Hostess Cupcakes...Nummy!

My sister shared the recipe for these tasty morsels with me and I had to try them. I knew if I made them for just our family, I would end up eating more than half of them, so I waited until we had some company. They were a huge hit! Even Jason, who rarely requests sweets has been raving about them ever sense!



The swirlies were a bit sloppy, but I did them in a hurry right before our company arrived. Here is the link for the recipe. Happy baking!

DIAPER CAKES!

A lot of my friends are pregnant or recently had a baby, so I've been to a few showers lately. I first saw a diaper cake a few years at my SIL's house, she had received it as a gift. Since then I've seen them all over! There are lots of tutorials online, so I decided to try my hand at them. Here's the result, not perfect, but fun to make and functional!





I got my tutorial on homemade by jill. Super cute site!

Christmas Stockings

When Jay and I got married, I planned on making our stockings for us (and eventually our family), and could never find a pattern that I loved. While visiting my parent's house a few Christmas' ago, I was rummiging around my Mom's old patterns and found it! It was a perfect stocking pattern! I really wanted BIG stockings, since mine growing up was knitted and stretched to fit A LOT OF LOOT! I started these bad boys last Christmas (2007) and never finished them, mostly because I was intimidated by sewing, especially with a pattern. I was surprised how easy and helpful using a pattern could be! I told myself I would have them done this year, and what do you know a whole year went by and I was STILL working on them on Christmas Eve! Oh well, at least they were finished! I am still planning on getting our names embroidered on the top cuff. Hopefully I'll get Blake's done before Christmas 2009, maybe I should get started now!