ugly sweater party (open)

[samantha marie mackenna]

(I wanted to get a move on this and at least start the topic since people will be off doing tons of different things between now and the holidays )

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS

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Sam had been baking for days, according to what Sebastian kept telling everyone he knew. To be honest, she didn't really notice the hours that past as she made little gingerbread dressed up as each of the boys upon Eli's request or put the decorations on her ugly sweater themed cake. She spent hours in the kitchen of Sebastian's apartment surrounded by cookies of all kinds, and even a few kinds of sugar-free desserts like jello and pudding and chocolates shaped like sweaters for Cade to eat since he wouldn't be able to enjoy the rest of the desserts she had made. By this point, there were around 15 different trays of cookies, cupcakes, and her ugly sweater cake spread out on Sebastian's kitchen table, each type of dessert placed on a nice little Christmas plate to add to the overall theme of the Ugly Sweater Christmas Party.

The entire gang hadn't been together in what felt like so long with everything that had been coming up lately for people: the tour for Sam and the boys, Cade and Moni's baby, Cole's impending move to France, and so many other things. Sam's only wish for the evening was to have everyone enjoy themselves in a comfortable environment, taking advantage of one of the last times they would probably see each other as a large group of friends. It was really hard over the past few days of pretending to be broken up with Ryan, even though he had been coming over here and sneaking inside a lot. He had tried to help with the baking but in the end he was kicked out of the kitchen for trying to eat too many cookies. Eli had helped a little bit with some of the other varieties of cookies as her little dessert helper, but Sam had done a good job of preventing people from eating her creations before the party started.

Sam had decided to deck herself out in anything Christmas she could find in her closet. She went to the store and decorated a red pair of sneakers, covering the shoes in Christmas designs. She pulled out her wreath earrings and the sweater she had owned for years, given to her by Ryan's mom when she was in high school as a Christmas present specifically from her. She had a cute hat that Cole had given her for her birthday on her head and the adorable bracelet given to her by Ryan for her birthday on her wrist as she attempted to finish decorating the last batch of cupcakes and setting them out on the last of her cute Christmas plates for the party. It was almost 5 pm and people would be showing up soon.

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this post is finished and it stands at a grand total of xxx words. this template was made by SARAH SMILE at caution, the graphics go to google, and the lyrics go to christmas songs. my character is looking fine in www.polyvore.com/untitled_74/set?id=63200955#stream_box if i do say so, and i would like to add that anyone can come as long as they bring food of some kind!

ugly sweater cake:
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Christmas pretzels:
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Table decorations:
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Gingerbread men:
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[sebastian evan steinhardt]

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