I’m mashing this up into one for this lazy Sunday.  I had the urge to make cookies, but didn’t have any butter at home for a staple chocolate chip cookie but luckily found this great recipe.  Mine didn’t turn out looking quite as nice, but still very yummy.  It only requires four ingredients!

Peanut butter, vanilla extract, eggs, and sugar.

I think what really made these cookies was the peanut butter that I used, Brad’s Organic Peanut Butter.  This peanut butter is more runny than your average PB (jif, skippy, etc), so I think my batter wasn’t as thick as it should’ve been, but these cookies still tasted great and I wanted softer cookies anyway.  You can always substitue and alter a recipe to your liking, for example, I only put about a half to two-thirds cup of sugar and added an extra egg because I only had Medium sized eggs at home.

I also attempted to add marshmallows to my cookies, but it was a failed attempt.  I will get it right next time though because they look amazing!

You can find the recipe here!

I pretty much live in boots, leggings, and knee high socks in the winter.  Today was a nice break from the freezing cold 20 degree weather.

A glimpse at my workspace for today.

My desktop is Lisa Congdon’s 365 Days of Hand Lettering piece here.

Not sure why I still have a fan in my room when it’s 30 degrees F outside.

The thought came up today, as I’ve been trying to get back into work mode, to do a challenge for this year and given I just got a DSLR what better way to practice than do the 365 Photo Challenge?  This will be my resolution that I surely can’t break since it’s written in stone (aka my blog).

Photos posted for this challenge will be mostly taken from my Nikon D5100, unless noted otherwise.  I’ll be following these prompts from CaptureYour365 for January, unless I stray elsewhere for the day.  I’ll try my best to take photos each day and select my favorite one of the bunch, but if I don’t then I’ll be combining multiple days into one.  Got it?  Good.

I always get excited about books and start on more than one, but then rarely make it to the end of the book!  Is that just me?  Anyway, I was so excited to get these books for my birthday, but I never managed to finish any of them!  My resolution is to get through a lot more books than I did last year.

Hope you all had a great New Years!  I’m still trying to overcome my laziness from the holiday week, so in the meantime I’ve accumulated a few snapshots from my New Years Eve and some last minute DIY decorating ideas!  It was super last minute planning for me and my sister but I think we did a pretty good job at decorating with what we had!

Amy printed out these clocks which we cut and glued onto bamboo sticks, you can plop these anywhere to make things more festive, we stuck them in vases, cups, and into the panna cotta I made (why not?).

You can turn old birthday party hats into festive NYE party hats just by covering them with bright colored paper or left over wrapping paper (I used both).  Anything shiny and bright will do.  All you have to do is take apart one of the hats (essentially we’re just using it as a template) and lie it down onto your sheet of paper/wrapping paper, trace around it, cut it out, and tape it over your old party hats!

1) Amy printed out these letters, which we punched 2 holes at the top of each paper with a hole puncher, strung them together with yarn, and taped it up on an open wall.  This was great for photo taking and our make shift photo booth.  I downloaded PiciBooth on my iPad and stood it up on a stool across from the wall and done!  I use a leather case for my iPad, so it stood up easily without a tripod.
2-5) Use whatever you have around your house that’ll spruce up your snack table.  We used clear vases and empty bottles for candy, a silver bucket for miscellaneous goodies (this is perfect for leftover candy from xmas!), and these cute owl ceramic measuring cups to hold bite sized snacks like m&m’s, marshmallows, and pretzels.  You can also cut some paper fringe for extra decoration around and on your table.  Quick and easy!