Penniedarling

 Now here's the story...  long long ago when SCQuilter get togethers were just new, (SCQers have been going for 20 years)  a gift swap would be the go.   The idea was that you made or bought something quilty wrapped it up and put it in a basket which would be passed around and you would get to pick a parcel in return... but comments were heard along the lines of...  'I made a beautiful something something and look at the crap I got in return!!!'   Soooo...

I came up with the idea of bringing along a gift that you had received, a gift you didn't want but there was nothing wrong with it and it had never been used... we all have these sorts of gifts in our home don't we. 

So way back in 2006 one SCQuilter bought along this Golden Galleon.  Isn't it the most hideous thing you have ever seen.  Well guess what!  It came back the next year and the next, it's been coming to our Christmas Parties for 9 years now!  This year the last years 'Winner' asked her son to make a lovely see through box for it and they wrote the names of the past recipients on the back.

Now 'The Galleon' will be a much sort after gift  :-)

Plus I think the Galleon craze has gone bananas... here are two more that will be back again next Christmas.

There is another gift that keeps giving and it's a Cat Pencil Sharpener that meows when the pencil is inserted....
You can see more of the gifts and fun on the Sydney SCQuilters Blog.     http://sydneyscquilters.blogspot.com.au/

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