Required Items:
High Cotton playing cards and High Cotton chips
Favorite southern drinks (such as sweet tea, mint julep, or peach daiquiri)
Favorite southern snacks (such as pound cake, cheese straws, or mixed nuts)

Number and type of players:
4 13 good looking southern friends or friends who wish they were southern and good looking. It is a high honor to be the hostess of a High Cotton card game.

Object:
Win the title of Miss High Cotton by winning the last high cotton chip. It is desirable to do this without getting or giving scratches and bruises, but it is competition after all.

Set Up:
The players all sit around a table or on the floor. This game works well on the front porch so you can wave at passersby or at the kitchen table where snacks and drinks are close by.
Place chips on the table or floor using one less chip than the number of players. Place the chips so they are in easy reach of everyone. This is just plain good manners
Shuffle the cards. The hostess of honor gets to be the first dealer and deals 4 cards to the others. For later rounds the deal will pass to the left. All cards not dealt become the dealer deck.

Game Play:
Examine your dealt hand. The dealer says pass and every player simultaneously chooses one card from their hand, passes that card to the person on their left. The dealer draws her card from the dealer deck. The player to the right of the dealer (the last player before the dealer) creates a discard pile during play. The discard pile is not used unless the dealer deck runs out.

Players must pass a card before picking up a card! No player can ever have more than four cards in her hand, so she may not pick her new card before passing one to the left. Keep a careful watch for any cheaters in the crowd. Continue passing one card to the left and taking a card from the person on your right every time the dealer says pass. If the dealer deck runs out, the discard deck may be used.

When a player collects four of a kind she picks up a chip. One can be sneaky about this if one chooses. Once the player with four of a kind picks up a chip, everyone else should grab a chip as quickly as possible. The player who does not get a chip is out of the game. It would be great if this person would then serve drinks to everyone still playing.

Remove one chip from the table and play another round. Continue until there are only two players playing for the last chip. The player to get four of a kind and the last chip is in high cotton and is named Miss High Cotton! She should immediately receive a crown or roses, or at a minimum get to have her own parade as soon as possible. Be sure to take her picture.

If time permits play another game. Things could get testy if you have several winners of Miss High Cotton around, so if anyone throws a hissy fit you should immediately take away her drink.

It is acceptable to beg, plead, bargain or bribe in order to be the next hostess of High Cotton. Its always a good idea to take photos of everyone having a good time. Send a photo or two to www.peachandlove.com to be featured on our blog and entered to win game accessories.

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Now we are honored to be featured in one of our very favorite regional magazines. Make sure you get the Nov/Dec issue of Southwest Georgia Living magazine 'cause yours truly, the High Cotton game is featured, AND was a pick for the Christmas Wish list!

Queen Ann is wearing her crown with such grace and beauty...why, I think we need to call The Miss America pageant folks and encourage them to make her a judge. Yes, let's do it!

Now, you girls let us know the next time you get together. And, try to stay outta trouble, ya hear?:)

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Tell Dawn hey! and go get your high octane fun High Cotton game and Miss High Cotton necklace cause they are waiting for you there!

Here's a big shout-out to the girls in Nicholsville, KY, and special congratulations to Miss High Cotton!

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Tell me what's more fun than a bunch of girlfriends, sisters, mothers, daughters going off for a weekend get-away to be inspired, motivated, tickled, gifted, and still get to S-H-O-P til they drop. They loved, loved the High Cotton card game and necklace, and we made new friends.

We exhibited with my good friend, Lauri Jo of Lauri Jo's Southern Style Canning (http://laurijossouthernstylecanning.blogspot.com/) . We had everything a southern girl needs for a fun Girls Night Out. Good food, wine slushie mixes, and the High Cotton card game. If you ever want to share booth space with someone, be smart like me and pick a good cook who brings food.:)

Here we are. You can tell by the big grins on our faces that we had a good time. Thanks, Lauri Jo,Southern Lady Magazine and all you fabulous women who came to the Celebration! I recommend this event to all southern women. Phyllis Hoffman and the Southern Lady crew rock the house with this classy, sassy, ultimate women's celebration.

To order the High Cotton card game and Miss High Cotton necklace, see our store list or order direct from this site by clicking on the Products tab.

So, when I saw headlights coming down our long driveway, I simply thought it was my neighbor coming over because she smelled the cookies I had just baked. Instead, out of the car pops this scary, scary witchy creature below:

Then, she tried to eat all my cookies. That's how witches will do ya. But, that's not all. The night was not over yet. I hear this loud BUZZZZing coming from my office. So, I investigate and find the BUZZZZing is coming straight from my computer. Oh, Lord. Please don't let this thing crash. That would surely be a Halloween to remember. I opened up facebook and the BUZZZZZing continued. WHAT THE HECK????!!

