Every year for the past 20 years at least, we have had a Christmas party for our group of friends to wish them a Merry Christmas and also providing an opportunity for all to get together to visit and enjoy our friendship.Every Year the party has a special Christmas theme and this year the party theme was "AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS" The party was on Friday evening, Dec 21, 2012. The party begins and everyone had a great time visiting and catching up on the past year.
The group of friends gather for a picture and the reading of LUKE 2 before singing the blessing and then pigging out on all the good food that was brought by all.
Our youngest daughter's sweet dog, Trixie laid patiently under the table hoping for someone to either drop something great or offer to feed her a treat of so.
The candles on the Advent wreath were lit.
Old fashioned, homemade chokecherry and Beet wine from half gallon mason jars.
Some thoughtful person even brought all the ingredients for making good OLD FASHIONED COFFEE.
Make sure you read the labels on both the Coffee Water and the Coffee Grounds.
Notice the worm in the bag with the grounds.
The stringing of the fresh cranberries.
Everyone did a excellent job at stringing cranberries. After the cranberries were all strung, they were tied together and strategically placed on the Christmas tree to add to the Popcorn strings, big candy canes, ribbon candy, crocheted snowflakes, and other Old Fashioned tree decorations.
Everyone took a number for the gift exchange. Each number had a question to answer about a Christmas past or memorie from a childhood Christmas. Example, (Did you ever get to go to your grandparents for Christmas?) (Were you ever in a Nativity program?) (What was your favorite food at Christmas?) Needless to say this really did stem some interesting and sometimes emotional conversation.
This was just one of the very unique gifts that our daughter Melissa had chosen to open. We were all surprised when it was a re-gift of 2 crazy coconut people recreated into a Coconut Nativity with a coconut in "swaddling cloths laying in a basket. It was very cute and she actually LOVED it and said it will be part of her Christmas decorations from now on.
Another gift was a Christmas sock filled with nuts, fruit and candy. YEP, Old Fashioned I would say so.
Old fashioned Paper dolls were a big hit. Other old fashioned gifts were paper straws, old fashioned or vintage whistle, an oto harp, old fashioned "Shiny Bright" Christmas tree ornaments and many others.
I had a larger number so I got the big package that everyone thought just might be that traveling "BEE" that has been remodeled for over 8 years to go with our party theme. Well, as you can see the box was well padded with much crumpled news paper. WOW! what a special "OLD FASHIONED" gift.
I know it is hard to believe, but yes this really is the "BEE" The TREE is the BEE.
Below you can see the very creative artist who created this work of art. He glued many tree branches all over the "BEE" turning it into the Christmas tree. He made the old truck out of cut and glued plastic and even filled it with cut fire wood and a tiny ax. VERY CUTE IDEA! If you want to look at the "BEE" from previous parties, just look back in my blog archives from each December, you will find a picture of it. LOL
It was a very fun party and I am so glad that everyone could make it. Next years theme is "PEACE ON EARTH"
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