Tis the season for family gatherings, which means it’s definitely the season for cocktails. If you need to muddle (see that cocktail pun?) your way through an upcoming holiday party, we’ve created a recipe for Easy Cranberry Margaritas that will help you get in the holiday spirit (another cocktail pun, bam).

Easy Cranberry Margaritas

• 1 oz of tequila
• 3/4 oz of orange – flavored liqueur (we used Cointreau)
• 2 squirts of lime juice
• Cranberry juice to taste
• Cranberries to garnish

Rim glass with salt or sugar and fill with ice. Pour liquors, add lime juice and fill to the top with cranberry juice.

Add cranberries and lime for garnish. Enjoy!

Add cranberries and lime for garnish. Enjoy!

Making this cocktail? Show us how it turned out and tag us @jollityandco or with #partywithjollity!

Cinnamon Maple Whiskey Sour

• 1.5 oz or bourbon
• 1 oz of fresh lemon juice
• 2 – 4 teaspoons of maple syrup
• Cinnamon stick

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Need an easy last minute Halloween costume that’s a floral phenomenon? This flower petal skirt is your jam.

You will need:

• paint in your choice of color (watercolor or acrylic)
• paintbrush
• sharpie or pen to draw a petal shape
• scissors
• cute string/twine
• 24×18″ poster board (the amount will vary on how large you make your petals
• hole puncher

Step 1

Sketch out the shape of a petal on the poster board and cut it out! Repeat with as many petals as necessary (we made a few extra petals so they would overlap when the skirt was put on).

Step 2

Paint your petals! We used a mix of pinks, coral, and yellow. Watercolor paints make for a light, delicate look, while acrylic paints are a little more bold. We mixed a little water with our acrylic paints for a look right in between.

Step 3

Hole punch (or give them a little stab with the scissors, depending on how dangerously you live) two small holes on the top of each petal, one on each of the furthest top outer corners. String the petals together with string of your choice. It doesn’t show very much once the petals are strung together, but we chose to use a pretty, metallic ribbon. Because why not more shine??

Fin!

Trying out this DIY? Let us see how it turned out by tagging us @jollityandco or #partywithjollity!

Halloween is a great holiday for throwing spooky parties, but sometimes you want to be creepy and classy. Our blood-splattered placemats and blood drip table runner are the perfect way to accomplish this (and keep your table safe from messy monsters).

You’ll need:

• white poster board (two placemats will fit on one 24″ x 18″ sheet, so adjust according to how many placemats you need)
• our placemat template (attached at the bottom!)
• a pen
• scissors
• dark red paint
• a paint brush
• a roll of red paper (craft, wrapping, or otherwise)

Blood-Splattered Placemats

Step 1

Print out our placemat template, and cut those bad boys out!

Step 2

Trace the template on the poster board, and cut your placemat out! The poster board gives your placemats much more structure, and a nice gloss finish. Cut out as many as you’ll need for your table!

Step 3

This is the fun part! Splatter the heck out of these placemats with a deep, dark, red paint. We recommend doing this step on a Monday, or any day where you’re frustrated. It makes it much more gratifying. All done with the placemats!

Blood Drip Table Runner

Step 1

For the blood table runner, take your red paper, and free-hand a drip design the length of your table, and cut it out.

Step 2

If you need to piece the paper together to get it to the length of your table, just put a little piece of tape on the back! Now you have a perfect runner backdrop for your placemats.

Let us know how you’re decorating for your Halloween bash, and tag us on social media @jollityandco or with #partywithjollity!