Christmas Cookie List

 A blog post with no pictures? Yup.... I just wanted to post some recipes for Christmas Cookies. These aren't all cookies; I should say Christmas Treats...

~Cranberry Cookies  These have cranberries and white chocolate chips in them.

~Amish Sugar Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies

~Christmas Gooey Butter Cookies

~Christmas Wreaths

~Christmas Sugar Cookies

~Peanut Butter Blossoms

~Rocky Road Fudge

~Christmas Crack

~Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies

~Christmas Chocolate Pretzel Bites

~Candy Cane Sleighs

~Christmas Tree Brownies (I make these with a regular brownie recipe and decorate with Christmas sugar and M&M's...

Wow, that's a lot of sugar..  LoL   I joined a "Christmas Cookie" group on Facebook. It is so lame! Hardly any posts, I was very disappointed. So I decided to compile all my favorites here. (Now my head hurts and I need to go back to bed LoL.) Actually my head does hurt. The past two days I have woken up with a sinusy headache. Probably because it is so bitter cold outside! Spuds seems warm in his spot (his fur is warm when he gets out.)

I will have to see what I have to make. It's going to be "Use What You Have Christmas Baking" Day...

Memories

Yesterday, I did some Christmas shopping with our youngest son. We were walking around Walmart (a rare moment he was walking with me, shopping). He went down the Hot Wheel aisle. I was thinking, "What are you doing?" He said he wanted to see if he could find a Ram (I can't remember what kind) truck for his friend for Christmas for a gag gift. 😅I was thinking about all his Hot Wheels when they were all little. I said "Do you remember that parking garage I made you for your cars when you were little?" (He didn't, so I went on my phone in Walmart, to my blog and found the picture..LoL)  He did like that. I remember it fell apart after a while. But it was fun while it lasted. They had Hot Wheel tracks, and the ramp where the cars would go flying off..  Seems like so long ago. Now they all have real trucks, and they are always breaking down or have to get something fixed. Cracked radiators, rusted out oil pans... I wish I could go back to when they were little, sometimes. 😍

I think the magazine I got the instructions from is no longer in print. It was "Family Fun" magazine. It's pretty easy to figure out, just looking at the picture though. Cut a cereal box, and we painted ours with spray paint. I think I covered the toilet paper "cement columns" with yellow paper and a glue stick. And used some electrical tape my husband had in the garage, for the parking spot lines..  

I wish we had kept all those hot wheels. We moved so much and there was so much stuff, though..  

Side note: I remember when you could get a Hot Wheel for 99 cents at Walmart. They are $3.49 now. For one hot wheel!! Oh that makes me so mad!! They were the special kind, but the regular hot wheels were not much less!

This was the post I am talking about..

Although I couldn't find the original Park and Play Garage instructions, there are a lot of ideas/tutorials online for different ones now (way cooler than this one, too). Here is one page with a few ideas.

This one is cool, too. If you go on Pinterest and look, you could be there all day trying to find ideas for a Park and Play garage.. 😍

I have to frog the golf club cover I started yesterday (I got the whole ribbing part done, too...) I learned what colors he likes. Not red. (Even though his truck is red..) I'm going to need to go get some darker green yarn... Darn it...  I hate going yarn shopping. 😁

Update: I decided to look through all the yarn I have, and I found the right color green and hopefully it will be enough. (Not pictured..)

So, here we go: Golf Club Covers, Round 2. 😂⛳  Get it... I didn't even plan that. LoL

There's only 10 days left until Christmas!! I at least got a few things this weekend, I just need to write everything else down, and clear my brain, and finish wrapping, and finish baking, and and and.....

