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!
I have seen a few versions of this stamp – punch art on the net. Here is my version of this cute reindeer. This one is made to hold a gift card but you can use them for place markers or even as a cute napkin ring!
Heres the how too:
First you will need the following supplies:
Top note die from Stampin Up or the label’s dies from spellbinders (nestabilities).
1. Cut the base of the card out of the kraft paper using the top note die or spellbinders die allowing two pieces to overlap and keep them connected.
2. Sponge edges of card base and oval punch with basic brown ink.
3. Cut small label with the spellbinders die or the SU curly label punch. Then sponge the edges with basic brown ink.
4. Put ribbon around card as sown and attach the smaller label die on top.
5. To construct the reindeer:
a. Cut the antlers in half and pace behind head, the hair was made using the bo-ho blossoms punch which I trimmed off. draw a line from the bottom up about 1/4″ and attach red nose (circle punch that measures 1/2″) I embellished nose with a white pen. the face is embellished with a brown marker to make his ‘freckles’.
b. Attach google eyes with glue and attached assembled reindeer to the brown layer as shown. Then stamp “Merry Christmas” or other holiday greeting of your choice on top using basic brown ink. My “merry christmas” is from Hampton art stamps.
I found a neat video tutorial here for you die hard stampin up girls out there!
Ok, are you ready for your first blog candy teaser? Here is a sneak peak of the first item for the blog candy. Blog candy will begin today and end Jan 21st.
If you have won blog candy in the last 5 months, please continue to post to the blog, however, I want to be fair and will take your name out of the ‘hat’ for the next drawing. I hope this is ok, since I love you guys and your great comments.
There are eight clear stamps in this set, it is from inkadinkado, and the set is named ‘Beautiful faries”.
If you recreate today’s project, please give me due-credit. I would love to see your creations, if you have done any of my projects please make sure I have a link to the SCS gallery or your blog so I can see them and leave you a nice comment as well!
OK, I did a flip card for Craig. Hopefully he won’t get razzed too much over it. They are so much fun to make and send!/
The bottom pink card is for a friend, it will go with her Christmas present!
I heard from Craig yesterday, get this he called from Lackland, AFB and I had just finished cutting an onion. My eyes where so misty I could hardly see and the kid is talking 90 mph and wants me to write his addy down. I kept telling him “I know you only have a few minutes, but you’ve got to slow down enough for mom to write this down”. He was in good spirits and sounded really good on the phone!
Today is my 44th birthday. Hey I’m to young to be 44 (guess not).
My hubby took me out to my favorite chinese place for lunch and we went by our local (very small) Joanne’s store. They are getting ready to close and are starting to have some terrific clearance prices. My favorite was getting the 180 stacks of Christmas decorative paper for 50% off. I picked up some six packs of coasters for .20 cents each. Nice bargins!/
Sorry tonights post is so short, but I’m gonna watch some tube with the family and call it an early night!/