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Perk up your Fourth party

By JUDY STARK
Published July 1, 2006

This Fourth of July weekend isn't all glare and blare. Enjoy the red-white-and-blueness of it all and use this as an opportunity to upgrade your supplies for hosting and entertaining. You'll be doing that long after the last fireworks fade in the sky Tuesday night.

- JUDY STARK, Times Homes editor

Throw out the paper

Enough with the paper plates. You entertain often enough out by the pool that you deserve real dishes. Target has ceramic dinnerware in brilliant colors and patterns that will class up a burger and rise to the planked salmon. $2.99-$3.99.

Sturdy sippers

Let the kids sip their way through the summer in these unbreakable polycarbonate Blend-N-Go cups from Oster, with built-in permanent straws. Thermal construction keeps drinks cold. Red, white and blue, of course. They're $14.99 at Kmart, Sears, Target, Wal-mart, Bed Bath & Beyond.

Mix before you mingle

Get that serious work out of the way before the heat of the day sets in. From Sunbeam, a red stand mixer is $149 at JCPenney, Sears, Macy's.

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