Wednesday, December 17

craft night at suz's....

...proved to be full of handmade and edible secret santa gifties, potluck yummies, crafts and good friends just hanging out. myself, aaron, helen, jessica, and our new family member, jen, all got together sunday night and exchanged our santa gifties, made crafts, and ate!!! what fun, but it always is. it's the best part of xmas at o'suz really. first we ate. we had cheeses and salads and mac n cheese and mexican dip. then we exchanged our santa gifties. here is what we opened!







.....then we made crafts, including: pomanders, amy butler paper covered clothespins and sugar and salt scrubs. i was in charge of the product making, as i love product, so it just seemed fitting i would gather the ingredients and get us going with scrubs. we made grapefruit salt scrub and peppermint and lavender sugar scrub. we also used some yummy yonka oil that my lovely husband got me last year at oasis day spa and made a special sugar scrub with that. we used stickers from work to adorn our jars.
jen brought the amy butler paper, which was so lovely to see and use. aaron and jessica brought clothespins that they keep stashed at home. here is where jessica keeps hers (from her childhood). i wanted to steal it, it was so sweet. aaron keeps hers in a lotta jansdotter box from a vase she bought at o'suz years back. the box left looking very different then whence it came via scraps applied artfully by helen. no hands idled. then at eves end, jessica and i made a pomander, mine random, hers beautiful. both smelling delicious. the only downside was knowing it may be a another year til we craft together again.....



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

what fun our night was!
i took a bath last night after a busy day in the store and used my new yonka sugar scrub, it was heaven....
thank you helen for my beautiful handmade seahorse/love tshirt, i love it so and want to wear it every day!
love you ladies
aaron

Anonymous said...

Aaron, my stocking is hanging on the front door to my apartment! I wonder if Santa will fill it while I am visiting family in NY...

And to have a Sew Seamless marker roll, THE sought-after giftie of Christmas 2008, whew! I'm a lucky girl, all right.

Thank you, Suz, for hosting us in your nest.

Jen said...

I'm quite glad to be a new family member! Thank you Thank you Thank you for a wonderful night, wonderful gifts, and the tour of your house. It was a dream.