Christmas Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

YAY for the new oven!!! I am working on some before and after collages of the kitchen and living room to share with you. I could not be happier with our kitchen renovation, and I feel so silly for not being more patient and trusting in my wonderful husband. I feel completely provided for.

Now that I have a kitchen I get to put all of the fun recipies I have found on pintrest to the test! So here is the first thing I tried (really only becuase we had all of the ingrediants in our house). I am terrible at sticking to any recipies, becuase I always want to add and subtract certain things. I will do my best to share with you the recipies I am using. Mabye this will help me actually mesure things, and not just add a little bit of this, and that, here, and there :-)

Here it goes:

1 cup butter(softend)

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 egss

1 tbs vanilla extract

3 cups all-pupose baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp milk

Oreo cookies

Mix all wet ingrediant together. In seperate bowl mix all dry ingrediants together. Slowly stir dry ingrediant into wet ingrediants (I used our kitchen aid).

With cookie scoop, form balls with dough. Place one ball on the top of an oreo, and another ball on the bottom. Seal edges by pressing, pinching, and cupping in your hands until the oreo cookie is completly enclosed.

Cook: 350 degrees 10-13 Mins.

New Sewing Machine Experiment! (Ear warmer attempt)

So here is my attempt at making an EAR WARMER, I found this idea on a really great blog I found through Pinterest of course! I have had my sewing machine for about 2 months now and I figure the best way to learn how to use it, is to just go for it and start making things! I had some scrap fabric laying around (green would not be my color of choice) and then found an old white fleece blanket in the lost and found here at Woodleaf. So here it goes!

Ok, still haven't mastered my button hole skills on the new machine so here is a really easy way to make a fastener that doesn't require a button hole!! All you need is a pony tail elastic, which I actually took right off my wrist. Does the button look familiar? I made it out of polymer clay in a previous post!

I had to add some decoration! Here is a fabric flower, I wanted it to be big but I may have over done it.

Super easy:

Step 1: Cut fabric circles.
Step 2: Fold circles in half, and then in half again.
Step 3: Glue or sew folded circle to a piece of felt.
Step: Fluff your petals and tadaa!!

And here it is, a cozy fleece lined ear warmer with an oversized flower!!

Family Vs. California 'Operation Decoration'

Those of you who know my mom know that she not only has a knack for decorating, but she really enjoys it too!!! While she was here she not only made christmas wreaths for all of our windows but she rearranged our entire house!!! Although, semi frustrating at the time I'm really enjoying the changes. Our bed is in a new place, bookshelf's are moved, and even our kitchen table is in a different place. I didn't know it was even possible to move things this much in this little house of ours.

Our grill was Moms work place, and my Dad was in charge of cutting all the greenery. I will say that northern California is a really great place to live for fresh greenery, it a free Christmas decoration that I have used multiple times and that smells sooooo good, I love it!

Josh and Mikie weren't as interested in the wreath making as the rest of the family, so they just sat in our newly arranged house and watched the football game. (I think they may have been the smart ones...)




Beer SAMPLER at SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO.

Unfortunately, we never made to Napa Valley, but we did go to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company! This place is awesome, they offer tours, and have a great gift shop. We tried every single beer that they are currently making, my favorite is Kellerweis!

This marks the end of my postings about my families visit. However, our kitchen renovation has been started and it is pretty crazy around here. I will be posting pictures of the thing that we have been calling a kitchen for the last 3 months :-). Also, I have been getting pretty crafty lately and I can't wait to show you some projects! In the meantime I will try to convince my husband to sit down and write something!!!