Another Christmas Project

I decided to just crochet a golf club cover. (I will do two of them, he only has two golf clubs-he got them at Goodwill I think..)  Then I was racking my brain trying to decide what colors.... UGH. Just doing red and white. This is the first time I've crocheted since Spuds bit me. My hand still hurts..  I should probably go to the doctor... But. 🙅 Do I want to get Christmas presents or pay a copay...   I am actually using the Yarnspirations Golf Club Cover pattern, not the one I posted earlier. I think even I would rather be out golfing than what is outside...  Snow and cold. Poor Spuds. He keeps coming to the door. I am not letting him in. :( I can't...  I keep saying, "Go in your house". I will put food in there so he goes in it. 

 

I am so not ready!!! 😔 We're supposed to go shopping this weekend.

 

Christmas Baking Has Begun

I baked the Peanut Butter Blossoms yesterday. I put some Christmas music on, and baked Christmas cookies. It did not help cheer me up...  Sigh. But at least I got started on Christmas cookies. I almost froze to death putting them in the freezer in the garage. (It's not attached to the house... You have to walk outside, unlock the garage...) 🙄🥶🥶🥶 I do not know how my husband can stand working outside in the winter. 

I don't know if I wrote about how our son took a red truck ornament to put in his truck...  Well he hung it up. LoL  I did write about the red truck ornament... (Probably four times now..)

Are You Ready?

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I'm not ready!!! I hate that. I hate waiting until the last minute to go Christmas shopping. I guess sometimes it's unavoidable. Things happen. 

I did get some Hershey's Kisses to make Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies with. The recipe on the back of the bag/original recipe from Hersheyland uses shortening, though; not butter. I should start on my Christmas cookies/baking.  We also got some round crackers, I could make some chocolate covered peanut butter crackers.  😀  Here is an actual recipe for some.  I could also make some Christmas Sugar Cookies.  I want some Peppermint Bark but I don't have any white chocolate...  Not much of a blog post today..

~Well that's all for now~

Snow Globe Candy Jars, and Spuds Bite :(

These are the two finished snow globe jars for my husband and our youngest son. I should re-post the one I made for Melissa.. Here is the link to it. It's hard to get a good picture of them, the plastic ornament gets a glare on it. I think they are really cute.

Here's the snowman before I glued the whole top together. 

Here's a side picture of the "Red Truck" snow globe, I used the fake snow to cover up the wire part which I kind of used to prop the truck up so it would stand up straight. 

I'm editing to add a front view. I thought I uploaded the picture, but there's always a cat or dog, or two dogs in here distracting me. 

Here's a close up of it done...  

This is the "fake snow" I got at the dollar tree. I don't know if I shared a picture of it. So you know what it looks like.

These are the Red Truck Ornaments from the Dollar Tree that I used for the snow globe. The tree fell off the one, and that was how the whole thing/idea started... I just need to get some candy to put inside them. I might need to go back to the dollar tree for some, it cost $14.99 for a bag of candy at Meijers yesterday. That's just ridiculous. And they didn't even have any "Christmas" wrapped candy. 🙄 Not the kind I wanted anyway.  I did find more glue sticks, so I didn't have to go buy more of those. 

And, Spuds bit me yesterday. 😢 I will spare you a picture of that. It was not just a little bite, either. He bit down hard, and pulled. And somehow scratched me, too. The top of my hand was bit, the palm was scratched. Ughhhh....  That hurt!! It still hurts. It's a little swollen and a little red. But it's stopped bleeding. I washed and washed and washed it, and put antibiotic cream on and bandages. I don't know what to do.....  Everything online says "Get immediate care at the doctor"..  But, he bit my husband about a week ago. And my husband is fine (it broke through his skin, he said.) I don't know if it broke all the way through like it did with me, though. I guess I will just keep an eye on it. Doesn't he know you're not supposed to bite the hand that feeds you?  I was sitting on the chair on the porch, and he put his front legs up on my legs (with his claws dug in) and I thought he wanted up. So I tried to help him up. Well he did not like that. He probably thought I was going to hurt him.... 🙄 That's when he bit/scratched me.   I guess that solves if we are going to try and let him in the house... I don't know where we'll go from here.