 Mary's Cheese Crispies with Pepper Jelly! Recipe below. Had the leftovers for breakfast this morning! |  Yum, Pam's Microwave Fudge. Recipe below. I don't know how we managed to stuff in all the food and snacks! What troopers! |
 Having a few snacks and zippy drinks. Code for wine spritzers. Good ole Lunenburg County, everyone hangs out in the kitchen. |  Sue giving me the evil eye...what did I do now? |
 Charlene opening her prezzie. Pam looks on while Sue gives herself a foot rub. Charlene made Mac & Cheese but I didn't take a picture. Recipe to follow. |  Heather opening her goody bag. |
 Looks like Charlene's telling a big fish story. |  Doesn't Shelley have the most magnificent aura? Lots of prezzies on the table waiting to play the game! |
 Bonnie stole my scarf! She's a scarfer! She grabbed it off my neck so quickly I had ligature marks! |  Armenia opening a beautiful Christmas ornament. My gift was a basket of homemade jams and edibles...thanks Armenia! |
 Lorraine modeling the stick on breast lifts in one of the presents. I said I wouldn't post this picture but you really can't tell she's braless so what the heck! Ooops...guess I shouldn't write that |  Glenna leaving with her delicious homemade tomato soup. Forgot to ask for the leftovers! What was I thinking? Recipe below. This is the only shot of the main courses....forgot to take pictures before we dined! |
 First to draw, Ginny likes her red wool and so does Sue who later takes it on her turn! Armenia, Pam and Charlene like it too! |  Heather opening the last of the gifts. Mary holding Jake and I'm looking at some lovely dyed roving. |
 Bonnie and another scarf that she scarfed off Heather. |  Fiz says, "You crazy bunch of two legged party animals....enough already with the presents, I need my beauty sleep!" |
Wednesday evening was our annual potluck Christmas party hosted by yours truly. I have a great group of women who meet and hook the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at my studio tagged ‘The Main Street Hookers’. We get together, eat, drink and be merry and then play a delightful game, can’t remember the name, but everyone draws a number and #1 goes first and chooses a present and then #2 has the option to take #1’s gift or a new one from the table and so on. When it is your turn you can take any previously chosen gift so stuff went back and forth with a great deal of side splitting laughter. The wool presents were a big hit…dah! On my turn I opened a handmade scarf that was quickly ripped off my neck by my sister a few numbers down the line….she scarfed the scarf! I ended grabbing a basket full of edibles, some jams, cranberry sauce and a jelly. Considering I have a shop full of wool at my disposal, it seemed kind to let the other wool piranhas fight over it.
Guess my tummy overruled my brain because I forgot to take pictures of the potluck foods.! We had Mac & Cheese, Smoked Salmon Pasta, various green salads, potato salad, cabbage rolls, seafood casserole, broccoli salad, homemade cream of tomato soup, cucumber salad (a Lunenburg County tradition), a wonderful tomato and olive bruschetta and to top it all off a homemade English Trifle and the Recipe To Riches winner ‘Triple Nut Toffee’, a dessert you’d request for your last meal on death row! I saw the TV show and wanted to taste it and this was the perfect time to do a review. All thumbs were up!
For appetizers we snacked on veggies and dip, chips, grapes, a cheese crisp with pepper jelly, chocolate covered popcorn, Pam’s microwave fudge (one should always eat a bit of dessert first just in case you have no room after the meal), Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs cheese with various crackers, and sipped wine, wine spritzers, beer and whatever your heart desired. I will post various recipes in the coming days.
Hard to believe another year is almost over. It’s been an exciting time for us as a group. We’ve tucked our first gallery show under our belts and completed a number of wonderful rugs, which I plan to feature one at a time on the blog. Here's hoping 2013 is just as exciting as 2012.!
Guess my tummy overruled my brain because I forgot to take pictures of the potluck foods.! We had Mac & Cheese, Smoked Salmon Pasta, various green salads, potato salad, cabbage rolls, seafood casserole, broccoli salad, homemade cream of tomato soup, cucumber salad (a Lunenburg County tradition), a wonderful tomato and olive bruschetta and to top it all off a homemade English Trifle and the Recipe To Riches winner ‘Triple Nut Toffee’, a dessert you’d request for your last meal on death row! I saw the TV show and wanted to taste it and this was the perfect time to do a review. All thumbs were up!
For appetizers we snacked on veggies and dip, chips, grapes, a cheese crisp with pepper jelly, chocolate covered popcorn, Pam’s microwave fudge (one should always eat a bit of dessert first just in case you have no room after the meal), Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs cheese with various crackers, and sipped wine, wine spritzers, beer and whatever your heart desired. I will post various recipes in the coming days.
Hard to believe another year is almost over. It’s been an exciting time for us as a group. We’ve tucked our first gallery show under our belts and completed a number of wonderful rugs, which I plan to feature one at a time on the blog. Here's hoping 2013 is just as exciting as 2012.!
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