Instructions
Please bring something from your home
that you have bought and never used, or seldom
used, DO NOT buy something new.
Please wrap your "White Elephant Gift"
attractively in gift wrap, not a gift bag
the fun is not knowing what the "gift" is...
The table was "decorated" with the most amazing looking gifts....... that looked almost too nice to be true..... and they were.......
All the ladies were given a number and they could choose a gift, did we laugh people had really used more than a little imagination when deciding on what to bring, I have not see such an array of useless gifts, there was a car coffee maker, (apparently by the time you get to Durban the coffee would be hot enough to drink), there was the ugliest jam server I have ever seen, and I mean ever, there were icing pipers, foot massagers, there were plastic beads to make your own jewellery, there were some quite cool things as well.............. strongly fought for I might add, the twist however was that you were allowed to steal the gift from the person before you................. at one point I thought I would have to call in some additional help and 911 was already on my speed dial............ thankfully we were all good Christian ladies.........well almost all of us.
The talk for the day was getting rid of your White Elephants, materially, emotionally and perceptionally, a friend shared with us her life, and how she had to get rid of her White Elephants, one husband killed in a car accident, one husband committed suicide, one husband had a stroke and is completely paralised and one husband divorced.................... and how she has had to overcome anger, grief and disappointments and I know that a number of people were more than a little affected by her unique life story
We shared some laughs, and drank some afternoon tea, we played some games it is absolutely amazing what women have in there hand bags. I was the MC for the afternoon, director of games and sole judge and jury................. I was not responsible for the photo's that was Kayla's job, all of which she took before everyone had arrived, 5 in total........... thanks Kayla................. thanks Penny for the idea, it was great fun.
