tea at Diane's

My friend, Diane has the cutest house! She invited me for tea this morning with a few other friends! I was going to take my granddaughter's, but they didn't come up because one was sick, so I went and took pictures for them! Diane has an American girl doll and so do my twin granddaughter. Olivia(granddaughter) and Diane have the same one, Kirsten from Sweden! Diane has Kirsten all set up on a shelf with the Swedish theme for St.Lucia! So, doggone cute!!!! Enjoy the pictures! Blessings!

tree

I finally got my tree up and made more fudge! I'm pretty sick of fudge, so I'm hoping I'm done! Kurt is coming back with the 3 little girls for the extra hunting weekend, so I wanted the tree up before they get here tomorrow! I promise I will share recipes next week and be back on track! Blessings!

snow days

Last night and early this morning we got about 5 inches of snow and it is pretty!! I did go to work and worked most of the day, as Gordon drove me in as the roads are crap for a while here! I had intended to stay home and make a day of tree trimming,cookie making and drinking lots of coffee!! But with Sample Fest on Friday, I needed to get some of the little behind the scenes things done! However, I did manage to get my tree up and the realized the top is falling apart, so the angel won't stay on the top, Boo Hoo!!!! Maybe it's time for a new fake tree!!!??? Blessings!

Big party

Friday, there's a BIG party at the grocery store! I'm doing the choreographic dance right now(thought I would throw you all off) in getting everyone organized and where the girls need to be set up! It's fun, but a lot of work! I've got all the recipes ready and will make up the snack food on Wednesday. Thursday, Mary and I demo ,but finish up prep work on some dips, then Friday will be long and busy!! It's always fun to see people reactions to new dips and ideas, so stop in and let me know what you think! this year we will have a coffee bar set up in the front and rumor has it that the liquor dept will serve champagne! I'll try to remember to take photos to show off the party! Blessings!

Saturday

I'm working tomorrow and it's cold here! The snow has started and snowed all day, but not very much on the ground! I've made a large pot of turkey in gravy for supper to serve over biscuits! Poor Gordon got that for 2 nights, but no complaints out of him!! Tomorrow night will be better with ham and potatoes! We are off to see our 9 yr old granddaughter on Sunday! Hope to take her to lunch, bum around, maybe a movie! Blessings!

venison sausage

Gordon is very busy these days mixing meat up for sausage! We(mostly him) make Italian, Cajun(new this year), fresh(all purpose sausage), and chorizo!!! We like the three and I added the Cajun this year for something else! Chorizo is so neat to have on hand, no need to add taco seasoning to the meat, it's already done! Tacos are a breeze! I'm thinking for our Bible study group Christmas party about making Cajun meat with rice as a hot dish, YUM!!!!! Blessings!

disaster!

Well, I was minding my own busy and a disaster happened!! I was happily making bars for a funeral at church, it was a new recipe and had it all under control, when it happened! 15 minutes into the baking process, I smelled something burning, not the bars, oh no!!! No it wasn't the bars actually, but the glass pan broke in the oven and the contents were burning on the bottom of the oven! I stood there and said to Gordon,"the pan broke". He came into the kitchen and we turned off the oven, but didn't try to take the broken glass pan out because of the heat, but I dumped the second pan as we thought maybe there would be glass fragments in the other pan of bars! What a night!!! Cuts on both of our hands from the glass pan! So, I emailed Pyrex and I'll let you know what happens!! Blessings!