Pink Saturday

It is Pink Saturday at How Sweet The Sound, go on over and check out all the other Pink posts.   Be sure to check out A Charming Home , Gwendolyn is having such a nice giveaway of 3....yes three... vintage pink ornaments.  There is also another Giveaway at EP Designs and you won't believe all the beautiful things she is giving.  Be sure to check it out.   Now get this!!!!!  There is another Giveaway Miscellaneous Thoughts Is having 2 Giveaways and I will let you check it out for yourself what it is.....I can tell you it is VERY NICE and I hope to win one of them.

I found this tree while out shopping, since it is all done in pink....I decided it would be great for Pink Saturday.

Be sure to check out How Sweet The Sound

Redndsday 16 Days Left Till Christmas

It is time for Rednesday , at Sue Loves Cherries

Here we are at Kraynaks checking out all the red. This time of year you will find a lot of red santas and trees.


Hi Santa, I have been a very good girl......

Hopefully you won't get sick of looking at trees and santas, everyone will be posting theirs so after this, I will be finished posting trees. Thanks for looking and Happy Rednesday

How to make Cream Cheese filled penguins

Before I Repost the directions for cream cheese filled penguins, I want to show you a picture of my Daughters cat.    If this cat sees an empty box, basket....whatever....she has to squeeze her fat butt into it.

And Now for the the Penguin Appetizer

Cut a slit into each jumbo olive. I make it in the shape of a V...or at least I try to make a V

Slice carrots into coins and cut a V out of each coin. That becomes the penguins feet.

I use a cake decorator to fill each jumbo olive with cream cheese. You can put spices into the cream cheese to give it more flavor if you want. This time I used a little dry onion soup mix.

For the head of the penguin, use small olives. The beak is another carrot pushed into the hole where they have taken out the olive pit. I cut the carrot thin and make a point on it for the beak.

To finish off the penguins you can use fancy or regular toothpicks. Insert toothpick through the head, push through body (filled jumbo olive) and then insert into one of the carrots. The carrot is what will make it stand.

And here they are .... a parade of penguins

$10 Restaurant Certificates

If anyone would like me to send them $10 certificates to  Restaurant.com I need your first and last name, state you live in and email address.

All you have to do is join their site.  You don't have to buy any thing....these are a free gift.

My email is cowabunga14u@yahoo.com

Girls Craft Night In

I had been at my Daughters for about 5 days.  While I was in Leeper, good friends of hers invited us to do crafts using fresh greens.  I can tell you....we had a great time.

Look at all the great greens we had to choose from.  Jeff and Nancy sure had to work hard to make sure we had a great choice.   This picture was after we had been working for hours.

Hi Jeff!!!  Thanks for all you did to make sure we had a lot of greens.

And there is Nancy....with her JUGS!!!  Thanks Nancy, I had a Great time!!!

My Daughter is hard at work making a wreath.  Wouldn't you know....I never got pictures of the finshed wreath and it was beautiful when it was finished.

Surprise!!!  Took 2 pictures of you.  LOL

Below are just random photos of the rest of the girls doing their thing.

Thanks Nancy and Jeff for all the hard work you had to do to get ready for us to make our beatiful wreaths, pots......and whatever else we wanted to make.

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Now ~  I did take pictures of our next project so be thinking of what you want to do with them.  I have 4 of these total...... I also have some glass rocks to use, other than that you will need to decide what you want to do. 

Wow!!!  I don't know what I did to make that so big....It  measures about  12 inches Wide, 11 1/2 inches High and 8 inches deep.

Nancy and Krista,....Decide who else you want to invite and we can have it here and work on it in my basement or if Krista wants, she can have it at her house.  Let me know.

Clam Dip

This is excellent clam dip. Soooo tasty...

Clam Dip

1 Package Dry onion soup mix

2 Cups sour cream

8 ounces minced clams drained

Mix all together and add your favorite chips or crackers

Christmas Trees at Kraynaks ~ Blue Monday

We have this home and garden store called Kraynaks , every year from September to Christmas Eve they open what they call Santa's Christmasland. It is free to see all the trees and decorations they have set up. There is tree, after tree, after tree..etc. Some of the decorations date back to the 1950's.

I happened to find a couple of trees with blue decorations.

If you live around Hermitage, Pennsylvania, you should make it a point to check this out.