 Hi guys, welcome to another video. I'm very excited because today I am taking you through how I host a cute little dinner party. This is actually a Gallentine's dinner. The way I do it is the same for everything. This time, though, we're doing little mini pizzas for everyone to kind of make themselves. We're gonna make a few to start off with and then have people make like personal pizzas. Normally, I'll cook like a bigger meal, but we're doing like cute little appetizers, chips. You guys will see, okay? If you guys are new here, subscribe. Red-Wing Housewife just dropped in real-time, literally 15 minutes ago, so I will have our second collection linked below. You guys can shop it. We can all match. I'm wearing this hot pants right now. So cute. Taking it through my day. We're going into detail. First things first, we go get flowers. You have to go to Trader Joe's for these because they last the longest and they are the cheapest. All right, now we are at Whole Foods. The girls are bringing wine. I'm gonna see what I like in there, you know? Since I'm not really cooking today, I'm just getting kind of like green-made appetizers. This is a much better situation for me. We've got pizza crust, pizza toppings, some desserts, some little appetizers, so much cheese, vegetables, straw, I mean, we have everything here. I got so much stuff. I spent a lot more because I got a ton of different foods and treats and stuff because obviously, it's like Valentine's Day, so I feel like that's the theme of it. I'm back. Obviously, I need to clean up a little bit. I have so many blankets on this couch right now. So, I'm gonna do the dishes, clean up, and then I'll give you guys a haul of everything that I got. I spent a lot more and I got a lot more than I normally do. It's not always as expensive, but I'm kind of just like going all out. All right, giving you a little Whole Foods haul. We have Parmesan, pizza sauce, whipped cream, these little mushroom things, dates, strawberries, these little croissants, peppers, lots of vegetables, pepperoni, olives, a bunch of cheese, pizza crust, red onions, more cheese, and then these little Belgian waffles. We're making cute little things. I was gonna make these cute little strawberry shortcakes, but they didn't have any there, so I got these instead. I also got this little cooling and baking rack because I have a ton of cookie dough right now, so I thought I would make cookies as well. I am about to make my floral arrangements. These are from the last book club that I hosted. It's okay, but I also brought down these that I forgot about. I just got a lot of space, because I just got a lot more flowers, so this will take a second. I'll show you guys the after. This is probably the most subpar floral arrangement thing I've ever made in my life. This always looks better in person because I like it to just be messy and have dimension, if you will. I felt like I had so many more flowers than I actually bought, and I feel like I spent a lot of money on flowers for Trader Joe, so I thought I was getting more. I only use three vases, so this is just random. I should have cut them shorter, but it's fine. This one, the hydrangea, has got ruined in the car, and then this one is fine, but because I'm actually filming hosting today, of course it's the day that I'm not killing it as much. This one always goes right here, and I have these flowers here still. I haven't let them or anything. This one I put over by the TV, and this one goes in the corner by where I keep the drinks. Here's my little Amazon haul of everything I got. Again, normally I wouldn't do plastic. I would use actual silverware, actual plates, things like that, but these are really cute. So I decided to order them. We have little pink plates. I mean, come on, those are adorable. And then for my candle holders, I got pink candles to replace them with. These are cheesy red hearts. We'll see if we end up wanting to use them. A little pink table runner, and these are pink napkins. They clash, so I'm not sure if we're gonna use them. Actually, it kind of looks cute together when I put everything together, so it might be fine. And then gold cutlery. I mean, this is obviously way too much. All right, guys, I'm now going to set the table just so I can have a sort of vision. So I'll just time-lapse this. This is the table. I wish that it matched a little bit more. I think it's cute. The candles are definitely very hot pink, but we have this nice little table runner that's kind of cute and a little bit cheap-looking from Amazon. These, I cannot remember where they're from. The rest of it, we just have set up. We have more than six people coming, so this is whoever sits here. More just for fun, and then we'll have extras around the house. It's really cute, really easy. I prefer a table cloths with matching table napkins and stuff. This is more Valentine's Day themed. If you guys wanna see my other ones that I've had with my furbish stuff I just bought, so beautiful. It's on my Instagram, literally so cute. All right, so I'm gonna make these now just so they can sit in the fridge. They're basically like Snickers bars. They're dates with peanut butter. You just take the pit out, cut it in half, put peanut butter in, and then put it in the fridge. They're so easy to make and they are so good. Oh my God. It is hours later. I'm very hot. Are you hot? No, I want to take a bath. Okay, well it's probably because I'm wearing this. I'm wearing this at 70 degrees all the time. Jessica is here, as you can tell, by the bad attitude in the background. But she came and brought wine. We have about an hour and a half until everyone is getting here. And now is the tricky part because you