Okieladybug's Eighth Annual Girlfriend's Christmas Party

Tonight was Shirley's annual Christmas party.  This is a party that she plans for all year and boy did we all have a great time!  I laughed so much my cheeks still hurt!

You would not believe the gifts we were able to buy with our Santa Bucks during the auction! Shirley works all year making items, then she wraps them and auctions them off to us for the Santa Bucks she provides us.   I got just what I wanted!  A full set of Shirley's handmade cards, a recipe tin she made that's full of her candy recipes on decorated cards and a card kit (but I had to buy that from Carrie Elmore! lol!)

It's a little after 1 a.m. and I just made it home.  I'm too tired to make photos of my auction items tonight, so that will be my post for tomorrow.

We played Dirty Santa with gifts we'd all brought and this year there was very little stealing.  My gift is absolutely perfect because it has kitchen items in it.  So glad Robyn Abbott found those cute measuring spoons and hot mits.  I needed some new Christmas things for the kitchen.

Helen Edwards brought her new I-pad 3 and shot tons of great photos.  I'm hoping that she and the others who took photos will post them online so I can see all of them.  We even had some fun at Carrie's expense by sending one photo to her husband just to prove she made it to the party.  We'll have to wait to see what his reaction was! LOL!

Thanks, Shirley, for putting on such a great party.  You invite just the right combination of people and we all have a great time!  I'm already looking forward to next year's and hope I didn't get eliminated off the guest list!

Girl's Night Out

Last night was spent with my friends, Shirley and Carrie in Ada.  This is the first time that the three of us have been in the same place at the same time!  We communicate a lot online but Carrie lives in Oklahoma City,  Shirley in Ada and I'm in Seminole so the distance as well as their work schedules makes it difficult to plan a get together.  (I, on the other hand, am totally retired and can pretty much do what I want when I darned well want! LOL!)

We met at the LSS and then headed over to Applebee's for dinner, conversation and a lot of laughs.  Then we headed over to Shirley's house to sit on her patio and enjoy the cool fall weather we're having.

Another of my friends, Anita White, who I went shopping with yesterday, made Shirley the cutest pillow case from some ladybug fabric we found on our excursion.  I had to get a couple of photos of her as she unfolded it and admired it. 

Great job, Anita!  Shirley, aka Okieladybug loved it!  The three of us had a good laugh about the captions around the ladybugs too!  So very "Shirley"!

 Okieladybug herself on the patio at Ladybug Manor.

Carrie Elmore just kickin' back after a hard day at work.  (Yeah, right, Carrie!)










As the evening drew to a close, Carrie drew a design that she's been trying to figure out how to cut with her E2.  She and Shirley put their heads together, literally, in the dark and got the file designed in Shirley's Gypsy.

Now as soon as Carrie figures out how to download it.........  LOL!

We all felt extremely safe while sitting outdoors in the dark because the intrepid guard dog. Lucy was there to be certain that no ornery creatures would sneak up on us and nibble on our toes!

I certainly hope that Carrie and Shirley enjoyed the evening as much as I did!  It's great to spend some "down time" with good friends!