One Year Old and Christmas crafts!

Every Nursing Baby should have this shirt!

I just love his little shirt! That is what WIC gave him at our last appointment. The "dirty" look on his face is because Dad got him to stop wiggling around long enough to get a picture taken by turning on the lamp right in his face! Anyways, the shirt itself is not long sleeved. I had to put a long sleeved onsie on under it for him to wear it because it has been so cold here. No snow... Yet! But I am sure it will arrive when it is ready to. In the meantime it is just plain cold outside! This has kept us all slightly bundled up more often! As I will show you below, the baby (who is still easiest to photo since his brothers tend to photo bomb each other or just flat refuse to smile!) has been getting super bundled and I refuse to cut his hair because it really doesn't "need it" yet. It it just barely in his eyes! But his attire has been becoming more and more boy-ish LOL... As it should!

At the doctor's office in his blue body suit,
 giving big brother some love!

Passed out in my bed before I woke him up at 5 AM to go get Dad!
(Sleeping almost exactly like his Aunt did as a baby! LOL)

Dad finally got a slight sense of style....
Or rather the sense to match colors! LOL

He just seems to have grown over night! I don't know where that itty bitty baby went..... But look at that yummy cookie in the photo above.... Yummmmmy!

On that note,,,, On to my Christmas Crafts!

First off....

I found a site for Do-It-Yourself Cookie Trays / Candy Dish (I think a friend posted the link on Facebook and I followed it, but added the dish part myself! The link is here. It takes a bit to load on my computer... Lots of photos on there)

Since you are here already, I can also tell you how it is done....

You Will Need:

An Oven 

A Cookie Sheet

Parchment paper

Peppermints

Spearmint's (optional, to add color!)

Imagination!

And a bowl (optional, if you wish to attempt what I did......)

Heat your oven to 350 degrees.....

Arrange your mints on a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper however you want to!

This looked fun and easy to me!

Place arrangement into the oven for 8-10 minutes...

Watch it though, if it is left too long it will start to bubble at the edges....

Finished tray!
Let cool on the cookie sheet 5-10 minutes...
very fragile!!!

You can stop at the above photo....

Or.....

You can lift the still warm "tray" on the parchment paper and set it into a bowl of choice and press down on the inside slightly as you do. This helps that ribbon effect on the edges appear...

Let cool and then remove the parchment paper.... Mine is in a crystal bowl so the colors are still visible from the sides. Filled with Mini Candy Canes and Christmas Sixlets! And that would be part of my Santa collection hanging off the side! Isn't he adorable? Most of my collection is made up of "tree toppers" like the Angels you can put on a tree or figures about the same size or larger. But, sometimes the adorable exception MUST be made! LOL

This is my 2nd tray that I made for the neighbors across the street!
More on that one to come....

Next up..... Cookies!!!!!!

And who doesn't love cookies? I love cookies, but I can not eat this kind! 

First... Melting Snow Man Cookies!

Sadly, I do not have the recipe for this one. My mother found it and printed it off her computer. Basic ingredients are:

Sugar Cookies

White Vanilla Frosting

Large Marshmallows
Rainbow Sprinkles (for the orange nose)

Green, Red or Blue Sprinkles (for the buttons)

Black Decorating Icing

Blue Decorating Icing

This is my original attempt at the Melting Snow Man!
Not Bad!

These are all the Snow Men I did.
(Plus one that ended up getting set aside for the kids to just eat,
I messed it up! LOL)
My mother did 4 more and we called it good!

All the other cookies that were made!
Mess up of the Snowman is top left and then the
4 below are the main ones I made I did, for gifting!!
My 7 year old did the rest of the cookie decorating!

Aren't they pretty?!
Sugar cookies, frosting and sprinkles! Yippee!

Remember my 2nd tray....
Here it is, topped with cookies for the neighbors!

So that, with another project I worked on today, are some of my crafts for the season! I have more... But they will not be shown until AFTER Christmas! Today was frustrating though. I guess one plus on the quilt I messed up was that it is for my own son and not someone else's child! LOL Take care all!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

~TTFN!