In this episode I discuss questions to consider when offering dinner suggestions to someone in a new city. When helping out tourists, you're engaging in what the Emily Post Institute calls the "Host-Guest Dance" where you're trying to make sure that everyone gets what they need out of the conversation. Here we discuss a series of questions to consider you may not have considered to make sure the guest gets exactly what they're looking for.

In this episode I talk about tips for hosting one of my favorite types of parties, a movie night party. Those tips include:

1. Get the date on the calendar
2. Only buy what you need to buy, only make what you need to make
3. Choose all your favorite things
4. Check the technology ahead of time
5. Set the mood to cozy

For more information and photographs from my most recent movie party, read the full blog post here.

If you're interested in more party ideas visit www.chrystinanoel.com.

In this episode, I go through the responses from 11 friends & bloggers I interviewed on Chrystina Noel when they were asked: What's your best tip for someone who wants to be a great party hostess?

To learn more about these hosts and hostesses, read the full blog post here.

For more about hosting parties, visit www.chrystinanoel.com.

A look at how you can send invitations, and the questions that you should ask yourself when you're giving your guests information in order to help them show up as the best they can be. To read the full blog post, click here.

For more information on hosting parties, handmade greeting cards, and how to stay in touch visit www.chrystinanoel.com.

In episode 38, I talk about how planning ahead can lower your party costs. Those steps include:

• Reevaluating the alcohol options
• Reconsidering the food options
• Keeping it minimal
• Using what you already have, and
• Relying on your friends

To read the blog post, click here. For more party planning tips visit www.chrystinanoel.com.

In Episode 37 I talk about tips that I got from Lola of the blog Found in Philadelphia about how to make your thrift shopping experience for dinner party table settings even better. For more information on party hosting and staying in touch visit www.chrystinanoel.com.

In this episode I talk about six steps to take to host your own chocolate tasting party at home:

1. Invite your people
2. Choose your chocolate
3. Shop for the things you need
4. Setup for the party
5. Explain to your guests how to taste chocolate
6. Eat the chocolate

To read the full blog post about lessons learned, click here. You can get more party tips and tricks at www.chrystinanoel.com.

In this episode I talk about five tips (plus one - probably obvious - bonus tip) to balance busy with self care and why it's important to take care of yourself when you're scheduling staying in touch time.

This is the third of a three-part series on how to stay in touch with people based on my book How to Stay in Touch: 27 Ways to Make it Happen. In this episode I talk about the logistics of how to stay in touch, two variables that you'll need to navigate, and three tips to get the details in order.

To learn more about hosting parties and staying in touch, visit www.chrystinanoel.com.

In this episode I discuss 5 reasons that you might be telling yourself not to stay in touch, and why you shouldn't listen to them. Those five myths are:

1. You feel guilty because it's been so long.
2. You don't know what to say.
3. You don't know how to say what you want to say.
4. You're worried you're not keeping up with the Joneses.
5. You don't think you have time.

This is week 2 in a 3 week series about how to stay in touch with people. In week 1 we discussed why to bother staying in touch, and next week we will discuss logistically how to make it happen.

For more party and staying in touch tips, visit www.chrystinanoel.com.