wanna tie everything very well and everything that we're serving tonight kinda needs to be warm. So we have a little waffle plate. We have the dates. We have cookies. Pizzas. Pizzas. The pizzas will be like the meal though, so we'll put that over there. The house is looking cute. I've gotten so many packages today. It's not even funny. This is so cute. I mean, we've also added a few to our invite list tonight. So this is looking beautiful. We're really stuck. We're incredibly popular, obviously. Also, look, I got the We're Not Really Strangers friendship edition. Lord and I just like are obsessed with card games in general, so I've just been buying a ton. I also have this package today from Netflix. It's their Netflix book club. And look, guys. I mean, it's the most new thing ever. Oh, I have all the food over here and I think we're gonna get started. Now, we have this little cookie tray, which by the way, we're gonna serve the cookies on here. Cause you bake and I just think it's cute. We have this that has been at my house because up until last weekend, Jessica was a vegan and she had like a little cheese board plate. So, it's been at my house. I want more like serving boards and stuff, but the problem is that I'm running out of, I'm running out of space in my kitchen and I need to just kind of reorganize my house to have more space. So, I have this one, which kind of looks weird on my marble counters, but like what are you gonna do? Here we go. You have so much good stuff. Yeah, we have so much food. Oh my God. Do you have croissants? Yeah, that's what I was saying. I got those too. Oh, that's the other thing we have for appetizers. Yeah. All right, so the first that we've decided is we're gonna put these little croissants, if you will, in the oven. And then I forgot also, when I was listing those off, I've already shown you guys, but these little mushrooms, they just look good. So, we also have these, which actually need to be warm. So, these are gonna be the last thing that we do. We have cookie dough that I already had. And then we're gonna make the waffle board thing. Situation. Situation. These are like the serving trays that we have, plus I have cute plates. This I think we're just gonna end up putting the pizza on top and just like stack it. And then we have like random stuff here, but we're gonna make it look cute. Don't worry also. Forgot about this. Also, it's starting to look beautiful. We have our stuff that we're chilling and then we're gonna put like backup, like replacement wines back there. And then again, we'll put all of the, like if you guys watched the, I didn't even vlog last time. I don't know that. I didn't take talks. The red wine is not on ice because we're not animals. I know someone's gonna be like, you're not supposed to put red wine on ice. It's not on ice. This is not on ice. That's not. People are police. I'm glad that you said that because I wouldn't know. We just like the look of it. Anyways, we're gonna put all the cups or the wine glasses and the flutes and everything over here. We just haven't gotten to that yet, but oh, look who's saying hello. We do have these ready to go in the oven and then next is cookies and then next is the mushrooms. And then that toaster oven thing is also a toaster. Obviously toaster oven. That's what that would be. I'm losing it today, guys. Anyways, we're gonna do that. And I think we're gonna have some pizzas ready to go to just put them in probably around like seven or so. So like later on, we have about an hour. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't feel called yet to put my GC tracksuit on, but I know that it's coming soon and I will be hosting Gallantines Day in a juicy tracksuit as I should. Yep, so we have this going for us. We haven't decided what we're gonna do with our cheesy decor yet. I'm trying to burn the rest of this candle, so I'll have these too. We have the fire on right now, but I will be playing early 2000s music videos. Oh, a very important part of the night is setting the vibe. So I'm currently testing different Gallantines Day playlist to see which ones we like the best. A lot of it's like Fergie. Oh, this Spice Girls, you know what? This one might, this one really might be it. Here she is. To my GC tracksuit. It's a must hosting. It's the law. I did make it up. So yeah, anyways, we have our little drink station over here, a lot of drinks will be arriving soon. Gastro is gonna start arriving within the next 20 minutes and I'm horrible in time. I don't have hair or something in my eyes, so if I look like I'm crying. You are? I am. Gastro is arriving soon. I need everyone to make sure they're eating this. Here's the thing, like dates look gross and then you eat them. I think dates are delicious. They're so good. That is one of the best desserts. Lauren and I literally ate the next after the clubhouse time, she came over and we ate them for dinner, like the leftovers. And we were like, honestly, I hope no one knows what these are because we just have 20 leftovers. But anyways, cleaning up, doing the dishes, getting everything situated. We have like really so much, like little stations. We have stations that are not like set up. This is not what it should be looking like. Like this over here needs to be clean, you know what I mean? Just totally. Exactly not. Okay, so this will be extra. We have these two. Then we'll have more candles once that's going. But honestly, I'm feeling good. I think once I situate this over here. Yeah, you feel better? I feel better. The mushrooms are in the stove. I'm about to put the waffles in here. Okay, so the waffle bar, this will be the waffle bar. 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