Merry Christmas!

From my family to yours, we wish you a wonderful celebration of our Savior's birth. 

Christmas Sharpie Plate {DIY}

I have the cutest plate in my kitchen on display - but I wanted something festive for Christmastime.

Luckily, I had a white sqaure plate begging to be used. Inspired by a Pinterest project I found, I grabbed a Sharpie marker to create the fun Christmas dish.

Supplies:

Plate

Sharpie

Oven

Finer nail polish

 

 

Turn your oven to 350 degrees to start heating up. Make sure to wipe off your plate first and make sure it is good and dry before writing on it.

Draw. If you make a mistake use your nail polish to wipe off the blunders.

 

Bake your dish on 350 degree for 30 minutes. Let cool and ta da!

Reindeer Cookies

I had a gloomy day at work and wanted to come home and make something that would cheer me right on up. I thought about what I wanted to make and nothing was coming to mind. Then, poof..I remembered the nutter butters that were on my desk and I knew what I wanted to create - reindeer cookies!

This was such a simple and no-stress snack I whipped up in no time. I think I am going to have to make these with my nephew and nieces over Christmas.

The other good news about this project is that there are hardly and ingredients and you don't have to bake it!

Ingredients:

Nutter butter cookies

Classic white frosting

Mini M&M's

Pretzels

Tools:

Zip lock bag/sandwich bag

Knife

Scissors

First, I grabbed some white frosting and add it to my zip lock bag. With this new pipping bag, I clipped the bottom of the bag with scissors allowing only a tiny opening. This allows me to easily squirt the frosting where I needed it.

I took my nutter butter cookies and opened them into two halves. From there, I put a dot of frosting at the top of the cookie and one at the bottom.

Then, I took a knife and cut the pretzels into antlers. When I tried to break them apart, they crumbled - the knife was a great solution to keep the pretzels from breaking into a million pieces.

I added my pretzel antlers at the top of the cookie on top of the icing dot  and placed the other half of the cookie back on top.

Then, I put two small dollops on the top of the cookie for eyes and one at the bottom for the nose. Some of my dots for the eyes smeared together, but I figured it gave them more character anyway. Who wants perfect cookies anyhow? ;)

Lastly, I took some mini M&M's and placed them on top of the frosting. I chose blue and brown M&M's for the eyes and a read nose for each to look like Rudolph. 

I think they turned out pretty cute! They were super easy and yummy in my tummy! !