Time for sewing?

Finally, I dusted off the embroidery machine, I dusted off the sewing machine and did a little sewing. This was a super easy, and quick project. That's the only kind I'm able to do lately.

I purchased a plain t-shirt and chose a Halloween embroidery design to stitch on it, then I cut a strip of Halloween fabric (should have been double the width of the shirt, but I didn't have that much), gathered it, and sewed it to the bottom of the T-shirt. This was such a super quick project, that I was able to complete it before anyone woke up from nap time (and my little guy, didn't take a very long nap!!). Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a few more of these tops.

I'm finally going to share my all time favorite sugar cookie recipe. Every time I make them I think okay today's the day I'll blog about these, but they're gobbled up before I get the chance. My mom always made these when I was a girl, when she makes them she cooks them until they are lightly browned and slightly crisp. My husband, likes soft cookies, so I cook them for a shorter time and they are great as well.

Favorite Sugar Cookies

(I don't know what's up, but I can't seem to get rid of the double spaced lines in the recipe!!! Sorry if it make things hard to read)

1 C brown sugar

1 C white sugar

1 C butter

2 eggs

2 t vanilla

Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and vanilla.

3 1/2 C flour

2 t soda

2 t cream of tarter

1/2 t salt

Combine dry ingredients and add to butter mixture. Mix just until blended.

Shape cookies into balls and then roll in sugar (I add sprinkles too).

Bake at 350 degrees until cookies reach desired doneness (about 8 minutes give or take).

Fancy that, time for a little sewing, and well, we always have time for cookies!! DeeLight

Letter Lessons

This week my daughter and I started something new with the littlest member of our family, Letter Lessons. She and I are going to start introducing him to a new letter each week. We chose to start with the letter L as it is the first letter of his name

My daughter is 10 and had such a great time looking online for activities (she's already come up with ideas for next week). My original plan was to use activities from when I was teaching, but I could tell she really wanted to do the planning!!! What a great learning experience for her as well.

Keep in mind my son is 2, so we kept it simple, and our only expectation was that he would be introduced to the letter and have fun at the same time!!!

Activity 1: Play dough "LETTERS"

(we all played with play dough and cut out various letter shapes)

Activity2: Little Lamb

(we traced my sons hand onto black paper, cut it out, and then let him cover the palm

with white cotton balls, my daughter drew hooves and a face on the fingers)

Sing Mary Had A Little Lamb

Activity 3: Leo The Lion

( Of course we sang Leo The Lion. We then found a small pater plate, used a glue

stick to cover the outside edge with glue. My son then helped to place the paper

strips around for the main, and glued on the eyes and nose.)

Activity 4: Lips starts with L

( I drew an L Shape onto a piece of paper, put lipstick on my son and let him kiss the paper leaving his "lip print".)

Activity 5: Lamb, Leaf, and L cookies

Rolled Sugar Cookies

(from The Southern Living Cookbook)

3 C flour

2 t baking powder

3/4 t baking soda

1 C shortening (I used butter(

1 egg, beaten

1 1/4 C sugar

2 T milk

1 t vanilla

Combine flour, baking powder, and soda, cut in shortening (or butter) with a pastry blender until it resembles course meal. Combine egg, sugar, milk, and vanilla. Stir until well blended pour into the the dry mixture. Stir with fork until well blended. pat dough into ball and chill 2 hours (we usually can't wait that long). Role dough 1/8 in thick and cut with cookie cutter.

Bake at 375 for 6 minutes.

Fancy That, a week of fun Letter L activities!!!

Dee Light