December 5, 2009

I'm the organizer of Saturday Sister from First Baptist Church of Temple City California. We meet once a month doing our own craft projects and our December is our 5th annual Cookie Exchange Party. We do the whole thing as a group effort, brunch and everyone brings something or does something to get ready for the party. We enjoy the fellowship and the cookies we take home.

We meet in a large room at the church so we have a lot of room to spread out and this year we had a Piano player and Violin playing music the whole time. Which was really nice. We had 25 attend this year and the theme was Christmas trees and the door prize everyone wanted was the Tree/centerpiece and cookie mixes. I had cookie tins with personalize labels on them that said "2009 Saturday Sisters" were given as goodie bags, with tree advent magnetic calendar.

We did not have games this year just the fellowship and chatting with friends. I do a sheet of weirder cookie recipes that are made with different things then what you think a cookie should be made with and this year was cheese and Jalapenos. I was told with my tree/ornaments for centerpieces and the door prizes they want to know how I will top this years. But I just know that your site will come thur. In fact I'm already planning my next year theme and that gives me 12 months to find the perfect items for door prizes and goody bags and my centerpieces so I seeing sugar plums dancing in my head already. Thank you Robin for this great site.

Brenda Lieswald