I am making cupcakes for a beach theme party. I wanted to make a small beach theme on the cupcakes and use cocktail parasols. I looked in dollar stores, grocery stores, and the local liqueur store with no success. Has anyone seen these around anywhere? I would greatly appreciate your help.

You could google home bar suppliers websites or just bar websites!

try
orientaltrading.com

M & N International carries the parasols in their catalog. You can get 144 for $2.97. They sell decorations and party supplies. Their web site is www.mninternational.com.

hobby lobby has 'em!

in my hobby lobby store, they are all the way in the back along the shelf facing the wall. In the party section. In that section they have all kinds of themes....disney princesses, pirates, princess, cowboy, beach stuff, etc.

I'd check there if ya have a hobby lobby.

do you have a "party city"? they have everything party-related.

Thank you so much ladies. I am on my way to party city!!

if you cant find them at the party or craft stores, take a look at Oriental Trading Company http://www.orientaltrading.com/ they have all kinds of fun junk!

Direct link to them, they're like $5 for 144 of them... they also have like 4 or 5 different styles of them
http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=browse&origin=catalogProducts.jsp&event=link.itemDetails&demandPrefix=12&sku=9/47-K&prodCatId=377383&mode=Browsing&erec=7&sp=true&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&cm_re=PS-_-Luau-_-S3L1&N=377383&Ns=BEST_SELLER%257c1&sd=Cocktail+Parasols

I've found them in the past at:

A.C. Moore
Pier 1
Party City
Oriental Trading.com

Factory card outlet has them and also The grocery store next to the mixed drink and kinda like the picnic supplies !

I've also seen them in the grocery store next to the toothpicks.

Wal-Mart in the party supply area. I was shocked that they weren't with the toothpicks and such but they're there, pretty as a picture.

Elle