This was the first year for us to organize it, and I believe that even though there is still some room for improvement we did a pretty good job.
The swap meet was held at Summer Tales Boutique, where we arrived a bit earlier to arrange seating and to make the food table ready.
Around 13:00 people starting to arrive and I tried to take as much outfit photos as possible (I love outfit photos), as everyone once again looked wonderful. After everyone arrived and was seated we started unpacking the presents.
(not all presents were there yet when I took this photo, once all the presents were put on the table it was completely filled)
I was really happy to see that everyone had put a lot of thought into their present. I was coupled with Nienke, who had a very clear wish list, so I had a pretty clear view of what I wanted to buy for her (people were also allowed to make something, but as I have two left hands I didn't dare to try). I started out by searching for a headbow or wristcuffs to match her beautiful new Victorian Letter JSK, sadly I couldn't find anything that was to my tastes or in the right shade of red. Thus, I turned my attention to another point in her wish list, cute teacups. One of my favorite brands for cute tableware is Blond Amsterdam, which our garden centre happened to sell. Here I found an awesome breakfast set whit cute images of various breakfast ingredients (like eggs and bacon).
Having found the present for my own secret santa I turned my attention to a new problem, the possibility of people not getting any presents. Cat and I had decided that we should have some spare presents in case there would be someone without a present, we had found some cute items as extra gift, but luckily in the end that was not necessary.
I got an awesome fake fur tola necklace thingie (I'm not really sure what they are called, but they are cute ^_^ ), which is great for this time of year and matches with a big part of my wardrobe. It was package in a present box that was filled with small fabric stars (that I accidentally sprinkled all over my neighbor) and came with a nice note from Nienke.
As the meet was coming to an end people took the opportunity to talk to each other or explore the Summer Tales Boutique store. All in all I believe it was a pretty great day and hope there will be another swap meet next year.
Bonus pic, my outfit -_^
