Countdown to Christmas Thread

[MrsCat 6]

^ I can almost taste them melting in my mouth right now. They look delicious.

[trailmix 77]

Those look fabulous!

Well I figured out my tree...as in I didn't feel like putting it up and was going to buy a small thing.

Well I ended up just putting up half the tree - and it works, basically the bottom with the tree top stuck in the top and 2 rows of branches - voila'! smaller tree

So far I have just hung candy canes on it, I will will do ornaments tomorrow.

[trailmix 77]

Finished Christmas shopping. Just need to shop for my husband.

Sweet!

MrsCat, how many photos does the frame hold...generally?

Depends on the size of the memory card, we bought a 2G so it should hold 550 or so. But there is no way I am loading that many on. Grandma Nedra will be dead before she's had a chance to view them all.

I just started editing them out and told Chris if his mom wants them all, then she is welcome to add the rest on her own. I just spend 5 hours and we've only done 65 photos. Our scanner is ancient and slow.

I'm in a better mood now, I came across some pretty darn cute photos in the ones she sent. So in the very least it will be nice that we have copies too of those.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if you could get them with that much memory...omg - that is a photo storage system !

[Sprailenes 47]

Heres the sugar cookies I made today for my husbands coworkers.

Finally finished!

Drizzling the icing to make the designs is probably the most tedious thing ever. I have to make more this week for the inlaws and I am not looking forward to doing that again.

[MrsCat 6]

Heres the sugar cookies I made today for my husbands coworkers.

Finally finished!

Drizzling the icing to make the designs is probably the most tedious thing ever. I have to make more this week for the inlaws and I am not looking forward to doing that again.

Those look almost too good to eat - almost.

[Marilyn. 340]

I probably spent about 50 bucks on baking stuff today and I still need to get some white chocolate as the store where I went didn't seem to have any...

I plan on making some white chocolate cranberry fudge, teddy s'more bark, creamy snowballs (if I can find the right kind of mini-coloured marshmallows), one bowl brownie cookies, snickerdoodles, graham cracker cookies and maybe some chocolate cookie bark and cranberry hermits... I want to make some oreo truffles too but I am not sure yet...

taht is one thing that bugs me, the mini-coloured marshmallows that I have bought here don't have the same flavours as the ones I used in Canada so the recipe I use them in doesn't taste quite right..

Edited December 15, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[Marilyn. 340]

that darn baking chocolate is so expensive and most recipes you need two boxes ..

one year I found Ghirardelli baking chocolate at the 99 cent only store.. I went there a few days ago hoping that they would have it again but no such luck

oh another thing I can't seem to find is those dipping wafers... back in Canada you could get them in chocolate, white chocolate and they also had them in red, green etc...

Edited December 15, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[Carlawarla 1]

I completed all my Christmas baking this weekend. Gene had fewer requests this year, but there is still a variety. I made up two huge trays of goodies and chocolates for him to take to work this morning as well. I treat the boys to some home baking at least 4 times a year.

[Emancipation 2]

I completed all my Christmas baking this weekend. Gene had fewer requests this year, but there is still a variety. I made up two huge trays of goodies and chocolates for him to take to work this morning as well. I treat the boys to some home baking at least 4 times a year.

awe that's really nice of you Carla.. I should get off my lazy butt and do some sort of Christmas baking

oh another thing I can't seem to find is those dipping wafers... back in Canada you could get them in chocolate, white chocolate and they also had them in red, green etc...

Did you try Michaels? THat's where I've seen them before?

[Autumnchik 6]

You guys are so impressive with all your baking Not going to happen for me this year. We don't even have our tree up, time has just got away from us. And Declan has surgery tomorrow so we will be taking care of him and not doing anything Christmasy for a few days at least.

We did go to Santa's Village again yesterday, this time with friends who have a baby born 2 days after Declan. It was freezing, but so much fun. We got to ride a few rides .... the carousel, train, antique cars and skyway sleigh. Declan was grinning the whole time, except for when he sat on Santa's lap. Thankfully, the pics from last time were wonderful, because this time, he wasn't smiling as much.

[thetreble 19]

Heres the sugar cookies I made today for my husbands coworkers.

Finally finished!

Drizzling the icing to make the designs is probably the most tedious thing ever. I have to make more this week for the inlaws and I am not looking forward to doing that again.

DRROOOLL.

Please package and send to Amanda Deo, 53....

[trailmix 77]

I never do any Christmas baking...so that's easy for me

I did make banana bread yesterday, does that count at all?

[Sprailenes 47]

that darn baking chocolate is so expensive and most recipes you need two boxes ..

one year I found Ghirardelli baking chocolate at the 99 cent only store.. I went there a few days ago hoping that they would have it again but no such luck

oh another thing I can't seem to find is those dipping wafers... back in Canada you could get them in chocolate, white chocolate and they also had them in red, green etc...

Try AC Moore, they have lots bags of the dipping wafers in all colours of the rainbow, I believe Michaels does too.

[Marilyn. 340]

thanks, I will give Michaels a try it is kind of weird that I have to go to a craft type store to get them where as in Canada they were available at Save-On or Superstore

Edited December 15, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[trailmix 77]

Ok, mini tree is up - 'only' dropped one glass ornament on the tile floor woot!

it looks kind of cute