Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Indoor Snowball Fight

This is what I made for my nephew for Christmas.  I also made one for myself because they were so cute.  I also found this idea on Pinterest.
The can is a large fruit can that I got from a school cafeteria.  I sponge painted it green, white, and blue.  Then I painted the nose orange once the white dried, and then I took a black sharpie marker and did the eyes and mouth and letters.  Then I filled it with white pom balls that I made out of yarn.
This is what the balls look like inside of the tin.  I took white yarn and wrapped it around a binder 150 times.  Then I took it off the binder and tied yarn around it to section it off. I had 4 sections.  then I cut the ends and the middle of each section to create a pom-pom.  I trimmed up to make it into a ball shape when necessary.  12 poms fit into the can.  So I had to repeat the yarn steps a few times.

"Homemade" Donuts

These are Super easy and Yummy!
I found this idea on Pinterest and I decided to see if it would work...it DOES!
These donuts are made from Pilsbury Grands biscuits.  You take a biscuit and cut the center out.  Then stick it in the deep fryer.  When it is floating, you turn it over and cook the other side.  Then I took them out and covered them with sugar and cinnamon.  They were delicious.  Mr. K doesn't like sweets...and he thought they were delicious.  I an very excited to be able to make these anytime I want!

Christmas cookies

These were the Christmas cookies that I made for the cookie exchange this year.  They turned out pretty cute, so i wanted to share them with you.  I used royal icing (my first time using it) to decorate the cookies.  I got the recipe from Pinterest, and i like it because it dries hard, so I was able to stack the cookies without them getting messy.  I also used a normal sugar cookie recipe that I found on Pinterest, but I used multi-grain flour instead of white flour (because that is all I had in the cabinet) This made the cookies turn out darker than normal but didn't change the taste too much.  The icing is not very thick so its not over powering the cookie.  I made holly leaves with berries, gingerbread man, candy canes, stockings, gloves, snowflakes, and Santa hats. SUPER CUTE!!!! I will be doing this again next year.  They also make very cute gifts.
These 2 were my favorite out of all the Christmas cookies.  I liked them all but these 2 I loved.