i'm turning into the cookie monster

images from google search cut out sugar cookies

I am absolutely thrilled for this holiday season! I have a killer no-chill sugar cookie recipe & a SIMPLE royal icing recipe! Robin and I have made a TON of sugar cookies lately & we keep practicing and experimenting with different things! I just can't wait for Thanksgiving! I got cookie cutter set you see at the very top with the leaves and acorn from Wal-Mart last week when they marked all the halloween items for A DOLLAR!!! It was orginally $6! WOO! I was super excited too! I also got some orange decorators icing! This year for christmas I want to go sugar cookie crazy.  I want to decorate tons and tons of cookies for everyone I know and then some for my house. I am so excited about this Holiday Season. I'm not sure why either. Last year I didn't really get into the Holiday "spirit" at all. That may have been because I was constantly sick & a ton of pain in my lower back because of baby business, but this year it is such a different story. I can't wait to get down the Christmas stuff and decorate our house for Christmas for the first time!! Our living room is so small we're going to have to re-arrange it to fit our Christmas tree. It's almost 8 feet tall and I'm wondering exactly where it will go... cause we have an angled celing in our living room & the highest point is where the living room and kitchen join... well we'll see how it all turns out!

As for the awesome recipe's I've found it would be RUDE if I didn't share them, right? Right. :)

No-Chill Sugar Cookies

Easy Royal Icing

For some cookie inspiration, you've got to check out this blog!!!!! 

Have a lovely day, ya'll!!!!!

pictures worth

you bet'cha i dyed my hair! cinnamon stick. you know how "they" say blondes have more fun? well in heatherland, redheads do. so. when in heatherland do as the redheads do. have more fun!

here are the cute, happy dish cloths I promised. it seems crochet never quite turns out great in my photos, but these are some brighly colored do-dad sure to make your kitchen sink, bath tub or where ever else you need 100% cotton squares happy and bright! did i mention they make you HAPPY? :) because its like spring or sunshine all day long. dishwashing needs to be fun...  ;) dont'ya think!

(if you'll peek in the photo below, there is the other bit i was talking about earlier. the dish cloth in a brown, pink & green color scheme! before I add the brown, it reminds me of watermelons :) i know everything is all spring colors, but I just can't help it. i like bright junk. it's all in the up bringing. rainbow bright ruined me.)

there is a lovely man* in my life.

while i sit on the couch hooking and watching t.v.

he is in the kitchen baking.

baking his first ever peanut butter cookies.

he is giddy as they turn out to be HUGE cookie cakes.

he realizes that the top rack does best for this particular recipe.

he fixes me a glass of milk and brings me goodies. 

he cleans up his mess when he is done.

*that boy<3

i.love.him. :)

<3heatherxdawn.

hrm.

okAy so.

me trying to "customize" my blog ended up me completely screwing it up. I used to be really good at HTML... what the heck happened? Who knows. Ha, so I went back to my template... and still it's not even like it was. oh well. I'll try again later. 

i made COOKIES!!! today. Yes, chocolate chip. They turned out PERFECT!!!!! I nearly burned down the house. The oven door wasn't closed all the way & I guess thats why my entire home filled up with smoke while I was changing Doodle's diaper. Anyways, they are soft and mushy and perfectly golden. I figured out the trick today. Don't melt the butter and add the eggs just before the flour. The mixture finally turned out as dough compared to cake batter. Did I mention they are DELICIOUS? I've been on a baking kick lately. It's probably not a good habit to be forming, considering the state of this body of mine and the growing state of that boys too. ;) we're getting plump. We're storing up fat in case of famine and widespread panic. (seriously, things to consider.) ;) 

it's officially thursday and TOMORROW I get to Natalie's house. There I will craft till my eyes bleed. Drink tea till I feel drunk. Laugh until I cry. Gabb untill I pass out. And take pictures until I am blinded and have so much fun it is REDONKULOUS! Yes. redonkulous.

definition- 

re.donk'u.lous adj. 

1. significantly more absurd than ridiculous to an almost impossible extreme; without possibility of serious consideration. 

2. fitted to excite absolute ridicule; intentionally crazy and silly; completely absurd and laughable. 

"redonkulous" - as first popularized by the fictional character Seth Cohen on FOX's The O.C.

i.e. My weekend will be so awesome it will be redonkulous.

My house is so messy it is redonkulous.

It is redonkulous to think that I should say ridiculous instead.

thank ya! have a nice day now, ya'her!