The Christmas party last night was the Pottery Studio party for all the members of the studio. Everyone who wanted to participate in gifts brought one. I brought two so Bobby could play too. The idea for our gifts was to be something pottery related. The gift exchange was the Chinese gift exchange AKA White Elephant exchange. The rules go something like this…
• Everyone draws a number from the hat
• In chronological order starting with number 1, the person retrieves a gift from the gift table.
• If the next person in line likes what someone else has already opened, they can opt to take that gift from them.
• The person who just got the gift taken from them and left empty handed, then goes to someone else with a gift or they may select another gift from the gift table.
• Once a given item has been taken for the third time, it’s frozen and can no longer be up for grabs and so on till there are no gifts left.
• Well Bobby and I happen to draw our numbers back to back (13 & 14) and we did some great playing, we did. (BIG SMILES HERE)!
The first item we won was a beautiful vessel that Bobby took from a gentleman and then I stole it from Bobby leaving me the WINNER!!! YEA!!! I absolutely love my piece and it was displayed on my kitchen counter the moment we got home. Don was the artist of this beautiful lidded piece and he does absolutely fabulous work.
The next item Bobby won was this beautiful piece that I decided to use as my wooden spoon holder and I positively love this piece too. I also happen to be very good friends with Darla, the artist of this holder. I unwrapped that piece and immediately displayed it on my counter complete with my wooden spoons. Bobby and I came home happy winners with pottery that we absolutely LOVE!!!
I took one of my vases and that vase was fought over and was just way too funny to watch. My friend Barbara won that piece and she gave me a great big hug and was so happy to be the winner. I also took a bowl that I added some vines to and the funny thing is that Don “the same artist I won my piece from” won my bowl. I’m still on a high from our new beautiful gifts.