DECK THE HOLIDAY'S

This comes from  www.sewmanyways.blogspot.com . Hello and welcome to Tool Time Tuesday. For the next few weeks or more, I am going to gear these TTT posts towards Christmas...maybe do some decorating posts or maybe gift giving ideas. I know it may seem early, but we all know those nights of making or decorating at the last minute. So why don't you join me in doing one or two crafts a week, so you can actually enjoy the holidays without all the rushing around. Here is the first project for the holidays....A Santa Can. Make one this week for yourself and then make another one for gift giving. It's perfect and practically FREE! Do you remember  the post   I did showing flower arrangements for a school fundraiser. I went to local restaurants and pizza places and asked them for their large metal cans that tomatoes come in. They were happy to give them to me for free. They are the big ones...7 inches high and 6 inches across at the top.(note: Lowes or Home Depot have

O CHRISTMAS TREAT! Bring joy to any holiday gathering with this simple, colorful and edible cookie display. These would be the perfect sugar cookies for your holiday potluck, party or even for a cookie exchange party — everyone will be excited to take one home! Planted atop candy bar tree trunks and nestled in snowdrifts of sugar, Christmas cookies never looked so sweetly spectacular. Colorful 3D Christmas tree cookies This recipe will yield approximately 94 cookies of graduating size, which will create 12 complete Christmas trees with about 8 cookies in each tree. Ingredients: 1 cup sugar (even more for displaying your cookies) 1 cup powdered sugar 1 cup butter 1 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 5 cups flour 1 teaspoon lemon, almond or raspberry extract (whatever you prefer) 1 tablespoon vanilla Snickers candy bars Your favorite frosting (to secure cookies to Snickers tree trunks) L

      The  Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade  is the largest celebration of its kind. Over 3.5 million people watch the parade along the parade route in Manhattan and another 50 million watch at home on television. For many there is no substitute for seeing the floats,  enormous balloons  and marching bands in person. If you’re planning to view the parade in person from the streets of New York City, this is your insider guide for making the most of it. This year,  Hello Kitty and Papa Smurf  will be among those making an appearance in Midtown.    The  Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ,  often shortened to  Macy's Day Parade ,  is an annual  parade  presented by the U.S. chain store business  Macy's . The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with  America's Thanksgiving Parade  in  Detroit , with both parades four years younger than the  6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade  in