Chocolatey, yummy goodness...

So this week is Teacher Appreciation Week at my kids' school and I volunteered to provide some food items. Tuesday was a layered taco dip, today was a chocolate hazelnut tart and tomorrow is cookies. I decided to make the same cookies I made for my niece last week, Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies. I used this recipe from the Food Network. I'm so glad for my local Wegman's for some of the more "exotic" ingredients. Giant just doesn't carry dark chocolate covered espresso beans. Anyway, after a morning PTA meeting, a quick run to Target, lunch and getting Jacob on the bus for afternoon Kindergarten, I came home and whipped up a batch. My house is smelling really yummy right now.

 

The dry ingredients...

 

 Melting the chocolate and the butter...

  

Scooped onto the pan...(love my cookie scoops and Silpat liners)

 

The finished cookies...

I don't know how I'm going to not eat these. Good thing I'm out of the house tonight.

Have I got a deal for you...

If you own a Silhouette machine then I have a deal for you! Plum District is offering $30 worth of downloads from the Silhouette Store for only $18! And after you purchase, if you get 3 other people to purchase from your link, then your purchase is free! Can't pass that up! I've got a bunch of designs sitting on my wish list that I can now purchase. So here's my link if anyone is interested. Plum District Silhouette deal 

Happy Shopping!

Using up those scraps...

So after making the 3 layouts from the Scrapbook Generation March Super Saver layouts I had enough extra supplies to make 3 cards. I made a birthday card for my sweet friend Laura, my sister-in-law Kelley (yes, I know, same name and spelling) and a sympathy card for my neighbor. I love when I have extra supplies at the end of my layouts. I've been working harder to use them up right away to make some cards to have on hand. It really is easy to do. I got the ideas for my cards from the Sketch Support site.

Simple, right? My theory is that you can never have too many cards on hand. Who doesn't love receiving a handmade card? (If you don't, just lie and tell me you do.)

I think it should really be a federal holiday...

So it's National Scrapbooking Day today!! Yes, it's a real holiday. Did I do any scrapbooking today? No. We had t-ball this morning, then went to lunch at Panera. After that, I came home and took a nap on the couch. Priorities, right? Maybe tonight I'll get something done. I did do some scrappy stuff this week though. I put together my April Super Sketch kit from the fabulous Scrapbook Generation. That was fun. I also used the scraps from the March kit to make 4 cards. Now I have the April scraps to make more cards!! Yippee!!!