I'm not a baker - no really I'm not!

OK, I bake once - possibly twice a year - my excuse is that I don't like to measure things.  I like to just toss in and hope for the best.  You can't do that in baking - well not successfully anyway.

Today I made Cranberry White Chocolate sugar cookies, Strawberry Thumb Print shortbread, Toffee Bark, Amaretto Rice pudding (I had the raisins soaking in amaretto for 6 MONTHS), and two batches of of Irish Cream!!!

Yeah, I was Suzie home maker - and the kitchen isn't even a write off either, well at least if you don't look at the floors :o/

My daughter sure was a help too, licking all of the beaters and spatulas she could get her hands on!

 

 
 

Strawberry Thumbprint Shortbread Cookies
 

Cranberry White Chocolate Sugar Cookies

 

Berries and Berries of fun!

Another fantastic day at the Avonmore Berry Farm - Nigel was eating the strawberries by the fist full - stem and all!

 

For this layout I used the Coconut Lime Soup collection from Jillibean Soup - I loved every paper in this collection that I bought the whole thing!  That doesn't happen much anymore - I try to be selective and only take home 3 or 4 papers from any one line ... oh well, I foresee many many a layout in this - each paper is so different.  Check out my last blog post HERE for another layout using the same collection and see how different they are!

 

 

 

 

 

I did lots of fussy cutting on this one, and used Glossy Accents to highlight the strawberries.  I made my own flowers and added a little banner and bakers twine, both very trendy right now.