Advent calendar 2013

This year I decided to do something new! I decided to make an activity advent calendar.

So here it goes!

Day 1 - write your letter to Santa

Day 2 - assemble your Christmas Tree

Day 3 - put you nativity set together, you'll need your grandmother :)

Day 4 - make your own wall Christmas Tree in your room

Day 5 - make a paper tree decoration for your door

Day 6 - my son adores snowglobes, so today we made a snowglobe!

I wonder! What will it be tomorrow?

Merry Christmas

Ana &Vera 

Halloween

E para o Halloween nada mais original que.... abóboras e fantasmas!

Vera & Ana

Stamp cookies

I just found this stamps. 

I'm in love!

40th birthday cookies

My friend Vera celebrated her 40th birthday and I decided to give her some sweet cookies!

40 candles! 

Happy Birthday!

Ana & Vera

Chocolate lollipops

Today's Saturday and I have the weekend off!

My son Tomas decided we had to do some lolipops... 

Let's do white chocolate lollipops with dark chocolate chips.

Like every thing I do, this is super easy and quick.

You'll need a bar of white chocolate, some dark chocolate chips and some sticks and wax paper.

I made some circles to help us keep a round shape and Tomas put the stick.

We melted the white chocolate in the microwave in short bursts of 20 sec. I belive it tooks us 3 times.

Then we made the lollipops and Tomas put some dark chocolate chips on top.

Now we wait until they are ready to eat! Yumm...

Lazy town cookies - Bolachas Vila Moleza

Ok! Who on this earth chooses to organize a LazyTown party?! Come on! 

I know who! One of my friends did...

Her daughter Constanca just had her 5th birthday, so...

So I had to come up with some cookies to decorate the table on Stephanie from LazyTown.

I wonder if I can do such a thing?! 

Well here are the results. Enjoy!

Ana & Vera

Bolachas Coloridas

As crianças andavam a pedir para fazer bolachas decoradas outra vez. Mas está tanto calor.... Ao mesmo tempo estava com pena de não repetir a experiência!

Até que me surgiu uma ideia para fazer umas bolachas coloridas....

E assim foi....

Á massa das bolachas de manteiga resolvi juntar corante. Dividi a massa em 5 partes iguais e a cada uma juntei um corante diferente.

Depois com as mãos estiquei a massa e juntei todas as cores.

Envolvi em película aderente e pus no frigorifico para que a massa ficasse rija e fosse fácil cortar com a faca.

E este foi o resultado final...

Vera & Ana