It's been quite a busy week in my craft space. I've been working on finishing Christmas cards and gifts for co-workers, teachers and family members. I've had ideas for a while but never quite got around to making them. I soon realized better get cracking. But it's always a race against the clock. First was working on my husband's co-worker gifts. Each year we brainstorm what to get the men and woman my husband works with. Trying to figure out what to get always takes for ever! I always have Mason jars on hand so we decided to make some sort of jar gifts. I came across layering hot cocoa/marshmallow/peppermints in a jar. And well since we are giving these to adults not children, we decided to go with a mug jar and add some fun nips to make it an "adult" gift. Normally I would try to use all Stampin' Up products to create the gifts. But I just didn't have the extra time to hand punch and assemble bows and ribbon. I found the mesh ribbon, glitter bows, button embellishments and snowman hats at AC Moore. I layered the jars and measured enough cocoa to make 2 servings of hot cocoa. Maybe next time, I'd put the crushed candy canes and marshmallow in baggies so they can just scoop out the cocoa. But this time it can be dumped out in a bowl, mix it up and divided into 2 mugs. Now for the woman, it gets tricky, I never know what they like/dislike. So, I try to keep their gifts pretty general. Not always easy though. I was invited to a Thirty-One party and decided to grab the Littles Carry-all Caddy. Now, what to put in it?? To stick with the jar gifts, I chose to fill a Mason jar with a Christmas cookie mix. I layered and Oatmeal, Chocolate chip cookie. Very simple! But so yummy. Instead of decorating a jar and getting a gift bag. I tied a bow, added a wooden spoon and a tag with baking directions.
1 1/3 cup flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup oats 3/4 cup m&ms 3/4 cup nestle toll house semi sweet morsels 1/2 cup brown sugar packed 1/2 cup sugar I mixed the baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour together then added to jar. Layer in that order make sure to press down in jar to pack it tight. I used a wide mouth quart size jar. Tag reads: Mix: with 1 egg, 1/2 cup melted butter 1 tsp. vanilla extract Combine with the jar ingredients roll into balls Bake for 7-10 mins at 350 I forgot to take a picture of the jar once I packaged it in the Littles carry-all caddy. I Hope you enjoy. Happy Holidays and Happy Stampin
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