Melina Gerosa Bellows - The Fun Book for Christmas: New Ways to Have Fun for the Holidays

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To make the glue, combine the frosting with the cream of tartar. To apply the frosting, squeeze it out of a sealed freezer bag with a hole cut in one corner. To build the house, cut a piece of cardboard thats big enough to provide a base for the scene. Make the front and back walls out of whole graham crackers turned horizontally. For the two remaining sides, use a serrated knife to gently saw the top of a whole graham cracker into a peak. Run a bead of icing along the bottom edge and sides of the crackers.

Glue them together in a rectangle on top of the cardboard. Prop up the walls while you work. For the peaked roof, run icing along the tops of the walls. Place 2 whole graham crackers, turned horizontally, on top of the sides, using icing to hold them in place. Let the icing set overnight. For decorations, use icing and glue on your favorite treats to create doors, windows, trees, and anything else you can imagine.

Let everything set overnight. Cover the cardboard base with shredded coconut to finish your snowy scene. Serve the traditional
Italian Night of the Seven Fishes Christmas Eve dinner .
Here are the courses:
GRILLED SHRIMP BAKED OYSTERS ROASTED SMELTS SMOKED TROUT GRILLED HALIBUT STEAKS WITH FRESH TOMATO AND BASIL SAUCE WHOLE BASS STEAMED WITH ANCHOVIES AND CAPERS LOBSTER RISOTTO

Everyone gets dressed up. Organize a white elephant holiday grab bag in your office.
The Rules Everyone brings a gift worth less than twenty dollars. There must be the same number of gifts as participants.

After drawing numbers from a hat, guest number one chooses a gift and unwraps it, and everyone admires it. On the next turn, guest number two can either steal number ones gift or choose any wrapped gift from the pile. If number two decides to take number ones gift, then number one must open another wrapped gift from the pile. On the third turn, guest number three gets to either steal any unwrapped gift (from number one or number two) or choose a wrapped gift from the pile.
Things to Remember If a gift is stolen from you, you can steal someone elses gift or choose a wrapped one. The stealing continues until a wrapped gift is chosen. A gift cannot be immediately stolen back from the person who just stole it.

The person who steals a gift for the fourth time gets to keep it. The gift cannot be stolen after that. The game is over when the last wrapped gift is opened.