It's Time to Dare to Share!

 It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

Happy almost Christmas! I am so not ready, and have no idea where December went. Today was my last day at work until the new year, so hopefully we will get everything we need to get down before the big day.  I took the picture of my dog this week. She makes the goofiest faces that always make me laugh.  

I finally got almost all of my Dollar Tree candy diys done. I have just a couple more to finish this weekend.  I put everything outside only to have it rain most of the week.   Oh well, the candy makes me happy every time I go outside. 

I am finishing my gingerbread room this weekend. These cute little gingerbread are going to be part of the decor.  :) 

Well it is getting late, and we have a big day tomorrow so I better get the party started. Link up and HAVE FUN!! 

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It's Party Time! Let's Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

The party is starting just a little bit late today.  It's a Michigan weekend, and we just settled in after celebrating one of my best friend's birthday,   It has been a busy week.  I was working hard on my gingerbread sugar cookies for a Christmas event.  

  

Earlier this week, I finished my candy for my Gingerbread/Candy theme for outside our house. I did some outside decorating early the week.  We also celebrated my step son's birthday this week.  We spent an evening at King's Island's Winterfest and had so much fun.  I highly recommend it if you are in the Cincinnati area. 

Since it is getting late, let's get this party started!  Link up and HAVE FUN! 

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It's Time to Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

I hope you had a very Happy Thanksgiving!  Yesterday we had our first of two with just the kids and our grandbaby. It was nice and relaxing, and we got a lot of baby time.  Tomorrow the meal will be a bigger family outing with lots of people and kids.  It should be a lot of fun as well.  

Today I went to go see the movie Wicked with a good friend of mine.  I recently bought a Wicked themed bead kit from the Target Dollar Spot, and made myself some bracelets.  They had three different kits. I bought the Glinda version, now I wish I bought all three. This would be a great stocking stuffer if there are any left.  

If you saw my post spooky skeleton hands at Halloween, I decided to turn them into Grinch hands for Christmas. You can see that post here.

I have been busy working on lots of crafts for my gingerbread/candyland Christmas trees. Here is a quick sneak peek. They will be posted very soon! 

Well it is getting late. We have a big day tomorrow with the Ohio State - Michigan game and our second Thanksgiving, so let's get this party started.   Link up and HAVE FUN! 

 

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Christmas Grinch Hands

 This past Halloween I shared a craft called spooky skeleton hands.  Instead of taking them down, I had an idea that would allow me to keep them through the Christmas season as well.  

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I really like the Grinch and Grinch decor, and they hands kind of reminded me of Grinch hands.   I found all of the supplies I needed at that Dollar Tree except for green gloves.  Walmart had some, but when I started looking for them they were already sold out in my area and online.  I ordered a pair of adult Grinch gloves from Amazon.

I placed the gloves on the skeleton hands. I used my glue gun and glue the white fabric to the read fabric to look like Santa suit sleeves.  I then wrapped the fabric around the base attached to the wall.  Since my skeleton hands were palm up, it did not look right to have the hands holding a hanging ornament.  Instead I placed a red Dollar Tree ornament in the palm of his hands. I loved how this turned out and it was very easy to put together.  

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It's Party Time! Let's Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means.. 

It is time to Dare to Share! 

This was a productive week for me now that I am not working every evening getting ready for the market.  If you missed it, I shared a post How to make pie ornaments on Monday.  I am planning on trying to make a few other kinds of pies and sweets using this technique. 

Yesterday, I shared one of my family's favorite Thanksgiving recipes that we are really looking forward to eating again this year.  If you have leftover turkey next week, you might want to try to make Leftover Thanksgiving Pizza. It is so good, and we have to make several pizzas,because we love it so much. 

Also yesterday, I made a new Christmas DIY using my spooky skeleton hands.  I will post what I made this weekend.  It will be especially fun for those who like a certain green guy that is famous for his feelings about Christmas. :) 

Now that you know what I have been up to this week, I would love to see what you have been up to.   Link up and HAVE FUN!  

