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It is Easter Vacation and I have had alot of fun Making things for Easter. For our Easter Dinner with the famiy I made cupcakes that look like baskets and easter egg cookies.

Than for fun I covered a plastic egg with sugar and cream cotton yarn. Use Alene's tacky. AC Moore tacky is not "tacky" enough.

Grands Taco Melts

I'm not much of a cook.  I would far rather be quilting or sewing or stitching or knitting or scrapbooking!!!  However, that being said, last night I decided to make a recipe that I found in a calendar that my secretary gave me to give to my daughter.  It was delicious!!!!

Here is the recipe for the Grands Taco Melts
1pkg taco seasong mix
2/3 cups water
1 1/2 cups salsa
1 lb lean ground beef -cooked and drained
1 can Pillsbury Grands refrigerated busicuits (any variety)
1 cup shredded cheese (I used cheddar)
1 cup of sour cream if desired

Heat oven to 375 degrees
In medium saucepan, cook taco seasoning mix, water, 1/2 cup of the salsa and cooked ground beef until thickened.
Press each biscuit into 6-inch rounds.  Fill each with taco mixture and 1 tablespoon cheese.  Fold dough over the filling and press to seal.  Place on greased (I used parchment paper) cookie sheet.
Bake 9 to 14 minutes or until golden brown.  Serve with remaining salsa, cheese and sour cream.

Here are a couple of pictures!

THE QUILT

The wedding is over and everyone has signed the quilt.  Now, I need to quilt it.  For Christmas my dear husband gave me a Grace EZ3 quilting frame.  I LOVE IT!!  I put it together and now I have the quilt in and have begun to quilt.  Here is what it looks like!!

 My New EZ3 quilting frame

 The Quilt in the Frame!

 My first stitches in the quilt.  It is so much fun.  I haven't quilted for years - back to my Lancaster County Roots!!!!

Christmas is almost here and I'm busily getting ready. Here are some pictures!

 Little Mittens I knitted for all the girls in my guild

 Carley helping me work on Christmas presents

 The Girls - 3 generations - at Sandie's apartment (Actually 4 generations if you count my grandpuppy!!)

 An ornament for the ornament exchange at guild

 Christmas Kisses treat - these are so easy and so good.  You take a waffle pretzel and a kiss.  Put in the oven for 4 minutes than push an M & M into the kiss.  So christmasy and so good!!!

 My gingerbread train that I found at Cracker Barrel for 40% off!!!

 It is really Christmas because Santa came to town!!

My Gingerbread cookies - these are so much fun to make!!!

How Can it be November Already

Where does the time go. I can't believe it is November. We are deep into wedding plans and now it is time to put that up for awhile and get ready for the seasonal holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm not sure where we are going to put "Christmas" since our home right now looks like wedding central!!

Planning for a wedding is so much fun. Alot of work, but alot of fun. I'm enjoying the side of being the mother of the bride. Of course, being a stitcher, I'm having a blast making all the things that the bride and groom want made. Pew decorations, quilt for signing (rather than a guestbook - isn't that a great idea!), table runners for the tables, jackets for the mob and gmob because the bridal store discontinued our colors!!!, wedding sampler, etc. I felt alittle emotional when I stitched their names and dates into the sampler!! Are they old enough, are the responsible enough, can they afford this, - you know, all the thoughts that would go through a mothers head at a time like this.

The laterns for centerpieces are done, my dress is hanging on a closet door, her dress is hanging in my room, grandmoms dress just came, the engagement party has happened - I think we are pretty much on target.

Now, Christmas. We have to get all this put away and get started. The Christmas table is going to have a snowman theme this year - snowflakes and snowmen will abound. So, can I get myself into the groove? Can I remove myself from wedding mode? Probably NOT!! Christmas will be fun but will definately have "there's a wedding happening in this family!" overtone to everything we do!! So, will we do red and green or just plain white!! Maybe I have the perfect theme for this Christmas!!