Cocktails are alcoholic drinks that contain two or more ingredients and one of those ingredients is usually gin, brandy, whiskey or vodka. Martinis are tasty, easy, versatile cocktail drinks because there are literally so many different quick combinations that you can come up with in just a few minutes.

Just by switching a couple of ingredients you can create a whole new taste. This makes it really easy to create more than one type of martini when serving others. Just omit this or switch that and you have an entirely new drink.

Most martinis start off with gin and then add a wide array of different ingredients to create all type of martinis. Some martinis require scotch and dry vermouth while other martini recipes may call for white chocolate liquer, Benedictin, orange bitters, maraschino liquer, bar sugar or grapefruit juice.

You can get as creative as you like when making the perfect martini because the perfect martini for one can be a totally different ingredient combination for another. Ask ten people for their favorite martini and most likely you will receive ten completely different answers.

Here are just a few different martini types.

1. Purple Martini
2. Saketini
3. Silver Streak Martini
4. Nightmare Martini
5. Naked Martini
6. Ulanda Martini
7. Rolls Royce Martini
8. Octopus’s Garden Martini
9. Paisley Martini
10. Queen Elizabeth Martini
11. London Martini
12. Russian Martini
13. Dirty Martini
14. Hollywood Martini
15. Seventh Heaven Martini
When partying with friends you could easily whip up one, two or ten of these exotic named martinis and really wow your friends. They’re so quick to prepare you’ll be done in no time at all.

Serve your martinis in one of my fancy martini glasses if you’d like to enhance the wow factor. Garnish wish kiwi slices, orange and lemon splashes or mint sprigs and enjoy your tasty concoctions. You just might end up designated bartender at all your friends gatherings check out our Martini recipes I’m sure you will find one that you like.  I like the Purple Martini:)

So your best friend is getting married, and it’s on you to throw the bachelorette party, you want it to be unforgettable, so what will you do?

You want to surprise her with a memorable party, but you really don’t know what she wants to do. If she likes purple (which is the best color there is) here’s what you can do:

Throw a purple themed bachelorette party that will make your friend feel like queen. Don’t you know purple is the color of royalty? The options for decor and dress are endless.

You can stay in and have a home bachelorette party or you can go out for a night on the town – I’ll tell you what you’ll need to do both.

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For a girl’s night out on the town celebration you’ll need:

A limo – ask around to see if you can get a purple one, if not a white one will do.

Have everyone wear purple from head to toe, then top it off with these fun purple boas.

Give the bride a purple tiara.

Then toast with pretty purple champagne glasses

Tip: Call ahead to reserve the VIP section and make arrangements with the DJ to give a shot out to the bride-to-be.

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For a fantastic purple themed home bachelorette party you’ll need:

All of the above, minus the limo.

Decorate with cool purple lanterns.

Serve drinks in these cool glasses

Tip: Play this fun “Hot potato-like game”:
Get everyone in a circle.  Get an old granny-looking handbag and fill with an embarrassing item, such as a shower cap, some rollers, or some other tacky item.  Have your guests pass it around to music (encourage them to dance a bit and then pass it). Have them continue passing it around the circle until the music stops. The guest that gets stuck with the bag when the music stops must take the embarrassing item out and wear it for the rest of the bachelorette party.
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A little over a year ago, during a housewarming party at a friends house, I experienced my first taste. When my friend brought out the wine for a toast, she handed out the most exquisite wine glasses that I had ever seen. I was so busy checking out the hand painted Little Black Dress on mine and colorful stilettos on another wine glass, that I almost missed the toast.

Yeah, the wine was good, but the glasses had my total and complete attention – I wanted to know where she got them, because I had to have one. That’s when I was officially introduced to Lolita - Lolita glassware, that is, and we’ve been friends ever since.

She told me that these glasses were special because they only make a limited amount of each design and each glass comes with its own wine recipe on the bottom. (more…)

Here you will find some of the most unique martini glasses, wine glasses, champagne glasses and more.

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