Santa Stache

I had a cookie swap this year and I think it's going to be a Christmas time tradition, and not just because everything was yummy, it was a great group of women and we had an awesome time!
I'm not saying we had more fun because of our Santa mustache cups...but that was probably a huge part of it, how can you not smile and laugh looking at this:

To make them I bought white foam board at the craft store, traced and cut out a bunch of mustaches and then used regular old scotch tape to stick them to wine glasses! Serve with Santa Sangria (Wine, diet Sprite, triple sec and lime juice) , and Elf Elixer (Juice and lemon lime seltzer water) and voila, holiday cheer:

I also made a crescent roll wreath, which I've never done before but tasted fabulous and looked ridiculously festive:

And of course, our cookie assortment...does it get better than this?



Definitely a tradition in the making!

House Party Pack arrived!!

I received an email from Shutterfly (which FYI I do always open because they are constantly having great sales or offering a free photobook or something), and it was a link up to a website I had never heard of, House Party.

So I went on, and they were accepting applications to host a party for Shutterfly and get a free photobook and greeting cards for each of your guests.

And at first I thought, wow, Shutterfly got hacked by this random creepy website.

But no, no.

Turns out I had just been under a rock and didn't know that this was like the genius of guerilla marketing for the 21st century.

They connect companies to the market most likely to use their product, then have people host parties Avon-style and give everyone who attends free stuff.

Yes, my guests will still have to pay for shipping and handling, but truthfully, it's a free hard cover 8x8 photobook from a company I have used many times and actually genuinely like their system.

This is a freaking-fracking win-win kids!

I'm in love and I'm hoping to host plenty more parties!

So here are some random, smiley, gratuitous photos of me opening my "Party Pack"!

The party is on 11/5, and I fully intend to post pictures of it because I already have fun stuff planned, like creating a tapas table and calling them "Food Snapshots"! Puns rule.