Card making party

My sister and I had a little girly get-together this weekend. We invited several friends over, scoured pinterest for recipes (and came up with some real winners!), and even had party favors. We spent Saturday getting ready for the party, and then enjoying our friends' company and making cards.

Unfortunately, I was too busy having fun to take pictures during the party, but I do have some prep shots to share with you, as well as links to the recipes we used.

Links to recipes (except sangria, corn chowder and caramels):
Veggie tartlets with pesto sauce
Roasted squash and red pepper quesadillas
Ginger cider bourbon (we tweaked the measurements to: 1.5 parts ginger ale: 1 part cider: .5 part bourbon
Maple Apple Tartlets

The apple tartlets were the only food I got a finished shot of. They were delicious and easy to make!

I mentioned party favors, too. Jill and I went a little overboard, but we had a lot of fun with it.

Jill got little Yankee candles and some homemade jam from etsy for everyone, as well as sharing some scrapbook paper and adhesive. We also shared little rolls of washi tape, purchased here on etsy.

I made coffee cozies, using Jeni's tutorial. I loved making these, and I actually have a few left over to gift next month.

Here's mine!

So, that's the party recap. I made some sweet cards (including one with a robot!).

I hope you had a fun weekend, too!

Unplugged

I didn't intend to be offline for most of my vacation, but that's what ended up happening. I ended up out of town for the majority of the week, but I'm back to regularly scheduled programming, with a mere 747 entries in Google Reader. Hmm. That's going to take a while...

So, a few quick things to get the week started:
-Tomorrow, I'll be sharing my first knitting pattern, and it's free!
-I received a Versatile Blogger award from Shannon of Hello, My Name is Quilt(!), so I'll be posting about that soon.
-My sister and I are having a little fall party this weekend, so I've been hard at work on some coffee cozies using Jeni's tutorial

-I also bought some washi tape to share with the guests!
-I still have not heard from one of the pillow winners, VeeBee (blogless), so if you're reading, please email me! I think I'll wait another week, and then pick another winner, if they don't respond. I have not started on Kate's pillow yet, but I will this week!

I have a few other things to share, but all in due time!

I'll see you tomorrow for that pattern I promised!!