Holiday Treats I made

Here is a look at what I made over the holiday, as far as treats go anyway. 

I made them for a family Christmas party for Sunday for all to share. 

Those that had them truly enjoyed them.

 Peppermint Oreo's:

Click here for the recipe

 My Bacon and Onion Cheese balls:

2 pkg of Cream Cheese, 1 cup of shredded sharp cheddar, 1/2 cup chopped green onion.  Mix together then roll into individual balls and then roll in cooked, crumbled bacon.  Return to fridge to set then serve. YUM!! 

 Chocolate covered pretzels:

One dipped in Score Bar pieces, the other in sprinkles.

So go make yourself some of these treats to ring in the new year

with friends and family!

Top 5 posts of 2010

What a year is has been! 

A great, wonderful, difficult for me and my little family and amazing all at the same time,  year for sure.  My own interests have blossomed over the year and thanks to all of you I have learned so much.  Thanks for sharing what you know with me and helping me share what I love to do with all of you.

Here are the top 5 posts of 2010!!

Just click on the link and it will take you right back to the original post.

Below I have also posted a link to the top 5 posts of 2009 as well

 #5   Scrabble Tile Magnet Frame

#4 Fabric Hand Prints 

#3 Witch Shoe Banner

# 2 Re-purposed Soda Pop Bottles for Valentine's Day

 #1 Play Kitchen
That won a Blue ribbon at my State Fair

Click HERE for the top 2009 posts!

They include:

Quiet Book

framed fabric wall art

fridge magnets

Shopping bag makeover

children board book makeover

Gift ideas for your Girl Friends

I have been busy making up some more of these to give away to my friends

 Glass Tile necklaces

(scrapbook paper is perfect for these)

 I made these ones to give to my aunts for Christmas:

 Or how about some smancy fancy button rings:

(I use shank buttons, cut off the loop, glue a ring blank to the bottom and your done)

 Our these lovies.  Poppie clips perfect for hair or use them as a brooch.

ooooo.... I can't wait to give them away!

Dinner Ideas for the week before Christmas

*** updated***

Are you ready for a BUSY week??...... or am I the only one that feels that way a week before Christmas?  Here are a few ideas for dinner this week.  Sometimes the hardest thing about cooking dinner is deciding what to have.  Hope this helps :)

Click here for the above recipe! 

 Lemon Chicken

 Honey Mustard Pork

Grilled pork with a sauce made with honey, dijon mustard and mayo.  Easy as that!!

Chicken tacos:

cooked chicken in the crock pot with a small amount of water and 2 packets of taco seasoning.  Shredded the chicken once cooked then placed it back in the sauce until it was time for dinner.  Seasoned mexi rice packet from the store, a can a black beans, tomato, cheese and green onion for garnish

Just click on recipes in my side bar and you will find many more ideas for dinner 

plus a bunch of other recipes there.

Good luck!!

Neighbor Gifts...Snowman Buttons and Treat Jars

There are only SOME things better then Oreo's.....like brownies :0)

So why not Snowman Buttons!

Here is a little poem that I attached to each gift.

This is what we handed out for neighbor gifts this year!

I found the big pack of Oreo's at Sam's Club.  The box comes with 10 packs of separate pre-packed Oreo's, perfect for gift giving. 20 neighbor gifts for less then $12.00  And so many of them have told me that they loved the buttons! 

 A simple little gift I gave to a few of the ladies in my neighborhood for Visiting Teaching were these simple little treat jars. 

 I made them out of baby food jars. I spray painted the lids, filled them with mint m&m's, tied them with a tag and ribbon. Just a simple way of saying Merry Christmas!

Gift of Meaning....12 days of Christmas for your hubby

 I am pretty excited about this gift.  Who wouldn't love 12 gifts before Christmas?!?!  Well my hubby is so deserving so for his Gift of Meaning this year this is what I have decided to do....12 days of little meaningful items. 

Things he uses and things he eats. 

I am going to drop these off to him at work everyday for 12 days.....just to make it more meaningful for him.

I went right along with the song.  I didn't make it to different.  I wrapped up the items as man-ly as I could using brown paper bags and twine.  I used the numbers from here and made a card and tied them onto each bag.  Inside the card is the words of the song for that day.

Here are some of the items I have ready....

Here is the list of all the items I am doing for each day:
(I will buy the milk and fries on the day of)

DAY 1-can of pears

2-turtle candy bar

3-French Fries

4-Notepad

5-bag of Funyuns

6-Egg Nog

7-body wash

8-Chocolate milk

9-socks

10-Jerky sticks (for ten "jerks" a leaping

11-hair gel (for eleven pipers "primping"

12-Peanuts (jar looks like a drum)

I am so excited to start giving these away this week :)

Printable Christmas Subway Art

Using a lot of the lines from some of my favorite Christmas Carols, I made this framed Christmas Subway Art to display in my living room.

 I did this one the same way I did the one HERE.

Gift of Meaning.....Dr Seuss PJ's

 Our almost 4 year old girl is IN LOVE with Cat in the Hat from Dr. Seuss.

I am happy about that....much better then all the princess stuff.  So for her

Gift of Meaning

this year I found some fabric on etsy and made her a new pillowcase.  And with the extra images I had left over I used them to make some new pajamas.

 I can't wait to hear her Squeal with delight :)

 I just cut out the fabric, ironed them onto a set of thermal pj's with heat n bond and then zig-zaged around the edges with my sewing machine. 

I can just see her hanging out in her new jammies and laying on her pillow

reading all of her Dr. Seuss books.  so sweet!

December Wreath

I wrapped a square wooden frame with a tree garland and a red garland and then took a smaller frame I had on hand and added the fun print inside.  Both frames hang from the same hook on my door.

I found the free printable HERE

The Countdown begins......my new advent

 This was the fastest advent I have been able to put together!! So simple and fun. The great thing is I can change it up for different Holidays. 

Here is what you need:

Over the door shoe holder with 24 pockets (found mine at Target)

A piece of scrapbook paper with advent numbers ( I saw several different designs at my local scrapbook store) I cut mine out and HARD laminated the numbers so I can use them over and over.

 Then I bought 2 packages of mini office clips (found mine at Wal-mart for $0.88 a box) and then tied different ribbons to them.  You use these to hold the numbers.

 Now for the hard part.....coming up with 24 different things to do during the month of December. 

I LOVE THE POCKETS!!!  They are big enough to hold fun things.....like if you are going to make cookies one night the package of chocolate chips fits in the pocket!!!

 We are doing all shorts of different things throughout the month:

make cookies, see the Lights on Temple Square, painting pictures, make a reindeer sock puppet, daddy's birthday party, watch a Christmas movie, read a Christmas story, put up the tree and put out the nativity......

Some nights the kiddies will get a small item like an apron to use throughout the month for when we do cooking, or a Christmas matching game.  I found most of my items at Michael's and the dollar store. 

 I am so glad that I stumbled across this idea HERE.

I am off to go fill up all those empty pockets!!  (chuckle chuckle)