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Turnip Head wrote:Holy crap you guys I'm getting the cake

yay!!!!

I'm glad you're excited.

Guys. I got an awesome box from nutella this morning:



I am drinking the tea right now and have been pigging out on hazelnuts and chocolate blueberries all afternoon. Thank you, nutella!!!

I was just wondering about this today! looks fun

awesome!!!!! I need to go shopping yet, but I have good ideas! I'm excited to put it all together. Now to get my darling husband to take me shopping.

bea wrote:awesome!!!!! I need to go shopping yet, but I have good ideas! I'm excited to put it all together. Now to get my darling husband to take me shopping.

I'm still working on SVS's. I'm glad I am not the only one behind
Can't wait to see what everyone else got though

Me either! I love this sort of thing so much!!! It's like Diarmy but I don't have to pass it along

I never got Diarmy, but I was close to him once I think.

That looks great Niju!!

fingersplints wrote:

bea wrote:awesome!!!!! I need to go shopping yet, but I have good ideas! I'm excited to put it all together. Now to get my darling husband to take me shopping.

I'm still working on SVS's. I'm glad I am not the only one behind
Can't wait to see what everyone else got though

Yours is going to go out after New Years; no rush Life has been nuts for us both

But for me, seeing what other people sent & received is really the best part.

I failed at getting Alex's to him before he left SA, but I think he will be pleased. A little birdy told me as much.

Glad you're enjoying it Niju! That tea is my very favorite, and chocolate blueberries are the bomb
I got my box from you today and this stuff looks great!

I'm lame and don't take pictures, but she sent me a package of country ham which looks delicious, a recipe for buttermilk biscuits, some FROG jam to go with them, a can of boiled peanuts, and some really tasty homemade fudge

Epignosis wrote:

nutella wrote:Glad you're enjoying it Niju! That tea is my very favorite, and chocolate blueberries are the bomb
I got my box from you today and this stuff looks great!

I'm lame and don't take pictures, but she sent me a package of country ham which looks delicious, a recipe for buttermilk biscuits, some FROG jam to go with them, a can of boiled peanuts, and some really tasty homemade fudge

Yay, glad you liked it!

Mongoose wrote:I failed at getting Alex's to him before he left SA, but I think he will be pleased. A little birdy told me as much.

Can't wait!

Yay! I am so excited to see pictures of all the goodies as the packages arrive.

Mine just arrived from Bass today!!! 2 days early!

But I'm going to wait until tomorrow to open it. Maybe...

I also received mine form metalmarsh today. I couldn't wait to open it. I will be post a picture of the amazing goodies he got me.

omg! awesome! good job newt and seabass!!

I'm *almost* done shopping and ready to ship. Just have one more stop to make....

Look what arrived today!!!!!!






Red velvet deliciousness


Thank you Elo! It's amazing!

Man oh man. What a hot mess of a cake. I am glad it at least still tastes good Here is what it looked like when I sent it...

OMG that is beautiful

S~V~S wrote:OMG that is beautiful

THIS. Love it.

Wowowow what a cake :O

I'll have pictures up sometime in the next 24 hours, when I feel like connecting my camera.

Thanks for the goodies Bass!

OMG - that cake looks AMAZING!!!!! *drools*

I got an amazing sweets package from Sockface today that I will post pics of tomorrow. It contains all kinds of truffles and cookies and homemade peanut butter cups/balls. And lots of mixed chocolates, omg.

Thanks!!

Yay, glad you like it!!

Sockface sent me all kinds of nice chocolates! Seen above.

The peanut butter balls and coconut balls are long gone, and a coworker destroyed the cookies (with her mouth, not with a hammer or anything).

Mongoose wrote:

Sockface sent me all kinds of nice chocolates! Seen above.

The peanut butter balls and coconut balls are long gone, and a coworker destroyed the cookies (with her mouth, not with a hammer or anything).

"She destroyed my balls with her mouth." - Mongoose.

Sorry Bea I've been busy and stressing cuz I just started a new job. Hoping to get stuff sent out soon!

It's all good sabie - I've felt bad I've not gotten yours out sooner too. Just need to pick up one more thing and then I'm all ready to pack and mail it!

You take your time sweets. New job is important. Not stressing is important too.

Thanks Bea! I appreciate it. I hope to get it out soooooon!

Mongoose wrote:

Sockface sent me all kinds of nice chocolates! Seen above.

The peanut butter balls and coconut balls are long gone, and a coworker destroyed the cookies (with her mouth, not with a hammer or anything).

The bag of cookies and coconut balls and Buckeyes were from me, made with love.

You got Buckeyes from Daisy?!?! Colour me jelly!!!! I'll bet they were sooooo nommy.

I was just thinking this year that I missed those at the holidays and might have to look up a recipe for them sometime soon....

Oh, they are called Buckeyes? Too wild.

I loved it all, Daisy!

Goosey - yes! those little chocolate covered peanut butter nummy? Totally called buckeyes because they look like buckeyes. Pretty much every person from Ohio can make them but me. I've, until now, never had much of a reason to make them as there's always been someone else who brought those to the party. I've been nostalgic off and on for them. I'm vicariously happy you loved them.

bea wrote:Goosey - yes! those little chocolate covered peanut butter nummy? Totally called buckeyes because they look like buckeyes. Pretty much every person from Ohio can make them but me. I've, until now, never had much of a reason to make them as there's always been someone else who brought those to the party. I've been nostalgic off and on for them. I'm vicariously happy you loved them.

They were MARVELOUS. I think I am going to be obsessed with them.

The most hilarious part is that I don't typically like PB in things, but love these.

Mongoose wrote:

bea wrote:Goosey - yes! those little chocolate covered peanut butter nummy? Totally called buckeyes because they look like buckeyes. Pretty much every person from Ohio can make them but me. I've, until now, never had much of a reason to make them as there's always been someone else who brought those to the party. I've been nostalgic off and on for them. I'm vicariously happy you loved them.

They were MARVELOUS. I think I am going to be obsessed with them.

The most hilarious part is that I don't typically like PB in things, but love these.

Mongoose, IMO they weren't the best example of Buckeyes out there. I felt like they came out kind of dry, not creamy enough. And my blind sister did the chocolate, so it looked fairly messy, lol. But we had fun making them and they came out ok, even if they weren't as fantastic as I was hoping.

Bea, they are actually really simple to make, just kind of time consuming.

It's funny that the two deserty things from "home" I'm most nostalgic about are buckeyes and peanut butter pie. Which admitedly is prolly REALLY location centric. I think it's an Amish recepie that was adopted.

goosey - welcome to Ohio

daisy - I've learned that *most* of the best food is really pretty simple to make but time consuming. It's a lesson that can be learned for all sorts of "convinece food" - it's better if you just give it time to do it from scratch. That said, in our world, sometimes time wins sometimes taste wins.

sabie - today I picked up the last thing. Hopefully tuesday I put it all together then BDH will get it in the mail tues/wed ish.

Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Or get married there?

that's it you both are excuded from everything!!! never dismiss ohio love!!!!

Roxy sent this well before Christmas, and I am sending mine well after, but here is the awesomeness she sent my way:



Most of what I'm sending Roxy, she won't be able to post here.

thellama73 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Why would anyone want to go to Ohio?

Or get married there?

bea wrote:that's it you both are excuded from everything!!! never dismiss ohio love!!!!

Epignosis wrote:Most of what I'm sending Roxy, she won't be able to post here.

I'm so curious now

Sabie.- your prezzies got.mailed.today!!!

Epignosis wrote:Most of what I'm sending Roxy, she won't be able to post here.

Or we just can't view it at work or school.