Homemade Doggie Treats

I wanted to do something special for my neighbors this year for Christmas and I thought that the traditional Christmas Cookies were so over done. If you are like me by the time Christmas is over I have had way too many cookies and sweets. This year I made Homemade Doggie Treats for my neighbors we all have dogs and they are all very, very good. They were easy to make and the neighbors loved them and I am sure Jack-Jack, Milo and Tucker loved them too. There are hundreds of recipes on the web all you need to do is google homemade doggie treats. Just be careful that you don't use the recipes that have raisins or grapes in them they are not good for dogs

The basic ingredients are white flour, whole wheat flour , and corn meal. You roll them our just like cookies and I used a bone shaped cookie cutter.

The secret to making the bones hard are to let them sit in the oven overnight.

Here are all the dog treats ready to be packaged. One recipe made about 100 treats.

I made a little card with my Cricut using the Mickey and Friends Cartridge. I welded 2 dog bones together to make the card and glued a ribbon on the front and package them in decorative paper Christmas bags. If you really want the recipe let me know and I can post it.

More Handmade Christmas

This is another picture frame that I made for my great nephew James for Christmas. Today is his 2nd birthday and he was born near North Pole, Alaska. He lives a lot closer now which is wonderful that we will be able to see him grow up. I used the pattern that RUELYSI has on her blog. She has made so many great animals for the DS and I knew I wanted to use her penguin: it is so cute. Here is the link to her blog ruelysicreativecards if you down load a file please be kind and leave her a thank you it is the least you can do for all her beautiful and hard work

This is the close up of Ruelysi adorable penguin, and so easy to make. Thanks Ruelysi!

It's Time to Make Some Christmas Gifts

I was at the FedEx store the other day and came across their express envelopes and it is the perfect size and thickness to use to make those famous word books. I had a idea to make one for my niece for Christmas. She will be graduating from High School this year has been a cheerleader for her school for all 4 years of school. I went to the local scrapbook store where they live and found paper that was from her High School so I could decorate it in her school colors Red and Black.

I thought is turned out great although it took me much long to make than I intended. I did need to make doubles of the FedEx chipboard it wasn't just thick enough,(Hey it was free) but I did use the deep cut blade on my Cricut set on #3 and High pressure and it cut just fine. I used the Mickey and Friends Cartridge. I really like to use this Cartridge for word books the chunky letter seem to work the best.

I just love tying ribbon in unusual places

I added a little flower on a paperclip.

You can never have too much ribbon. Okay, well I have to clean up and move on to my other projects. I will post them when I am finished which needs to be soon. Christmas seems to becoming a little too fast for me.If you have a LAUREN in your life and want to have the cut file just let me know I would be happy to share it.

Birthday Bowling

Bowling is always a favorite activites in our home. It was no surprise that Will wanted to a bowling party for us birthday. We always make up names for ourselves and the boys had fun coming up with their own nicknames.

In this page the bowling pin is someone elses creation and I wish I knew who it was so I could give a shout out to her. I used 11 bowling pins since it was Will's 11th birthday. I have a wonderful friend who does alot of card making and designing when she cleans out her craft room I always get the leftovers (Yeah for me!!) The paper was from Maggi. It was 81/2 by 11 sheets and they were shiny. This paper was great for the bowling pins and flames above. I used my Mickey and Friends font for the saying. I love that font it is so chunky and great for title pages. If you need to buy a new cartridge for Black Friday Mickey and Friends should be on your list.