Wine Jelly

Today we are making Wine Jelly

Any type of wine can be used.

Red, White, Rose, Champagne

 

Wine jelly is great for cooking sauces

 and wonderful with cheese, crackers and wine,

or even with peanut butter.

Ingredients

3 1/2 cups wine

1/2 cup fresh lemon juice

1 package dry pectin

4 1/2 cup sugar 

1 pat of butter (about 1 teaspoon)

Paraffin Wax

Directions:

  Combine wine, lemon juice, and pectin in a large saucepan.  Bring to a boil stirring frequently.  Add sugar, stirring constantly until dissolved.  Add pat of butter

Return to a rolling boil.  Once at a rolling boil, boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Skim foam off top, if necessary. Ladle jelly into hot sterilized wine glasses leaving about 1/2" from top.

Once the jelly has cooled and set pour about 1/8" paraffin

wax and let harden.  Pour another 1/8" to seal top.

Tie with a ribbon to make a great presentation.

 

Wine improves with age.  The older I get, the better I like it. ~ Anonymous

Cookie Exchange Idea

Did someone say Party?

Chameleon Girls

Love a good Party.

Is there better time of year to get together

with family and friends and share your favorite

cookie recipe?

This is our recipe that we are sharing with our friends.

Cookie Burst

What goes better with cookies that a glass of cold milk?

NOTHING!

We are going to show you a special way to serve milk

at your Cookie Exchange Party.

Plastic Wine Glasses

White Frosting

Sprinkles

Pour the sprinkles onto a small plate or bowl.

Spread a think layer of frosting onto each glass.

Dip each glass into the sprinkles to cover frosting.

Now you have a fancy glass even the kiddos can enjoy.

Just think Santa might leave a extra goodie for

parents that put that much thought into his

cookies and milk.

At the end of each post we like to share a favorite quote

so this is our Christmas gift to you-

Cajun Night Before Christmas

Color Picture

Each year parents are looking for ideas

for their children to make as

Holiday presents.

Is Mary the next Renoir?

Johnny- Degas?

Trent- Cezanne?

Piper is our next Monet.

For this project you will need:

COLORS

 CANVAS 

(3 for $5 at Hobby Lobby and 40% coupon)

IRON 

WAX PAPER

PENCIL SHARPNER(for shavings)

For this project you are going to use

shavings of the colors. 

We used 2 boxes of 64 colors.

Look how yummy the colors look!

Yes, it did take awhile to shave each color,

but well worth the time.

Plus it will keep your little ones 

quite and still

for a little bit of time.

Have your child draw a design on the canvas.

This is their project but try and stress a

BIG picture is better.

Sprinkle the color shavings on the design.

Try to cover the canvas with colors without white showing.

Cover the canvas with wax paper

and iron until the colors melt.

Carefully check to see that the colors have melted

by lifting the wax paper.

If the color has not melted all of the way

lay the wax paper back down and re-iron.

To add a little extra pazzaz

wrap the edges with ribbon and tack down with

Glitter Finger Polish Tacks

Now your child has their very own master piece.

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

~Claude Monet

Cookie Burst

Are you looking for a super easy cookie recipe?

Here it is!

And it only takes 4 ingredients!

And has a BURST of Flavor!

What more could you ask for?
What flavor will you use?
Lemon, Strawberry, Chocolate

Ingredients:

1 box cake mix
(we used lemon & strawberry)

8 oz cool whip

1 egg

1/3 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Beat together egg, cool whip and cake mix until well blended in medium bowl. 

Dough will be thick.

Drop by teaspoons full into powdered sugar.  

Roll in sugar to coat.

Place on parchment paper lined baking sheet.

Bake 10 - 12 minutes.

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand”



Tootsie Roll Fudge

Do you have a childhood memory of a special candy?

Mine is Tootsie Rolls.

I always have a candy dish full of Tootsie Rolls.

Take a peek at how you can make your own
 Cheery O Bowl

I found this wonderful recipe from Camie at

Home Cooking For Six

Ingredients:1 teaspoon plus 2 Tablespoons butter, divided

2 cups Tootsie Roll Midgees

2-3 Tablespoons peanut butter

3-1/2 cups confectioner's sugar

2 Tablespoons milk (or to desired consistency)

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup chopped nuts (if desired)

Candy to decorate or mix within

(Heath bar, M&Ms, Peanut Butter cups, Reese's Pieces, etc)

Line an 8" square pan with foil.  Grease the foil with 1 teaspoon butter, set aside.

In a heave saucepan, melt the butter, Tootsie Rolls, peanut butter and remaining butter

over low heat, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Gradually stir in the

confectioner's sugar, milk and vanilla (mixture will be VERY thick). 

Mix with hands on counter top.

Fold in nuts or candy (optional).  Spread into prepared pan.

Top with candy, if desired, OR using a sharp knife, score the surface into 1" squares.

Press candy into the center of each square.  Cool.  Using foil, remove fudge from pan.

Cut into squares.  Store in an airtight container.

Glitter Finger Polish Tacks

What girl doesn't like a little bit of GLAM in her life?

We do for sure!

So what a better way of using 2 of our favorite things...

GLITTER

&

FINGER POLISH

to make fancy thumb tacks.

This is such an easy project and if you look hard you

might have everything you need around your house.

Thumb Tacks

Glitter

Finger Nail Polish



Paint the thumb tack with finger nail polish.

Don't forget the sides.

Dip into the glitter while still wet.

Stick tack into a piece of card board to dry.

How will you use your

Glitter Finger Polish Tacks?

As a boarder for a picture canvas?

Holding your favorite piece of artwork on your

Cork Board



Or give as a present?

A great way to present the tacks is to

wrap a piece of card board with

scrapbook paper or wrapping paper

and stick in the

Glitter Finger Polish Tacks.

All that is gold does not glitter