I am really loving these Party Picks posts on the blog, there are some really fun ideas coming out of it - I hope you're enjoying reading them too! Now that we're in June, it's likely you'll be making plans for some outdoor entertaining with friends and family. Hosting garden parties and barbecues can be a considerably more casual affair than any other occasion so when it comes to serving guests to drinks, letting them help themselves is often the norm. Placing drinks in ice buckets and containers around the garden or your home is of course a great way of keeping them cool but don't you find the bottle opener ends up vanishing as it gets picked up and placed back down in another place? Save yourself (and your guests) the headache of looking for a bottle opener every five minutes by tying it with ribbon to one of the ice buckets. That way, it can't disappear and you'll always be able to tell a guest exactly where it is when they ask - saving you and your guests from any unnecessary inconvenience!

Idea and photo from Martha Stewart.