Tea Cake Cookies!

Tea Cake Cookies

1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream sugar and shortening together. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Set aside. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and add first mixture. Roll out dough and cut into desired shapes. Bake 8-10 minutes.


To decorate:

1.) You can add colored sugar to these cookies before baking.
OR
2.) You can ice them and decorate with sprinkles! (Cutest turn out this way!)

Enjoy!!

Make your own Christmas ornament!

Okay, so I have a Pinterest now....ADDICTING!! I will always be linking my stuff to this blog.

Here is a cute Christmas ornament idea....
and it is so easy to make!

I got all of my supplies at Hobby Lobby for pretty cheap!

What you need:
- Clear glass ornaments
- Scrapbook sticker letters of your choice
- Shreaded grass (I used to paper kind, not the shiny kind)
- Ribbon

I put the letter on the ornament first, then put the grass in...you could do it either way. Just make sure the letter sticks good without any bubbles. As far as the ribbon goes, you can put as little or as much as you'd like. I went simple with the first ones I made, but I've seen others that have about 3 different kinds tied to it. It's just up to you! Also, when stuffing my grass, I used a little stick (looked about like a chopstick). I think it came with a bag of cotton stuffing we bought to make pillows. You just need something to help get it down in the very bottom.

Super easy & cute...and the possibilies are endless.

Makes great gifts for friends too!

Spacing Issues

Okay, so my post below won't do right...it's all spaced in random spots. I've tried several times to fix it, but it won't stop spacing! So please ignore the randm blank spots!! I'll try and work on it again later. :)

Havin a good ole time....

Well, I had originally planned to blog pretty often for my Senior year....but as you can see, that didn't work to well for me.

Here's what has been going on lately!

These next several pictures are of me and my boyfriend Michael. We started dating September 18! :)

We are actually library aides together at school and that's how we even started talking. He's super sweet and I love having him around!

Here are a couple of pics from pep rallies...

I got voted "Best Dressed" out of my Senior Class for Senior Who's Who!

Here is a pic with the guy I got voted with!

Below are some pictures from my LAST HOMECOMING WEEK!!!!

Monday - Senior Dress Up Day! I was "Lil Miss Red" (Little Red Riding Hood)

Me and Michael! He dressed up as Fez. :)Alice in WonderlandCowboy vs. Indian Day1Me and Michael!This pic was on Nerd Day...wasn't feeling nerdy...Last Black and Gold Day!

I'm still enjoying Senior year!! It is going by so fast though. Having fun & making memories forsure!

Happy Sunday! :)