 

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It's time for Leftover Thanksgiving Pizza

It is almost time for one of my favorite Thanksgiving family traditions. It's time to make my Leftover Thanksgiving Pizza.  We look forward to this pizza every year, a day or two after our Thanksgiving meal.  This year we are actually having two Thanksgiving meals, so we will have some leftovers to use. We will have a small family traditional Thanksgiving meal on Thanksgiving, and then a big family pot luck meal over the weekend where most likely there will not be a lot of leftovers. 

We love this pizza so much, I make three pizzas for only five people. I am getting hungry just thinking about it.  I wrote out the full recipe in a post from last year, so instead of redoing the entire post, I am going share a link to the full recipe here.

Here is a tip in case you plan on making some.  While buying your groceries for your Thanksgiving meal, pick up a few extra crescent rolls, boxes of stuffing, and cheese ahead of time, just in case you do not have enough leftover from the Thanksgiving meal. 

Enjoy! 

 

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How to make Pie Ornaments

 

I think these diy pie ornaments are some of my favorite things I have made in a very long time. Not only are they really cute, but they are pretty easy to make, and the items to make them are inexpensive.  

I had a lot of positive feedback at our recent holiday market, which made me happy.  

The main items you need to make the pies are styrofoam circles from the Dollar Tree, and cubes of polymer clay. I got mine from Walmart for 96 cents each. I found each cube is enough to make the crust of three pie pieces.  I also used about a half of cube to make several pecan pieces. 

I cut each styrofoam circle into six pie pieces.  I then rolled out the clay and cut it to fit each of the pie pieces. You will need clay for the bottom crust and the outside crust.   One thing that I did not do this time, but will next time is to prop the outside crust with foil to keep it upright. A few of the outside crusts came apart with out it.   Before baking the clay you MUST remove the styrofoam before putting it in the oven.  (see the first picture)  Bake at 275 degrees for 15 minutes. 

I used lightweight spackling to give each of the pie pieces some texture, and make them look more realistic.   Dollar Tree will sometimes have spackle for $1.25, but if you can't find it, I found this brand at Walmart.  It is a little bit bigger than the DT container and ready to use.  

Once I glued the cut styrofoam to the clay crusts and covered the pie pieces with spackle.  I painted each of the pie pieces with acrylic paint. I also painted the crusts to look more crust color. Since I was at my friends house, and had limited colors with me, I blended several colors I had on hand to look like pumpkin pie. 

When the paint was dry, I placed a little bit of spackle in a plastic bag, and added whip cream to each piece of pie.  

I only had enough clay to make cherries for one piece of pie. They next time I make cherry pie, I will add some clay pieces on top of the cherries to make it look a little more realistic.

I had enough clay to make three pecan pieces I added the pecans on top of the spackle and once it was dry, I painted it a caramel brown. 

I used screw hooks and ribbon to hang each of the ornaments on a mini Christmas tree. 

In addition to the pie ornaments, I sold pie shaped cookies, and gingerbread faces. My friend sold flavored bread which was well received as well.  

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It's Time to Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means..

It is time to Dare to Share!  

If you saw my post from a few days ago, you saw that this week was another market week.  I have been busy every single evening after working at the day care making things for the market.  The picture above is a bit messy and the cookies are not quite finished. Since it is almost Thanksgiving we are going with a pie theme for this market.   I made cookies that look like cherry pie, pumpkin pie and chocolate pie.  I also make some gingerbread face cookies.  

I'm about 90 percent finished with my pie Christmas ornaments. I am loving how they turned out and I will be posting a how to post after the market.  I will show a picture of the final product then.  I am letting them dry overnight and in the morning I will need to add the eye hooks and ribbon.  I need to make tonight's post short and sweet because I have be get up at 8 am to be at the market by 9:30.  

