Instructions for Tying the Perfect Bow Every time
By Lisa M. Pace

1. Cut ribbon to approx. 12 inches. Larger if you want a big floppy bow.
2. Fold in half to find the center of your ribbon.

3. Make a loop to the left of center and then to the right of center.

4. You should try to have about 1

I made the girls Christmas cookies and will be making chocolate mint brownies today. I thought I would share a few photos of my finished cookies as well as the recipes. Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season with friends and family. Merry Christmas!

Chewie Chocolate Christmas Cookies

1 pkg. devils food cake mix (18.25 oz.)

1 small pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 c. Crisco

2 large eggs

1 tbls water

1/2 cup powdered sugar

Combine 1st 5 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring until smooth. Shape dough into 1 in. balls and roll in powdered sugar. Place 2 in. apart on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 for 10 min. Remove from oven.Cool 10 min. on cookie sheets. Place on wire racks to cool completely.

Pecan Sandies with a chocolate center

1 c. butter

4 tbls powdered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

1 tbls cold water

2 c flour

1 c finely chopped pecans

Brach’s Chocolate Stars

Red and Green Sugar

Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla and water. Stir in flour and then nuts. Form a ball with cookie mixture and place a chocolate star in the center, make sure the chocolate is completely wrapped with the cookie mixture. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 400 for 9 min. or until lightly browned, immediately roll in powdered sugar while cookies are still warm.

Red Devil Cookies with a Hershey Kiss on top

Red Devil Cake Mix

2 large eggs

1/2 cup oil

1 Bag of Hershey Kisses

Mix ingredients together in a large bowl, place a tbls sized amount of cookie mixture on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 min. Remove from oven and immediately place a hershey kiss in the center of each cookie. Place on cooling racks.

Peppermint Bark

2 regular sized bags of White Chocolate Morsels

24 candy canes (red and green striped)

parchment paper

Unwrap and crush candy canes. (Make sure to leave some larger pieces of candy canes to go on top) Melt two bags of white chocolate morsels in microwave for 3 min. Stir melted chocolate and poor half of the crushed candy canes into the melted chocolate and stir again. Poor mixture onto parchment paper, spread mixture to the thickness you prefer. I like mine thin. Once chocolate is smoothed out, poor remaining mixture on top and gently push in larger pieces of candy canes. Let cool until candy is hard. Cut or break into pieces and enjoy!

These altered letters a so quick and easy to create and would look very nice mixed in among your holiday decorations or on a mantle.

Supplies Needed to recreated this project are:

• Pattern Paper
• Wooden Letters mine are by Provo Craft
• Krylon Leafing Pen (Gold)
• Ribbon (3 different colors)
• Stick Pins
• Metal Eyelet Letters
• Jump Rings
• Mod Podge
• Foam Brush
• Scissors
• Pencil

Instructions:

1. Trace your letters onto the back of your pattern paper. Making sure to trace your letters backwards, then cut out
2. Apply Mod Podge to your letters, place your your cut out letter on top and smooth out all bubbles, set aside and allow to dry
3. Cut ribbon make sure to allow enough ribbon for a double knot and attach the jump rings to the metal eyelet letters
4. Once letter is dry using a Krylon leafing pen outline the edge of the paper on the letters as well as covering all the white or wood on the top, bottom and inside of letters. No white or wood should be showing.
5. Tie ribbon around letters
6. Attach eyelet letters to stick pins and stick in the center of a knot on each wooden letter

If you recreate these please send me a photo for my gallery.