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P-Party

On February 22 I hosted a party. Friends, family, fellow students and acquaintances helped me celebrate getting my propaedeutics (1/3rd mark of my bachelors degree). I had SO much fun!

The day began with getting the last groceries, baking up a storm and putting the final touches on my photo booth (I'll have a seperate post about that!). Just when I was doing the best I could to turn the kitchen into a disaster area (you know; bits of cake batter sticking to pretty much everything, about 200 used food processor parts laying around, flour everywhere, all sorts of bowls used for cake ingredients ready to be cleaned...) our loyal dishwasher decided to go on strike. Brilliant. So when the first guest came, somewhat early, I was still washing bits of graded white chocolate out of my hair. Slowly, more people started arriving and soon we had a livingroom and kitchen filled with guests blowing up balloons, sampling the pastry and snacks and chatting. I had made 'slagroomtaart' (a round cake with strawberries, strawberry jam and whipped cream), chocolate-banana cake, sugar free apple cake and white chocolate cupcakes. An attempt to make mango cream to top the cupcakes failed miserably ;-)

The party was at it's busiest in the late afternoon. Quite a lot of people stayed for dinner :-) We served pea soup, pumpkin soup, bread with garlic+herbs butter and pizza and I set up a salad bar.

As people left, new people came in. It was so much fun to see everyone! It was also interesting to experience how people from my different social circles mingled (or didn't ;-) ).

Neat party tricks included ;-)

Apart from the paper garland that hangs permanently across the livingroom, I had decorated with strings of lights, candles and paper lanterns (thanks, Wilma!), which made for a nice, cosy atmosphere at night.

Since it wasn't my birthday, I hadn't expected presents. But I got spoiled with lots of nice gifts! Gift cards, a cow music box, flowers, a plant, dvd's, a Doctor Who cd, candles, a pink chocolate high heeled shoe (still not sure what thát was about! Maybe they had run out of dark chocolate army boots? ;-) ), a cupcake oven glove, cards to send out, scrapbook supplies, a mug with those cubes on a stick to make hot chocolate, books about Barcelona and art, a little reading light to clip on your book, a notebook, a stack of todo-lists, sticky notes and two handmade/hand decorated gifts.

My friend Kim is working to set up her own shop in soap made from natural ingredients. She made me a bar of chamomile and buttermilk soap.

Wilma gave me a scrapbook album for the photo's of the party. It has a title page and several pages to use as a guest book. Various guests wrote nice messages during the party. I didn't take thát much photo's, so I'm not sure if I'll use the album for just the party or as my album for January and February.

Geplaatst op 27-02-2014.
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