homemade

This gift I made for my Dad, is sign is from a thrift store, I sanded painted and stenciled the letters "Wesolych Swiat" which is Merry Christmas in polish.  I think this was my favorite gift that I made

(and the flower on there is made out of an old T-shirt, and Christmas tree was painted by Ashley :) )

crafts

So now that Christmas is over I can post some of the crafts I created for gifts this year.  

ok so the first one i'm going to show is a picture frame I painted and gave to Jarrod as a gift, I got this frame at a thrift store

I finished with cutting out cardboard/scrap book peices of the states that we are from and little hearts from where we lived.  I thought it was cute, and he liked it :)

I also made a homemade snow globe, here's how to make it:

First you need a mason jar, distilled water, glycerin, glitter, and epoxy.  

Once you have all of your supplies find what you want to put in the snow globe, small little ornaments I think would work best, i used little frogs which took awhile for them to stick.  It also takes epoxy quite some time to dry, so for best results let it sit over night so that you know it's dry.  once everything is all set and glued fill mason jar with distilled water, glycerin, and glitter, you only need a little bit of glycerin, it just helps prevent the glitter from falling too quickly.  

and this is the final result.  :)

love baking for Christmas

I just made this recipe and if I do say say they turned out really yummy :)

I found the recipe online so I thought, hey it's a Saturday so why not do some baking for Christmas, 

Here's the recipe (the cool thing about this recipe is I didn't have to go to the store for any of the ingredients, I had everything right in my cupboard)

• 48 HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Milk Chocolates
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup REESE'S Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Granulated sugar

• Directions

  1. 1 Heat oven to 375°F. Remove wrappers from chocolates.
     
  2. 2 Beat shortening and peanut butter in large bowl until well blended. Add 1/3 cup granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat until fluffy. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into peanut butter mixture.
     
  3. 3 Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar; place on ungreased cookie sheet.
     
  4. 4 Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a chocolate into center of each
     cookie; cookie will crack around edges. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.
     About 4 dozen cookies.

  Here's the site I got the recipe from, in case you want to check it out :) recipe website

  
  

  I've actually made a lot of crafts lately, but I have to wait until after Christmas until I can post them, so i don't spoil the surprise for anyone :)