I am addicted...

I have found another thing that is eating up TONS of my time... PINTEREST!!!  Have you heard of it?  If not you NEED to check it out!  It is a place to store AND organize all of the neat ideas that you find on the internet...what could be better!  If you want to check out my "pin board" click here.  I hope that you end up  loving it as much as I do.  If you start a board let me know so I can check it out too :)

I can't believe it's SNOW!!!

Today I found  recipe for SNOW ICECREAM over on Blooming on Bainbridge...and it was PERFECT timing because we just got DUMPED ON!!!

Here's he line-up!

Start by whisking everything except the snow on ingredient at a time until it is bubbly!

 now start adding snow about a cup or two at a time.  Keep doing this until...

 TA DA!!!  So yummy!  While John was eating it he just kept saying "I can't believe it's snow!"..he also said "I can't even taste the snow" hahaha!

SNOW ICECREAM

1 egg

2 cups of milk

vanilla...or other flavouring (the amount depends how strong you want the ice cream to taste)

1 cup of sugar

1 big ol' bowl of snow!

-start with the first ingredient and whisk away

-continue adding one ingredient at a time 

-when the mixture becomes too hard to whisk switch to a spoon

Winter ONEderland

My friend Mel threw a winter ONEderland birthday for her son's first birthday.  Here are some of the fun details!

The invite...I love this little poem.

Custom waterbottles...such a little thing can make such a big difference!

Chocolate dipped marshmallows on pretzel sticks. Perfect for little fingers!

All of the extras for the homemade white chocolate hot chocolate...mmmmm

The AMAZING cake that Lisa made.  I have seen a couple of the cakes that she has made and everyone is drop. dead. gorgeous!

 How cute are these little penguins warming up around the fire!

And these two out ice fishing!

The house was decked out with hand cut paper snowflakes and white tissue pom poms!  It was a true winter ONEderland!

Happy Smurfday!

A friend of mine threw a Smurf themed birthday for her son awhile back and I got to design the invitations and a label for "smurf pops".  The smurf pops were the blue bubblegum Jones soda bottles.  I am SOO happy with how these labels turned out!  (if you want to see it bigger just double click it!)

If you need anything designed for your party keep me in mind!

Christmas Ring and Run

We have started a fun new Christmas ring and run in our neighborhood this year.  If you would like to spread some Christmas cheer you should start one in your area too!  It is easy, all you have to do is make/buy 2 treats, print 2 signs and 2 letters.  Then comes the fun part...you pick an unsuspecting neighbor, drop a treat, a letter and a sign on their doorstep, ring the doorbell and run!  Then you do it again!  The letter then asks each of the people you "hit" to pass it on to two more people.  Start it as close to December 1st as possible to see how many signs you can get up in you area. 

If you are wanting to start this in your area...or you have already been "hit" and need the signs and letters click HERE.

Also make sure that you pass on this blog address so that your neighbors can easily print off the letters and signs!

Christmas Candy Cabobs!

While I was waiting for my starbucks the other day I was browsing around the gift section of Chapters (I LOVE the gift section at Chapters) and I saw the cutest little Christmas candy cabobs (I know it is with a K but the c is so much cuter) and figured they would be fairly cheap and easy to make at home!

So I picked up some christmas candy and some skewers and got to work...

 SO cute!

 All packaged up and ready to gift!!!  How perfect would these be for teachers, neighbors, or anyone else that you want to treat this holiday season!

Peppermint Oreos mmmmmm...

So I came across a new blog that I have totally fallen in love with.  It is called I heart naptime...cutest name ever!!!  On her blog I found a recipe for homemade peppermint oreos and knew that I just HAD to make them.  They are going to be perfect to eat with our hot chocolates before the Santa Claus parade!

Here is the line-up (minus the pepermint extract because it was out in the car still)...

I have never used boxed cake mix before so I was a little but skeptical, but man did they ever turn out delish.  I was making the batter while the fellas were still up so I did not get any pictures of the process...

BUT I did put them together after the boys were in bed so I had time to set them up in a pyramid and then prop this cute little elf with them for an after picture!!!  Could they be anymore festive?

Click HERE to link to the recipe on I heart naptimes!  You won't regret it :)

Homemade Peppermint Oreos

2 boxes Devil’s food cake mix

4 eggs

2/3 cup vegetable oil

mix ingredients and roll into balls.  Bake for 8-10 minutes

Frosting:

1 (8ounce) package cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

4 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon peppermint extract