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| Here are my Halloween pumpkins! I wanted to decorate my door this year so I made a Jack-o-Lantern that won't rot! |
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| Some cardboard boxes were cut up into pumpkin shapes and decorated with construction paper. Easy, right? |
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| Then I just glued some paper scraps on the back so I could run some string through them and hang it! |
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| Here are the results of our pumpkin carvings. For my first ever pumpkin carving I cut out Tinkerbell and the other pumpkin is apparently up for interpretation. lol. Some folks think it's ET and others say Wallace and Grommit (neither of which are correct but who's to say?) What do you think it is? |
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| Not sure if these count as pumpkins but since it was warm enough to cookout this year at Halloween, we dressed up our burgers. They were getting jealous of all our costumes! |
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| And I had fun making delicious pumpkin cinnamon rolls from scratch. What's your favorite pumpkin yum yum? |
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| This was Gaston's first ever Thanksgiving! Here he is feasting away..I think he likes this holiday! |
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| As for us human folk, we went for something a little more upscale. I made this delicious 4 layer pumpkin cake and some two bite pumpkin pies. YUM! It was so pretty, I had to take a picture ! |
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| Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, it's time to start getting ready for Christmas- my other favorite holiday! I painted these whimsical ornaments for the tree at work. The shop colors are lime green and purple so these fit right in! |
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| There they are nestled into our fun little tree. Who doesn't love decorating the tree, I want to know? With some sweet Duke Ellington Christmas tunes in the background, pretty garlands and well, I , might have been dancing around while I was decorating...guilty. |
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| After all that turkey, Gaston needed a bath to get all the gross turkey grease off his little precious face. He did not approve of this idea to say the least..haha, too bad Gaston! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of family, friends, laughter, and love. |
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| Here's the recipe: 2 cp flour 1 1/4tsp baking powder 1tsp baking soda 1tsp cinnamon 1/4tsp nutmeg 1/4tsp ground ginger 1/8tsp ground cloves 2 eggs 1 1/4cp brown sugar (I cut mine with a no calorie sugar substitute by 1/2) 1/2cp oil 1tsp vanilla extract 1cp pumpkin 1cp dried cranberries 1cp white chocolate chips Preheat oven to 350F Whisk dry ingredients (flour-cloves) and set aside. Combine eggs and sugar until well blended. Add oil, vanilla, and pumpkin. Stir in dry mixture a little at a time. Add cranberries and chocolate. Drop cookies onto cookie sheet and bake 8 min. They are like cloud cookies so light and fluffy. Bet you can't eat just one! |
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| There's Steven Mitchell & Virginie Jensen teaching at the fabulous swing and blues dance workshops that kept me from my blog all weekend! |
