Goddess Party

Saturday night I attended a "Goddess Gathering" hosted by my sister-in-law, Sharon.She lives in a cute farmhouse in Rockford, Michigan, near Grand Rapids.
Normally I don't travel two and a half hours just to attend a party, but it gave me a chance to sell my jewelry to some of her friends and it sounded like fun. I had never been to a goddess party before. Actually, I think Sharon made this up. She had kind of a goddess wedding last summer complete with bridesmaid wearing fairy wings (she called them angel wings but they looked more like fairy wings to me).
Linda, one of my other sisters-in-law and Sharon's sister, rode along with me. Hubby Wayne also came as our daughter-in-law Kimberly was expecting to give birth Saturday. He was banned from the party, of course. It was just for ladies. Sharon kicked her family out of the house for the evening and Wayne got left at Kimberly and Aaron's house.
Sharon prepared a great dinner served with a nice selection of wine including chocolate wine, which I had never had before. It tasted like a chocolate liqueur called "Hot Sex" that I buy when I can find it. It's really great in the summer mixed with ice cream. Linda brought along a bottle of chocolate beer. I'm not a beer drinker but it wasn't too bad. Anything with chocolate is good.
Chocolate was everywhere at this party. Sharon had a table set up with chocolate cookies and chocolate bonbons and choclate mixed with nuts and other snacks that I couldn't resist. I made quite a few trips to that table.
After dinner, one of Sharon's friends put on a fashion show. When I was invited to the party, I thought this would be a show of fashions her friend had created but it was a show of designs by Carol Anderson. She has a company that puts on TupperWare type parties featuring her clothing line. There were some cute outfits but they were out of my price range, so I passed. In between the dinner, fashion show and later events, I sold some of my torch-fired bead earrings. I've got some of them posted on my web site.
Then it was on to the white elephant exchange. I guess I've been missing a lot of girlie things in my life as this was a first for me, too. Everyone brought something from their home that they didn't want and we exchanged items one at a time. If someone got something you wanted, you could steal it from them when your turn came. I ended up with an elephant tea pot that I knew Sharon wanted because she stole it twice from other ladies. I wanted the three-wick candle she got, so when they party was over, we swapped.
Sharon teaches art, so we had to have an art activity: painting on wine glasses. The painted glasses have to set for a day and then be popped in the oven for a while, so Linda and I will have to wait until we visit Sharon again or she brings them up this spring.
One of the women at the party had more tatoos than I've ever seen on anyone. She, of course, was the person who Sharon had invited to do the Tarot card readings. The first card she turned over for my reading showed that someone would be having a baby very soon. Now that was quite accurate, wasn't it? As it turns out, though, we're still waiting for that baby. He or she is not in any hurry and Kimberly is getting impatient.
Sharon also had planned for us to enjoy a dip in the hot tub on the deck off her master bedroom. All the other activities took up so much time that the dip in the hot tub will have to wait until her next party.
We had a lot of fun and I ate enough chocolate that I was not even inebriated as I drove back to Aaron's house that night.