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Christmas 2010

I haven't cooked in a long time, I used to cook. I can't say that I liked the day to day cooking, making a grocery list, figuring out dinner every night, and all the other hard stuff that goes along with that. But there were some things I like cooking.

This year I made Tamales for Christmas Eve and cooked a Ham for Christmas Dinner. Yes, we ate a lot.

My Sister and I making Tamales:

My Mom and My Sisters family came over for Christmas Eve Dinner, Tamales, Beans and Rice:

Don't ever leave the camera next to a bored child, My Stephanie:

We woke up Christmas Morning and opened the gifts under our tree:

I got a cool pair of boots I've been wanting for several years now, Yay! Everyone else got stuff they wanted also. Funds were limited so the one gift had to be a good one.

We then walked next door to Mom's and gave her her gifts. My family dressed up as the three wisemen/women. Keegan and lexi showed off what there Tio Rigo had given them, Slippers and a Hello Kitty backpack, They had much more I'm sure, but that's what they were showing off.

Then My little sister and her family came over for Christmas Dinner, Glazed Ham, potatoes and veggies. Aren't they just adorable.

And here is my husband teasing the dog with Red Velvet Cake:

We had a wonderful Christmas. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas also.

New Shoulder Bag

I really like sewing the City Girl Shoulder bag Pattern. It allows me to play with different fabric combinations. So now I've pulled out tubs of fabric to pull those smaller than one yard pieces that I've been holding on to.

I love how this one came out, but I'm not a white person - so I made me one in black with the City Girl linen print fabric. oops didn't photograph that one. This one is available for purchase in our etsy shop. Sorry I'm Bored (waiting for Christmas, is it here yet?) Shameless post.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Soniaymonica

Quick Gift - Decoupage Notebook

I have 5 nephew's and 2 nieces. and it seems that every year we are more broke than the last. So the Christmas Gift budget for the extended family keeps getting smaller. So for a couple of years now I've been only giving gifts to the kids. Last year I made then crayon rolls from Skip to my Lou that I embroidered there names on - loved her tutorial.

This year I think I've hit sonic speed in how fast I was able to make all 7 gifts. I made them Decoupage Notebooks. I wrote a blog post early this year about my Decoupage secrets. I had to move my project to my cutting table because my scrapbook table is a mess!

For these 7 I bought kids wrapping paper one for the boys and one for the girls. The wrapping paper was very thin so the first few had way to much Mod Podge. I then used letters for the boys initials and I had small letters to be able to do the girls names (the short versions of there names).

If I do this again in the future I think I want to write something up that might inspire them to keep a journal and put that note inside.

Digital Christmas Scrapbook page

My little niece comes over to my house almost everyday. She escapes from her Mom that is next door taking care of our Mom during the day. I work from home. My little sister walked in on this one day:

And said 'You should take a picture.' I said I had. and she replied 'I never get to see those pictures.' Which is sad because I have some wonderful pictures of her two little one's. I do post some here every now and then when I don't have anything else to talk about, but other than that they reside on a memory card or on my computer.

Well here's a page for you Monica - I promise I'll make more, and show you how to print them and put them in a book.

Melted Snowman Christmas Cookies

You won't find many food posts on my blog except the one's were I go eat something somewhere and I really like it, and even those are very few.

I just had to share with you my daughters snowman cookies. My sister had made little oreo turkeys for  Thanksgiving, so she wanted to make something similar. She didn't figure out how to use the oreo cookie, but they turned out really good anyways.

She used a tube of Sugar cookie dough and baked them as instructed. Then she placed a Marshmallow on the cookie and melted it with a lighter, if you have one of those little torch things that would work better. It doesn't need much fire.

Then she poured some frosting she had put in the microware to make it semi-runny. and poured it over the marshmellow and the cookie. Then she decorated them. The eyes are mini chocolate chip morsels, and the rest she used colored tube frosting to draw the stuff in.

My Fridge was taken over by melting snowman:

These are my daughters:

And then my son tried to help:

His are drowning in frosting.

This one even has a green swirly hat!