Cookie Exchange Party!

I hosted a Cookie Exchange Party this past weekend.  Everyone brought 5 dozen cookies of one type, and then we traded with each other so we left with 1 dozen each of 5 types of cookies.  I make a lot of holiday cookies starting in November in preparation for Christmas, so I put together a cookie platter 

below (the two top tiers were for eating, the bottom tier were my "Exchange" cookies).

Since she knows how crazy about cookies I am, my friend Liz spent all day to make me a display tree out of star-shaped sugar cookies!

 To welcome everyone arriving at the party, I hung a bow on our door.  I fashioned it by taking red and green ribbon, placing it on top of each other, and forming loops, which I stapled in place.  I then wrapped a small piece of green ribbon around the center of the loops to hide the staples and held that in place with a small piece of double-sided tape.  I took a few extra ornaments and hooked them onto the bow, and voila!