goody bags and treats galore!

Getting ready for the BYOP, part 2!

 

The Koz had Omar out helping him this afternoon, so that was good.

 

Omar's wife, Michanne, was in the House of Dawn with the rest of us women!

 

That's her on the left, putting the finishing touch on a ghost pop, while Margaret admires her art on the pudding cups. 

 

That was toward the end of our session this afternoon.

 

Yvette was at the other end of that time spectrum, having arrived at 11 AM, a full hour before this hen party was to begin.

 

She wanted to be sure to help out, but she had other plans that needed her on this sunny Saturday.

 

When I arrived, she was helping to cut out the printed labels for the treat bags.

 

I was commandeered for that task, too, as treat bags could not be made without them.

 

Then Margaret arrived and she was put to work with scissors to cut labels!

 

Fortunately, Dawn ran out of scissors, so Susan was put to work with tissue paper to start building goody bags.

 

That consisted of placing several goodies onto the open sheet and then stuffing in into a clear plastic bag! 

 

By that time, enough labels had been cut that I was set to work on a different task: building bags of ghost poop!

 

In short time, Debbie was right there with me, but she was building bags of rat tails! 

 

We found those tasks became exhausting unless we did them like an assembly line: fill a few bags with the food first until the right arm tired, then close the bags and staple on the labels, before starting afresh on the next batch.

 

Susan and Margaret followed our approach when they became treat bag assemblers.

  

Susan was in charge of witches' warts, while Margaret handled monster scabs - LOL!

 

All that food - marshmallows, licorice, chocolate chips, and Toast Crunch cereal - required that we wear gloves.

 

Gotta be extra clean for the kids who are going to be grabbing these treats!

 

Still, it was a good thing that handling those sweet things came after our luncheon! 

 

This time, Dawn had bought a Chinese banquet for the nine of us - that would be 7 women, 2 men.

 

Beef with broccoli, chicken with broccoli, vegetable stir-fry, chicken nuggets, edamame, spring rolls, gyoza, eggrolls - and those are just the items I chose!

 

"You will never need to worry about a steady income," read my fortune cookie.

Laura did ask me last week about my Periodic Table, so maybe there's good news to come about that!

 

Meanwhile, I had Jack O'Lantern teeth to bag while Dawn and Debbie worked on dressing up the goody bags with curling ribbon.

 

Those were the last tasks before we could consider our work here to be done - and we completed them!

 

Good friends, good company!