{"id":463,"date":"2012-12-25T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-12-25T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:44:57","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/12\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas!\u00c2\u00a0I hope you and yours are having a happy holiday season.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I instigated a White Elephant gift exchange<\/a> at knitting last week. The main rule was that everyone’s gift had to come from inside their house – nobody was allowed to go shopping beforehand. We had a hilarious time at the coffee shop and I’m pretty sure some of the other customers thought we were crazy. We all piled our presents on the big table…<\/p>\n

\"White<\/a>

White Elephant exchange gifts<\/p><\/div>\n

Then we drew numbers to determine the order of choosing gifts…<\/p>\n

\"Drawing<\/a>

Drawing numbers<\/p><\/div>\n

Inside one of the big boxes was… oh yes, a leg!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The leg!<\/p><\/div>\n

Which was promptly stolen.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The leg is stolen<\/p><\/div>\n

Participants could bring anything, provided they didn’t have to go out and buy it. We were warned not to squish this bag to determine what was inside.<\/p>\n

\"What's<\/a>

What’s in the bag?<\/p><\/div>\n

Yum, robot cupcakes!<\/p>\n

\"Robot<\/a>

Robot cupcakes!<\/p><\/div>\n

There were also light-up knitting needles, a trivet, singing and dancing stuffed hamster toys, a vintage My Little Pony figurine, and some very chocolaty bath products. I think some people even got some frantic last-minute gift knitting done.<\/p>\n

If you still need a gift for that special someone (perhaps yourself!) there are still memberships available in next year’s sock club<\/a>. I’d love for you to join us for another year of sock knitting and cookie baking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas!\u00c2\u00a0I hope you and yours are having a happy holiday season. Just for fun, I instigated a White Elephant gift exchange at knitting last week. The main rule was that everyone’s gift had to come from inside their house – nobody was allowed to go shopping beforehand. We had a hilarious time at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}