Gingerbread House Station

December 21, 2008

The gingerbread house station was a huge hit! It kept the kids occupied and they really came up with some creative houses! I used Honey Graham (no sugar sprinkles) crackers and broke them in half. For the icing, I bought fluffy white cake icing and didn't bother making the icing glue.



My neice made a gingerbread condo.


Some of the kids showed up in Christmas pjs which I loved!


My other niece was really deligent and made a very neat looking house.


We also had kiddie jello shots and they loved them!


My best friend L brought gingerbread people cookies based on Martha Stewart's recipe. I love the one with the overalls on!

Gettin' Ready to Partay!

December 19, 2008

Look at all the goodies I have to share. I've been slaving away making preparations for our partay-tay! Below is the dessert buffet. I baked gingerbread cookies, sugar cookies, brownies and put out madarin oranges.



I made the cookies really thick and I love the way they turned out. They are super cute.


Here is the candy buffet. It's mints, marshmallows, twizzlers, juju beads and chocolates.


I bought a box of Hershey's chocolates and arranged them in an olive boat. To me, it looks like a city skyline.


Getting the candies ready for the kids to make their gingerbread houses.


On the menu tomorrow will be Singapore Meifun, so I'll post the recipe for that.

Christmas Decor

December 1, 2008

Getting ready for the holidays has forced me into finally hanging up some photos and frames. I had other plans for this wall, but I loved the way this trio of frames came out. I ordered some photos from our trip to San Francisco to fill the frames.

And just for your information, putting garland up is a lot harder than you think. Keith picked out the cutest stockings with pom poms. I would have never picked those out, but they turned out really cute. I added a silver "K" and an "A" ornament to each stocking that I got for 99cents last year at Target. The monogrammed throw is a wedding gift from Bee and John.



We got an early Christmas gift - a nativity scene which we placed over the piano.


Outside, we started putting up rope lights around the windows. We also planted these little trees! Just kidding. They're fake. At first, I thought the fake trees (fake anything) were cheesy, but again they turned out really cute - another pick by my husband. My family never decorated so he's a lot better at this stuff than I am.



This weekend, we're going to pick out a tree!

Getting ready for Christmas

November 27, 2008

I know it's Thanksgiving, but let's face it. Christmas is the holiday we look forward to most. We took advantage of the warmer days to put up lights outside and clean up. We got these little lighted trees last year. At first, I thought they were cheesy, but now I like them. It's like a little path for dwarfs.



We bought a fake tree to put on our porch, so that it's visible from the outside. Our enclosed porch blocks the view of our real tree inside the house, so we decided to do up the outside instead. I'll put out some cookies and milk on the table.



I wrapped some faux presents in brown paper with various bows to put under that tree which was a lot of fun. I used various leftover ribbon and bows that I saved through the years (yes, I'm saver). The white yarn pom pom was from Mrs. Chickadee last year. I loved it so much that I couldn't bare to throw it out.



Inside the house, I'm slowly putting up garland. I really stink at this. I have no clue what I'm doing or if it looks good.

In other news, I touched up the ceiling paint in the now spare bedroom and office. When we moved in, we painted in a hurry and the poor results show. There were tons of paint blotches all along the corner where the ceiling and walls meet. I bought the same brand of ceiling paint and crossed my fingers that it would dry to match. I edged around both rooms and the results look much better now. That's one task that I can put to bed.

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