News and photos

Issue No 38:
15 August 2006

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

• We have created a meet and mingle version for 17 to 50 for The Balmy Bahamas Cruise.
• We are still working on our "Merri Parties" book 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 float
in the breeze!

Our photo competition winners

This time we had some really good entries. We would like to thank everyone who entered. The 3 winners are:

• Orval Nangle (USA) for a collage from her Celebrity Celebrations party
• Thomas & Sherrice Payne
  (USA) for a group photo from their son's Murder Of The Great Chef party
• Audrey Schroeder (USA) for a photo from her Death On The Mound party.

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

Our decoration competition winner

The winner is Rosemarie Muscolo (USA) for the wonderful book mural at their Who Stole The Cookies? party (see below).

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

Rosemarie sent in this feedback:

"Hi - I would like to submit the photos from our Fall 2005 Girl Scout Mother/Daughter Mystery Event - Who Stole the Cookies.

This was the 2nd event we did using your games (Celebrity Celebrations the year before was such a big hit the girls wanted more!) which was attended by almost 70 people! We hold this event for our Girl Scouts in grades 6-12 accompanied by their moms and a Scholarship fundraiser.

The "library" backdrop was hand drawn with chalks by the very talented husband of my co-chair for the event, Marge Smith (who purchased this past year's game).

The Girls and their moms had terrific costumes and we all had a great time! The photos attached show both the costumes and the back drops....We'll keep our fingers crossed that we are winners....we are planning another event for the fall!

Rosemarie Muscolo
Community Director
Kings Ferry Girl Scouts"

Rosemary's "Who Stole The Cookies?" party showing Peter Pan and Wendy in front of the books mural created with chalk on black foam boards:

Orval sent in this feedback from her "Celebrity Celebrations" party:

We have done four murder mystery parties, and this one was easily the best. We originally scheduled it for August 27, 2005, but Hurricane Katrina forced us to evacuate. Everyone saved their costumes and we had our party once we returned to New Orleans. It was a night to forget all our local problems.

Orval Nangle

Thomas & Sherrice sent in this feedback about their "Murder Of The Great Chef" party:

"Here are some pics from our party. It was our son, Raymond's, 16th.
All the teens had a good time.

Thanks,
Thomas & Sherrice Payne"

Audrey sent in this feedback about using "Death On The Mound" as a baseball fundraiser:

"Hello,

The night went well � we adapted it to a large group - #170 people!"

[Editor – you may not believe this, but this picture is of a boy playing Petticoat Peterson – the victim – before he/she died]