Graduation Party Food - Celebrate your State

Cue the Pomp and Circumstance,
It's Graduation Season!
It's an exciting and joyous time where one chapter ends, and for many,
 a collegiate chapter begins.
Why not proudly wave your school's pennant flag and "celebrate the state" on the horizon? 

You can get corny for Iowa...

Go nuts for Georgia...

Say, "Hot Dog" for good times in New York...

Cheers to the Colorado home where the Buffalo Roam...

(it is called the Banquet Beer, after all,

and the colors are on point!)

Say, "Cheese" to Wisconsin...

Go Big Blue-berries...

and enjoy Michigan's favorite fruit...

Wave Aloha to Hawaii...

You say, "Potato", 

I say your party needs French Fries to honor Idaho's finest...

"Orange" you glad you'll get to visit your co-ed in Florida?

A big bowl of colorful citrus is a fun way to say, "see you later, to your Gater"...

Dare to "Mess with Texas"...

and kick it up by decorating with the Lone Star State's yellow roses...

I also love to commemorate the school with favors in the college colors.

Here we are not being "Cavaliler" as we honor the deep history of Virginias orange and blue...

and cupcakes are always a good idea, right?

Congrats to all the Grads, 

College Pennant Flags are available in my Etsy Shop.

A Duck, Buffalo & Lumberjack's Graduation Pizza Party

Three best friends, three great colleges...
one fun Graduation Pizza Party!


To honor the girls we decided to not only celebrate them,
but the schools and college towns on their horizons...
Northland College in Wisconsin, University of Oregon in Eugene
and University of Colorado in Boulder.


The University of Oregon Veggie Tray
featured Toby's Family Foods dips straight from Eugene, Oregon
and a variety of farmers' market vegetables in school colors only...




A simple, crowd pleasing Onion Dip
with onion soup mix and Nancy's Plain Greek Yogurt...


and of course the chips had to be from...

Boulder, Colorado!

Next up an epic cheese selection...

Classic ice cold beers representing 

Oregon, Wisconsin and Colorado...

Then on to the main event...

Signature Pizzas

Three Cheers for dessert with school logo pennant cupcakes...

Gift time included

bracelets with the longitude and latitude 

for their college town...

Such an exciting, yet bitter sweet time for all...

especially for the moms, 

hopefully this will help us survive.

Thank you to Toby's Family Foods and Nancy's Yogurt for supplying their amazing products for this post.

My favorite graduation gifts

This is a big graduation season for us.

My daughter is graduation from high school 

along with so many other special friends and family.

We are armed and ready with gifts galore!

Of course money goes a long way and these adorable 

BlueQ coin purses are the best way to stash some cash...

Some are sentimental...

and others just honest...

To quote the wonderful and wise Dr. Seuss, 

"Oh the Places, you'll go"....

I am obsessed with these sweet and dainty, personalized coordinates bracelets from

Layered and Long. 

 They can be engraved with the latitude and longitude of your favorite college town.

Fight songs and football games will be filling their Fall schedule...

What better way to light up their school spirit than hand blown

glassybaby candle holders in their school colors?

Their is no doubt that in the midst of all the excitement, 

there is bound to be a little longing for home...

Homesick candles are the perfect reminder of where you came from.

One sniff and you are instantly transported back...

Lastly, this fun, colorful, vintage inspired mini kitchen

 will make any dorm room the most popular...

A mini oven, coffee pot and burner can make the breakfast of your dreams 

if you are too tired to hit the cafeteria...

Best wishes to all the grads!