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In my quest to be more crafty and more social this year, a sweet pairing in its own right, I organized a Girl’s Craft Night with some friends from work. We gathered together in the middle of the week for some laughs, crafts, chocolate, and wine. A good time was had by all, our craft was amazingly easy-even for the self-proclaimed-not-crafty girls in the group, and we enjoyed some creamy Ghirardelli chocolates and a savory cheese platter, and washed it all down with a bottle of Josh Cellars Pinot Noir.
I picked up the Ghirardelli Valentine’s Chocolate Assortments & Impressions at Walmart and if you don’t live in a dry county, like I do, you can pick up the Josh Cellars Wine at Walmart, too. Convenient, right?
I’ve realized that a girl’s craft night doesn’t have to be a hectic-crazy-drive-to-a-million-different-places-hassle to put together a fancy-ish spread. That fabulous cheese and grape platter was pulled together from the local grocery store deli.
Since I was feeling more, shall we say-sophisticated with our special treats and wine, I chose a craft a little more grown up than the typical pink, red, and white Valentine’s craft I would normally do at this time of year.
Jewelry making is on my list of crafty adventures to try this year. These nest rings were fun to try and I think we did spectacularly. I used this tutorial to practice before hand, except I used adjustable ring forms and a heavy duty craft adhesive since we were newbies.
My friends were so into making these and were feeling like kindergarteners when I told them we had enough supplies to each make another ring.
Can you blame them? How cute are these nest rings?
I have tons of other fun photos from our crafty girls night over on the Facebook page.
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(By the way, the Pinot Noir was good-I wish I had chilled it before uncorking, though).
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My favorite is merlot followed by rose. My favorite Ghirardelli is the milk chocolate with caramel! Yum! I LOVE those nest rings! How unique and fun! — Amy @ http://thegiftedgabber.com
I loved the Pinot Noir and my favorite Ghirardelli was a tie between the sea salt/almond and the dark chocolate strawberry. What a fun party. Wish I lived closer!
Thanks, Amy. The rings were so fun to make. I have a couple more in progress this morning.
I almost picked up a bag of the strawberry but the sea salt caramel called out to me louder. Wish you were over this way, too!!
I can see making larger bird nest ring a little larger use as napkin rings for Easter. I've decided I must try the Josh Pinot Noir and always opt for dark chocolate. The sea salt version would be yummy.
My favorite Ghiradelli chocolate squares has always been dark chocolate and raspberry. A few of those with a glass of merlot and I am in happy land.
My favorite Ghiradelli chocolate squares has always been dark chocolate and raspberry. A few of those with a glass of merlot and I am in happy land.
I like milk chocolate with moscato