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I gather bows, we seal the vows All seem to say, throw cares away Christmas is here, bringing good cheer To young and old, meek and the bold Ding dong, ding dong, there is a song With joyful ring, all caroling One seems to hear, words of good cheer From everywhere, filling the air Ho, how they pound, raising their sound Ho, hill and dale, hailing them down Gaily they ring, while people sing Songs of good cheer, Christmas is here Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Merry, merry, merry Christmas All listen, all without end Their joyful tone, to every home Ho, how the bells, we seal the vows All seem to say, throw cares away Christmas is here, bringing good cheer To young and old, meek and the bold Ding dong, ding dong, there is a song With joyful ring, all caroling One seems to hear, words of good cheer From everywhere, filling the air Ho, how they pound, raising their sound Ho, hill and dale, hailing them down Gaily they ring, while people sing Songs of good cheer, Christmas is here Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Maybe even more so depending on who you're asking Only a few remaining gifts are waiting to be wrapped and placed underneath the tree It's at this point that the slowness that I've been waiting for all season long Is finally settling in and I, very gratefully At the exact same time, am ready to sit And soak every last bit of it up So, for this week's craft It really originated from the thought process Of trying to figure out ways that I could change My Christmas color scheme very affordably, I've talked about this with you A million times over, I love to keep things fresh and interesting Every year, but I do my best to try to do that As affordably as possible, and when I set out to do that This year, around the same time period, I came across Some really beautiful vintage ribbon And a lightbulb moment instantly happened I was trying to figure out ways I could use this beautiful ribbon, and then I thought Well, what if we took ornaments that we no longer wanted Or weren't going to use anymore, or maybe ones that We had found at the dollar store Or in a goodwill bin, and we could adjust them In a way that would fit our current color scheme Now, if you don't have an ornament that you're wanting to paint over I actually found this at Hobby Lobby, I even considered Using a styrofoam ball, I think you could also Paper mache over that, the point is, really anything will work So let me show you the ribbon that I found You can see there is that blue that I continue To seek after that came from Our original stocking that was the inspiration And then, of course, the traditional kind of burgundy and green Christmas colors Hello, good morning friends So we are back on the saddle again That is our little Christmas ornament endeavor In this household, completing a project in a single day I will say, I'm quite excited As to what I'm going to do As to how they turn out I'm telling you, if I can do this project, anybody can do this Also, if you will kindly cast my swollen features aside I may or may not have had way too much sugar yesterday One of the many blessings The birth of Irish June has brought about Anytime I eat honestly too much salt or sugar I wake up the next morning like a balloon I don't know, am I the only one that does this? Never heard of it before, but it's definitely a side effect of my fourth child Anyway, let's go ahead and continue our project Oh, I will say, when I originally started this project I thought that I had some tiny little brass eye hooks I know I have in the past, but for whatever reason I can't find them in the toolbox So I'm going to just use some super glue And try to create some sort of knot and stick the ribbon Within the hole that I either created Or that was there as a result of the previous hanging mechanism If they end up falling out, I can always Just get an eye hook and glue and screw that in And do it the proper way Now if you're doing this with an old ornament This is obviously something that you don't have to mess with Around here y'all We are serious about our sugar cookies A little backstory on this recipe So a few years ago I was looking for a sugar cookie recipe That could do it all I wanted one that could taste really good That wouldn't spread after it was baked And that wasn't complicated The problem that I was finding with all the sugar cookie recipes that I had tried thus far Was that one was either really tasty And came out extremely ugly when you tried to pair it with the cookie cutter Or the really pretty ones that didn't spread Tasted like a piece of cardboard So I kind of mixed several recipes that I found Exchanged certain ingredients that I preferred to use And out came this recipe So once you've got one cup of butter In your mixing bowl at room temperature You're going to add one cup of sugar Like I said, one cup of butter, one cup of sugar And then you're going to cream those two together I usually stop creaming it at about a minute or two When you start to notice that the mixture has gotten a little bit lighter That means that there is air that has come into it And that lets me know it's pretty much creamed together I forgot to mention that I use salted butter I just absolutely love the flavor of it But if you don't have it, you can always use unsalted butter And just put a pinch of salt in there But don't forget that salt, it is vitally important to the taste As far as I'm concerned when it comes to any type of sweeter dessert Then after that you're going to add one teaspoon of vanilla And one egg, so you get that one, one, one, one Super simple, not hard to remember or follow When it comes to this point Some people like to separate and sift I like to keep things very easy When it comes to inserting the dry ingredients I just like to plop them all in there and mix them together So tis what we will do next And next we're going to... The holidays... Oh, okay honey, alright And some people like to separate and sift I just like to plop them all in there Okay, alright, am I way too close?