Finger Food for New Year's Eve

With a sigh of pure sensual greed, Shelby popped a chilled shrimp into her mouth. 
"I don't know what this is," she murmured, giving a tiny hors d'oeuvre a close study. "Have a taste and tell me." 
Intrigued, Alan bit into the finger food she held to his mouth. 
"Pate wrapped in pastry with a touch of chestnut." 
"Hmm. Okay." Shelby devoured the rest of it. 


All the Possibilities

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Holiday Appetizer Buffet Recipes

Ranging from elegant seafood nibbles to hearty picks like meatballs, hot dips, and deviled eggs, these Christmas appetizer recipes were chosen specifically for this season's most festive gatherings. Find finger buffet ideas for easygoing holiday nibbles-and-sips parties, Christmas appetizer ideas to kick off a grand holiday feast, and more ways to irresistibly celebrate the season, bite by bite.

BHG

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“With a little class. I made fancy hors d‟oeuvres.” 

“Pigs in a blanket?”

 When she laughed, tossing back her head the way she did, he poked her. 

“I like pigs in a blanket.” 

“You‟re not getting them tonight.” 

Happy Ever After

Women like men's hands

With a slight frown she skimmed her gaze over the tabletop until it rested on his hands.
Good God, she thought with a jolt, they were beautiful. The wrists were narrow, giving a
sense not of weakness but of graceful strength and capability. The backs of his hands were
deeply tanned and unmarred, long and lean, as were his fingers. The nails were short and
straight. Masculine was her first thought, then delicate came quickly on the tail of it.
Gennie could picture the hands holding a flute just as easily as she could see them
wielding a saber.
For a moment she forgot the rest of him in her fascination with his hands, and her reaction
to them. She felt the stir but didn’t suppress it. She was certain any woman who saw those
romantic, exquisite hands would automatically wonder just what they would feel like on
her skin. Impatient hands, clever. They were the kind that could either rip the clothes off a
woman or gently undress her before she had any idea what was happening.
When a thrill Gennie recognized as anticipation sprinted up her spine, she caught herself.
What was she thinking of!


One Man's Art

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By Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 

http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/print-room-visit-pre-raphaelite-drawings – 

image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44753479

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He must do something physical with his

hands, she thought fleetingly. His weren't the palms of a paper-pusher. The edge in her

voice was calculated to combat the attraction and the vulnerability that went with it.

All the Possibilities

(The MacGregor's)

Psychology of Color and Emotion

Alan glanced around. The interest he'd felt for the woman was only increased now by her living quarters. 

It was a hodgepodge of colors that should have clashed but didn't. 

Bold greens, vivid blues, and the occasional slash of scarlet. 

Bohemian. 

Perhaps flamboyant was a better description. 

Either adjective fit, just as either fit the woman who lived there. 



All the Possibilities

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By Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA (This time she was snatched) 
[CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion

His most fascinating theories explore the psychological impact of different colors on mood and emotion — ideas derived by the poet’s intuition, which are part entertaining accounts bordering on superstition, part prescient insights corroborated by hard science some two centuries later, and part purely delightful manifestations of the beauty of language.

BRAIN PICKINGS

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She had on those high, sharp-heeled boots, faded jeans, and a watch cap, bright as a cardinal, pulled over her hair.

She’d wound on a scarf that made him think of Joseph’s coat of many colors, which added a
jauntiness with her coat opened. 

Under it was a sweater the color of ripe blueberries.

There was something about her, he mused, that would have been bright and eye-catching even in mud brown.



Blood Brothers

what your laugh says about you

Yet… she sighed when Shelby laughed that smoky careless laugh as she drew out various members of the group she'd joined. Yet Shelby was so vital, so bright. Perhaps she was worrying over nothing. Happiness was a very personal thing.

Alan watched the woman with flaming hair who was dressed like a wealthy Gypsy. He could hear her laugh float across the room, at once sensuous and innocent. 

All the Possibilities

MacGregors - Alan & Shelby

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