Winter Owl Baby Shower

I help with a winter owl baby shower for a good friend. I made snowflake sugar cookies and my sister  helped me decorate them.

 I also made these sugar cookies for the Hot Chocolate bar to set on the cups.

We had a Hot Chocolate bar that everyone seems  to love.  There was a variety of toppings including syrup, different flavored marshmallows and chips, and candy canes for stirring. I also made marshmallows pops covered in white chocolate and blue sugar.

 My friend did a great job with the make the all the decorations. I helped make some of them and the favors.

These were made with empty baby food jars. We hot glued the owl and spray painted the top and filled with candy. Didn't they turn out good?

We hand stitched these little mittens and filled with chocolate covered pretzels. 

We cut all these little owls out by hand and attached to mini ziploc bags filled with chocolate covered snowflake pretzels.

Wine Tasting Party

We have  made many homemade wines and in hopes of getting rid of some we had a wine tasting party instead of our usual Oktoberfest. We had lots of cheese, fruit, brownies, and other appetizers. We sent everyone home with some wine too.

Plum Jam

We got a lot of plums from some friends, we went back for more but the bear had eaten them. So in addition to making wine we also made some plum jam with honey and agave instead of sugar and canned it. It set well and tasted delicious. 

Winter Baby Shower

Some great friends threw me an awesome shower. And it turned out beautiful. I had the privilege of helping make these lovely cupcakes. 

Blog Party!

Great blog party going on over at Scissor Quirk.

Little man's good mail

Little man's good mail
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Little man received some good mail last week from Nana(pictured below) and then a box followed a few days later from Omi & Papa. It contained matchbox cars, a dress shirt, socks, Nekot cookies, gummy bears, ginger cookies and soap for mom. Also some onsies and handmade burp cloth and bib for baby bee.

csa week 24

Getting close to the end of our bounty from the farm. This week we received onions, leeks, decorative gourds, winter squash, potatoes, beets, pie pumpkins, 2 pecks of apples and cherry wine.

11/24/2010
Originally uploaded by photogirli