>How to Make Krissy’s Cookies
27 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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>This recipe came from Krissy she said all could share it and that it was a good recipe. Good I think meaning rich in calories. Haven’t made it before but looked good so I thought I would give it a whirl . Not for those on a diet or afraid of butter, sugar or chocolate.
Supplies
- 2 cups butter
- 24 oz. chocolate chips
- 4 cups flour
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 tsp. soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)
- 5 cups blended oatmeal
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 3 cups chopped nuts (your choice) (I hate nuts in cookies I will skip this part)
Makes 12 cookies can be halved if you want less
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Steps
- Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
- Cream the butter and both sugars together.
- Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda.
- Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar, and nuts.
- Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes -Makes 12 cookies.
>Happy Thanksgiving my gift to you happy holidays
25 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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I am having a happy holidays sale on my patterns at Ravelry. If you buy anything from black friday till Dec 25 you will receive a 15% discount. This is only good in the Ravelry store not etsy. Not sure if ravelry requires a code but if it does it would be happyholidays.
This is the first time I have done this on etsy so I think to get the discount on my etsy store items you will need to type in happyholidays in the code area at check out. But it may just happen on it’s own please let me know so I have reference for the future. It will also be a 15% discount on items in that store doesn’t apply to shipping special orders and things of that sort. All PDF’s through etsy will be shipped through email after the Holiday ( Monday the 29th) as I am having fun with my family hope you are to.
>Pumpkin…Big Tree…
23 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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The project is done the pumpkin has been cooked and processed by hand and put in bag to freeze till use. I have roasted the seeds and there are about 3 cups of them for the kids to snack on. Yes that is the inside of my side by side fridge freezer. Not much space in there. I will take these bags out latter to the big freezer in the garage once they are frozen all the way. The seeds will not stay in the freezer that was just for the photo.
In the process of making the pumpkin seeds my oven decided to play mean for some reason the door decided it didn’t want to stay together all the way. Guess add that to the honey do list.
I have the best husband in the world no kidding the at man can do anything he puts his mind too. A few weeks ago to help out our extended family he and eight other relatives and friends made a 60 foot tree into a 30 foot tree at the cities requests.
He strapped on his rock climbing gear and up he went into the tree. I think I would have had some trepidations on this. I don’t talk about him much on here. He usually isn’t involved in most of my craft things but he is very much a part of my life for many many years now.
I could not ask for a more wonderful man as a husband he is caring, loving, silly, responsible and most important of all very very patient with me and the children.
>Is it Halloween or Thanksgiving
22 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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Two of my children drew and painted on their pumpkins at Halloween. Because they wanted to be able to have pumpkin squash for dinner around Thanksgiving. So the destruction of their Halloween pumpkins has begun this morning to make room for their Thanksgiving squash. After these are dismantled they will go into the crock pot to cook the whole day away. Then tonight soft squash will be mashed and some had for dinner like mashed potatoes with butter and sour cream and the rest will go into the freezer for future dinners, cookies, and bread ideas. 
If you notice the stems are set into a separate bow. I want to make some velvet Thanksgiving pumpkins if they dry well that is. You make crushed velvet pumpkins (use your favorite pattern for this) then you attach the dried steam to the fake pumpkin ( E2000 just do it neatly) for a nice effect. This will not happen this season, but maybe for next year they will be done.
Roasted pumpkin seeds will be made today as well.
>Peppermint, Vanilla and Dark Chocolate
22 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
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What do all of these flavors have in common they are all different fudges I made on Sunday for Thanksgiving. I got up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep so this idea came to fruition I had been thinking about it for the last two days. The top one is vanilla, left dark chocolate the bottom is peppermint candy cane, I substituted 3/4 cup of crushed peppermint candy cane for 3/4 of a cup out of the four cups of sugar in the recipe. Wasn’t sure it was going to work out but it did. The color in that one is from the red and green stripes of the candy cane mixing together. Sort of a pinkish with a hint of brown actually a nice color in real life. The original recipe is from here I already explained my changes to the recipe if you want to do it that way. All the batches I made I doubled that is why I had four cups of sugar as opposed to the two in the recipe.
>halloween mitts finished
19 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
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I worked on these in the car over the weekend during a road trip to and from California. My children had a golf tournament in Long Beach so we went and visited family and went tot eh tournament. While traveling there I worked on these and finished the set. I started and frogged about 5 projects on this trip my hand just wouldn’t work right and it kept frustrating me. But this one got doen and one other got closer to compleation. these are made with a self striping yarn but I also used a solid black to divide did up more. I think I did pretty good at lining up the repeat in the sock yarn fairly well.
I will post the other set I worked on later. Had a few issues with it.
>Fall Mitts Fingerless
11 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
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I made the right hand on Sunday now I need to do the left hand I like this pattern it calls for striping of two yarns. But I also used a yarn that stripes plus a solid black yarn to add more definition to the stripes. I like the way the first one has come out. Will be nice for this time of year with Halloween and Thanksgiving in these colors. Pattern is here if you are interested.
>Kid fun… Happy Thanksgiving
26 Nov 2009 Leave a Comment
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The kids had fun picking out some buttons for the scarfs the oldest daughter and I made. These are for the kids teachers at school. Well some of them as we ran out of yarn in this color and definitely only the girl teachers I am pretty sure the guys wouldn’t be caught dead in these. May make more or something else. As there are 12 female teachers and only 8 scarfs here plus we have 2 male teachers too. Candy is always good for a guy teacher in my opinion anyway. The scarfs all have their own personality even if they are very similar. The colors shapes and number of buttons on each one is different all the buttons are vintage the yarn is all new. The scarfs came out in thanksgiving colors funny as that is the day we finished them but they are for Christmas.
>Carved Turkey
25 Nov 2009 Leave a Comment
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>Here is her finished product with some help from mom as the pumpkin started to have issues with her cutting skills.
>Carving Turkey Day Pumpkin
24 Nov 2009 1 Comment
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If you remember my middle daughter did not want to carve her pumpkin at Halloween. The reason was she wanted to carve it for Thanksgiving instead. So at Halloween she just poked in plastic Mr. Potato Head type stuff to decorate hers. It has been sitting on our front porch all this time with snow and the like. So the weird face you see isn’t because it is slimy it is because it is screaming cold inside that pumpkin well probably a little slimy too.
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