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I have started yet another Bucilla Stocking Kit. But I can’t find the inspiration to work on it. I am making “A Partridge in a Pear Tree”, and it will be beautiful if I can ever get past all the tedious embroidery. My mind is also elsewhere, I want to make a stocking for my [...]
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My oldest kiddo is learning about Dr. Seuss this week in pre-k, and originally I wasn’t going to do anything for him to take in, but the kids can either bring in something relating to the week’s theme for show and tell, or the letter of the week, which just happens to be ‘V’. I [...]
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I was stumbling on my computer on the Eve of 2012, wishing that Christmas and all the Pepperminty goodness that goes along with Christmas wasn’t over. When it dawned me, It doesn’t have to be Christmas to enjoy peppermint! Talk about a revelation. I had bookmarked these Peppermint Patties earlier in December, but never got [...]
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If there was ever a cookie to leave out for Santa, it would be this one! How can you go wrong with Hot Cocoa in the shape of a cookie! I was looking for new cookie recipes this year and found one that sounded almost good, but I just couldn’t bring myself to make a [...]
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I had already made 6 dozen thumbprint cookies today when the phone rang. It was bad news calling, I won’t bore you with the details, but I can tell you the news made me fidgety. When I get fidgety, I bake. I had 2 egg whites leftover from the thumbprints. So I decided to quickly [...]
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Every year after Christmas I hit Holiday Lane and score some good deals on ornaments – yes it means picking through potentially life threatening broken glass, but for me, it is worth risking life and limb in order to get the kids some banging ornaments for the next year. But a long with getting them [...]
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I have started the cookie baking marathon, and since I am making them as gifts, the kids haven’t really been helping. the thought of their sniffely noses and hacking coughs all over the place, sounds, unappetizing at best. But they still want to have fun and help mommy out. I made a quick trip to [...]
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I had to revisit the almond cookie, I had a certain store bought cookie and thought “hey! I can make this!” So I did. And they turned out pretty darn good! Ingredients 1 cup butter 1/2 cup white sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoons almond extract 2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1/2 cup crushed almonds [...]
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The hubs and I recently relocated south of the Mason-Dixon and a quest for decent Chinese food was born. This evening the craving struck us both, so I quickly found a number and dialed up our dinner. Along with all our usual stuff, we got white rice. Now the Chinese food wasn’t stellar by any [...]
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