Christmas Party.........

I am part of a group of ladies, that gets together once a year for a Christmas get together and favourite things gift exchange.  My daughter was hosting it at our house this year.  Four out of the seven of us live north of Toronto.  The other two live closer to the city.  I live in the middle, so our house is the perfect mid location.  

We try to have the party on the last weekend of November before the weather turns bad and everyone gets too busy.  

We had one person who is vegan, another who is vegetarian and another who does not eat beef.

From bottom to top, there was a beef lasagna, a veggie lasagna.  A green leaf salad with pomegranate's and a raspberry vinaigrette.  A vegan lasagna, this one and it was so good, a bit pricy though. Cheese tortellini with rose sauce.  Garlic bread, homemade veggie samosa's someone brought, veggie tray and dip.  The fruit punch was made with pineapple juice, can frozen lemonade, cranberry juice and ginger ale.

The dessert tray, and it was yummy........the cupcakes were all vegan as well.

We do a favourite things gift exchange, where we buy everyone, something we love that's around $20.  I forgot to take a photo of my gift I got for everyone, but it was a Christmas ornament set that you had a cross stitch and a diamond art kit.

One person gave us personalized travel jewelry cases and personalized bracelets.

Another gave a box of shower steamers.

Another gave a compact chopper...........which is handy as I have always wanted one.

Another gave this water bottle, always handy.

Another gave various bathroom products.  Again super useful.

Daughter gave us that handmade Christmas ornament, which is lovely.  A tool which scratches off the things on scratch and win tickets, and the Cashingo ticket, which I ended up winning $3 on.  I normally use a ten cent coin to scratch the numbers on those cards, I never knew there was a scratch card scratcher, here is a link to them on Amazon, super useful thing.

Here is a close up of the ornament.

We also do a craft and this year we made mosaic coasters.  Below are mine glued to the wooden coaster before they were grouted.

Here they are all grouted.

Here are mine all grouted.  We have to wait 48 hours for them to cure then we can seal them.

All in all we all had a lovely day and it was good to catch up with everyone.