Floyd’s Guinness Book of World Christmas Records
1. The number of people who fit on my couch on Christmas Eve broke a record.
2. A present so big it was used as a coffee table.
3. Best T-shirt
4. This is the present I got in our Christmas Eve neighborhood Yankee Swap. I call it Steve Martin’s brain.
Post Notes: Other unique gifts in the Christmas Eve swap included: a vase full of tootsie pops, a water saving shower head, sex game dice, and Where the Wild Things Are slippers from Spain.
Comments
Looks like a lot of fun, I hope that Christmas Day was just as good!
Here from Michele's today!
Posted by: Claire | December 27, 2006 9:48 AM
There's a couch under there?! :)
Posted by: Pearl | December 27, 2006 11:15 AM
Very cool decoration with the cups and lights! A new spin on the disco ball....a dollar store chandelier!
And yes, I can see the comparison to Steve's brain!
Posted by: Ruth | December 27, 2006 11:22 AM
That's exactly what I thought...a disco party ball! I'm surprised you can tell it's made out of plastic cups ... it is!
By the way, my couch is sage green. There's just one little nano inch of it showing.
Posted by: colleen | December 27, 2006 12:28 PM
I am so glad you had a Merry Christmas. XO
Posted by: Sherry | December 27, 2006 5:31 PM
It all looks like so much fun. :-)
Posted by: Coll | December 27, 2006 7:11 PM
At last year's in-law White Elephant, me Mutherinlaw made off with the Tiny Tim CD I put in the game. I now rue the day!
Love the couch picture!
Posted by: Rick | December 27, 2006 10:30 PM
Can you explain exactly what a Yankee swap is? Is it the same as a white elephant? And yes, that does look like Steve Martin's brain, or Martin Short's brain... I don't know which!
Posted by: srp | December 28, 2006 1:53 AM
Well it certainly doesn't look like anyone wishes they were somewhere else! Must have been a great get together. Even the dog is laughing.
Posted by: Alan G | December 28, 2006 7:58 AM
That's what I call a very Merry Group...looks like you had a wonderful time and I like the way you showed it to us!
Posted by: ginnie | December 28, 2006 9:16 AM
Yes, it's probably more commonly called a White Elephant gift exchange. Here's a link explaining it and all the different names it goes by. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange
Posted by: colleen | December 28, 2006 10:07 AM
Looks like a good time was had by all and Christmas was fun at your house.
Posted by: Terri | December 28, 2006 10:36 AM
Totally dig the Obama shirt--even though I just found out that he--gasp!--smokes! He's not perfect!
Funky gifts are awesome. The best gift I ever gave was vintage wrapping paper I got on ebay for a friend who goes kind of wrapping-paper nuts. (She goes to Kate's Paperie for $8 rolls, and whenever I buy paper, I'm like, "What is the paper's square-foot-per-dollar ratio?" It has to be cheap--even if it's see-through and made out of toilet paper.
Here from Michele.
Posted by: carli | January 1, 2007 3:41 PM