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Party Tree, SoCal, 1958

Whoever colorized this bare backyard tree with crepe paper, balloons and a lone beach ball deserves an award of outstanding excellence. It’s birthday-on-budget brilliance at its very best. What are we waiting for? We should all have such tree treatments at our backyard parties. I want a whole forest of colorized trees!

It’s perfect for this quartet of bright-eyed blondies bonding beside a carousel cake bordered with fresh daisy sprigs on candy stripes.

Party planners, you may want to take a note on this. And Happy Birthday!!!

Here’s to colorized trees, carousel cakes, kids and YOU!

Charles Phoenix
February 2, 2012

Frosty The Cheeseball Man — Watch New Video!

Frosty the Cheeseball Man is made of three Velveeta balls stacked and frosted with cream cheese and decorated with veggies. Proudly present him in an electric skillet to party guests then plug it in. In 30 minutes, he melts into cheesy fondue dip! … FUN n YUM !!!

FROSTY RECIPE

• 2 large blocks of Velveeta
• 2 large bricks of Cream cheese
• Red and Green Bell pepper
• Carrot
• Black Olive Slices
• 2 Pretzel Sticks

MAKING FROSTY

1. Hand roll Velveeta into three balls – small medium and large.
2. Frost each with cream cheese
3. Stack (u may want to use a pretzel rod as a spine)
4. Decorate with veggies

MELTING FROSTY

1. Plug electric skillet in set at 300 degrees.
2. Watch him melt.
3. After about 30 minutes, he’s dip. Dig in.
 Serve with chips or whatever else u wanna dip in melted Velveeta and cream cheese.

THROW A “FROSTY THE CHEESBALL MAN” COCKTAIL PARTY!
Display Frosty posed in an electric skillet. Gather guests around him with cocktails in hand and have a toast to him: “Here’s to and cheers to Frosty the Cheeseball Man!” Plug him in and watch him perform over the next 30 minutes by melting into cheesy fondue dip and dig in! Great for adults but kids like him too! … FUN n YUM !!!

When Gingerbread Houses Fly – New Charles Phoenix Video

“Make a gingerbread house fly” was one of my answers when the fine folks at the L.A. CO Arts Commission asked me what I was planning to do this year to get in the mood for the holiday season. They said “Great!, can we make a video of you and your attempt at gingerbread house flying?” Of course, I said, of course!

So off to Streit’s German Bakery I went (featured in last week’s slide) where under the watchful eye of gingerbread expert, Oscar Streit, I built and decorated a little a-frame gingerbread house.

With the finished gingerbread house in hand, I met up with Ballusionist, Brian Potvin who was standing by with bunches of bright colored, helium-filled balloons. We carefully attached the balloons to the gingerbread house and with a proper “5-4-3-2-1 BLASTOFF!” launched it. But did it go where no gingerbread house has gone before? You’ll have to watch the video above to see if gingerbread houses can fly!

Watch this video and more Charles Phoenix Holiday Videos on TV during the 55th annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration – Live on KCET-TV on Christmas Eve.

Here’s to flying gingerbread houses and YOU!

Charles Phoenix
December 13, 2011