crafty Christmas

Behold the wonder that is the Newfie Mitt!

First of all I need to apologize for any spelling or non-sensical writings. I am currently in school part time for Baking and Pastry arts and working 29 hours a week! Needless to say, I'm a little tired. Rambling will occur, stay with me folks.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that a huge congratulations goes to me for being in school! I started early January and it's a lot of fun.

I am in love with this pattern, which is good because I made four pairs! The ones pictured above were for my sister. I also made a pair in a light brown with blue, yellow, dark brown in the 'bear paws'. I think the holes really do look like bear paws. The final pair was a repeat of the black and rainbow ones; I kept them for myself.

With the mitts given to my sister also went two pairs of legwarmers with matching yarn.

This is where I found this FREE pattern --> http://bit.ly/zHO3rH

I also baked Christmas cookies. These are the newest edition to my collection of coveted Christmas cookies... crazy!

Sugar cookies with a dab of vanilla icing and sprinkles. I got the recipe from a cookie magazine or something. These went really fast. Not that I ate them all, my roommates helped too.

Ok, so tired, need sleep. Next post will be pink butterfly cookies! Hopefully soon posting blog thing up go.

bad attendance record

Wow, blogging has not been a priority in my life, as you can probably tell. I've been working on so many projects but left myself no time to post them. Here's a little post to hold you over until I get some of my Christmas stuff up.

I baked a Pumpkin Loaf for my work's annual Christmas pot luck. The recipe comes from my Better Homes and Garden cookbook. It makes two delicious loaves, both very moist. Usually I bake them in rectangular loaf pans but I wanted to do something special so I used two Bundt pans.

The recipe called for about 475ml of canned pumpkin and I only had a 900-something ml can so I only used half of it. I wish I had just used the entire can because the pumpkin was barely noticeable. It was more like a spice loaf than a pumpkin loaf. Still really good but the title is a little misleading.

I wanted it to look nice so I put the one loaf I brought to work on a wooden cutting board and then dusted the loaf with icing sugar. Icing sugar is magic! Look how pretty it is.

That's all for now. Next post I will put up the things I made for my sister's Christmas present!