It's a Cookie Swap!

My friend Erin and her sister Kristi hosted a cookie swap tonight.  What a WONDERFUL way to stock up on some FABULOUS Christmas cookies for all of the holiday entertaining we have coming up.   Here's a sampling of what we got to take home tonight.   

The Reese's peanut butter ones were mine.  Those are MY favorite.

Josie and Mara had a great time decorating a Gingerbread house!  This was an awesome project for the girls.  Thanks again for thinking of them, Erin!

Here are all of the bakers!  What a great turn-out and SUCH a fun party!!!

After a wonderful snack-filled dinner, complete with hot chocolate, Erin and Kristi supplied boxes and festive waxed paper for their guests to take their goodies home and Erin gave us all a Christmas CD of her favorite Christmas tunes and a jar of her homemade jam.  

Honestly, it was so awesome to be so spoiled!!!

Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!

Christmas Cookie Class

It's always fun to come up with new ideas for classes at Ben Franklin.  One that I thought would go over well would be a Christmas cookie decorating class.  I had 5 ladies join me for some instruction on taking their usual Christmas cut-outs to the next level.  After an hour of instruction, they had the rest of the class period to decorate away.  And here's what they came up with.

I thought they turned out wonderfully!  They will most certainly be the stars of their cookie trays!  Thanks, ladies for making such a fun class! Merry Christmas!