Well, look at that scary little Halloween honey bee! I almost jumped out of my skin. So that's what all that BUZZZZing was about....Happy Halloween from our cute little grandbaby.

We hope you all had a fun Halloween. And, I truly hope you didn't get so scared you peed in your pants.

Does Miss High Cotton love a PARTY? Well, yeah! In a couple of weeks we're going to HOTlanta, GA to participate in the Southern Lady Celebration (http://www.southernladymagazine.com/10slcelebration.asp) and partnering with Lauri Jo's Southern Style Canning(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Norman-Park-GA/Lauri-Jos-Southern-Style-Canning/287595787426) to show hundreds of southern ladies how to PARTY like the Queens they are!

What's wrong with mixing some of Lauri Jo's hot pepper jelly with an innocent little ol' card game? Sorry.....I forgot some of you have played High Cotton already. Roll on, competitors!

It was a great "High Cotton" weekend with Miss High Cotton USA, Carole Foret (http://www.caroleforet.com/) and her BFF Stephanie Fenton (http://www.stephaniefenton.blogspot.com/) touring around the Golden Isles. This shows how excited Carole was to arrive at the King and Prince Beach and Golf Resort: :)

If you're interested in playing High Cotton, check our Store Locator page for a shop near you or if you can't find a nearby shop, order direct from our Products page. Send us your pics from those fun game nights!

Especially for US because, guess what? Krista was hired by Jefferson's (http://www.jeffersonflorist.com/about.htm) in Greenville, and she got busy taking care of business fast! Yes, she did, yessiree, she told them all about the High Cotton game and now Greenville, NC is about to join the hysteria that is sweeping the nation around this party game. When Krista first moved there she set her sights on working for Jefferson's, and we can understand why.....take a look at that fabulous, restored, historic building where she clocks in every day...........OMGoodness Gracious, pass the grits! And, if you're headed to the outer banks or if you live near Greenville, for heaven's sake, go by there and tell them all we said "Hey!" Thank you, Krista and Jefferson's Florist!

Pictures speak a thousand words, but let me tell ya....you shoulda been there! It was wild; it was fun; it was bodacious; it was glamorous; it was loud and spontaneous. Tons of super prizes went to the most competitive, high-spirited, fun-loving bunch of girls I've seen in a long time.

The Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, GA http://www.turnercenter.org/ rocked out Monday night, hosting the first ever High Cotton game tournament. After a night of fierce but friendly competition, we crowned Miss High Cotton - Valdosta, Brittney Foster (see lovely winner above)! This girl was serious about winning the coveted crown, and she did it!

The Turner Center sold 126 player tickets, as well as some spectator tickets and raised over $3000! The hats. Oh! The hats! A few of these are made by a most fabulous company, Glory B (http://glorybhats.com) and some of these creative women whipped up their own just for the party. I call this southern sophistication at it's finest, ma'am.

When you look at these pics, just pretend you have your volume turned up cause the laughter is contagious. We do have some video and will get that loaded soon.

Recipe for beach pail dessert
8 oz. cream cheese
1 c. powdered sugar; 1/2 stick butter; 2 lg. pkgs. instant vanilla or banana cream pudding;3 1/2 c. milk;12 oz. Cool Whip;2 pkgs. pecan sandies

Put cookies in food processor or blender and crush . Cookies pulverize better if they are frozen. Set aside.Cream butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar. Mix pudding and milk according to package directions. Add to cream cheese mixture. Fold in Cool Whip.In a sand pail,layer cookies, cream, cookies, cream, etc. ending with cookies, "sand" layer on top. You may add thoroughly cleaned seashells on top for optimum beach effect. Serve with sand shovel. Refrigerate leftover dessert.

One year ago we launched the High Cotton card game at America's Mart in Atlanta. We have experienced many blessings since then.......great customers, sweet friends, lots of laughs, and we've learned a lot along the way.

We have been celebrating here at the office, and we want to include YOU in our party.

This week (August 1st-8th) when you order one High Cotton game, you receive one FREE flaunty, flirty, faux pearly Miss High Cotton necklace. After all, every Miss High Cotton should celebrate in big style!

So, all you have to do is go to our Products page and order. Then, do like us....EAT CAKE!

Play for a good cause - The Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, GA is putting on the ritz, and we get to be part of the FUN!

Who can win the overall tournament title of "Miss High Cotton - Valdosta"? Keep up with the plans on our facebook page or go to the Turner Center for the Arts page for all the facts. The main fact is: It will be a blast and raise money for a great cause! Hope to see you there.

Girls Night Out/High Cotton Tournament Location:Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, GA Time:7:00PM Monday, August 23rd

http://www.turnercenter.org