Follow-up

Back in October I posted about a cute gift idea here.

Just wanted to follow-up and let you know that I actually completed the project! It looks amazing!



Enjoy!

Checklist

I have been very busy this past week... as I am sure you all have been. Buying the perfect present is always near the top of my list (I honestly love giving more than receiving). Along with shopping, there is always baking, cleaning, card making, wrapping, and much much more. I also work in retail... no explanation necessary. It is crazy! Today was my last day off before Christmas so I got a lot of things done. Sweet! Here is my check list...

1. Get up super early and go shopping. Buy the last few presents. Check!

2. Wrap presents. Check!



3. Complete cookie baskets for our mail carrier, Fed-ex, UPS, the bank tellers... and all the other people that make our life so easy during the year... 10 baskets in all. Check!



4. Clean the house. Check!

no pic. just take my word for it. :)

5. Play with Cole and his new toy! Check!





6. Tackle that pile of Christmas cards on the entry way table... some to send one to, and pictures to hang up... long letters to read. One of my favorite things to do.
Check!




Now I'm off to get pretty... FH and I are going to my parents house for dinner. Yumm!

Enjoy!

I'm in love...

With my new camera!

FH gave me my Christmas present early so I could use it during the pre-Christmas festivities... I am so excited! It's a Nikon and it's my new BFF!

Just to show you how different the quality is from the camera we had and the new one...

A picture I had previously posted of our Christmas Tree (with the old camera)



A picture I took today with the new camera! Hallelujah!



Enjoy!

Christmas Cards

I am off work today... blissfully I slept till way past 10am, got my crock pot going for dinner, and started addressing our Christmas Cards. They are by far my favorite we have ever sent out. I took Cole's picture myself...



and uploaded it to shutterfly.com.

The cards turned out super cute... and are going out tomorrow! Check!



Enjoy!

Cookie Party!

I had a cookie party last year. It rocked. So I am doing it again. It is tonight! :)
I have seen many different ways to host a cookie party but for us this is....

How it works:

1. Send out cute invitations like these...

(front)

(back)

2. Each guest brings 6 packs of cookies (6 cookies in each pack) and 12 cookies to share the night of the party. (I'll do the math for you. Make 4 dozen cookies)

3. Each guest also prints their recipe on a 1/2 sheet of paper. (8 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches). and prints one for each guest at the party ( I said bring 20).

4. The host has cookie plates ready to receive the sampling cookies (cut into pieces, eating that many cookies might make you sick) and as the host I also prepared binding covers to create their take home cookbooks.

5. At the end of the night, each guest will have aprox 20 recipes in their cookbook and 6 different packs of cookies to take home! :) Fun!

I'll post pics of how much fun we had later. I've been a lazy poster lately. Busy with Christmas goodness!