....SpOoKy SwEeTs...

The nice shop teacher at my hubby's school made something for me, so I baked him some cookies yesterday.

I may have gotten a little carried away during the day making cookie dough...

3 different kinds of cookie dough.

So....I decided he could take some treats in to the school counselors too....He told me at the beginning of the year they were asking for cookies, but I don't bake when it's above 85...and we have had the longest continuous heat streak...I mean it was 104 on October 1st for heaven's sake!!

Any way...here are the packages I made up for the counselors...

Quick little boxes with a plastic bag insert.

I used a super cute free printable from the SuPeR talented Heather Nicols

DoWnLoAd here from her blog

Here you can see a little peek at the goodies...what you can't tell is how tiny those peanut butter blossoms are...those are chocolate chips on the top...the cookies are smaller than a quarter...not sure exactly what I was thinking last night as I rolled 200 microscopic cookie balls...but in person they are just the cutest things ever!!

There are also triple chocolate chip cookies, plain peanut butter cookies, and dark chocolate cookies with butterscotch chips and Heath bar pieces...those last ones are CRaZY good!!

Here they are sitting up on my HaLLoWeEn mantle ;)

and here's just another shot because they are cute....

I'm linking these up to 

Paper Playtime...TriCk or Treat...use a die or punch

EuReKa Stamps Challenge...TriCk or TrEaT

My CraFty SpoT...A TreAt for YoU

Thanks for LoOking!

Have a great Day!

jen

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...GoOd GoLLy...

... am I a blogging slacker!

I'm hoping now that the tree is up, the gifts are bought and wrapped, and the cookies are baked I'll be a little better :)

Here's a tiny bit of what's been going on here...of course, part of being a blogging slacker is NOT taking pictures of things you're doing/making :)  ...I did a lot more...honest...but sadly have no photographic proof...


Enough excuses... here's some of the cookies I decorated last weekend...I made a bag for each of the kids who's mom is a primary carpool driver...I try to suck up wherever I can :)

While I'm  ReaLLy grateful that I'm not driving at all this year...I feel like a total sLaCkEr in that department too....

Here's a few quick photos of the living room decorations...the mantle and the table by the entry way...

The $2 Santa boot ornaments  sitting on fake snow in the apothecary jar have been a huge hit with everyone who's seen them...kinda funny since the boots were a last minute home depot purchase while I was buying new outdoor Christmas lights...

Here's the mantle..it's the one thing that looks the same in this room after my husband got a WILD hair this Saturday and decided we needed a ReaL, LaRgE, space sucking, evergreen in our front window...had to buy a stand and a tree skirt too...HaPPy HoLiDaYs!!!  

Ca-Ching! 

 Then we got it home and I LITERALLY had to move EVERY piece of furniture in my living room to make it fit and not look horrible...then the hubby and the boy went to watch TV and i spent an hour and a half decorating it alone....hence the LARGE Scrooge factor!!

Here's the boy at his 5th Grade Band concert...it was AwESoMe!!!  He did great!  We were soooo proud! :)  (notice his Santa hat says ~Bah Humbug~...I totaLLy should have been wearing that Saturday night while I hung ornaments on the piney monstrosity in my front window!) 

ok...before you get too impressed., the bottom tier is from the freezer section at Trader Joe's :)  and man were they TASTY!!

 I did make the top section...brownie bites with peanut butter mousse drizzled with chocolate ganache...mmmmm.....

and I made these gingerbread eggnog trifles in itty bitty individual parfait glasses from Pier One...they were sooooo cute...and everyone knows that anything you eat with a doll sized spoon has ZERO calories! :)

Okay...off to finish the last of the homemade gifties and clean the upstairs MaN CaVe...the boys are BeYoNd pigs during break!!

Thanks for looking...

Have an AmaZinG Monday!

jen

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