Monday, December 14, 2009

I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty.....


Yes, this is the sister who needs to pull her weight on this blog and share in the wonderful madness of DIY blogging!:)  Saturday was one of the first days in a long time that I was perfectly selfish and indulged in the making and devouring of a Holiday Cookie Exchange with some wonderful ladies from my neighborhood.  Seriously, does it get any better than making sugary delights and gorging on them together as we chuckle over our silly holiday traditions and memories, ones we love to remember and the ones we so desperately want to forget?



So here's my cookie I did, I was enticed by Betty Crocker and the pretty pictures she just loves to email me....They are called....Black-and-White Coconut Macaroons!  Go visit Betty yourself and you can get the recipe here!  Yes, mine have a tad more chocolate than Betty's picture, I think she'll forgive me even though my hips won't.  Later this week Candy and I will attempt making our Grandmother's famous fudge, the recipe she got a long time ago when she went to a little candy demonstration at a local high school while visiting her sister in Utah.  It's a little company, you might have heard of them, I think it's something like See's?;>)

Sunday, December 13, 2009

gold ornament wreath


Eddie Ross was having the ornament wreath challenge and had to give it a try. I  previously used wreath forms for my other ornament wreaths...but Eddie required that you use the true wire coat hanger method to enter the contest.
My mom liked my sister's wreath and hinted that she might want a gold one.  So this is what I came up with. 

I used a chrome wire hanger to make this wreath.  I wired on (with ornament hangers) a third row, attaching it to the wire coat hanger.   I then used Epoxy to glue the first layer of ornaments! So cool..and so stable! I did glue gun on the next layers...because I was in a hurry!  I've had some disasters with the glue gunned ornaments.  Every time my doors slams shut, my four little boys bring me in handfuls of balls, They are not meant for outside..but I love it so much..that I just keep gluing them back on!




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