Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange

 This is always such a fun hop but this year it will also be a sad hop knowing it's our last.

Thanks so much Carol and Joan for the years of fun, learning and sharing with friends. 

On to our cookie Exchange.  Over the years I have participated in this hop but it has always been a major test of my Dessert making skills cause I don't bake because I'm always in too much of a hurry to follow directions. 

This year I am serving Christmas dinner and decided that I was going to have dessert but I was not going to bake it.  When I am not doing quilty things I do Cricut crafting things.  Right now there are a lot of Cricut groups doing daily ideas to Cricut for Christmas.  So pretty much every night I find myself trying a small idea that was posted during that day which gave me a fun idea to use my Cricut and some of these great ideas for dessert. I even decorated the paper napkins.

 WARNING This is a bit picture heavy:

I did attempt a new dessert idea.  A friend made chunky apple sauce and gave me about a cup and a half of it to try.  It was wonderful but too much for me to use in a timely manner.  I had a brain storm. I got a piece of Pillsbury Pie Crust, laid it in a pie dish, placed the apple sauce in the middle and rolled up the sides of the crust.  Baked it for 40 minutes and got this beauty for my troubles.  It was wonderful.

 

It is sitting on a muffin tin to cool.  Once it was cool enough to eat, I did and forgot to get another picture.

I did  do a little quilting for Christmas. I am in a Scrappy Pot Holder Hop.  I did the main one in Court House Steps but included a smaller one of a Gnomes from last hop so I had to come up with something sewing/embroidery machine driven for this event.

I saw these on "OMA'S Place" embroidery Designs and fell in love.

Then my "baby" sister, she who talked me into machine embroidery in the first place, saw these cute fella's that she would like me to make and mail to her ASAP. She only asked for 14.

I did start making them.  The design is from  GG Designs.

This is what you get when you don't have any Candy Canes handy.  It's OK , she offered to supply the candy canes to cut down on my shipping expense.

And no she will not be getting 14,  I think she was joking and just being a "little sister".

That brings me to the end of this post and this wonderful Hopping Relationship.  I will miss you all but will check in on you to see what you are up to.  Of course you may or may not see my name as Blogger keeps playing its mind games with us but I will visit.

Thanks once more to Carol and Joan for playing with us for so long. You are loved and appreciated.

I am including a list of all of this hops members,  stop by and leave a sweet comment 

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good life.

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