Holiday Cookies

Since it's nearing the holidays, I keep seeing holiday cookies all over on TV and blogs and whatnot.

They're so pretty!
And look delicious!

Back in the company B days, Gema-Gema used to bring her mom's cookies over during the holidays. Gosh, they were so yum.

And Dee would bring his mom's cookies too. Also very yum.

Right now Sasami's making cookies, but I've been having a cookie making itch. But I haven't made cookies in years (except the break-and-bake type), so I don't know how to start baking cookies...

But they have things called cookie baking parties, right?
It doesn't have to be during the holidays, right?

I think it would be wonderful if Sasami's birthday party is a cookie baking/decorating party (hint hint).

Ooooh, cookies...

Shopping for the Holiday Party

We went to Vons b/c they were having a sale on ham.

Though the $1.29/lbs spiral ham was all sold out... grrr. So we settled for the $1.99/lbs spiral ham. If we had an electric meat carving knife, we could have gotten the $0.77/lbs half-ham...

We also bought a bunch of veggies to grill.
Cuz our parties always seem to be lacking veggies...

It was either grilled veggies, or deep fried assortment.
Like veggie egg rolls, bite-sized tonkatsu and seafood-katsu.
We opted for the healthier selection.

A lot of people haven't responded to the Evite... should we send out a reminder?

Crochet Time: Mouse, Attempt 1

Since I still had a lot of gray yarn leftover from making the elephant amigurumi, I decided to make a mouse. They're gray too, right?



I followed instructions on a Japanese website... but the head seems waaaaay too big compared to the body. Altho the body was supposed to be tiny.

I couldn't make a good sphere for the head, so it's a bit lopsided. It's more obvious on the back side, and the body isn't attached in the center of the bottom of the head... because the head is lopsided. *sigh*

The right ear is smaller than the left ear too.

I will add eyes, nose & mouth as soon as I buy black yarn.