All posts tagged: christmas
The Gingerbread Village
After last year’s success with our gingerbread house, I decided to give it a try again this year. Except that this year the stakes were a little higher. After all, last year I had been able to work with a ready-made kit – just putting the pieces together and decorating them. This year, I had to do it all from scratch. So I shaped everything, baked it, and by the time I was ready, my friends came to help decorating. And guess what! This year it actually turned into a whole gingerbread village! Because, aside from the big “mansion”, we also created a dozen tiny houses which we sprinkled with candy and coconut flakes. Whether it will be as delicious as it looks … we’ll see!
December Daily 2012: Week 4 Recap
Time is flying. Can you believe week four has already passed? (Well for most of you who do DD projects, you’re probably still at week 3). But anyhow. It’s time for me to share the latest on my DD album: For larger view and credits, click on individual pages. Now it’s time for me to get ready for the holidays. To all of you I wish a merry Christmas and some happy celebrating.
Gingerbread Houses
Credits: Nice List by Jady Day Studio & Bella Gypsy Fonts: DJB Jolly Holly, DJB Jolly Holly Bold & DJB I Don’t Like Pink by Darcy Baldwin Scraplift of My Sunshine
Freebie Friday: A Cozy Christmas, Part 1
It’s Friday again, and today that’s an especially exciting occasion, because I’m starting to share my first ever Christmas kit with you “A Cozy Christmas.” It comes with a huge assortment of papers and embellies, and what’s best about it: It’s all free for you. All you have to do is come back over the next couple of weeks to collect the different parts, and then you’ll be able to scrap your most recent Christmas memories. Today, you’ll be able to snatch the alpha, and next week you’ll get the first part of the papers. I’d also like to remind you that the download links for most of my former freebie templates have been reactivated again, so if you’re still missing a couple, you should be able to download them now. Finally, when you download any of the products by Misty Hilltops Designs, proper accreditation when using these products on your layouts and designs is required. Please do not directly share any MHT Designs products with anyone. If you wish to have others enjoy these …
An Advent Calendar From the Past
Who of us doesn’t like the Christmas memories from their childhood? I for one can get pretty nostalgic this time of year. And my mom giving me one of those typical advent calendars we used to have as children this year doesn’t help it a bit. Where I come from, these advent calendars are really common. Any supermarket will sell them. They come with 24 doors – one to open every day during the Christmas season, and behind each door you’ll find a small piece of chocolate shaped according to a little picture. And then, when you finally get to door #24, it’s twice the size as all the others, and of course, the chocolate piece is twice as big (a special treat for Christmas Eve)! All the children in our family used to get their own advent calendar every year – usually with different pictures on them. And for me it was always special fun searching for the right door. So, I never looked at my advent calendar too long to avoid memorizing the …
Hybrid Hub: Christmas Cards, Part 4
Only a few more days till Christmas, which means it’s really time to wrap up all the preparations. Probably, at this point it’s too late to send out Christmas cards, but since we’re still in the middle of the season, I’m still going to show you a couple more of the Christmas cards I made this year … Peaceful Holidays Supplies used: Christmas Countdown by Traci Reed & Meghan Mullens, card stock, ribbon Christmas Season Supplies used: Winter Wonderland by Zoe Pearn, card stock, ribbon Merry Christmas Supplies used: Christmas Countdown by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Zoe Pearn
Special Treat: Dominosteine
All0w me to tell you about a special treat: Dominosteine. Yes, literally translated that means domino rocks – or more simply: what you may know as dominoes. But I assure you, they neither taste nor feel anything like a rock or one of those game chips. Really. Where I come from, it’s a very common Christmas treat, but where I live now they have come to be a little treat from heaven. And now, let me tell you why. You see, they are cube of chocolate covered pastry. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, let me assure you: me and chocolate are very best friends! Anyhow, you take a bite of this little rock, and you realize it’s actually soft and juicy. And when you take a look, you’ll find that inside this little rock there are three layers: one of soft gingerbread, one of marzipan, and a thin layer of jelly. The perfect combination for a yummy Christmas treat on a cold winter’s day. Off to enjoy some more Dominosteine.
Secrets from the Advent Calendar
You may remember my advent calendar, which I filled with lots of goodies that I brought from Germany with me for this specific purpose. (And I assure you, Germany has some good chocolate stuff out there. Maybe not as good as the famed Swiss chocolate, granted, but good, still!) Anyhow, today, I thought I’d allow you a peak into what I found in my advent calendar today: A bar of yoghurt chocolate A square of the small-sized Ritter chocolate A caramel chocolate candy And a ball of chocolate with a creamy milk filling Now, I don’t know about you, but that’s a piece of paradise right here for me …
On Greeting Cards and Such
Remember the other day when I told you the story of mailing Christmas cards, and how I ended up having a whole new set of cards I got from the clerk lady? Well, a new thought just occurred to me: What if the sole reason I got these New Year’s cards was because the lady wanted to make sure I wouldn’t be using cards with ribbons anymore? Well, even though that thought just crossed my mind, I’d like to think the best of people. I’ll rather continue to tell myself it was the goodness and kindness of the clerk lady that blessed me with a new set of greeting cards, and not her desire to avoid trouble next time I show up to send greetings. And in case you haven’t gotten any season’s greetings from me this year – here we go: Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!