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Tea Party Game for Young Girls

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Award Winner:
Oppenheim Best Toy Award Platinum Winner
Ages 5 and Up, but enjoyed by 3-year-olds, too!

I found this delicious Tea Party Game
on Amazon which I gave to our 7-year-old granddaughter for Christmas. The Tea Party Game is pretty and fun, as we found, for both Kaitlin and 3-year-old Emily to enjoy together. The directions are easy [...]

Look What Santa is Bringing Our 3-Year-Old Granddaughter!

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Emily is turning 3-years-old one month after Christmas. There might not be anything left to get her for her birthday after both sets of grandparents, uncles, and aunts (”greats”, too) shower her with Christmas presents. Three-years-old is a fun age to shop buy Christmas presents for. Emily can finally play with toys that don’t have [...]

Quick Chocolate Christmas Cookies

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

If you find that you’re short on time and need to bring cookies to a holiday party or Christmas cookie swap, I have a couple of easy suggestions for decorating Christmas cookies to help save you time. Just follow the following easy, time-saving directions…
What you need:

Confectioner’s Sugar
3-inch chocolate cookies
parchment paper
Sugar sifter

What to do:

To make snowflakes, tree, or star templates: For [...]

Chocolate Gift Box

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

For an extra-special Christmas gift, fill these easy-to-make edible chocolate gift boxes with all sorts of Christmas goodies. For variety, try different sizes and shapes of foil pans. Wrap each treat filled chocolate gift box in clear wrapping, add a name tag and give them to your guests at the end of your holiday dinner [...]

Edible Christmas Favors

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Heavenly Angels
Yule Trees
plus recipes for
Marzipan
Cookie Glaze
Gingerbread Cookies

Heavenly Angels

These adorable Heavenly Angels can be given away as edible take-home favors, grouped to form a heavenly choir, or used to decorate a cake. The recipe is easy enough for children to help you decorate these edible Christmas favors. The heads are made of Marzipan. The Marzipan recipe [...]