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Good Evening!
It has once again been quite a while, sorry about that, but I got so busy with the holidays. Choosing to make all our gifts during my busiest work time was maybe not the most well thought out... Ha ha ha, it all worked out. I got almost everything finished.
For my dad Alexia did this amazing painting of Aspens in Sunset, so we bought a nice frame and called it a gift. He loved it.
For my stepmom and middle step-sister I made Rosemary, Vanilla, Lavender bath salts. They smelled so delish! I packaged them up into individual use bags and put them in a very pretty box.
My Stepmom got an amazing homemade Belini basket. It was this lovely lime green bowl with a red ribbon/bow glued to it. It had a very nice bottle of champagne and cool green flutes. I found two great cork bottles at Pier One and made both Blueberry and Peach Purees. It turned out AMAZING. A side note: she is apparently the Belini Queen ha ha,so that was cool.
For my sister I made an apron. She's obsessed with them. She'll love it, but it didn't turn out as well as it looked in my head.
For the nieces, the two oldest got hair flower barretts and bath salts. The twins and the toddler got tutu's in their favorite colors.
On top of that I made food baskets for everyone that contained mini-loafs of Ricotta-Orange pound cake,Cashew Brittle, Peppermint Bark, Chocolate-toffee bark, White chocolate covered popcorn,chocolate covered popcorn with Recees Pieces and peanuts, Cinnamon chocolate covered popcorn, Chocolate Double Crunch Cookies, and Carmel. I think thats all, phew! I also made these AMAZING Gingerbread cupcakes with Carmalized Mango Buttercream Frosting. FYI, I will never make them again! They were so absolutely phenominal, but that frosting took me about three hours total! Never again. I wanted to make Cranberry muffins, but I was DONE after those cupcakes.
So now I have the two turning three party on Sunday, then I am off to Vacation on Sat. Woo Hoo!! Road Tripping through Southern Florida, I can't wait!!
It has once again been quite a while, sorry about that, but I got so busy with the holidays. Choosing to make all our gifts during my busiest work time was maybe not the most well thought out... Ha ha ha, it all worked out. I got almost everything finished.
For my dad Alexia did this amazing painting of Aspens in Sunset, so we bought a nice frame and called it a gift. He loved it.
For my stepmom and middle step-sister I made Rosemary, Vanilla, Lavender bath salts. They smelled so delish! I packaged them up into individual use bags and put them in a very pretty box.
My Stepmom got an amazing homemade Belini basket. It was this lovely lime green bowl with a red ribbon/bow glued to it. It had a very nice bottle of champagne and cool green flutes. I found two great cork bottles at Pier One and made both Blueberry and Peach Purees. It turned out AMAZING. A side note: she is apparently the Belini Queen ha ha,so that was cool.
For my sister I made an apron. She's obsessed with them. She'll love it, but it didn't turn out as well as it looked in my head.
For the nieces, the two oldest got hair flower barretts and bath salts. The twins and the toddler got tutu's in their favorite colors.
On top of that I made food baskets for everyone that contained mini-loafs of Ricotta-Orange pound cake,Cashew Brittle, Peppermint Bark, Chocolate-toffee bark, White chocolate covered popcorn,chocolate covered popcorn with Recees Pieces and peanuts, Cinnamon chocolate covered popcorn, Chocolate Double Crunch Cookies, and Carmel. I think thats all, phew! I also made these AMAZING Gingerbread cupcakes with Carmalized Mango Buttercream Frosting. FYI, I will never make them again! They were so absolutely phenominal, but that frosting took me about three hours total! Never again. I wanted to make Cranberry muffins, but I was DONE after those cupcakes.
So now I have the two turning three party on Sunday, then I am off to Vacation on Sat. Woo Hoo!! Road Tripping through Southern Florida, I can't wait!!
