Having a Ball

Cookies can be time consuming little things.  But when they turn out like this, I guess I don't mind too much. 

Happy Birthday again to my grandmother who turned 92.  It sounds like I missed a lovely party!

10 in 10 Thursday Style

Lauren  suggested we all do a 10 in 10.  10 pictures in 10 hours.   Here goes.

Breakfast. She eats a huge breakfast!

Coffee and list making go hand in hand.

Lunch.  Yes, I make heart shaped sandwiches every day.

Sleeping cutie.

Grace coming out of school.

Josie coming out of school. Why they didn't come out together I don't know.

Supper staple.  A veggie plate.

Choir Assessment about The Sound of Music! It's due Friday, you know.

She's lost three teeth this week.

She's lost one.

And I spent my evening pondering how to transform this thrift store  steal.  

 

 

I forgot to get a picture of my mid afternoon coffee with Laura :)  And several other things that went on yesterday. For not having anything on my calendar, it turned into a busy day!

That's So 27 Seconds Ago

I love that saying.  It makes me smile and laugh every time I get the opportunity to use it.  So, you can only imagine the chuckle I got when I saw the cover of the first issue of Flea Market Style Weddings.

It features a great paper flower bouquet.  Obviously the trend for paper flowers is still going strong :)

Go here to check it out. 

I don't have a copy of the magazine yet but if it is as good at the regular version of Flea Market Style, it will be money well spent.

Here's to many more laughs and lots more uses for my vintage book collection!

Plain Ole' Chocolate Chip

I don't always make chocolate chip cookies, but when I do, I cool them on old WSJ with articles about Pinterest in them.

I added some red and white sprinkles for Valentine's Day. Awwww.

And since I moved to this higher altitude, I always use this recipe.
It comes from the High Altitude Baking site and they turn out perfect every time!

Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies

© 1999 Letty Flatt CHOCOLATE SNOWBALL

ThreeForks Book/Falcon Publishing

This home-size recipe from Letty Halloran Flatt’s recipe book CHOCOLATE SNOWBALL,
is altitude-adjusted for 3500 feet altitude and above; over 9,000 feet, you can cut 1 or 2 tablespoons of butter.
Yield: 12 jumbo (4-inch) or 24 medium cookies.

1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
Preheat oven to 325°F. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter with both sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla, then scrape sides and bottom of bowl. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt, and mix them into the creamed butter. Scrape bowl. Stir in chocolate.
Line 3 large baking sheets with parchment or oil lightly with canola oil. To make jumbo cookies, scoop dough into twelve (1/3 cup) mounds, 4 to a sheet, 3 inches apart, or scoop smaller cookies by the tablespoon. Bake until cookies are flat and light golden brown, about 20 to 25 minutes, depending upon size.

Valentine's Day + Cookies = Love

  

Especially these little cuties! 

 

 

 

If you would like to order any of these  cookie treats for Valentine's Day, please send us a message and we can work out all the details!  The coffee cups and cookies can be shipped, the three tiered stands, probably not :)

1 coffee cup + 6 heart or star cookies = $15
(a variety of cups and cookie colors)

Valentine Cupcake Cookies = $3 each

3 tiered cookie stands with mini cookie treats = $15 each

Cookies are made of butter and love.  ~Norwegian Proverb

Happy Valentine's Day 

*Special thanks to Jan for taking all the pictures. 

A little game called Cookie Catch Up

I bake a lot of cookies. I take a lot of pictures.  I ask my friends to take pictures.  I send the cookies to my family and friends. I send the pictures, well, lots of places. 

So today I am taking a minute to catch up on my cookie pictures on this blog.

I have one big unorganized mess of these two particular items so if you've seen these before or already, sorry.  My attempt to get caught up is so I can post some more pictures later of the Valentines cookies I have been working on! 

Happy Birthday little Willa!

Happy Birthday Jackson!

These cuties were late for their own party.

For Tight Line Adventures.  Thanks again Sarah!

And thanks to Katie too!  These we so fun to make!

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Primary mixing bowls anyone?

These were fun too! 

Thanks Linda for letting me make these!

And thanks to Mom for feeding my desire to experiment! These turned out so cute.

Sweet Dreams are made of Cheese

Saturday night our Dinner Club group from church met for the first time.  We had a wonderful meal that included tortilla roll ups and queso for appetizers, a build your own taco bar, fresh fruit and Cupid's floats for dessert.

We had Pastor's famous Beer Margaritas to drink, played a rousing game of Outburst and had a lovely time just catching up and chatting with friends from church for more than the usual 5 minutes.

I was responsible for the queso.  I have recently fallen in love with the chips and queso from Qdoba so I set out to find a copy cat recipe to try for this occasion.

I found it here, from a quick Google search of "copycat Qdoba queso." 

I did use Velveeta where it called for American cheese.  So with that and some peppers compliments of Jan, I was all set. 

I  highly recommend you make this tonight. And probably tomorrow too. And if you need to take something to your Super Bowl Party Sunday, make  it for that too.

Here is the batch from Qdoba I had the other day.  Oddly enough, there isn't any of the batch I made left  for me to photograph. 








The Cupid's Floats can be found on Pinterest.  Vanilla ice cream topped with Cherry 7-UP, whipped cream and a cherry. 

At our house ice cream + pop= Volcanic Eruption.  Dad, be sure to add this to your VE menu.  You will love it.