Chinese Christmas or Dirty Santa Party

Every year we have a finger food, gift exchange party to celebrate the Christmas season. The gifts must be handmade or from a collection. The food was outstanding which I didn't photograph, I just ate it. The gifts were also outstanding.

 Carol Bormann holding a journal with hand made cover made by Lettie Blackburn. And Lettie holding a pillow made by Emmie Seaman

 Cathy Jeffery holding pieced, molded leaves made by Diane Steffen. Maybe we can get Diane to write a blog post about her technique.

 Donna Olson holding Christmas socks.

 Lettie holding a wall quilt made by Roberta Ranney.

Pottery made by Dianna Callahan

Merrilee Tieche was Queen for a Day while she plows through tissue paper.

Then we also had show and tell:

 Roberta Ranney with one of her many owls. She says this is the last one; made for herself.

 Quilt for a four-poster bed made by Lettie Blackburn

Red Strips by Cathy Jeffery

Cathy Jeffery is holding another piece in which she used scraps from her red strips. Note Vivian Terbeen wearing the tiara. Now she's Queen for a Day!

YES! we had loads of fun.