Ambrosia Creative

You have not lived until you’ve tried above cookies. If I had the means and resources, I’d track down all ya’lls and make like Oprah and yell “Surprise!” and lo and behold, you’d find a box of Joe-Joes hidden underneath the very chair you are sitting on.

Go get them. They are so good. We can start a support group for those of us that eat a box a day.

They also come chocolate-covered. Dangerous!

Cute, cheap, and unbreakable Christmas ornaments? Umm, yes! From Martha Stewart.

We had a very nice and mellow Thanksgiving, just the four of us. Words cannot adequately describe how I feel right now, but I am so happy and feel so blessed. I love my family. I love them. I love spending time with them and being a mother. I love where we live. I love having the gospel in my life and the peace it offers.

My life is truly, truly full and I am grateful.

I really get into giftwrapping, so I thought I’d share my secrets to a wildly successful packaging-of-a-product-to-be-given-to-another.

- I like to attach the greeting card itself (no envelope) onto the wrapped gift.
- Fabric and paper are different and interesting substitutes for ribbon. (I used a strip of fabric on the package above.)
- Monograms are always cute. I go about this by hunting down some decorative font on dafont.com, download it, print out the initial onto colored paper, cut (use a craft knife), and affix.
- Kraft wrapping paper is cheap and versatile. You can go all sorts of crazy by layering different textures and colors on plain kraft.

If you don’t want to wrap your gifts this Christmas, I will do it for you in exchange for chocolate.

And another lovely birthday party we attended on Saturday. My friend Andi said she didn’t have a definitive theme as she was putting it together, but to me, it felt very whimsical and fairy-in-the-woods-like.

{Make your own fairy wands}

The gourmand she is, Andi baked not only a Swedish princess cake…

…but a banana-cream cake. Along with dozens of cupcakes for…

…a design-your-own cupcake bar. This was a hit!

{He does frosting and toppings. Only.}

of course.

Family photos done! Thank you, Rileigh and Katelyn for shooting us today. You two are R-A-D.

I’ve been tagged twice already (thank you, miss Krista, miss Dana), so let’s get this done and over with.

Seven things. About me. New to you.
1. Born in Chicago. Grew up in San Jose. I like living where it’s busy and I miss it.
2. To me, dinner is merely a means to dessert.
3. And since we’re on the topic of food, I like to make as if I eat all healthy and stuff to my mom-hippie home-birthing granola friends. But in reality, the perfect meal to me is: Fries. Burger. Chocolate shake. It’s like, the food pyramid of perfection.
4. I won the spelling bee in elementary school.
5. I swear in my thoughts. Bad habit I’m trying to break, but I’m working against some hot Filipino blood running through my veins.
6. I was once a computer science major.
7. Camping scares me. Too dark. Too quiet. Ick.

And now, the part you’ve been dreading.
I tag you local, lucky gals: Aubrie, Kristen, Becky, Miyo, Kaleene, Monique, Susanna, and Stacie. It’s good day to be my friend, isn’t it?!

My child has yet to see snow. But in the meantime, toilet-paper lint will do okay.

Kai camps in his room Saturday night, because daddy is cool like that and sets up the camping tent. (Lantern, too.)

These pics have a very womb-like quality to them, don’t they?