Before I get into today’s post, I would like to thank Heather for the wonderful blog candy. Thank you for the wonderful goodies! Here is a picture of what I received:
Chad was very thrilled to receive a Wii for Christmas. He shouted “thanks Mom and Dad, I love you”. He also received two games for his new Wii.
Craig called us from Air Force Basic Training on Christmas morning. It was such a thrill to be able to speak with him. He was in good spirits and was enjoying a ‘relaxed day’. I asked him how he was doing and he told us that “except for all the hollerin‘ it’s kinda fun.”
Have a wonderful weekend. I will be posting two more items of blog candy next week along with my very first video tutorial!
Exctiting ramblings here! Guess what I’m getting for Christmas?! A Cannon HDV Cam-corder! Whoo Hoo, will be video blogging here soon!
Also, can you see the blog candy? That is a container of cute ribbon and a 6X6 Stampin Up patterned paper stach!
How I re-did the reindeer.
Please note — unless otherwise noted, all card stock and inks are from Stampin Up’
1. I used an oval from spellbinders nestabilities it is approximately 4″ in length. It is cut out of Natural Ivory card stock. I then sponged the edges with Chocolate Chip Ink.
2. The nose is a 3/4″ circle cut from Real Red card stock, I embellished the nose with ‘freckles’ drawn on with a Chocolate Chip marker. The nose highlight was achieved by using a white gel pen. The nose is poped up with a pop dot.
3. The antlers are from the Sizzix (exclusive to stampin up) it is the new Tulip Bigz die and the background is cut out of Really Rust card stock, using the top note die then it was sponged with the Chocolate Chip Ink.
4. She is simply finished off with a cute glue gingam bow and google eyes!
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As you can see from the other pictures, there are a couple of cards I made in the last couple of days. The puppy image is colored simply with my copic markers and I went nesty crazy with the cute floral themed thank you card. I decided to use 3-D crystal lacquer to attach the flowers to the card base. Both cards measure a standard A-2 and finish off at 5 1/2 X 4 1/4″ finished.
I hope you guys are having a relaxing time before Christmas. It has been a nice quiet day here and I feel like I actually got some things accomplished!
3/4 cup butter or margarine (I used Crisco)
1 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 cups quick oats (uncooked)
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup raisins
1 cup walnuts (optional)
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1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Grease baking sheets or use Pam .
Put foil on counter or cooling racks as cookies will be soft and may fall thru the rack .
2. Combine first 5 ingredients and beat at medium speed with electric mixer til well blended .
3. Combine oats , flour , soda , salt , cinnamon in separate bowl , then stir in raisins and optional nuts , add this to wet ingredients and mix at low speed til blended
.4. Drop rounded Tablespoons of dough onto cookie sheet 2 inches apart . Bake 1 sheet at a time for 12 minutes or until lightly browned .
Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet then transfer to foil covered cooling racks to continue cooling .Makes approx. 2 1/2 dozen cookies .Let me know if you like them !
They should turn out to be a nice soft cookie .
Thank you so much Lastel! Click here to see her wonderful blog! I really appreciate this great recipe! My husband and son both loved them. The recipe made about 5 dozen cookies!
For those of you in the ‘know’ Craig called from basic this morning, he sounded great and was headed to Church! It was so wonderful to hear his voice, I asked him how he liked having a uniform he said its ok, nice not to worry about what you’re gonna wear from day to day! I made a statement ‘I bet you look good in that uniform’, (here’s one for you) He said “Yes I do!”. That’s my boy!
Hope you guys have a great week, not sure how much blogging I’ll do, but will post blog candy update tomorrow!
Are you laughing yet? I wore these shoes to my favorite local stamp store, I participated in their demo days (showing off the new Hero Arts 2009 collection with their new theme ‘anyone can stamp’)।
Here is the link to this wonderful store. They offer great prices and even offer additional savings when you participate in the make and take activities. I did four different fun projects yesterday and received a 10% off my purchase. The cost for the great projects was a meger $10.00 well worth what I saved off my purchase price.
Now onto the great shoes। I used to see these all the time, and I hope by posting my pair you guys will come up with fun ones of your own. These would be so great for Halloween and like my reindeers, great for Christmas.
I actually found this pair a few years ago at a thrift store, the cost was .75 cents. I have re-created them several times as gifts and they couldn’t be easier. Basically you need felt, pom poms, ribbon, rick rack and a good strong glue.
Yesterday, I got all dressed up and wore them with a nice pair of pants and
Christmas shirt, every one at my husband’s office Christmas party loved them। I had such a blast. I’m thinking of lacing on a jingle bell onto the laces for a little more well, over the top!
I hope everyone is doing well. Only five days until Christmas, I am really enjoying this time of year. Now onto Christmas cookies!
This project started with a broken tray I bought at the Michael’s mark down for $1.19! There was a crack in the bottom and it was missing a couple of pieces of molding from the bottom.
I used a good quality wood filler for the crack in the bottom allow it to dry throughly. The secret to this project frankly was the tons of sanding I did! It was sanded after the filler, and after the first coat of white paint. Sanded again after I decopauged the paper onto the bottom of the tray and sanded one last time with the second coat of lacquer.
This project was so easy, just a bit time consuming!
I wanted to keep the tray gender netural but in keeping with the over-all feel of my home. Since I love music and had some scraps of this fun music paper, it just fit.
As you can see I also altered a note pad, pen, candle and even the envelopes (which are stamped) so my guest can easily use the tray much like the ones found at a fine hotel. I really love the looks of the final project.
Stay tuned. this week will offer a second helping of blog candy! Remember, don’t miss an entry, simply sign up for free email delivery via Feedblitz found on the opening page of the blog!
