Friday, December 5, 2008

Hello Dollies


These are our family's all time favorite Christmas treat!

Hello Dollies

Crust:
1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
1 cup graham cracker crumbs

Pour melted butter into pan sprinkle crumbs over top and pat into pan.

Top:
1/2 to 1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup butterscotch chips
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 can sweetened condensed milk

-Sprinkle coconut over crust then chips and nuts.
-Pour milk over all.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.

Enjoy!

Blessings,
Liisa

Picture from www.allposters.com

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Peanut Butter Balls


Peanut Butter Balls

2 cups icing sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
1 tbsp. milk
8 squares of semi sweet chocolate
1 tbsp. shortening

Mix together sugar, butter, peanut and milk in a bowl until combined and mostly smooth. Shape into balls and freeze for one hour.

Melt chocolate and shortening ogther ina double boiler.

Dip balls into chocolate and place on waxed paper to set.

Enjoy!

Blessings,
Liisa

Picture from www.allposters.com

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Christmas Baking List Revised



Well, I know it has only been a few days but my list has been revised to add Peanut Butter Balls and Chocolate Hazelnut Cream cookies.

So the new list is...
Molasses Crinkles
Peanut Butter Cookies
Macaroons
Hello Dollies
Cherry Cookies
Thumbprints
Nonpareils
Fiddle Faddle
Peanut Butter Cookies
Russian Tea Cakes
Stained Glass Candy
Snowballs
Iced Spice Cookies - Commonly called "Weezer cookies"
Peanut butter balls
Chocolate hazelnut cream cookies.

I will be sharing some of these recipes with you over the next several days in case you want to add to your list. ~smile~

Blessings,
Liisa

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Fun Site


My sister just sent me a fun site. If you would like to know what the number one song was on a particular day like your birthday or your children's you can look it up here.

On the day my Hubby and I started dating the number one song was "I still haven't found what I am looking for" by U2. (Tee Hee, Snort, Chuckle, Laugh) I did find what I was looking for though!

When we got married the number one song was "End of the Road" by Boyz to Men! HA!

Lots of fun!

Blessings,.
Liisa

Felt Foods

I have been busy making felt foods as Christmas gifts for two of my little monkeys. They just love the play food they have at playgroup so I thought I would make them some of their own out of felt. There are tons of great sites that you can get ideas from and directions just search for felt foods.

Here is the assortment each of the little ones will receive....





Here they are all packaged up and ready to be wrapped.....



I hope they like them!

Blessings,
Liisa

Monday, December 1, 2008

Speak to the Sky Revisited

I just looked back in my blog to see what I was doing in December last year and I came across this video - it just makes me smile so I had to share it again!

Here it is Rick Springfield - Speak to the Sky



Here are the lyrics.....sing along!

Speak to the sky when ever things go wrong
And you know youre not talkin to the air, to the air
And the world will look better from up there

Speak to the sky cause things can get ya down
And you know when youre talkin to the lord, to the lord
The world will look better than before

And if I stumble and it seems that I am blind
Or if the road Im on seems awful hard to find
And though my conversation doesnt always rhyme
I always try to find some time to .......

Speak to the sky and tell you how I feel
And to know sometimes what I say aint right
Its all right
Cause I speak to the sky every night

And if I stumble and it seems that I am blind
Or if the road Im on seems awful hard to find
And though my conversation doesnt always rhyme
I always try to find some time to .......

Speak to the sky and tell you how I feel
And to know sometimes what I say aint right
Its all right
Cause I speak to the sky every night

Speak to the sky when ever things go wrong
And you know youre not talkin to the air, to the air
And the world will look better from up there

Lyrics from Lyrics Freak

Blessings,
Liisa

Speak to the sky.....~smile~

Table Centre Pieces

The other day my little monkeys and I went to help my friend make centre pieces for the Christmas Dinner at her her church. Well the little monkeys really went to play in the nursery while I helped make centre pieces.~smile~

They are having a musical before dinner that ties the Gospel to cookie baking so we made a cookie in a jar for the centre of each table. We will put a card under a chair at each table when I help decorate next week and whoever has it under their chair will be able to take the jar home.

It is always fun to get together and work with other ladies and today was no exception!

Here are some pictures of our efforts.....



I had to get the little ones home for lunch before we finished off the jars so I made the labels at home. Hopefully I will be able to get a picture of the finished jars and the room all set for the banquet when I go and help decorate.

Happy Monday!
Blessings,
Liisa