Karan loves the outdoor lifestyle, enjoying camping, hiking, and wild swimming. Karan states her real passion is hosting and setting up picnic events outdoors. Karan writes for GoShindig.com and also manages the hugely successful Facebook page called Picnic Ideas for Sharing. A project which gives a platform for small business starters and enthusiasts alike, to share picnic ideas and to support each other in this activity
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Pallet Picnic Table – DIY Wooden Picnic Tables Made from Pallets
The hottest trend in recent months is the versatile and budget-friendly pallet picnic table. These wooden pallets can be dressed up to look fancy, allowing you to be really creative. The stability of the pallets also allows for a good amount of tableware such as food dishes to sit comfortably without problems. Transporting the pallets…
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Spring Picnics Ideas – Packing, Location, Menu and Refreshments
It’s over! It’s finally over! Go away winter and never come back! Spring has sprung and I can hear the echoes of these cries on the ever warming breeze. The days are becoming visibly lighter for longer, the air around us is (theoretically) becoming ever more temperate and we at GoShindig can start to look…
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Vintage Picnic Baskets
I have noticed more and more whilst out enjoying picnics that the vintage picnic basket is becoming increasingly commonplace. We have previously extolled the virtues of owning a good quality picnic basket yet sometimes we seek something with a little more panache. Nowadays, we seem to be drawn to items that offer that little bit…
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Best Picnic Plates – Disposable, Plastic and Melamine
The vast majority of decent picnic baskets now come with all kinds of accessories that enhance your picnic experience. You will find for example items such as knives and forks, cups, corkscrews, salt and pepper shakers and napkins and each of these items serve a unique role in your fun day out. Perhaps the most…
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Best Picnic Backpacks for 2 and 4 People
If you like to enjoy alfresco dining off the beaten track, then you need to get yourself the best picnic backpack. Unlike wicker baskets which are cumbersome to transport, picnic backpacks are cleverly designed to hold all your picnic essentials in a way that’s easy to carry hands-free. Well organized and with special insulated compartments…
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Breakfast Picnic ideas – A Healthy Start to the Day
For as long as I can remember it has always been drummed into me that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I think when you’re a kid there’s a sense of white noise running through your mind when you hear this phrase. You have untold amounts of energy which enable you to…
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Romantic Picnic Ideas – Food Menu, Location and More
Picnics and romance are two things that just, if you pardon the expression, seem to go hand in hand. Ask most people what they consider to be the best date ideas and a romantic picnic will invariably be towards the top of most lists. Picnics warrant this reputation for a number of reasons. They are…
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Picnic Potluck Ideas
By now you might have guessed that when it comes to picnics there’s not much that doesn’t float my boat, so to speak. Whilst not being able to nail the reason down to one specific facet, I can tell you why hosting a potluck picnic encapsulates so many of these affections. Potluck gatherings inspire creativity,…
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Picnic Pop Up Tents And Canopies
There are many amongst us who were born lucky. Not in the sense that they have managed to predict the winner of the last seven Kentucky derbies or have evaded the grim reaper several times like the plucky protagonists in the Final Destination movies. No, the luck I am referring to is a much more…
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4 Best Picnic Tables – Folding, portable, for kids or build your own
Sometimes a picnic blanket is just not going to cut it. Do not get me wrong, when accompanying loved ones for a romantic picnic or even when taking your small family out for a fun filled day with a few snacks, the picnic blanket is THE picnic essential. When you have painstakingly produced what equates…