A Little Baking

After not being able to lift my head for 3 days with out splitting pain I finally felt like I belonged to the land of the living yesterday.  So I did the baking I had intended to do Friday and Saturday for the party I wound up canceling do to said pain.  The recipes are in the December issue of Food Network Magazine.

Chocolate Dipped Macaroons

The Macaroons are supper yummy, I mean coconut and chocolate, all it needs is some Carmel and it would be just like one of my favorite Girl Scout cookies, hum I may have to try that out sometime.........

I did leave off the crystal sugar that the recipe called for.  We generally buy sugar in the raw, not the white table sugar, for holiday baking I bought one bag of white sugar but I did not feel like looking for or spending money on white sugar crystals.  By the way the recipe if you want to look for it is Snow Capped Macaroons.

Double Chocolate Crinkles

Double Chocolate cookies are simply one of my favorite cookies, this is the fist time I have made them.  They were good fresh but now the next day seem to be a little dry.

Wardrobe Fun

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We did some switching around.  This wardrobe was in Erik's room, I swapped it for a dresser so I could stand up to change diapers instead of sitting on the floor.  When I find a big boy bed for Erik I would not mind finding another one of these wardrobes and doing something similar for him.

I'm sure that like my house many houses with toddlers have had their walls fall victim to a creative mind.  If we owned our house, or knew we would be living in one for more than a couple of years, I would paint a whole wall with black board paint, or a good portion of the wall, even the appliances ( well maybe not the appliances, truth be told I have a hard time with even magnets and art on paper on my refrigerator).

Back to the project, this is a pine wardrobe.  We bought it about a year ago, maybe longer, maybe more like a year and a half ago.  It was unfinished and just calling for something to be done with it.  This last week it happened.  The insets of the doors are painted with magnetic blackboard paint, I haven't tested the magnetic part yet but as a blackboard it works great.  Now my little artist can draw to her hearts content, on a piece of furniture.  I painted the drawers and trim of the doors in just a light wash of pink, her favorite color.  I would like to paint the wardrobe itself but I have just way to much going on right now to do that, I'm also going to do something with the door handles and drawer pulls, as I type this I'm thinking decoupage as one pull is glued in place and not coming off.