Christmas Lights.....and Bieber Fever

Justin Bieber......yeah my three year old is begging Santa for a Justin Bieber singing doll.....well it’s more a Barbie than a doll in my opinion, but that’s what it’s listed as. 

When shopping last night I somehow managed to convince my husband to purchase this doll. Twenty-five dollars later the doll was in the car.....ok it was more like $150 later because you know you can’t go to Walmart and spend under a hundred. 

This morning she was letting Jingles, our Elf know that she wanted a Justin Bieber doll that sings “Baby”and to please let Santa know.

OHHHH POO! Yep POO....the one I bought did not sing “Baby” but sang “Somebody to Love”. Now all you parents out there know this is where you PANIC.....that’s right you PANIC and frantically call every store in town and out of town to find this doll because your 3 yr old has major Bieber fever. 

I could have saved myself the hassle and paid $65 for it on Amazon, but instead I’m driving to Target an HOUR away to pick one up......they have three left. No amount of bribing helped in having them hold one for me or would allow me to pay for it over the phone. 

So here we are in the car driving the hour drive to Target. After all I need to get her the right Justin Beiber doll. 

With the Christmas season so hectic there’s hardly time for anything. No worries, I still made you some cookies. 

Once again I opt for SIMPLE.....hey I had to, we’re out looking for Justin Bieber.....much harder than finding WALDO.

And I must add that when we arrived at Target, they never had any and never did have them in the store. Geez don't you just love it when a store says they carry something that they don't.

So my choices are to give her the one we already purchased.....or

spend $65 and hope it arrives on time.....man decisions, decisions...oh how I hate decisions. 

How's everyone else's Christmas shopping coming along?

Tomorrow I may stick to online shopping. It's safer that way....

I think.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Apparently I'm a big air head.  Seriously my head must be up in the clouds somewhere.

First I numbered wrong on my blog giveaway......

Then I did a Sunday Facebook Shout out....ON A SATURDAY...oh yeah that was me....maybe it will up my talk about numbers (just a thought)

And then tonight when my husband was on Staff duty all night.....yeah AGAIN....I was watching a show on the DVR from a few weeks ago and a severe weather alert comes on.

I PANIC....I get all OMG the weathers gonna be bad and I'm home alone with no husband.....UMMM HELLO IT'S A RECORDING FROM WEEKS AGO.

I looked like an idiot, my teenage daughter laughs at me and I just know she is now texting all her friends about my stupidity. Yeah her 15,000 a month text messages are mostly about something stupid I did or about her being mad at some injustice I've done to her.

Yep that's my life around here.....cookies and jokes about mom.

At least the cookies won't make fun of me.

This weekend I got off on a Reindeer kick.  I don't know what came over me but Rudolph was on the brain. I knew when I bought the ornament cutters from

Fancy Flours

I was going to make many different cookies with them.  If

Sweet Sugarbelle

has taught me one thing, it's been to think outside the box when it comes to your cookie cutters. I mean seriously have you seen the creativity that girl has?

I wanted to come up with other creative ways to make Rudolph. Not everyone is obsessed with cookie cutters like I am and may not have these ornament cutters.

 So, I wanted to make a few with more common shapes. Some cutters that most cookiers are likely to have....like a heart, gingerbread girl, and a bone that I modified before baking. Then show you how I made them.

These were really so easy to make there isn't a need for a tutorial.....BUT.....For those who like a step by step visual, I'm gonna walk you through the process. After all I needed a good excuse to use the

My Memories Suite

software that one of my readers will receive in

my giveaway

.

Here are the steps and a cute use of the Scrapbooking software.

Be sure to let the icing dry a few hours in between steps.