Now that you know what I have been up to this week, I would love to see what you have been up to.  Link up and HAVE FUN!

 

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It's Market Week!

 When I posted last week's Dare to Share party, I said that our market was going to be on Thursday. Normally our markets are the second Thursday of the month, but in November it's a holiday market and on Saturday.  Yea!  The friend I do markets with owns the bakery and is the one who schedules them, which is why I did realize there was a date change. We are happy to have a few more days to get ready this week,  and it will be in the daylight during the market since it is dark by 5:30 where we live. 

This market we are making iced sugar cookies, fall flavored breads, hot cocoa bombs, and pie shaped Christmas  ornaments  

While I am still in the process of making the ornaments, they are starting to take shape. I will be posting how to make them after the market this weekend.  I will also be able to start decorating for Christmas and working on my DIYs. 

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It's Party Time! Let's Dare to Share!

It's Friday night, and you know what that means...

It's time to Dare to Share! 

Yea! My computer is working this Friday, so I am able to post the party this weekend.  Now that it has been a week since Halloween I am ready to start making Christmas DIYs.  One of my favorite DIYs from last year, is my giant gingerbread nutcracker. My main theme of my DIYs this year is going to be gingerbread.  I have been buying supplies and gingerbread items the last few weeks and plan to start crafting this weekend.  

My friend and I will be in our final outdoor market of the year next Thursday. We will be selling a combination Thanksgiving and Christmas items.  I will be sharing more one what we are making this week. 

I am also adding new listings to my Etsy Shop. I have several items for Thanksgiving and Christmas if you would like to take a look.  

Now that you know what I have been up to, I would love to see what you have been doing so let's get this party started.  Link up and HAVE FUN! 

 

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It's Time to Dare to Share! (a few days late!)

It's Monday, and due to technical difficulties.. 

It's time to Dare to Share! 

 

The Dare to Share Party is here, just a few days later than normal. I tried very hard to post it on Friday night, and all day Saturday, but my computer did not cooperate.  We went to the annual Halloween dance party with my friends to celebrate both my and D's birthdays while visiting family and friends in Michigan. It was such a fun weekend.  When I got back to my friends house after the dance and tried to start my computer, it would not start.  The battery was completely dead, and would  not charge even when plugged in.  After trying for quite awhile, I decided to try to post again the next day.  I would be able to get online for just a few moments, and start the post only to have the  computer to cut out again. It was so frustrating!   I do have my new computer, but we are still trying to transfer things over from my old computer so I am not using it yet.  We are getting close, but not quite there yet.  The files that we need will get to 96% and then fail..  I am hopeful we will get it working this week, because I have some important things to finish on my computer that has a Friday deadline. 

Since this party is already a few days late, let's get it started now.. Link up and HAVE FUN! 

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Last Minute Halloween Ghost Candy Basket

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I am so excited about this easy last minute DIY. This year we have a cute ghost theme going on at our house.  I saw something similar to this candy basket ghost online and on TV.  I wanted to do but my usual spin on it, and make it completely out of Dollar Tree items. 

I decided to use two white laundry baskets, a white circle plastic tablecloth, black felt, and a  clear plastic bowl from the party section.    You can use zip ties or tape to connect the baskets with their bottoms together. 

 Once the baskets are attached, cover with the white tablecloth. 

I placed the bowl in the top basket.  This size laundry basket will hold tons of candy.  

I used the black felt to start the ghosts face. 

I used some craft foam I had on hand to finish off the ghost's face. 

I did not want to open our Halloween candy just yet, because once it is open we will be tempted to eat it. :) I filled with some Dollar Tree snacks to show how much it will actually hold.  This would be a great to hold goody bags for a kids Halloween party in addition to trick or treat night.  

I put a push light under the ghost to light him up on the porch. 

We are ready for Trick of Treat night.  The weather prediction calls for rain, let's hope it cooperates.  

Happy Halloween!

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