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Plan a Party from your Home Computer in 9 Easy Steps: 1. Check the Feng Shui Almanac at http://www.wofs.com to select an auspicious date. Chinese New Year's Eve (January 23) and Chinese New Year's Day (January 24) are filled with auspicious good fortune and are an excellent time to host a big celebration. If you prefer weekends, Saturday, January 27 is excellent. The good fortune continues on Sunday, January 28 so make sure your party lasts until Sunday morning. Check the table of Auspicious & Inauspicious Hours and plan your party to begin and end during auspicious hours. For further analysis of dates throughout 2001, be sure to add Lillian Too's new book, "2001: Book of Auspicious Days" to your collection. 2. Create unique, bright, colorful invitations to entice fun guests. Check out http://www.fsgreetings.com for several styles of fun, playful animated Chinese New Year cards! They are fantastic! Another option is to create your own flyer. Import 20 different Chinese New Year's clip art images from Microsoft's Clip Gallery Live 2001 by clicking on http://www.microsoft.com/clipgallerylive/. (Search: "Chinese New Year)." Incorporate bright Red font color on your invitations to generate additional prosperity and good fortune. 3. Dance with the Lions and Bowl with Mandarin Oranges! At least 12 dancers and musicians are needed for the 1,000-year old traditional Lion Dance that includes rhythmic drumming, cymbals and firecrackers. The loud noises attract an accumulation of positive chi that lasts throughout the year. Contact your local Kung Fu martial arts schools to locate dancers in your area. If you are unable to schedule a private performance, make sure there is plenty of loud, rhythmic music and stomping (Think "River Dance"). For an unforgettable grand finale, have guests roll several large crates of mandarin oranges all over the floor! See how many guests they can knock down. (Kidding!) Oranges symbolize precious "Gold", abundance, wealth, & prosperity because the word for orange is Kum that means Gold. 4. Decorate your home to attract an abundance of precious yang energy. Ask your guests to wear Red & Gold to attract exceptional good luck for the rest of the year. Decorate your home with Red, Gold, and other auspicious objects. Hang Red lanterns with "Fook" (luck) painted in Gold. Burn Red & Gold Candles. Lime trees dripping with ripe fruit attract prosperity luck when placed by the front door. Display pineapples to announce that "Good luck is coming" or has arrived at your doorstep. Hang Chinese coins with red thread from jade plants to create money trees. 5. Serve Chinese Take-out, Cold Beer, & Gourmet Fortune Cookies. I can hear Lillian & Jennifer Too gasping in horror as they read this! With a houseful of guests coming, be practical. If you consider yourself culinary challenged, have your party catered by the best Chinese restaurant in town. This will insure the food is authentic, edible and enjoyed by your hungry guests. Make up for your culinary faux pas by serving Outrageous Orange or Double Chocolate gourmet fortune cookies. Create up to 5 custom messages offering Feng Shui tips for prosperity: http://www.fortunecookiesonline.com. Set your table with auspicious red & gold linens, dishes, and chopsticks. Create more wealth & prosperity for your guests by passing around bowls of gold foil wrapped chocolate coins. Order coins from http://www.Godiva.com to show your friends you really care. For chocolate gold bars that won't break your bank try: http://www.goldkenn.com. 6. Play "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" This is your big chance to explain to all your friends why you have 3-legged toads; laughing Buddha; dragons; fish; gold ingots; and Chinese coins all over your living room. Once you convince guests of your sanity and inform them that you (& Buddha) are laughing all the way to the bank, they'll line up to order their very own Feng Shui cures at http://www.fsmegamall.com. 7. Impress your Guests with "Feng Shui Trivia". Memorize Lillian Too's book, "Feng Shui: 168 ways to Success". Create a series of Feng Shui trivia questions. The top 6 players win a copy of Lillian's popular book. 8. Hold a Drawing for a Free Feng Shui Consultation. Design a Red & Gold gift certificate for a Residential Feng Shui consultation. If you are a Feng Shui practitioner, this is easy. If not, convince your own Feng Shui consultant that it is very auspicious during the Chinese New Year to donate a consult to a worthy cause. 9. Wish your Departing Guests a Year filled with Wealth, Success, and Good Fortune! What you put out comes back to you multiplied. Give each guest a red & gold gift bag filled with 3 Chinese coins tied with red thread; oranges (not the ones used in bowling); fortune cookies; chocolate coins; and gold ingots. If you are a Feng Shui consultant, include your Calling Card. Ty recently launched a new line of Chinese Zodiac Beanie Babies. These make great party favors for the children who attend. May your Chinese New Year Party be a Raving Success! About the Author: |
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Enter 2001 with a Yang Bang! Chinese New Year is a wonderful time to throw a party and introduce family and friends to the exciting world of Feng Shui. With the holidays over and the promise of spring several months away, people are eager to party! Lillian Too generously shared one of her favorite secret of success. Hosting a large party during the Chinese New Year with lots of loud noise attracts very auspicious yang energy that will last throughout the year. Attract prosperity, abundance, success and good fortune into your life by planning your own Chinese New Year's extravaganza. Be creative and have fun!