" party:

"MerryMysteries,

The dinner party took place on the 25th March 2006. The murder was from the Celebrity Celebrations Kit and was purchased by myself. We had an unforgettable night!

Thankyou

Malcolm Ingram"

Janet sent in this feedback:

"Hello,

Our drama club had our "Mystery in the Library" party. We had loads of fun and only one young man, who incidentally reads a lot of Sherlock Holmes, guessed the mystery exactly! Everyone else had an idea...some quite preposterous, but he 'hit the nail on the head'. Another great mystery--thanks so much!! I've attached a picture of our entire group. The kids really got "into" the theme! It was a blast!

Sincerely,
Jan Umlauf