:cool: yes it was Amazing ;) the low temps sure bring out the wildlife! this morning DH got to go out in the cold looking for a Coyote that was after the livestock! the small town where my parents live... had a Cougar looking for a warm place to be, curled up in a window well! EEEKK Im glad that wasnt my house!!!

:D :D :D


Polka Dot Cookie Bars
(my favorite because it takes 40 mins begin to end)

1 C Butter or Marg Softened
3/4 C Sugar
3/4 C Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 tsp Almond Extract
2 + 1/4 C Flour
1/3 C Baking Cocoa
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
2 C Vanilla baking Chips (save some to sprinkle on top)

Grease Pan 15x10x1 inch cookie sheet
Bake 375. for 18-23 minutes until just set.

if you dont have Almond extract, GET SOME!!! this is GREAT with Macadamia Nuts also :D :D :D

Pssst!

Look what I have been up to :D that makes 87 total :D

Here is the list of 13...13 counts yourself. If you don't want one of your own block back, then you would only need to send 12. Sorry I didn't think about that sooner.

1 Dublb
2 Ggal
3 QNS
4 Mirabelle
5 Honchey
6 Jeanie
7 JanRN
8 deranged_damsel
9 QuiltE
10 OKsewglad
11 Anael
12 GrannyQ
13 carriem

My favorite colors are green and purple.

DD--that is a beautiful quilt.

DD, you are in the home stretch, lovely blocks, and good sounding cookies! Thanks, Carrie, for the green and purple hint...I know Mirabelle uses different colors so effectively in quilts, but her rose pony quilt is really striking. AS her
Aqua blue one was also very nice and her embroidery blocks were too....DD with her blues and grannyQ with her purple...or do I have that turned around??? I am so impressed with all the lovey blocks I have seen on this site. ..good use of color, design and workmanship.

DD, I love your quilt blocks! You have such great contrast in your blocks and they look great all together like that. I'm getting inspired to keep sewing my rows together! Great job.

Thanks for all the cookie recipes. Jeanie, Taste of Home is my favorite magazine and website. I love almost all their recipes--they use normal ingredients that I actually have around; some magazines use such weird things that I'd have to run out just to get them.

Everyone is probably going to be very busy over the next few days so I'll wish yinz all a very Merry Christmas tonight. Hope you have lots of fun, family, and love over the holidays. I feel so blessed to have hooked up with this pony ride and consider you part of my family. Peace & joy to all.

PS: anything eaten on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day contains NO calories!

I don't have any exciting recipes to share. Mostly I just make chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies. The ones posted here sure look yummy though!!

We celebrated Christmas with my mom and her husband tonight. They kept the kids last night so we had a nice day just the two of us. Then tonight when they got home we had cookies, tea/cocoa and exchanged gifts. I got money for my sewing machine stash. :D I want to get a Janome 6600.

DH's family gets together on Monday, so we will stop by DMIL's house for a little bit to say hi to all. Christmas Eve and Day are spent together as a family.

Today while kids were gone, DH and I were watching a movie so I cut some squares for "leaders and enders" (I think that is what they are called). Had fabric cut for a pattern that now I don't think I will ever make so decided to cut them into squares to make some 9-patch blocks...probably will end up D9Ps. I will start joining these in between adding sashing to my Rosie blocks. I also pinned layers and cut fabric for a kaleidoscope quilt I have started.

I want to get back to finishing one UFO a month like I did through the summer. Since I have blocks made for both PC and Rosie as well as stuff cut and sewn for other quilts it is a reasonable goal.

Merry Christmas to all!

DD your quilt will be beautiful, can't wait to see it finished, you are definitely on the home straight now.

All these cookie recipes are making me hungry:D will find my favourite chocolate slice recipe tomorrow.

JanRN I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas, chat to you in the New Year