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Yes, pretty please! I would love to have a copy of such a book! Gosh, I have already started rationalizing the purchase of a BIA to make it into a book....
Thanks to Papertreys tins and containers I am going to do a lot more baking and stamping/decorating on the containers.
I think I will make fudge, Russian tea cakes (melt in your mouth butter cookies with ground nuts, dusted in icing sugar), hot and spicy nuts, spumonic slices (tri color cookies of red with cherries. green with pistachio pieces and chocolate with chunks), and caramel corn. Oh and my grandma's very special macadamia pineapple squares.
For crafts, I am going to make frames that say joy/noel/etc and mini star book ornaments for everyone. Maybe CD ornaments too as DH is in radio and we get so many CDs we use them as coasters LOL. I need to get rid of them.
If anyone wants any recipes I will be happy to provide.
Would love to hear your recipe and craft ideas. I am ready to get into the Christmas spirit. Am I too early? LOL
I would love your recipe for madacamia pineapple squares, since you offered. What I do at Christmas: I take off a few days from work the first week of December to make my batches of cookies. I make eight different ones. I've done this for years. I gift my neighbors, friends and family with these and I have to say they would be quite upset if they didn't get theirs.:rolleyes: I am making my Christmas cards this year for close friends and family. Honestly I don't give my handmade treasures out to just everyone. LOL I'm a nurse and have two other nurses in the family, so Christmas is when we can all get together, not always on that day. But it's great fun when the house is fully and noisy again.
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I failed miserably at making a book of recipes and crafts from this magical thread- if anyone is interested I now have a bit of time to actually finish putting it together!
You did not fail miserably...life happens. A book sounds neat but would it be hard to add on ideas? Hmmmmmm Of course I would love and be very excited for anything you come up with!;)
Some great ideas (and lots of recipes!) here! So glad I found it!!!.
I will probably be putting together some card sets for some people and for people I *really* like who I want to spend some time on, I'll be making some of these advent calendars:
WOW! all such talented people and such ambition! And my neighbors call me ambitious when I pull out the plans for Christmas and start looking it over in the summer! My DH swears I start all of it on December 26th! He loves the crafts and savings though, and people I know love the fact that it isn't stor-bought J-U-N-K that seems to always circulate.
WOW! all such talented people and such ambition! And my neighbors call me ambitious when I pull out the plans for Christmas and start looking it over in the summer! My DH swears I start all of it on December 26th! He loves the crafts and savings though, and people I know love the fact that it isn't stor-bought J-U-N-K that seems to always circulate.
I am always looking for new ideas for gifts, and to make the holidays more homey and less commercial. Most people love homemade gifts and cookies
a used up gift that you don't have to find a spot for. Count me in if you are able to put together a book.
This year I will be making Orange-Cranberry Scone Mix and Lemon and White Chocolate Icebox Cookie Mix, both in quart jars,
Spiced nuts, Key Lime Bites, Minty Hot Cocoa Mix, Martha Washington Candy and Fudge.
I will also be making Strawberries and Cream milk Bath Mix and about 50 Christmas cards.
This is as far as I've gotten in my planning. I have started on the cards already.
hiya can you share the recipe for Strawberries and Cream milk Bath Mix please thanx xx jo xx
OK i found such a great easy recipe for making soap ,,i thought if you used the strawberry essential oil like in the recipe for milk bath WHAT A GREAT XMAS GIFT the two items would be!!! anyway the recipe is in my blog ..feel free to look ,i'm sure you will love this EASY RECIPE xx jo xx
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The kids and I always make pretzel rings for the teachers. We make over 1000!!
They are really easy. Line a cookie sheet w/foil. Place rows (and rows, and rows) of ring pretzels on the foil. Place an unwrapped hershey kiss in the center of each one. Place in preheated 300 degree oven for 2-2.5 mins. The kisses won't look melted. Press center of kiss down into pretzel w/an m&m (chocolate will fill ring) Place in fridge for 5 mins. Saw this a long time ago in Quick Cooking.
Our teachers have loved them. Some teachers (usually men!) have sent thank you notes saying that the pretzels didn't even make it home since they ate them all at work!
I do winter cards since I can't get my act together before Christmas to get cards done (must be all those pretzel rings!)
I always make snowmen for my sisters (4), my mom, my mil, my sil (1) and my best friends. I'm up to 15 each year. I was thinking of doing the SNOW frame in the SU catty. (The one in the black frame w/the snowman face on a tag.) Only problem is that I don't usually like to color my stamped projects and the snowman and letters are colored w/markers, I think.
So far that's all I have planned. Can't wait to see the great ideas that everyone else comes up with!
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Just wanted to let you know something different to do with the pretzels that my mom does. Instead of a kiss you can use a Rolo and then melt it in the oven and then press a pecan into it...and viola you have a turtle. They are soooooo good. We usually eat the whole first batch we make, haha. Just an extra idea!
ok i finally got around to putting a picture of my handmade soap that i am making for xmas pressies on my blog. Feel free to go have a look xx jo xx
Wow! I love your soap! It's gorgeous! How difficult is it to make? Also, is it expensive to get into this hobby? Could you pm me with some tips/etc? Thank you!
Hiya everyone the soap in the picture on my blog is made using a clear soap base and not the one in my recipe ..i will however make a bar using the recipe then post it on my blog ok .....
Right i have just finished a note pad holder that i saw on someones blog ,,have a look if you like the picture is on my blog... xx jo xx
Hiya everyone the soap in the picture on my blog is made using a clear soap base and not the one in my recipe ..i will however make a bar using the recipe then post it on my blog ok .....
Right i have just finished a note pad holder that i saw on someones blog ,,have a look if you like the picture is on my blog... xx jo xx
Jo, I took a peak at your blog. The note pad holder is just darling! You do such great work!
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Hiya everyone the soap in the picture on my blog is made using a clear soap base and not the one in my recipe ..i will however make a bar using the recipe then post it on my blog ok .....
Right i have just finished a note pad holder that i saw on someones blog ,,have a look if you like the picture is on my blog... xx jo xx
I love the note pad holder - can you tell us the name of that stamp - that is so cute.
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I always want to make a bunch of stuff for Christmas but run out of time. Hopefully this will motivate me to start early so I can get stuff done!
I'll probably bake cookies to send to my family. Not sure which ones yet, but my favorites are oatmeal orange-cranberry. I'll probably make those and a couple of others.
I also want to make calendars this year -- another project that I find hard to get done in time. I should get started on this!
not sure what i want to make/ i know i will probably be baking something like every year. i wanted to do the clipboards for my co workers. but not sure yet. ( i teach so i thought those would be useful for them). i made myself one awhile back. all of the other teachers liked it. So anyway not sure what to do for family. i need to get busy thinking about this quickly its almost here.
