Our Annual Christmas Party

Our Christmas Party this year will be on Saturday night at 5:30 pm on 4 December. We will meet at Brenda's house, enjoy some really great food (bring a covered dish), play Dirty Santa and exchange a few ornaments. We will have several new members attending this year so let me fill you in on how this works.

We all bring a covered dish. I will provide the meat and the drinks. If your item has to be heated be sure it is in the appropriate dish to fit in my microwave oven. We will set up the buffet table - and it always looks so nice with all the food we have. Everyone will find a place to sit, get their dish and proceed to the food line. We eat and talk, then eat and talk some more. Then it is time for the fun to start.

Ornament Exchange - bring up to five ornaments to exchange. They should be handmade/handpainted (preferably) by you or someone else. Put them in a lunch bag and do not put anyone's name on it. We place them all in the middle of the room and everyone draws a number. When it is your turn you get to pull three bags if you brought three ornaments, five bags if you brought five ornaments. This is what I look forward to every year.

Dirty Santa. Purchase a gift (at least $15) and wrap it but do not put a name on it. Everyone participating will have a number. The first person will choose a gift from all of those brought to the party. Then the second person will decide to either choose a gift or steal the first person's present. A gift can only be stolen twice before it is dead. Then it continues until the last gift. The person who picked the first gift then can decide to keep her gift or steal any of the other gifts. It is pretty nice to be number one!!

This is such a special time for our group, everyone is in the Christmas spirit and it is the last time we meet befor the new year. So, please, join us.

I would like to know if you are planning to attend so I can be sure to have enough seats at the tables. Please email me at bcueno@cox.net and tell me if you are coming, I would appreicate it very much.

I hope to see you all next Saturday. I just love this time of the year!!

November Paint In...

Well we won't be painting this month instead we will be making paper flowers with Linda. All you have to bring is SCISSORS (a hot glue gun, a stapler, and spray bottle of water will be helpful also). Linda brought in a few paper flowers last month and there was a lot of interest in making this a class project for November. Don't forget pot luck for lunch and we will see you there.

Although I was unable to make the meeting last month I understand everyone had a great time. Linda Sellars taught fabric painting and everyone went home with snazzy new shirts. We may have to try this again sometime.

Next month will be our Annual Christmas Party. Start thinking about the ornaments you will be giving at the ornament swap - you only have 53 days til Christmas which means you only have 32 days before the party. I will post more in the next few weeks.

See you on Saturday.