Merry Christmas! This is the final color of the month post for 2015 and I couldn't think of a more perfect color combo for this special honor than silver and gold.
This month's colors were inspired by the classic Christmas Carol and all the beautiful displays I see everywhere!
I found tons of wonderful pins on Pinterest and I've highlighted just three of my fav's above. I hope you enjoy my board for December and will return for this monthly post in 2016.
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to you!
I am excited to bring you another wonderful giveaway sponsored by Hallmark. As a member of the Love, Hallmark blogger group, I was selected to host a giveaway today and I will receive the beautiful ornament below free of charge. Normally, I would wait until I received my good to start the giveaway so I could share lots of pictures, but I want to give my winner time to order and receive their ornament- so I'm hosting my first ever 2 day giveaway!
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If you participated in my last Hallmark Keepsake Ornament giveaway in October for The Flying Ace ornament and were sorry you didn't win- here's your chance to try again.
There are so many wonderful keepsake ornaments to choose from at Hallmark.com! You might choose a Disney classic, or maybe you want to commemorate the birth of a baby- the choice is yours!
Win it!
Thanks to our sponsor, one lucky winner will receive a coupon code good for one free Hallmark Personalized Keepsake Ornament and free standard ground shipping! I'll email the winner the free code with step by step instructions on how to use it. Entering is easy using the Rafflecopter form below.
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No purchase is necessary to enter using the Rafflecopter from below. My WAHM Plan is responsible for prize fulfillment in the form of an emailed coupon code for you to place order at Hallmark.com. Winners will be notified by email used on entry form and have 24 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This giveaway is not associated with nor endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, or any other social channel. You must have a PayPal email account to enter.
Good luck and Merry Christmas from My WAHM Plan and #LoveHallmark!
As we head towards Christmas and temperatures drop, gray skies like this one seem to rule the day.
But I have found beautiful, abundant, hard to take in colors at sunrise:
And at Sunset:
Which color palette do you prefer?
Once I’ve served Thanksgiving leftovers at least twice, I feel comfortable turning my attention to all things Christmas and that means decorating and baking cookies! I love baking from scratch whenever I can, but sometimes this busy work at home Mom needs to streamline the baking process and that’s when I turn to Betty Crocker Cookie mixes. This week, I’m spreading holiday cheer with my Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies that started with a Betty Crocker mix. These cookies are so quick and delicious; nobody will believe they aren’t from scratch!
I bake cookies often throughout the year, but at Christmas time, I’m baking like a boss all season long. I bake for family and friends, I bake for cookie swaps and teacher appreciation days at my daughters’ schools and I bake cookies to give to my neighbors.
It really is a simple and easy way to spread kindness and cheer at this special time of year. All you need is a Betty Crocker Cookie Mix, about an hour and a few Ziploc containers to put your cookies in. I chose peanut butter because I knew it was a favorite ; but Betty Crocker has plenty of options like Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Chip and Double Chocolate chip just to name a few. Both the mixes and the Ziploc containers are on sale right now at Publix, so be sure to visit readysetsave.com to download your digital coupons. Be sure to check out all the fun holiday recipes there too!
Here’s my quick and easy recipe for Peanut Butter Toffee Cookies.
Ingredients:
- 1) 17.5 ounce Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookie Mix
- 1) 8 ounce bag English toffee bits (found in baking aisle of most grocery stores)
- 3) Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2) Tablespoons water
- 1) Large egg
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper. In large bowl mix oil, water and egg in Peanut Butter cookie batter until no longer grainy.
- Gently fold in toffee bits.
- Shape dough into 36 small balls or make drop cookies like I did by gently sliding off tablespoon size dough balls on to parchment paper.
- Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes for regular size cookies or 9-11 minutes for large cookies.
- Allow to cool.
If you are giving cookies as gifts like I am, while the cookies cool, it’s time to get your cookie container ready. I prefer using Ziploc containers because they are sturdy and reusable, which truly comes in handy this time of year! Sometimes, I even receive my container back with a goody inside as thanks.
I’ve found that a dozen cookies fit perfectly in the 1.25 quart size Ziploc containers. Sometimes you can get lucky and find the holiday containers, but if not, you can decorate your container as festively as you want.
Win it!
Thanks to my sponsor, Betty Crocker, one lucky reader will receive a $10.00 PayPal cash transfer so you can purchase some cookie mixes too!
No purchase is necessary to enter using the Rafflecopter from below. My WAHM Plan is responsible for prize fulfillment. Winners will be notified by email used on entry form and have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen. This giveaway is not associated with nor endorsed by Facebook, Twitter, or any other social channel. You must have a PayPal email account to enter.
Good luck!