HO!HO!HO! The Castoffs met at Linda’s newly refurbished condo to celebrate Christmas 2012. We all brought gifties to exchange, Linda made Brandy Alexanders, I brought my world-famous Gorgonzola cheeseball and a good time was had by all.
I must say – those Brandy Alexanders made some of us forget to take things away with us when we left. Someone forgot her purse… someone forgot her card with chocolate in it… and… well, I forget what else happened.
“Another Brandy Alexander?”
I must’ve taken this after a Brandy Alexander.
I must apologize to Leslie for the following fuzzy photo. She brought the three stockings – two that she made last year for Sienna and Ty and the one she just finished for Mira – and we loved them! The photo is blurry, but you can see the wonderful colors – so Leslie!
Mira’s stocking is on the far right.
Francy played with the video part of my camera and made a little video that showed all of us eating. That’s it. We were all chewing like cows and listening to Michele tell a story in the background until, halfway through, the sound stopped recording. Now that I can show video on the blog — I’m not sure I want to (!) unless it’s how to knit a certain stitch, or unless there’s a baby visiting.
The most fun part of the night was our present exchange. We opened presents, took them away from each other, laughed and had a wonderful time. I was having too much fun to take a lot of photos, but I did get some of the gifts.
Here are the presents waiting by the hearth for our greedy little hands.
Looks like Santa’s coming
Some of us opened presents that were snatched away. Some of us begged for our presents to be snatched away.
Headless Santa!
‘Keep calm and carry yarn’ mug.
Knitted bar of soap – good exfoliater!
Cute little gnome.
Here is a photo of all our presents after the exchange. It was so much fun!
The LOOT!
We had to get a group photo, so Francy and I played around until she figured out how to put my camera on a timer. Gee, I really should read that manual, huh? We captured part of the TV that it was resting on, but we all look pretty darn good.
The Castoffs!
We missed Mary who was in Las Vegas playing with granddaughter Aurora and Joan who deserts us for the winter to go back home to Arizona. We all wish you both a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2013!
We meet at my house next time. I’m badgering Lucky to put up the tree, but no promises. Until then, enjoy the snow and keep those needles blazing, Castoffs!
