Blog Party Today

It's time for Debb's Christmas blog party! I think I got the date right this time around? Here some more fun with the Christmas Candles. I added a new one. It's my new Yankee candle Mosaic shade. I bought this to go with my other two candles. Here some images of the candle lit(flash, no flash).



The snowflake/vanilla candle I gave as Christmas presents to family and friends.

Remember I promised everyone a guest celebrity. Well here is a video of that guest and he is even going to sing you some Christmas Songs. My son Aaron just LOVES this celebrity.

Ha! I bought this singing Elmo for my son Aaron, he just loves it and pushes the button to have Elmo Sing all the time. Thought it would make a good greeting for the party. What do you think?

Ok, now time for some serious cookie posts. I hope you have a sweet tooth because the next images will either make you sick....or make your tummy growl. Ha!

First, My favorite easy Spritz cookies. Love this cookie. It's fast, easy and makes alot of cookies.

I make them with the pampered Chef cookie press. works great!

I press them out onto the cookie sheets and decorate them with loads of sugar goodness. YUM!

When done in the oven.......let them cool on cookie rack and they are ready to eat. Help yourself!


I hope your ready to taste some real Chocolate-E rich brownies.

I make these from scratch with a real easy recipe. This year I put a ribbon of cream cheese in the middle. YUM!

You can only eat these babies when your craving some SERIOUS chocolate cravings. Very rich but tasty.

You really can't just eat one so help yourself to as many as you want.

Below is the ingredients for the brownies. Very simple brownie mix. The hardest part to these brownies is the dipping them in chocolate for the final step. Very messy!




You know you want one more.........go ahead and take as many as your tummy can handle! Try some coffee/or tea with your brownie. Maybe milk would be a better choice since these are so rich.

Help yourself next to some frosted sugar cookies. These are made with a basic sugar cookie dough and frosted with Powdered sugar frosting.

I had alot of fun decorating these cookies. I always make my frosting a bit too thin.....it's so hard to get the consistency right. Anyway, I had fun with the frosting as you can see.

I just love making these tasty classic cookie. It's become a tradition in our home. It's almost as fun decorating these cookies as it is to eat them.

Here is the sugar cookie dough rolled out. Along with the cut-outs in the dough and ready to put on the baking sheet.

Makes alot of cookies..................

Do you see Aaron's cookie? My son Aaron helped make a few cookies. He is a great little helper and he did such a good job on his cookie.

One last cookie I promise! Here are my favorite. There's no bells or whistles on this average cookie. It's just my favorite because it's super simple and yummy.

The dough is easy but I usually double it and make these twice the size. I like a serious cookie with my coffee and this revised dipped vanilla is the way to go.

Loaded with yummy walnuts or pecans. I dip these half in chocolate and there good to go. These are the best cookie to compliment a cup of coffee.

Here is a photo of the vanilla cookie without the chocolate.......................and than..............with the chocolate. YUM!

Well, sorry the loaded post of treats. I hope I didn't make you too FULL for dinner now. Ha! I hope you enjoyed your treats while listening to the singing Elmo. I hope everyone is ready for Christmas as it's onto the Christmas Count down already. Our stockings are hung and are ready.

If you want more than just treats................I have a post on our holiday home decor a couple post down(Dec. 12th). All our images of our holiday home can be found on that post.

I also wanted to share with you the post from last year..............on Christmas. Thought I would share what we did on our Christmas Day. You will want to go check it out just for the holiday dinner photo. YUM! The link can be found here: Our Christmas Day 2006.

One more thing, my cards are about ready to send out.......here is a peak at the collage I picked out from Shutterfly.com. Alot of photos you have seen on the blog. I guess you can tell I like the candles photos....ha...used them in my holiday card too.

I hope you enjoyed my holiday party blog. I will leave you with Elmo.............................and a last greeting. Thanks for stopping by.

What I like about My holiday home

Welcome to my Holiday Home as part of the blog party hosted by Karla's Cottage. If you want to surf some holiday homes take a peek at her post: What I like about my Holiday Home blog party. I'll be busy tonight and tomorrow with peeking into every one's homes for Christmas Cheer. Well, it's time to share my Holiday Cheer and home with all of you.

Here is my entry way to my home. It's kept very simple. Just some small lighted trees in my urn planters. Add a string of garland over the door and my wreath.

I love these little trees. We just bought Pre-lighted artificial trees and put them in my urns. I use colored lights on my wreath and trees. Mainly because we put a candle in every window in the front of our home.




Here is a photo of our house at Night. Our home is a colonial style home. The traditional thing to do with Colonial homes is to put the candles in each front facing window. This is what we do. Thus, why I put a little bit of color to my trees and wreath. Otherwise, it would be too much WHITE lights. This seems to be a good contrast. We opt to not put lights on the house roof or in the shrubs. Just try to keep it easy and simple. My Dh loves that! No climbing on the roof!!!



Another view of the outside of our home. This time a wonderful snowfall pix. These photos are a couple years old already. Nothing has changed except for our front lantern lights on our home.

Another view during the daytime. Along with the candles we add some wreaths to each window of the front of the home. I've seen some colonial style homes do this wreath business in every window and so wanted to do that. Now I have but this year..........we opted to go with just the candles. Nice thing ..........can change it up every so often.



If you want to take an even closer detailed look inside. I have some links from last years posts. I made post last year of every holiday room. So thought I would just link it here instead of re posting it all. Come on inside and have a cup of hot coffee and or tea and take a look around.

Kitchen, Hallway/Entry, Family Room

Dining Room

Aaron's Christmas Tree(Slide show)

Here some more images: Love Holiday Candles and these Bed and bath candles are really FUN!

More FUN Christmas Cheer Below



Gotta love PRESENTS in the holiday HOME. I wrapped these two presents to my Sister Franny and My Brother Paul. I wrapped them in true scrapbook style.~ha! Maybe tearing technique is better left to a scrapbook page huh? LOL! Either way it was FUN!

Decorating the dog is even more FUN~ha! I was lucky enough to get these photos of Muffin tonight after she got back from the groomer(Muffin regular groomer lady is still around...hasn't moved yet because she couldn't sell her home-thus another grooming appt. by sandy-YEAH)! I love the poinsettia bows and scarf..........so festive!

Below is my Holiday Area of my kitchen.............I kept various goodies and treats in Christmas dishes here in this spot. Aaron loves the Frosty the snowman and Rodolph light up wood characters. These were some of my first ever Christmas decor.

Thanks for looking at my holiday home. Enjoy the rest of the blog party and remember if you got time.....jot down a comment to let me know you were here. Merry Christmas and Holiday from our house to YOURS.

PS-Check back tomorrow for another blog party. I'll be posting my holiday treats and more random fun things.