Easy Outdoor Entertaining
Easy Outdoor Entertaining
Entertaining outside usually means a casual affair. A bar-b-que, picnic, cookout, crab feast, whatever you do, it usually involves a wooden table and benches and sunshine. Doesn’t that sound good?
Make it easy, make it fun, and do it often.
- Simplify the menu. Serve finger food so people can stand and mingle.
- Use paper plates. Make clean up easy.
- Light up the night. Pull out the Twinkle lights to create a festive atmosphere.
- Don’t invite the bugs. Provide bug spray or citronella candles to keep insects away.
- Add music. Use your technology to play your favorite tunes outside.
The summer season goes by quickly. So put on your shorts or sundress, call some friends, and get outside. Enjoy that easy outdoor entertaining. What would you add to make your event unique and easy?
Check out more summer blogs posts below:
10 Tips to Planning an Awesome Vacation
Give your Home a Summer Vacation
Pool and Beach Bag Must-Haves for Summer
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Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.