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A Winter Party Hosted by the Castle Keeper Girls
The CK girls hosted their 3rd Winter Party and did a fabulous job once again. It was such a fun evening with lots of laughs. The menu was: 4 different soups breadsticks 2 salads and a variety of Christmas time desserts For activities they planned: a mixer where you had to get signatures from different ones according to whether they had ever did what was listed on the paper decorating gingerbread houses Christmas carol charades As you know by now, I like putting together slide shows, so here is one of our evening. I’m definitely not a professional. I need some skills, people. haha But here it…
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Our Thanksgiving 2017 Tablescape
While all the other blogs are on to Christmas I’m just getting to our Thanksgiving. Well, I guess that’s just the way it is in my life. I still have all my fall decorations to put away which I hope to do this weekend! It’s done! Anyways, just a quick post today about our Thanksgiving. I perused the web for a few ideas for a tablescape and it all came together quite effortlessly. I had this beautiful bouquet as my centerpiece and I took it, along with the vase it came in, and set it directly in my vintage kettle, which incidentally I use at our hunting camp each year.…
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A Simple Valentine’s Day Tablescape
♥ I interrupt our regular India trip reports to bring you a simple, inexpensive Valentine’s Day tablescape. ♥ I cut a long piece of butcher paper (you can buy a large roll at one of the bulk warehouses) and just painted red x’s and o’s all over it. A tribute to India at Serenity’s place. (carved elephant she brought home as a souvenir) For the first time in 27 years of marriage we had rib-eye steak. Honestly, I don’t know if I’ve ever bought any kind of steak before. Ninety-nine per cent of our meat consumption is elk that we have hunted. It was a big treat…
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How to Host Your Own Bruschetta Bar Party
Well this new year started off with a bang and I’m needing a breather already! Unfortunately, I’ve been down the last few days with a fever/cold. It was a powerful bug going around but I guess I need to focus on building up my immune system because not everyone caught it. Lots of fun times were shared with this lovely group of young people this last week and we enjoyed hosting them. So I wanted to tell you all about the Bruschetta Bar that we put together for our Christmas Eve meal. It was a lot of fun to do and I think a lot of the impressiveness of…
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Our Merry Christmas Weekend Wrap-up
I still am talking about Christmas 2016. Bear with me as I’m a little late getting to this. We started a new tradition this year of having a crokinole tournament. We actually did it 2 years ago at Christmas but this year I made it an official tradition. It’s a great game for everyone – a game that’s more well-known in Canada than here in the US. It’s a good game for the older ones as well as the young people and one where you can be indoors when it’s quite chilly outside. I wanted to have a little trophy to give the winners (you play as a team), so…
