12/10/2011

♫ It`s beginning to look at lot like Christmas ♫

(Be thankful you can`t really hear me sing or you be heading for the hills! LOL)

Christmas is my favourite time of the the year.  So today I had a great time doing Christmasy things.

This morning I baked 3 loaves of  Jack Daniel`s Classic Holiday Fruitcake .  I like this recipe  because it doesn`t have any candied cherries or pineapple.  I love candied citrus peel but I have never been a fan of the cherries or pineapple.


 And then this afternoon I made half a batch of my favourite rum ball recipe.  You can find the recipe here. I love this recipe because it is so decadent. ;)



Tomorrow I hope to make a Christstollen.  (Please note that although this is the recipe I use, I don`t put in any candied cherries.  I just increase the amount of candied citron.)  Next week my plan is to make some butter tart squares, molasses cookies and shortbread.

I also started pulling out my Nutcrackers to  decorate for  Christmas.  It takes about a week for me to get them all out and in their place as well getting my trees decorated (I have 3 trees - the main tree in the living room, the Nutcracker tree in the den and the Shepherd`s Bush 2000  years Ago mini tree in the Dining Room.)  I  decorate almost every room in the house with Nutcrackers (even the bathrooms).  The only room my DH can find refuge from them is the bedroom. :)

This is my Advent Nutcracker


and these three are the Phantom of the Opera,  Maid Marion and a Tyrolean marking the last German Mark and the switchover to the Euro.



I even managed to find some to stitch on Daffycat`s Stocking Reindeer. I hoping to have this on done soon so I can start her Ribbon Reindeer.  I have decided to keep the reindeer for myself.   Which means I am going to have find a way to display.  Hmmm..... perhaps another tree?  (Pssst.....don't tell my DH!!!)



LAST CALL:  YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT (CST) TONIGHT TO ENTER MY MINI GIVEAWAY FOR THE 2010 PRAIRIE SCHOOLER SANTA.  GO HERE FOR DETAILS.

Have a good evening and happy stitching!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1 comment:

  1. Oh goodness, those rum balls, if I could reach through my screen and grab some, I would!! Great nutcrackers and stitches too!

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