Favorite Things Party!

For the past few months several ladies and 

I have been meeting @ Starbucks on Wednesday 

nights for bible study and fellowship.

For our Christmas party we wanted to do 

something different so we had a

 "Favorite Things Party"

(of course I found this idea on Pinterest).

I made the invitation using photoshop 

and glued it to a piece of 

brown cardboard box

and tied blue "satin" ribbon around it! 

(following the lyrics of the song)

Basically everyone had to bring 5 

of their favorite things ($6 limit)

That is 5 of the SAME item!

As soon as everyone arrived to Jamie's house

 (Jamie so graciously offered her house since 

she does not have kids to clean up after)

they were to write their names 5x and place them in the bowl!

 

They were then to grab a tag off the tree!

 The tags served two purposes: 

They each had a # and a question.

The number told what order each of 

us would draw 5 names out of the bowl 

and pass out our gifts.

The question was just a fun 

"ice-breaker" or "get to know you" activity! 

We had a fun time sharing 

our answers with everyone!

Everyone also had to secretly

answer a short questionnaire!

A few of the questions were:

Favorite Food?

Favorite Movie of 2011?

Favorite Make-Up Item?

Favorite Drink?

We then guessed to see if we could figure 

out who had filled out each sheet!

Again, just another fun way to 

learn more about each other!

I loved that we asked everyone to

 bring their favorite desert or appetizer!

Below is just a few of the favorite

 foods that were brought!

 Everyone was given a brown paper

 bag to put their goodies in! 

(my printer as you can see was running out of ink!)

The party began! 

Stacy, Donna, and Jamie

Laura, Candi, and Sheryl

Carmen, Jennifer, and Becca 

(I was taking pictures of course)

 Laura was excited about Candi's

 two favorite things.

A candle and fuzzy socks!

Stacey drew her 5 names as we 

anxiously awaited to see 

who she would draw!

Everyone really wanted what she brought!

 A cup that she had put polka dots

 on using her cricut filled with snickers!

 Everyone brought great gifts! 

Bath and Body Works hand 

sanitizers and car deodorizers!

Christmas Ornaments and Scarfs!

 More hand sanitizer, a candle, and travel 

toothbrush and tooth paste!

 Warm Fuzzy Footies! 

(this was what I brought)

Fingernail polish, remover,  

and foot scrubber! 

Chocolate!

And Becca brought a little bit of everything! 

(in some fancy wrapping I might add) 

I remember there were chocolate 

mints, planners and notepads!

Apparently several of us really love 

clean hands and warm feet! 

We had a great time! 

We missed those were not able 

to make it but we will definitely

 do this again next year!

It was a wonderful party idea!