My Favorite New Component Designs

Dotty Flower

Double Textured Leaves

6 Sided Snowflake with 2 holes

Round Snowflake

Ammonite Coptic Cross

I hope you love them too!

Kristi

Etsy Rain Handmade Holiday Show

It's that time again for the

 Etsy Rain Handmade Holiday Show!!!

I won't be participating this year but you can be sure there are lots of

awesome Handmade items of all kinds to be found.

 Can you say

Christmas Shopping!!!

If you're in the Seattle area don't miss this one!

Kristi

And the Winner Is!!!

This morning I am pleased to announce the winner in my After Christmas Give Away!!!!

The winner is Jenni M, she was number 10! She chose my Copper Filigree Pendant with Filigree Ruby!!! Contratulations Jenni, I'll be in touch by email and get all your information!! Will get your prize to you right away!

Copper Filigree Pendant with Faceted Ruby Briolette

That was fun and exciting, I'll have to do that more often!! Thanks to all who played!!

Kristi
http://dreamsome.etsy.com/
http://www.artfire.com/users/KristiBowmanDesign

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was in the mood to bake yesterday and poured through my cookbooks. Funny thing is there was this cookbook in there I don't remember seeing before. It has an inscription in it from "mom" but neither my husband or I have seen it before. It's absolutely chock full of recipes...no pictures, just recipe after recipe.

I poured through them and found several I wanted to try but when I searched the cupboard I was missing 1 or 2 key ingredients and did not want to make a run to the store.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies!

So I settled on Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. I've had store bought and they were pretty good so I thought these were right up my alley. Anything with Pumpkin and anything with Chocolate Chips so the combination seemed a sure thing, I was not disappointed. I rarely use a recipe without tweaking it so I've included my tweaks in italics, you can use them or not. So without further adieu...

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 1/2 Cups (3 sticks) butter, softened

2 cups packed brown sugar

1 cup granulated sugar

1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin

1 egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract (I doubled the vanilla)

4 cups all-purpose flour (I used about half ww flour and half all-purpose)

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons cinnamon (I also added a teaspoon pumpkin pie spice)

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups (12 ounces) chocolate chips (I used 3 cups)

Beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated suger in a bowl until light and flutty. Add the pumpkin, egg and vanilla and mix well. Add the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and mix well. Stir in the oats and chocolate chips. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart on to a cookie sheet. (I always make gigantic cookies so I dropped them with a large spoon, probably at least double what the recipes suggests.) Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. (because my cookies were so much bigger they cooked for at least 15 minutes, but I kept an eagle eye on them. I also decreased the temp to about 325.) Cool on the cookie sheet for 1 minute. Remove to the wire rack to cool completely. Yield: 10 dozen cookies. (I got about30 gigantic cookies from this recipe, it's quite a big recipe.)





We're melting!!!!

BIG cookie!!!



Good enough to EAT!!! Grab a glass of milk!!

I hope you enjoy these as much as we did!

The name of the cookbook is

Sweet Endings published by Favorite Recipes Press.

And don't forget my After Christmas Give Away!!
 Last day to choose your favorite,
 tomorrow I will randomly draw the winner!

Kristi

http://dreamsome.etsy.com/

http://www.artfire.com/users/KristiBowmanDesign

Merry Christmas!





Playing with my new Christmas Present

Yes I got it early!! My husband threatened...I mean offered to wrap it for me to open on Christmas but I gave him "the look" you know what I mean. He didn't offer again, thank you honey.

I am super excited to have gotten a new Nikon camera from my hubby!! I also signed up for an online photo class that starts in January, I'm really looking forward to that. I hope to improve my jewelry photos and also be able to take great pictures of the world to share. My most favorite things on blogs are pictures so I like to post them as well. So with that said, on with the pictures!!

Little Shasta patiently waiting for breakfast!

Ginger also patiently waiting!

Santa Claus, Mrs Claus is in the box waiting to join him!

Some of my favorite little decorations in a grouping.
Finally getting some decorations up,
 now that we found the boxes!

A beautiful Star Ornament made by my sister in law.

My girls are going to get tired of having a camera in their face,

 but they are so cute I love taking pictures of them!!

Don't forget my After Christmas Give Away!! You get to choose what you want to win!!

Kristi

http://dreamsome.etsy.com/
http://www.artfire.com/users/KristiBowmanDesign