Hello Craft invites you and yours to join us for a crafty holiday get together. Bring your holiday cheer, a small appetite and a handmade gift to play in our holiday gift exchange.

Join us Tuesday December, 15 at the Black Squirrel’s upstairs lounge from 7 to 10 pm. We’ll have holiday card and button making, some appetizers, a cash bar and a Handmade White Elephant.

We’ll start the White Elephant around 8:30 pm. To participate, bring a handmade gift worth no more than $15. It can be something you made or by someone else, just as long as it is handmade. We’ll settle in and explain the rules of the game on the night of. If you came to the Summit of Awesome you know how much fun this is!

So, we’ll see you Tuesday December 15, at 7pm. The Black Squirrel is located at 2427 18th St. NW in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

Happy Holidays!

Included in the schedule at the Summit of Awesome is the Awesome Crafty White Elephant swap on Sunday. This old holiday favorite is shaking off the dust and getting a new handmade twist.

For you Three day pass holders and Sunday day pass holders listen up because here is what you have to do to participate in this nifty Crafty White Elephant Swap.

To participate, bring a handmade item created by you or someone you admire. Please make sure this lucky item is valued at no more than $15 and wrap this goody in fun and pretty packaging.

At the awesome crafty swap, you’ll relinquish your handmade gift and put your name in a hat.

A name will be picked from the hat at random and will begin the swapping process. This person will go and select a wrapped gift and open it and then pick the next name out of the hat.

This new person will go and select a gift and unwrap it. This person now has the opportunity to either stay with the gift they opened or swap with any of the previously opened gifts. They will have a time limit to decide and to swap. The swap will continue in this order until all the items are opened.

Here are the house rules: We know there are many ways to play the white elephant game, but these are the rules we are going to play by. Opened items will have a swap limit meaning that items will be considered out of play when they have been swaped twice. At that point they will no longer be able to be swaped. This first name drawn is kind of out of luck, and the last name drawn is gold.

We can’t wait to end the weekend on this fast and fun game of handmade swapping goodness!