A Full Day with my Crickets

 Getting ready to make the gingerbread train with children's Christmas music in the background....I think the muppets were singing around this time.

 How's my spackling job?!

 Now let's compare.....see the resemblance?  How on earth is someone supposed to even remotely copy what's on the box?!  That icing (even after kneeding it in the bag) was not maleable....it clumped and then when I had to spread it, it didn't want to stick to the cookie.

 They are both so photogenic!

Cheeeeessssse!!

I'll have a Blue Christmas......

The Beginning of the Christmas Decor

This is the first year that the tree colours didn't include green and red.  Took a little bit of convincing by me, but success was to be had.  It's not completely done yet....my sister is bringing over her blue snowflakes and we may go shopping for some more decorations still.

 This is my dad's village.  We used a smaller table this year but placed it in front of the front window, which is different than all other years.  There usually is fluffy snow but instead we used a table cloth as the table is smaller.

And here is the dining/eating area.  Mom has collected reindeer and snowmen stuffies/ornaments so that's what's on the hutch.

The close-up.

A New Blog

http://acreativerealist.blogspot.com/

Here's the link to my semi-new blog if ur interested.  It's not as populated as this one and probably won't be but it's something for me to keep track of my 'creative' moments.

Pesto! I LOVE pesto!

http://cookwithcampbells.ca/en-ca/Recipes/creamypestochickenbake.aspx

Here is a link to the Creamy Pesto Chicken bake recipe from the Campbell's soup website or soup can.  I love the pesto part, and the pine nut part, oh, and the panko bread crumb part.  I highly recommend this recipe for a family of if you're single, left overs are great too.  That's my intention with making this as mom isn't into eating many carbs right now and it has penne noodles and panko in it.

 Pardon the not so "artsy" photo, but I had to try some when it came out of the oven.  Note the pine nuts!? Mmmm....

Herrrrrrre'sssss Melis---sa