Happy 2012!!!

                                                           

May your 2012 be filled of:
Joy,
Happyness,
Good Healt,
Love,
Friendship!!!

Happy New Year to you all my dear Friends!!!!
Love, Dany



                                                          

                                                           

Handmade Cards

Hello my friends!!!!!
I hope that you all have had a joyful, happy, merry and fun Christmas!!!!
Now that finally all my gifts reached theyr destinations, I can show you the homemade Christmas Cards I made this year...

I was bored about buy Xmas cards so...I tried to make them myself!
Let me say that...I'm not a card maker at all or...a scrappy girl so...I didn't have much clues about making cards...

I took white and red cardboard, ribbons, threads, buttons, card tags that I've found online for free and...this is the result!

Cut a seam of the cardboard with my zigzag rotary cutter, sewed ribbons and tags and glued buttons...

Surely I can't say they were Amazing or Gorgeous or Wonderful...
But I can say they were nice and pretty and...above all, they were made with  the heart, not in series and having in mind every person to whom they were intended...
I wish you all a nice day!!!!
Dany

Christmas Lights

Hello my friends!!!
This afternoon  we went in town for a nice walk throught the lights, shops, people and music everywhere!
We got a hot chocolate with cream and I took some pictures for you...

I wish you and all your family a very Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!
Love, Dany

Merry Christmas...Eve...

To you all my friends!!!!!!!
Love, Dany

Reindeers are busy...

Via Web

...this period of the year...
They are trying to have all the things and checks done for the Big Night...
Last days of rest for them and then...a really big but important job is waiting for them...being Santa Claus' helpers!!!!!
Love, Dany

Waiting for Santa...

Hello my friends!!!
Could you believe there are only 5 days left to Christmas???
Wow...I can't...
Anyway...all around the house is ready for...Santa...
The cookies was baked (see them in my previous post) and all the ornaments are up...
In the picture above you can see how we decorate our stairs...
It's a simple decor but really nice especially in the evening when the little lights are on.
I'll try to take a pic of them too...

This year I made all my Christmas Tree decorations so I didn't have time to make other ornaments and so I displayed around the house all my "old" ones...
This is a Christmas table runner I made 2 years ago, I love it with the Reindeers and the Christmas Embroidery in the center...

My table is soooo big and so it's a big table runner...LOL!!!

Above you can see my Santa's Wall Hanging, the pattern is from a Art to Heart book.
I love it because it make me smile everytime I look at it...

This surely is my "oldest" one, I made it about 15 years ago...
It's hand cross stitched and I rember it was so hard cross stitch with metallic threads...they break soooo often and sooo easily...LOL!!!
When I made it, I wans't able to sew at all so I did the hand embroidery and my Mom sewed the panel with the back and the binding...

I was so proud of it, my first big project...
It says "Buon Natale" (Merry Christmas in italian language) and every letter has a cute Xmas symbol...a Xmas tree, a Candy Cane, a Xmas Wreath, an Angel, a comet, a camel...I remember that it took me lots of time to made it but I've had lots of fun!!!!

My Christmas Wreat for welcome friends and family during holiday season and my Reindeers panel...
Both bright and happy...LOL!!!

My cute little Gingerbread Man...made of felt 2 years ago...
It's up in the house all year long...
I love to have something Christmas-sy...always up! :O)

Christmas Birds House, made of a Debbie Mumm pattern several years ago...
But...I still love it...

Love all the details on it...

And finally...something not handmade but...equally nice...
The Christmas ball was a gift of my Mom, it has also a carillon that plays a Christmas music.
And the little red glass, is a candle holder, is painted by hand and was a gift from my Sister, she bought it in the north...if I remember well in Vienna more times ago...

Well, these are my Christmas treasuries, hope you liked the tour through my house...
Happy Holidays!!!!
Dany

Cookies for Christmas

Hello my friends!!!
How are you today?
Hope your Holidays season is going well!
This is my favourite time of the year...Ornaments, Christmas Tree, Christmas songs, make gifts for family and friends...

I'm used to bake Christmas cookies every year during Holiday  season and so I did yesterday!
Last year I baked Gingerbread cookies...I loooove the smell all around the house when they are baking and I love theyr taste!
But, unfortunately...hubby doesn't like so much spiced cookies so this year I baked some very easy but delicious cookies, not spiced...LOL!!!

I would like to share my recipe with you as it's so easy and anybody will love them!!!
This is what you need:
Cookies cutters with Christmas shapes...
Mines are Gingerbread Man, Star, Chritmas Tree, Reindeer and Heart but...you can chose the shape you prefere!

Ingredients:
500 gr all purpose flour
150 gr granulated white sugar
150 gr unsalted butter
1 teaspoon backing powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Quickly knead all ingredients by hand or with the help of a mixer.
Form a ball and put it into the refrigerator for about half an hour.
Then, with the help of a rolling pin, roll out the dough to a thickness of about 3 mm and cut out the biscuits with the help of molds.
Bake cookies in preheated oven at 180°  for about 10/12 minutes.
And...TADAAAAAAAA...this is what you'll get:

You can decorate them if you wish but I prefere them "naturals".

They are perfect served with hot tea...

But also... eaten one after the other while watching TV or reading a book...LOL!!!

Love, Dany