Holiday Blogging: Day Five

 

It's Day Five of Holiday Blogging! Today post is on Holiday traditions. 

There's a few Holiday tradition in my family, they're small but still traditions. 

For years and years we would always buy my mom Kmart Christmas bears (although there are some years missing) But we always buy one or two for her every year or at least we try too. This is this year collection, I actually scored a lot of the years we were missing in a garage sale! and so ALL bears are displayed. 

  

 

When trying to do an offical account on the note I made there's at least 50 bears if not more and there's three more to still add! 

Another BIG BIG tradition is getting me Barbie ornaments, yes almost every years since a kid I have always gotten an Barbie Hallmark Ornament in series. HOWEVER I don't have the ones from the early 90s and I am desperatley missing the 2009 one. 

 

2009 was huge milestone for me, I graduated high school and started college, but I guess that particular barbie was set out in the month of JULY and people went and brought them right away and then if I do ever want to buy that one I'll have to pay an Arm and a leg because they're marking it as close to $100 to $300! 

So that's it for our holiday traditions!

Holiday Blogging: Day Four

  

It's Day four of Parajunkee's 7 days of Holiday blogging! Today its about favorite recipes. Although I don't bake hardly ever but I do make something really fun for my family and friends. 

 

Favorite holiday recipes: 

Mainly I'm all for coconuts balls or mound balls is what some people call them, for years I would never eat them until one day one year I took a bite and never looked back. I'm such a picky eater so for me to try something was shocking and one I tried it. I became obsessesed and become known as "the little mouse" around this time of year.

Next it's a recipe insipre by the wonderful addicting Pinterest. I discovered this idea two years ago and they were a great hit the first year I made them, sadly I didn't have any time to make them last year due to my over stressed/overload school studies.

They're called Christmas Mices.  

 

this is the pinterest picture that attracted me to this idea. 

This is my mices from 2013 I actually use pink frosting to determine girl mices with little bows.

One of my cousin taking a bite of the poor mice

 

I made some this year but I still got some finally touches to add, 

So what does making these mices entails? Well the original recipe calls for Cherry (yes Cherry) but I substitute that idea with either coconuts balls and/or peanut butter balls. The 2013 mices had little sliced almonds but those were a pain with a lot of them falling off and the almonds were all different sizes and finding the right thickness???? Shakes head. 

So my revised recipe is using peanut butter mices (this year), Twizzlers licorice peel and pull, and chocolate chips for the ears and using melted chocolate to make the eyes. I basically use melted chocolate as my glue to place the ears, the faces and to stick the tails in the behind of the peanut butter balls. 

I'll post pictures of this year mices when I'm done with them.

Holiday Blogging: Day Three

 

Since Christmas is our family biggest holiday of the year, we typically go all out with Christmas. So Pictures are always getting taken!

 

I wish I could take credit for taking this photo but my cousin is actually the one that took it with my camera.

The Christmas White Bears Collection (I bet you can't even guess on how many we have)

 

This year tree

Holiday Blogging: Day Two

 

God this is so hard!!! I don't know if I've really read any holiday theme scenes. 

Since Parajunkee mention about Harry Potter winter wonderland that I'm going to go with that since I'm horrible at trying to think of scenes from other books that I read. 

 

This was always my favorite from the first movie, seeing the great halls fill with Christmas decorations and that free falling snow without actually getting snow??? I LOVE. 

 

The ball that Goblet of Fire had and it was all crystals! 

Holiday Blogging: Day One

 

Day One: A Gift that I'm giving

Sighs I'm usually great at giving gifts and I guess I am, but sometimes it's hard to know if you truly given the perfect gift to someone. This year I'm gifting a awesome gift pack to Rachel of Fiktshun (SHHH) I can't say what it is but it ties in what she does outside of blogging. I brought this items a couple months ago yes I've held on to it this long but really when I saw it, I knew exactly who it was going to, who I was buying it for.

My card making is insane this year so a lot of people are getting my annual Christmas cards! I've been doing this for about four years now and at this point I should start printing off photos of each cards that I made and place them in a scrapbook to see how much has changes over the years.