Reindeer Food 2011!

Hi Everyone,
I am so excited to say that Rory and I are finished with this years batch of Reindeer Food.  We had a fantastic time this year with our new recipe.  I think they came out fantastic and the Little Miss can't wait to hand them out to her friends.  I just want to point out that as always our reindeer food is non toxic.  There is no glitter in it.  Please if you make it DO NOT ADD GLITTER!!!!  Our animal friends just can't handle it.  Sure, Sure the magic flying reindeer can handle it, but Mr. Rabbit, Lady Bird and Sir Squirrel will just get sick!  So please leave the glitter out and use only decorating sugar for the sparkle.  Here is our recipe.
Rolled Oats, Red & White Sugar, a bit of Cinnamon, Pumpkin Pie Spice, a touch if Ginger, Cinnamon Dots (Rudolph Spares) and Crushed Candy Canes.  Yummmmmy!!!  We even put a ingredient label and the phrase "Do Not Eat - For Reindeer Only" on the bottom of the tin.  I figure this way all the Mom's & Dad's will know it is non toxic just in case it gets eaten. Here are our pics ... Well just a couple.  Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by.
Lysa 

Holiday 2011 Favors

Hi Everyone,
Wow, I am sure on a roll! All needed Thanksgiving food items are in the HOUSE! So that of course means that I can get a bit crafty.  I have my annual Board Holiday Dinner in early December so I wanted to get a jump on the table favors and since craft paper and snowmen is my theme for this year I made a nugget holder based on the 2 tag Stampin Up die.  I don't own this die but making a .svg file for this was easy peasy!  All I did was take a basic tag shape. Used my MTC to copy, paste and weld the 2 shapes together.  Easily made a shadow layer with MTC. Filled my page with the shapes and cut with my Cricut Expression.  I stamped and colored the image with plain ole' Sharpie markers.  Hand scored to suit the width of the nuggets.  The best part is the quick spray with my homemade glimmer mist.  I bought spools of rayon raffia ribbon for my gift wrap this year so I used that for the bows.  I made 16 of these for the table at the restaurant. They went so quick I think I will make more.  I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday prep before the season gets ahead of us all.  Thanks for stopping by,
Lysa

Tags For The Season

Hi Everyone,
What a nice weekend it has been.  The homestead is clean from top to bottom.  Lists are made and I am ahead of schedule.  I even went to Joann's yesterday and got all my wrapping supplies for Christmas.  I decided to go kraft paper and snowmen this year.  They had an awesome collection of bags and such.  I thought I would get a jump on the tags today while the laundry is going.  As always I have to say the tags look better than the photo shows because the camera did not pick up the glimmer mist gold spray.  I had so much fun filling my gift wrap caddy with all my new paper, ribbon and tags.  Now all I have to do is get out there and start shopping! Have a great Sunday.  Thanks for visiting.
Lysa

The Holiday's Are Upon Us!

Oh my, Oh my!
It is November 8th. I just finished the Thanksgiving Day Menu and shopping list so that I could get a jump start on things.  I have always been the type that is strong out of the gate and then I fall behind.  Really behind, if you know what I mean.  I was off from work today and tried my best to get things done.  I also spent the day making lists and cleaning.  I figure if I could just get myself a bit of holiday spirit I would be able to fly through chores.  So I started to dig through the Christmas buckets for some inspiration and the first bucket I opened had this tic tac toe board that I made years ago.  So I pulled it out and put it on the coffee table in the living room.  I think I made this back in 1995 or some where there about.  Even though the outside temperature was about 68 degrees today the little snowmen did give me some inspiration.  I was able to start thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas and all the holiday hoopla. Here is a picture of the tic tac toe board. I used rubber stamps on a wood plaque and then used my wood burning tool to go over the lines.  I still have (and use) those snowmen stamps!  I can't wait till everyone is home for dinner.  They will laugh when they see it out on the table.  I bet they will play a few games too!

I hope everyone out there is beginning to feel the holiday magic and trying to find that one something or someone that kicks off their holiday mojo.  In the meantime, I am hoping this little game keeps me going as I have to work a double tomorrow!
Thanks for stopping by,
Lysa