House Warming

It's summer and I love to give books as house-warming gifts when I visit friends in the country. ❋ Tess Ghilaga (2011)

LG Fashion Week has made its home at Heritage Court in Toronto but the spring 2011 shows didn't amount to much of a house-warming party with only a handful of designs garnering much attention, never mind acclaim. ❋ Marissa Bronfman (2010)

While intramural tensions mount and defuse for the Eaton Place inhabitants, there's also a Holland house-warming party involving a visit from Joachim von Ribbentrop Edward Baker-Duly, who subsequently dallies with Persephone and causes foreign-office repercussions. ❋ David Finkle (2011)

Among the copious potables imbibed was a bottle of the port wine I made so long ago and given as a house-warming gift to the Casa. ❋ Moonchylde (2009)

Another example is: Dear Mr. & Mrs. … we are having a house-warming party on … .. and we would love to have you too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alva threw down the gauntlet when she planned an enormous house-warming costume ball complete with expensive favors and elaborate quadrilles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We were chatting on the phone and I said, almost as a joke, "So, I'm having a house-warming party on Saturday, fancy coming over?" ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Now it's a tradition, with people buying them for their children as a house-warming gift." ❋ Gwendolyn Bounds (2011)

When she brought him to my house-warming party, I opened the door and fell, hard, for the guy — who became my husband six years later. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We wrote the titles of the thirteen stories on thirteen sticky-back labels and folded them up carefully, and put them into a splendid glass champagne cooler that had been given to my wife and me by Phyllis and Victor Grann as a house-warming present for our apartment beside the Caribbean Sea. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)

Following the exchange, Mwamwaya was invited to Tron's house-warming party where he met the other half of Radioclit, Johan Karlberg. ❋ Unknown (2009)