Heavenly Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

This is absolutely the best pumpkin bar ever and I make it often. You know Fall is in the air and people are converting to Fall mode when I start getting requests for these bars! Just made them last week upon a request by co-workers of my daughter. They scratched off her item on the food list and wrote in "only your Mom's pumpkin bars" allowed.

Mummy Meatballs

A cute Halloween recipe that was really easy to do, well almost. We were having a heck of a time threading the spaghetti through the meatballs.  If you are planning a party you could do these ahead of time and freeze them too.













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Mummy Meat balls
1 bag - Frozen Meatballs
1 can of Pillsbury Pizza dough
Spaghetti
Spaghetti sauce
Thaw out meatballs. Take a spaghetti noodle and thread three meatball onto noodle, break off any excess noodle.
Cut pizza dough in thin strips and wrap around skewered meatballs.

Authored by +Shawna Williams

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May Day Baskets

Tomorrow is May Day and coincidentally I had my granddaughter and her best friend at my house today so we had a fun time making May Day Baskets. For me it was a  little walk down memory lane because my kids and I use to make May Baskets every year until it was no longer the "cool" thing to be caught doing. In all honesty, I don't know if anyone shares May Baskets anymore but it is a fun activity for kids. The reason I am a fan is it teaches kids the value of giving of their time and giving to others.

Baby Calves, Pinantas and Miniature Butterfly & Flower Sugar Cookies=Our Family Easter Holiday

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Valentine Linzer Cookies - Combo Pack Style

I didn't start out making Linzer cookies although it was on my "maybe" list. What I originally made was some decadent brownies with mini chocolate chips and marshmallows - yummm (soon to be posted). And then my husband walked in the kitchen looking like I had just taken all his toys away because I didn't make him something (non-chocolate)! So I say to myself, "I could make the Linzer cookies which he loves and it is the Valentine holiday (almost) and I don't really feel like it and it means this will run right into making supper, i.e., all afternoon in the kitchen". Hmm, do I make him happy or do I make me happy because I am just fine with the decadent brownies. Well as you can see I caved!

White Chocolate Raspberry Martini

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Oh Christmas Tree

Now that Christmas is over I would like to share with you the story on my tree.We all know that Christmas Trees are dead right? But when you spend two days trimming and decorating and one week later you here kerplunk, chink and ting and walk over to your tree and see ornaments on the ground because the tree has totally lost its needles you can become a bit irate. So I go down to The Home Depot with a video and pictures to show them that this is not normal. Yes, I became one of those customers, but I have never in 30 years had a tree get this bad in one week. I would not even have done anything if it was 2-3 weeks in. So of course the manager looks at me and says "You know Christmas trees are dead, right?". Then I showed him the pics and video. I told him it had plenty of water and showed him the receipt where I also bought the tree saver additive. With all that he gave me a refund. Honestly, I never want to go through this again. Every time someone came over and wanted to look at the tree we would have to say DON"T TOUCH THE TREE!!!  and of course they would and have a pile of needles in there hand. Hopefully next year will be a lot better.

Pomegranate Cranberry Champagne Punch

This is the time of year we love sharing food, drinks and laughs with our friends and family.
At my Christmas Party we all share some of our favorite dishes, but I have to say the hit of the party was my Champagne Punch. The punch bowl station always had a crowd around it and definitely was the talk of the night. 

Decorated Holiday Jars

In another life I did quite a bit of crafting and even circuited the local craft shows but several kids and a professional career ended that extra time devoted to crafting.

Decorating for the Holidays

This past Saturday was my day to be creative with decorating for the holidays. I was also determined to throw away old outdoor decorations I haven't used for years but every time I headed to the garbage, a light bulb would go off and I had an idea for repurposing the decorations. So, here are some of the things I was up to over the weekend.

Spooky Decorated Candy Pretzel Sticks

Yesterday afternoon I had the delight of spending time with my oldest granddaughter and her best friend. They wanted to make something Halloweeny so we took a quick trip to one of our box stores to get some ideas.

Halloween Cupcake Toppers

+Terri Henkels and I were so busy coming up with things to make while she was visiting that we ran out of time. The one thing we did want to do is decorate with the cupcake toppers we bought from Michaels Craft Store.  As a time saver, we bought cake mix and frosting and set out to have a little fun. We used Wiltons red glitter gel for the blood to go with the knife toppers and sprinkle bones for the Chocolate cupcakes. How fun are these cupcakes!

Authored by +Shawna Williams

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Vanilla Butter Sugar Cookies - Spooky Delicious

During my trip to Florida my sister, +Shawna Williams, and I spent time being festive! That is right, our kids are grown and we still made decorated sugar cookies. I used to make them with my children when they were younger and now I have sugar cookie decorating parties with my grandchildren. I must confess that I find it somewhat exhausting. We have cookie dough, frosting and food color from the kitchen to the dining area and it takes forever to make them and clean up afterwards.

Halloween Decoration

My sister and I had a moment at Michaels the other day, yes you can say we got sucked up by all the Halloween Decorations and our creative juices just kicked in and before we new it our cart was full and 150 dollars later we were on our way home to do our own theme. I cut the top off the pumpkin and added floral foam inside.

Cookies & Easter Egg Fun with Granddaughters

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Savanah's Santa Letter - Easy Ginger Snap Cookies

I'm making cookies this morning for the Christmas Party and it  brought back a very happy memory.

 My daughter had to write a letter to Santa for her English class and I wondered if I still had it. As I was reading it I got a big kick on how she insist that she is still good and cleans the house when her Mom ask her to, then came the list of toys. You can see the teachers corrections on the letter, which concerned Savanah that Santa wouldn't read it, I assured her that it won't be a problem and we "mailed" it off.

In our house Santa Loves these Ginger Snap Cookies.