Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
1.05.2012

Candy for Christmas

Once again, Pinterest got to me. After seeing all the candies and sweets all over the website, I was craving Christmas candy. However, I was not craving cooking for hours so I searched for fast and easy recipes.

I found...

Peanut Butter Fudge


Peppermint Bark


Buckeyes


and Caramels
Source: food.com via Kim on Pinterest


All four of these recipes are extremely fast and easy. I literally made all of them in the microwave. I'm sure Martha Stewart would come after me for melting chocolate and making candies in the microwave, but I am lazy and proud of it. And you know what, they turned out delicious. I took some to my mother-in-laws for Christmas and the entire plate was gone.


1.04.2012

Better Late Than Never

Last year, J and I decided we were going to send Christmas cards. His co-workers and many of our family members all send them and we felt like bums for not doing the same. Of course, when the time came we forgot. Opps. Our reminder came when we got home from our vacation in NYC on December 22nd our mailbox was full of Christmas cards.  Apparently I also forgot to cancel the mail while we were gone. My bad. 

Since it was December 22, we knew it was now or never. Thank goodness for the internet for all of us procrastinators out there. I jumped on Snapfish and got to work.

It was soooo easy. We picked our favorite design out of loads of choices and literally just grabbed and dropped our own pictures onto the template. We were then able to send our personalized cards to Walgreens directly and pick them up within an hour. Easy as pie.

I even heard that some people received their cards by Christmas Eve!


Penny was clearly the star of the card. No surprise there.

In other Christmas card news,  this year I displayed the cards we received a little bit differently than last year. I took some of my favorite left over ribbon from wrapping presents and put it over our kitchen cabinet doors and attached the cards to it with paperclips.



The original plan was wooden clothespins, but we don't have any and I was far too lazy to go to the store.


I used a command hook on the inside of the cabinets to anchor the ribbon.


I know it is time to take the cards down, but I kind of don't ever want to take them down. I love looking at them all displayed everyday.

12.11.2011

All wrapped up

The Impact of Managed Care on Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families
Now that the semester is over, I had some time to finish up Christmas shopping and wrapping on Friday and Saturday. I really needed to finish up this weekend because next Saturday we are celebrating with J's side of the family and I have to work this week. 

My wrapping this year was inspired by the many ideas I pinned on Pinterest. You can check out my Christmas board here..

I went different than I ever have this year. I jumped on the brown kraft paper train.


I got the ribbon at Jo-Ann's on Black Friday on the cheap. I have a little left over but I think I need to go get some more because I love it. 


I got the tags at Olive Manna. I used the medium sized ones. I thought they were pretty reasonably priced too, at 20 for $5.00, especially since I got free shipping.

On some of the gifts I wrote directly on the paper and some I wrote on the tags, so I definitely. have enough to make it through next Christmas



 Lots of presents! We are all wrapped and ready to go!
 

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