Super simple – only three ingredients, but they combine into pure bliss! It’s hard to get a clear picture of the image, but above are santa and bells and holly stamped shortbread cookies. These are made with Ryecraft cookie stamps, but you could make them using anything that would leave a nice impression on the {…Continue Reading}
Holiday Baking – Petite Cheesecakes
These were my Mom’s submission to her craft group cookie exchange, so every year she would make something like eight batches of these and package them up. All the husbands would anxiously await their wives’ return to snag the little cheesecakes before their kids tore into all the cookies. Once the annual cookie exchanges were no {…Continue Reading}
Holiday Baking – Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
I got the recipe for these from a supervisor when I was a college co-op. I’ve made them nearly every year since. I love keeping them in a tin in the garage so they’re a little chilled – yum, yum! They’re similar to buckeyes, but I think there’s enough difference to warrant a different name. {…Continue Reading}
Holiday Baking – Chocolate Mint Cookies
Each year for Christmas, I have several go-to cookies that MUST be made. I’ll share them for you – maybe they’ll become one of your holiday regulars!  These chocolate mint cookies are my absolute favorite cookie in the whole world – chocolate plus Andes mint = yummie!!!! I started baking these when I was {…Continue Reading}
A Little Too Quiet…
So I was quickly checking out the projects on Shwin & Shwin’s Project Toddler Runway – I’m in the top 15 and hoping to make it to the top ten! Suddenly I realized that things in the next room were quiet. A little too quiet. Arden had gotten hold of my in-process scarflette project, taken {…Continue Reading}
Project Toddler Runway – Voting for Top 10
Please go and vote for my blue dress project at Schwin&Schwin! I took a shirt of mine that I loved but didn’t fit me anymore and made a dress for Arden. If I make the top 10, I’ll compete in weekly challenges Project Runway style and the finalists will make a three look collection. Please {…Continue Reading}
Project Toddler Runway – I Made the Top 15!
Schwin & Schwin are hosting Project Toddler Runway. On December 16th they will present the ones that made top 15, and voting will open to narrow the top 15 down to the top 10. For the top 10, each week there will be a new challenge presented on Monday. Projects will be posted on Friday and the voting {…Continue Reading}
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Dave, being from Idaho, has received various Mr. Potato Heads as gifts over the years. Arden has recently become fascinated with them, and has become proficient in moving all the parts around. Most of the potatoes are themed, and Santa Spud comes with a little beard that she’s figured out how to put on herself – {…Continue Reading}
Snow!
We’re getting quite a bit of fluffy wet snow here in Michigan, so we bundled up Arden for her first foray into a winter wonderland! The images from A Christmas Story where the kids are so bundled up they can’t move their arms keep running through my head. We made our first snow angel (with a {…Continue Reading}
Refinished ReStore Chairs
I made the final push and got the chairs I purchased for $100 from the ReStore refinished! I think they turned out really great, and I learned a bit along the way. Here’s what I did: I took the ucky bad vinyl seats off and gave all the chairs a light sanding all over with {…Continue Reading}
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