While working at a church camp the summer before my sophomore year of college I actually became certified to work with a glue gun. Mind you, I was already a couple weeks into helping the campers with their awesome "stained glass" pieces. It was really quite the difficult task to complete for the kids so I set it up to where once they finished their drawing then they could get in a line and have me trace their drawings using black hot glue. I really did perfect the stringless art of using a glue gun. I'm sure my glue gun certification has expired since I never got a laminated card for it...so I'll just have to hang on to the memories.
Last night I had the realization that I better start making Christmas presents. I started last month writing each person's name that I planned giving a gift to down on a piece of cardboard from a calendar. Then I drew a heart around each name leaving space for my gift ideas. To give away one, since dogs can't read, I've just finished baking the doggy treats I've started making a tradition. This might be the third year of doing it. Right now they're crisping up in the oven! I do three cookies out of each cookie cutter since M&H have three dogs. I made most of them with the Christmas theme, but I threw in a few loops like Ice Cream Cones, Turkeys, and... Rhinos! No idea why we have that cookie cutter in the first place. Come to think of it, where's the dolphin one?!
If you have dogs you might want to use this recipe...though make sure your dogs tummy can handle the ingredients first.
2 C. Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 C. Unbleached Flour
1/2 C. Corn Meal
1 T. Brown Sugar
(Combine this in a medium-large bowl)
---
1 Apple- grated
1/2 C. Olive Oil (this is best for a shiny coat)
1 Egg- beaten
3/8 C. Water
(Combine this with the dry ingredients)
---
Heat your oven to 350 degrees F.
Flour your working surface.
Grab some awesome cookie cutters.
Roll out the dough to desired thickness...between 1/4 and 1/2 inch preferably.
Place on a greased up pan, you'll probably need 2 plus you can place the cutouts close together.
Bake for 35-40 minutes and when done turn off over and leave them inside to crisp up.
Pull them out to cool completely and store them in an airtight container...you may choose just to stick them in the freezer to keep fresher longer!
My other gifts are pretty secret and just right for each person...though I'm still working on a few better ideas in some cases. My coworkers might go crazy if I make them another goody bag for Christmas. I'm thinking...saltwater taffy! Can you say handmade boxes?!
So, that picture up at the top is a turkey- duh -made from accordion folded paper. My mom saw it at my new favorite scrap booking store so she had me look up the tutorial. The turkey face/body cutout they had looked like it had a big boob so I nixed that and gave it a more appropriate turkey body. You're welcome turkey. Honestly, I don't even like turkey unless it's sliced up into a prepackaged container that says lunch meat and I hardly even eat lunch meat. Maybe next year we can just have ham because even when we fried it last year the thing just wasn't that great. Overall, I'm going to try and save a turkeys life... One person less of being in demand of a turkey just might keep Skeeter alive. One could hope?
No comments:
Post a Comment