I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

Here's our take on a Family Christmas Photo for the Christmas Cards....

Activity Day Girls Spa Kit

Complete with a Brush, Nail File, Nail Cutters,  Nail Polish and Toe Separators.

We "Tissue" a Merry Christmas

A perfectly super-simple neighbor or teacher Christmas Gift, after all everyone can use a box of tissue right?!

Vintage Strawberry Baby Shower

 Simplicity was the key to this fun baby shower! Chocolate covered strawberries, strawberry cupcakes attoped with strawberry swirl life savers.

Strawberry Pink Lemonade served in mini mason jars sipped through vintage paper straws, fresh florals to match, Costco Strawberry cheese cake with added fresh strawberries.

Then to top off the dessert bar...self served mini triffles (pound cake, vanilla pudding, fresh strawberries and whipping cream layered in a clear punch cup.) Simple, yet very sweet for any new baby girl on her way!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Mini Muffins

sweet, simple and a perfect snack to break out the wedding fine china dinning settings for!

Happy May Day!

Recipe: Thanks to Sisters Cafe :)

Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Mini Muffins

1 cup butter (2 sticks) room temperature
2/3 cup peanut butter (crunchy or creamy – I like crunchy)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2  2/3 cup flour
2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
48 miniature Reese’s peanut butter cups, unwrapped

Cream butter, peanut butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla together until smooth. Combine flour, soda and salt and add to butter mixture.

Form dough into 1-inch balls and place in mini muffin pan (leave in balls; do not press down.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.  Just cook until they start to brown, and then take them out.   Immediately press a miniature peanut butter cup into the cookie until top is even with the top of the cookie.  Let cookies cool in pan for at least 10 minutes before transferring.

Neighbor and Teacher Christmas Gift Ideas

Kisses and Chapstick for that mistletoe!

Mint teacher items...

Simple Neighbor and Teacher Christmas Gifts and other Handouts...

Anyone who really knows me knows that I'm all about the simple projects or just simplifying life in general to  still get my creative-fix in but to have enough time to hold down the fort at the same time. I've been having fun putting together some fun yet useful items.

 Our "Soda-lighted" to know you- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's for our home and visiting teaching families this year.  Loving the A&W Root beer as our reindeer body! I saw these made up with Coca Cola with the little bottles of soda, figured it'd just as cute in a big daddy body of our family and "Noble Favorite A&W drive-in owned" root beer.

We made up a ton of these "We Wash You a Merry Christmas" quick neighbor, school/church/activity/dance/piano teacher, coach, bus driver...pretty much anyone simple Christmas item from our family, so useful and who can't use some hand soap this time of the year with all of the colds/flus going around?!

Put 60 odd some of these Primary Children Birthday Items Together.  The theme for this coming year of 2013 is "I am a Child of God" so we picked up color crayons when school started for way inexpensive as part of our hand out for the year of..."No matter what COLOR, shape or size, we are all children of our Heavenly Father and created in his image." Then they get a picture of the Savior and of course a ticket to go visit the Bishop for their candy bar of choice for their birthday.

Made these up for our Primary Teachers appreciation hand out this year with 7-Up.  "Seven Reasons why you are up on our list of Christmas Favorites this year"....For Primary Purposes our seven we used were: Patience, Love for Our Primary Children, Dependability, Preparation, Teachings, Learning and Growth and Example.