living one day at a time
I’ve been pulling out all our Christmas decor and in the process finding all our Christmas crafts we’ve done over the years. This one is by far my favorite. This was our 2011 Christmas gift to grandparents and great grandmas. It was pretty easy. This one is the creation of KD. Here is a link to the craft: Terra Cotta Trio. I will be share others as I come across them.
I had a birthday party this weekend and this is what I ended up making:
First bake a 8×8 square cake and 8″ round cake and 10-12 cupcakes. I made regular sized cupcakes but I think mini cupcakes would have been better. I wanted 12 “gum balls” since my daughter was 12, but it didn’t work out.
Cut each cake like in picture:
Frost cake with yellow and white frosting.I froze the cake for 1 hour and then did a crumb coat. I still got a lot of crumbs, so I did that 1-2 times. Using piping gel create the outlines of the gumball machine.
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As the holidays approach, I am getting out my Christmas Holiday Planner. Yes, most people do NOT have a Christmas planner, but then most people are not me. I have to have every detail written down starting with this week. I go to this amazing site called Organized Christmas. I print out my Countdown Calendar (which by the way started LAST week so I am behind) and all the other work sheets I will need to get my holidays in full swing.
Here is the list of worksheets I print off each year:
Get Organized Checklist
Reality Week Checklist
Gifts and Giving Week
Get Cooking Week
Decorate Week
Celebrate Week
Holidays Values Worksheet
Master Gift List
Gifts to Make List
Catalog and Internet Orders
Shopping List
Holiday Wardrobe Planner
Holiday Menu Planner
Holiday Recipes to Try
Holiday Baking Planner
These are pages you might print once and just keep in your binder:
Our Holiday Traditions
Holiday Favorites
Here are some I am ADDing this year
Decor Storage
Decor Inventory
Holiday Tabletop Planner
Holiday Party Planner
Holiday Party Guest
Holiday Party Budget
Potluck Planner
Most of these you can print once and just copy each year. The only ones that change because of dates is the Countdown Calendar. Even that one, if you white out the actual number you can just enter in the dates each year yourself.
My first Christmas Planner actually was much more smaller and came from Flylady.net its called the Holiday Control Journal. I still use some of the planning sheets from this one too.
Well, I am excited to get organized this week. I’ve printed my sheets and now its time to get to work.
Ligia