Thanksgiving break & features

I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving was great. The hubby & I stayed at his parent's house Thanksgiving Eve - Sunday. We came back home Sunday night. While we were there, I got to see family that I hadn't seen in a while. They made some AWESOME chili cream cheese dip. I don't like chili, but this dip is yummy. I have the recipe on my food blog. We also watched home movies of when the hubby was a kid. What great entertainment, lol. We also had a movie night & watched Shutter Island. I had seen it before, but that's a WONDERFUL movie. If you haven't seen it, I recommend that you do. However, I do not recommend the PC game. 3 hours & you've gotten it beat. We also seen Unstoppable. That's a good movie as well. Had a lot of well deserved, long over due, family time. :)

Over Thanksgiving break, I received three awesome things in the mail. One was a $100 gift card to the movies. I won first place in a Halloween costume contest hosted by a local newspaper. If you helped vote for me, thank you! I also received a Craft Leftovers Zine from Absolutely Small. I was also one of the winners of the SpOoKy MeGa Giveaway hosted by Jewelry by Solange. That was the third thing I got over the break. Last night I got awesome news as well. I found out I won the Halloween costume contest hosted by Legendary Halloween. I received $100 Amazon gift certificate. I used part of it to finish up Christmas shopping last night, lol. Thank you to those that voted. There's one more contest, but winners won't be announced until sometime this month.

Also, I only had 20 people to enter the December feature. This month snuck up on me, so I will start the first feature tomorrow (or when I receive the questions). I'm still going to use random.org to pick the order I will feature the ones that entered. If you would like to be feature, I have posted a link on the side, & you can enter there. You can also click here to enter. Keep in mind that your feature will be after Christmas & may be shorter. You might also share a feature post with another feature.

Our first feature of the month will be #12: Holiday Ornaments


Hope you all have a great day!
XoXo

Best & Worse Thanksgiving Dishes

Three Best Thanksgiving Dishes
According to Today MSNBC

1) Savory bread pudding


2)Sticky and sweet potatoes


3)Spaghetti squash and caramel pie


Where's the turkey? Ham? Potato Salad?



Five Worse Thanksgiving Dishes
According to Chow

1) Ambrosia salad


2) Sweet potatoes with marshmallows


3) Jell-O salad


4) Giblet gravy


5) Anything weird that you do to mashed potatoes

Happy Monday!

Good morning bloggers...or should I say good EVENING :D I hope everyone had a great weekend. Three days until gobble gobble day. Who's ready? I AM :) Well, after I buy some cream cheese & three pie crusts, lol. I plane on making a pumpkin cheesecake pie & caramel apple cheesecake pie. I haven't tried either of these, but I hope they're good. You can find the pumpkin cheesecake recipe here (on my food blog). While you're there, don't forget to check out today's recipe: Sausage Stuffing.

Also, I have good news. I made my first set of earrings :D I made three sets of guitar pick earrings: purple, white/pearl, & tie dye. My photos suck, but I did get them listed. Check them out here & let me know what you think of them. I was gonna make more, but I ran outta earring things. I have one more pair to list, but they're not guitar picks. They are round, dangle-ish silver earrings.

While we're on the Etsy topic, I bought some packs of Organic herb butter dip from Indigo Moon Herbals. I used it as a dip with pretzel sticks and it is sooo good. I was looking for something similar to a dip I bought in TN, & this is so much better. It's the same deal, but tastes better than the store bought I got in TN. It's my new snack addiction :D

Don't forget to click here for your chance to be featured during Dec 1 - Dec 25. This is the LAST week to enter. As long as you make Christmas items, you can enter. Entry submissions will end Nov. 28, 2010 @ 11:59pm.

Thanksgiving pies & more

You can't have Thanksgiving without some yummy pies. According to Food Now!, here are the top Thanksgiving pies "to die for".

Caramel-Cranberry Nut Tart

Vanilla & Pear Crumble Pie

Brown Sugar Pie

Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie

Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie

If you could only pick ONE to make & serve, which would it be? I think the pumpkin cheesecake pie sounds amazingly good. Don't forget to go check out today's recipe on my food blog.

Don't forget to click here for your chance to be featured during Dec 1 - Dec 25. As long as you make Christmas items, you can enter. :)

Last, but not least, I need your help. I'm in two Halloween Costume contests & I need your votes. You can find them up above at the top of the blog. The first one ends TODAY & you can vote each hour, & the second I'm not sure when it ends. To vote on the first one, click on "Serial Killer Zombie", then scroll down & click "Save Vote". You can also leave comments there, but you must sign in. To vote on the second one, click on the banner, & click on "Click here to post comments." Please & thank you!