Do you have your gifts wrapped yet? If you dread the task, here is a video with some ideas for gift wrapping you might find inspiring.
Thanks for joining us!
Deena Davis
www.byyourhands.blogspot.com
Monday, December 20, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Christmas Recipe --------- Candy Cane Cookies
Here is a christmas cookie recipe for you today. Fun to make and they can also be used to decorate the tree.
Candy Cane Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white sugar
red and green food coloring
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2.In a large bowl, combine butter, confectioners' sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla extract. beat until smooth. Mix in flour and salt.
3. Divide dough in half. Set one half aside. Divide one half of the dough in half again. Add a few drops of red food coloring to one half and green to the other.
4.Break off about a tablespoon full of red dough and oll into a 5 inch strip. Do the same with the white dough. Place them side by side and roll together like a rope. ( You can also do them with red and green dough)
Pinch the ends together, place on baking sheet. Curve top down to form the handle of cane.
5.Bake in preheated oven for 9 to 10 minutes.
Candy Cane Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white sugar
red and green food coloring
Directions
1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2.In a large bowl, combine butter, confectioners' sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla extract. beat until smooth. Mix in flour and salt.
3. Divide dough in half. Set one half aside. Divide one half of the dough in half again. Add a few drops of red food coloring to one half and green to the other.
4.Break off about a tablespoon full of red dough and oll into a 5 inch strip. Do the same with the white dough. Place them side by side and roll together like a rope. ( You can also do them with red and green dough)
Pinch the ends together, place on baking sheet. Curve top down to form the handle of cane.
5.Bake in preheated oven for 9 to 10 minutes.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Today's Featured Artist --- Tins and Treasures
Today's featured artist is Natalie Geffre from Tins and Treasures.
Natalie is a wife, mother of two beautiful daughters, crafter and also is a full time Family and Consumer Science teacher in South Dakota.
Natalie likes to make a variety of crafts.
She started crafting when she was about 8 years old. She started making doll clothes by hand, and her mother taught her to embroider on dishtowels.
She learned to sew on a machine when she was 10 and her 4-H leader taught her to knit.
In college she majored in Textiles and Clothing, where she took every class possible in Clothing Construction and Fiber Arts.
She started her craft business locally 15 years ago, calling it Tins and Treaures partly because of the unique tins she makes. Treasures encompasses a variety of other handmades. She started selling online when she opened her Etsy shop over two years ago.
Her husband, Scott helps her in the business and makes their popular bottle necklaces.
Their wood items are a joint effort with Scott cutting them out, staining and assembling them and Natalie does the painting and embellishing.
Natalie's inspiration came from her grandmothers. She says, "The women of their generation had large families and no convenience foods or appliances available to them. They milked the cows, gathered the eggs, tended their gardens, kept the fire going in the stove, picked berries and made jelly, baked bread, washed clothes on a washboard.....need I say more? But yet they found time to make beautiful quilts and crocheted bedspreads and even embroidered the days of the week on their dishtowels."
Natalie can be found online here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/tinsandtreasures
http://www.etsy.com/shop/nataliesnotions
http://www.tinsandtreasures.blogspot.com
Natalie is a wife, mother of two beautiful daughters, crafter and also is a full time Family and Consumer Science teacher in South Dakota.
Natalie likes to make a variety of crafts.
She started crafting when she was about 8 years old. She started making doll clothes by hand, and her mother taught her to embroider on dishtowels.
She learned to sew on a machine when she was 10 and her 4-H leader taught her to knit.
In college she majored in Textiles and Clothing, where she took every class possible in Clothing Construction and Fiber Arts.
She started her craft business locally 15 years ago, calling it Tins and Treaures partly because of the unique tins she makes. Treasures encompasses a variety of other handmades. She started selling online when she opened her Etsy shop over two years ago.
Natalie's inspiration came from her grandmothers. She says, "The women of their generation had large families and no convenience foods or appliances available to them. They milked the cows, gathered the eggs, tended their gardens, kept the fire going in the stove, picked berries and made jelly, baked bread, washed clothes on a washboard.....need I say more? But yet they found time to make beautiful quilts and crocheted bedspreads and even embroidered the days of the week on their dishtowels."
http://www.etsy.com/shop/tinsandtreasures
http://www.etsy.com/shop/nataliesnotions
http://www.tinsandtreasures.blogspot.com
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Tuesday Tutorial - Padded Cell Phone Case
I have to admit, I carry around my cell phone unprotected... all the time. It's scratched, smudged and scuffed. My hubby has the same phone as I, his is in a case that he carries on his hip and his phone looks a lot nicer than mine... less scratches, less smudges and less scuffed (we got them on the same day too).
Anyway... I have searched for the perfect phone case and can't find it. I don't really know what my problem is. I should just get one and use it. I want something "special", I guess.
In the next few days, I'll be at my sewing machine, as I need to make a couple of Christmas gifts, so I think while I am there I will make myself a cell phone case.
I found several tutorials, that I am going to share with you today, but I can't decide which one I want to make yet. They are all really GREAT ideas and simple enough for me to make.
This one is from www.chez-vies.blogspot.com. I like the fact that they show you how to customize this for your own phone.
The next one is a clever idea too, simple and functional. I like the flap on it and would probably add some velcro or a button for a closure. The tutorial can be found at www.aprettycoollife.com
Anyway... I have searched for the perfect phone case and can't find it. I don't really know what my problem is. I should just get one and use it. I want something "special", I guess.
In the next few days, I'll be at my sewing machine, as I need to make a couple of Christmas gifts, so I think while I am there I will make myself a cell phone case.
I found several tutorials, that I am going to share with you today, but I can't decide which one I want to make yet. They are all really GREAT ideas and simple enough for me to make.
This one is from www.chez-vies.blogspot.com. I like the fact that they show you how to customize this for your own phone.
The next one is a clever idea too, simple and functional. I like the flap on it and would probably add some velcro or a button for a closure. The tutorial can be found at www.aprettycoollife.com
I absolutely LOVE these... they remind me of a cozy little quilt for your phone. The instructions for these are from www.ctpubblog.com
Last, but certainly, not least is this one from www.bayoubags.com. I like how they used the D rings so it can be attached to your beltloop. I like the zig-zagged edges too.
Ok... so now I still don't know what I want. Maybe I'll make up a few and the ones I don't want can be given as gifts.
Thanks for visiting us again!
Deena Davis
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