Cheap and Easy Holiday DIY Decor, Hot Chocolate on a Spoon, and Hobie Clause...

Here are some of the random cheap ideas I have used to decorate my house so far this holiday season...

I bought these red picture frames awhile back at Michaels for another craft project that did not go well.  Then I bought some pretty holiday themed paper and framed some of it.  Michaels has tons of pretty holiday paper.  I bought a whole booklet of it for 40% off that I plan to use for other projects.

I made these candle holders last year by mod podging strips of tissue paper to the outside of small glass candle holders.

I bought this large vase on sale and filled it with ornaments I got from the Dollar Tree.

I'm still working on my holiday mantel decor but I will post that when I'm done. I know you can't wait to see it.

Now it's time for the delicious hot beverage portion of this post.  While I was in Indiana for Thanksgiving, I hit up my favorite chocolate store, Debrands.  We picked up a couple Hot Chocolates on a spoon.  You stick the spoon in a mug and then pour hot milk over it.  It was a nice tree decorating treat last night.

While we were decorating the tree, Hobie Clause made a brief appearance before ripping his hat off in disgust.

He hates it, but look how cute he is.

Have you done any holiday decorating?

Have you ever had Hot Chocolate on a spoon?

L Cookies

My husband is having a big week at work.  His company is launching a new machine in stores throughout the country starting this week in NC.  So he has had to get up about 3 hours earlier than normal everyday and do tons of stuff he doesn't normally do for work.  Each day he has to take a cake to the store that's being launched (along with a bunch of other stuff) and I was not super impressed with the grocery store cakes he's been taking.  So I decided I should make him some cookies to go with it.

I had seen this Betty Crocker Cookie Icing in the store that is supposed to harden fast and works great with sugar cookies.  I thought this would be something I could handle on my work from home day (yeah they are still putting my cubicle back together).  So I bought some sugar cookie mix and some of the blue and white icing.  I planned to make some super awesome designs and words.  But when it got down to it, it was a lot easier to do an 'L' which stands for his company as well as the stores where they are launching.  I don't think they look that amazing but he seemed pretty impressed when I showed them to him when he got home last night.  So he will be taking them in today.  People like cookies right?  No matter how much blue icing they have on them.

Have you ever used this Betty Crocker Cookie Icing stuff?  I think Mo used them on some special Bachelorette party cookies one time.  It was pretty easy to use as long as I was doing something simple.

Do you like sugar cookies?

I swear I did not use any smurf's to make these cookies.