Wine and Cheese....

are really awesome....
and we had a lot of both at our wine and cheese party the other night.

Veggies and dips (my mom made me the dips cause she's cool like that)....

The artistic fruit platter (the berries are "wine" and the pineapple and melon are "cheese", get it?)...

Cheese (and nuts, honey, mustard, jelly, etc)...

Meat and Cheese....

Wine (well wine charms)...

In conclusion, I recommend that you all have a wine (or beer, or Shirley Temple) and cheese party.  Have your friends bring over some cheese and wine of their choosing and then get someone to make something chocolate (like the awesome chocolate fondue we had which I don't have a picture of).  Then add in fruit, veggies, bread, crackers, etc.  Good stuff.  In all we had about 6 types of cheese, a goat cheese ball with basil oil, goat cheese corn cakes, a fruit platter, veggie platter, fondue with strawberries and pound cake, cheese straws, salami, and a ton of crackers and bread.  Luckily we had those veggies and fruit to balance out all the other stuff.  But as always, the best part was the friendships (which I forgot to capture with my camera).

Have you ever hosted a wine and cheese party?

Wedding Week-Wine Time

I have been pretty surrounded by weddings recently.  I mean we had the Acorn Wedding, the McRosen Engagement, Chelsea Clinton's Wedding, My Own Anniversary, etc.  I decided to start focusing my Etsy shop more on wedding related things.  Recently I have been making a bunch of wine charms that I think would be great for wedding events.

At the last wedding I was in, the Groom sent the bride and bridesmaids a bottle of champagne.  (Although I missed the exact moment because I was working on my hairstyle).  I thought these would be great for just that occasion.  See they are blue.  Something blue......

The only thing that could have improved the plastic champagne flutes that Mo prepared for us for the Acorn bachelorette party, would have been these handy pink wine charms.  Bachelorette parties can get crazy.  You don't want to accidentally drink out of the wrong glass........

On the topic of wine.....For my own wedding I decided I wanted to make my bridesmaids and BFFs wine related gifts.  So I painted them wine glasses.  I had big dreams of making intricate designs on the glasses but dots ended up being about as intricate as I could get.  I just bought some glass paint at Michael's and followed the instructions.  They give you a special paint that you use to pre-paint the glasses so that the paint doesn't wash off.  I may have forgotten to use that on some of them.  Ooops.  Oh well, some of the dots are still on.  I've seen them at my friend's houses.

So what do you think of my wine related crafts?
And more importantly.......
Do you like Red Wine?
White Wine?
Champagne?
Arbor Mist?
Or just plain beer?

Oh and a side note-Although in my last post I said my sister makes fun of the questions at the end of my blogs, she is still a wonderful person.  A truly wonderful person.  The best.