Sunday, December 13, 2009
And so it begins....
Today was the kickoff, and I'm not talking about football! I made rice krispy decorated treats, Chex mix, minty brownies, powdered sugar dusted date balls, peanut clusters and turtle pretzels. I think I might be done for the day. We make this stuff every year, and every year we say we won't make as much stuff; but you feel bad if you leave out someone's favorite item! Next weekend I'll tackle chocolate fudge, cranberry and walnut white fudge, peppermint bark, oatmeal raisin cookies, peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip cookies and of course, sugar cookies. Orders are starting to roll in; so trying to get my family's stuff done early. I found these minty snowmen I'd like to try but they sound a little time consuming. I also want to make some cinammon ornaments to hang on the tree. It's too bad that humans need so much sleep; there's so much I want to do! I don't even think one of each of all that stuff will all fit on the "Cookies for Santa" plate I have! Happy baking to you!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Happy Holidays!!!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and good luck in the New Year! Have a safe and happy holiday season with friends and Family.More Christmas and Winter cookie pictures can be found by looking at last year's posts. Prices vary depending on cookie size/personalization.
Decorated Christmas cookie assortments are $16 per dozen. If you'd like to decorate them yourself, I'll do the baking for $8 per dozen of "naked" cookies. Order yours today by emailing TooCuteToEat1@yahoo.com. There are dozens of shapes to choose from!
First Tree
I have always had little crafty-type Christmas trees at my various apartments, with tiny decorations on them; placed up high so my cats wouldn't eat them. I've never been a big decorator, trying to keep things simple and not cluttered. I've never wanted to spend 3 days packing all that stuff back up!
I warned Dave that when we got a house, I was going to put up a big tree! It just so happens that my parents have moved into a retirement community and they haven't put up their tree in a couple years anyway, so they said we could have it. I should have paid more attention to it's assembly over the years - but that was always my sister and dad's job to assemble and light it. Luckily I was home alone, and the embarassment was not personally witnessed by anyone. :)
I realized that this tree that is now ours is going to have some major transformations. If it had a personality it might go into a little shock. Although the tree is now ours, I don't feel I have the right to lay claim to the ornaments that go with it - all of my brothers and sisters and I will go through them in the coming weeks to divvy them up. I took a couple of the ornaments that I knew I had made or given to my parents to put on our tree. And we have a couple that we've purchased for each other; and some very simple balls in multiple colors. That made a grand total of about 30 things on this tree, and I'm sure it was feeling pretty naked. It wasn't covered in 50 year old beautiful glass ornaments; funky little elves; hand crocheted snowflakes; miniature "stained glass" kid projects. And I thought, I can't have a naked tree!
So I started thinking about things that could take up a little space on this tree; fill in the gaps a bit. I remembered I had some crystals that I used to make beaded suncatchers when I sold handmade jewelry at the local Farmer's Market. They came in various sizes and colors and look pretty. I had an ornament that is a picture frame, so I put one of our wedding pictures from this summer in there. And then I realized that I have tiny Christmas cookie cutters that are too small to use for cookies, so I put hangers on those and added them to the tree. And pretty soon, the tree was starting to look a lot less naked, and a lot more like it belonged to us instead of my parents. Then I realized that this is the process of most trees and family traditions - that you add what has meaning to you and it carries on down the years. It will take awhile to build a collection of ornaments that are thoughtfully handmade or given as gifts; in 10 years there may only be 1 or 2 crystals and cookie cutters, but for this year, this is our tree; with my parent's angel looking down over it all. I didn't think I should seperate the angel from the tree; and she's still smiling, so I hope she approves.
I warned Dave that when we got a house, I was going to put up a big tree! It just so happens that my parents have moved into a retirement community and they haven't put up their tree in a couple years anyway, so they said we could have it. I should have paid more attention to it's assembly over the years - but that was always my sister and dad's job to assemble and light it. Luckily I was home alone, and the embarassment was not personally witnessed by anyone. :)
I realized that this tree that is now ours is going to have some major transformations. If it had a personality it might go into a little shock. Although the tree is now ours, I don't feel I have the right to lay claim to the ornaments that go with it - all of my brothers and sisters and I will go through them in the coming weeks to divvy them up. I took a couple of the ornaments that I knew I had made or given to my parents to put on our tree. And we have a couple that we've purchased for each other; and some very simple balls in multiple colors. That made a grand total of about 30 things on this tree, and I'm sure it was feeling pretty naked. It wasn't covered in 50 year old beautiful glass ornaments; funky little elves; hand crocheted snowflakes; miniature "stained glass" kid projects. And I thought, I can't have a naked tree!
So I started thinking about things that could take up a little space on this tree; fill in the gaps a bit. I remembered I had some crystals that I used to make beaded suncatchers when I sold handmade jewelry at the local Farmer's Market. They came in various sizes and colors and look pretty. I had an ornament that is a picture frame, so I put one of our wedding pictures from this summer in there. And then I realized that I have tiny Christmas cookie cutters that are too small to use for cookies, so I put hangers on those and added them to the tree. And pretty soon, the tree was starting to look a lot less naked, and a lot more like it belonged to us instead of my parents. Then I realized that this is the process of most trees and family traditions - that you add what has meaning to you and it carries on down the years. It will take awhile to build a collection of ornaments that are thoughtfully handmade or given as gifts; in 10 years there may only be 1 or 2 crystals and cookie cutters, but for this year, this is our tree; with my parent's angel looking down over it all. I didn't think I should seperate the angel from the tree; and she's still smiling, so I hope she approves.
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