The broken one is on the left, SP's in the middle, and the new one on the right. It's a Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS Digital ELPH. I'm calling it 'Elf' - because it's an ELPH and I got it at Christmas time. I told SP he's not allowed to touch Elf. I've been carefully wrapping Elf's wrist strap around my wrist, just in case...!!Here's Elf's first photo for the blog:
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Newly discovered Premiums Mint Chocolate M&M's in my grandmother's cut glass candy bowl. I LOVE these M&M's. I love chocolate & mint together. I am trying to have willpower, but seriously, I could eat that entire bowl in one day.When grandpa died last July, we had to clean out his house. One of the items I wanted was this candy bowl. As far as I can remember, it was always on grandma's shelf, always filled with candy for my brother & I. We would stare at it, trying to guess the kind of candy inside, working up the courage to ask if we could have a piece of candy. We would ever so carefully lift the lid, knowing that if we dropped it and broke it our parents would be very angry. Often there were M&M's inside. At Christmas, there was ribbon candy or those misshapen, different colored pieces of hard candy coated with very fine powder.
Speaking of grandma, when I was a little girl, I used to go over to grandma's house and 'help' her bake Christmas cookies. Mostly I got to dump already measured ingredients into the mixing bowl and to decorate cookies. By the time I was in high school, I was baking Christmas cookies myself. I used to bake only 2-3 kinds, but with each passing year, the list seems to grow!!
One year, I made so many kinds that my family had a 'cookie tribal council' to 'vote one off the cookie tray' (the cranberry-walnut were voted off; they got too soggy too quickly). SP and I have been discussing cookies for a few weeks and so far it seems likely that only 2 or 3 of the kinds from last year will also be made this year (but others from years past will make a re-appearance).
We haven't finalized this year's cookie list. There's so many yummy possibilities!! Here's a photo and list of what we made last year - the cookie containers were stacked around my Pillsbury Doughboy Cookie Jar but he actually holds tea, not cookies!
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This weekend we'll be stocking up on butters and flours and sugars. Get ready for lots of cookies!
This might sound really dumb, but those M&Ms look really pretty. Seriously. Maybe it's the bowl, or Elf, but they look good enough to eat! (Hahaha, ok, I really need to get some extra sleep tonight.) :)
ReplyDeletehumanvacuum: the M&M's are funky looking - a mottled green & black color, and the candy shell is different from regular M&M's (not as hard/can't really be bitten off leaving just the chocolate interior!). But oh so yummy!
ReplyDeleteI think I'll be Costco-ing for my cookies this year. How do you store them when you bake ahead? Just the freezer?
ReplyDeleteWhitney: Storing is always an issue for me! Usually we have marathon baking for 4-5 days before X-Mas and just store in tupperware but this year we are too busy so we'll have to freeze. When I do freeze, I put a layer of waxed paper between each layer. I don't freeze cookies with preserves or other gooey ingredients.
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