I have invited my "Homegrown & Handmade Ezine Friends" and my "Remember December" blog readers here for the last week before Christmas.
I have once again, over committed myself (I have done MUCH better on NOT doing this in 2009!) to three blogs during December..of which was absolutely looney of me to do and will not be doing again. Thank you all for joining me here and there for the past few months. I will be adding the rest of what I had to add right here for all of us!
January marks my 4th Blog Anniversary and my how things have changed, evolved, grown...etc. I love that I have this blog as a record of my creative journey as well as a journal for the past four years. I suggest that if you do not have a blog that maybe in 2010 you should. It is the beginning of a new DECADE & is a really good way wonderful way to record, remember and reminisce....seriously.
I have been trying to re-read through my blog & as I come across some of my better posts, the ones that mean more to me, I have been adding them to my sidebar under "My Favorite Posts" and I invite you to read them to get to know about me a little bit better. I seem to have more and more new readers (thank you Facebook) so this is an easy way to get to know me and my creative endeavors...
so onto Christmas..and Remember December..a book recording the crazy hectic jam-packed days before Christmas...THat..IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT!!!!!!
Here is a look at my list from yesterday and for today..
I figure that it might as well look cute because I am going to be stuck to it and I wrote a little note to anyone that sees it up in the right hand corner "This list belongs to Stephanie. If you find it, please give it to her and make sure that she is on task" Lists truly keep me on task, and if I don't have one, I am a "Whirling Dervish!" (even though I am anyway!)
moving on to a little Christmas cheer...Here is a Holiday "Trailer Park Martha" recipe for you that I made up from the things I already had.
I grabbed the box of Rice Krispies, the can of Salted Nuts and the package of ("imitation") white chocolate almond bark and went to work. It is really easy and Jack tells me that they are good (I did not try them)
Melt about three squares of fake white chocolate in a deep bowl. Chop up about two or three handfuls of salted nuts ( I separated out the almonds, cashews and a few peanuts) if you have a "Slap Chop" from Vince the weird "infomercial" guy, that will work to chop up the nuts great! I grabbed four handfuls of Rice Krispies (yep, hand straight into the box) and before I dropped them into the bowl, I crushed them. (a good frustration fix!) Now, just stir it all up and either drop scoops onto a piece of foil, waxed paper, or if you are like me and have 500, yes, FIVE HUNDRED little mini cupcake liners, I used those...and then just let them set.
thats it...
The Candy Canes are dipped into the fake milk chocolate Almond Bark and sprinkled with Christmas colors...Kylah & Niguel say these are good, too!
and as promised to my Homegrown & Handmade Ezine...some felt for the Holidays...for all of you...
Here is an idea that you can do several different ways.
Cut your felt pieces (from the felt pattern page), add some hand stitches & button, layer it and machine sew it directly onto a blank card...
or...
create a "ravioli" ornament by layering the pieces together and instead sewing it to a card, sew it together, leaving an opening on top so that you can add a bit of stuffing and a ribbon so that you can hang it...
or
Create a GIFT CARD holder/hanger by stitching just the left. bottom and right sides together. You can either punch a hole in the felt with a crop-o-dile, add an eyelet and hang it from there, or stitch a ribbon to the back side so that you can tie it to your gift bag or box...
and here it the link to the pattern page Felt Holiday Patterns
see you all tomorrow.....