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Dress-Up

My favorite little red cape, made from fleece. The hood is lined with yummy red flannel.  Trimmed with small yellow rick-rack and flower buttons for extra cuteness.  Click on image to enlarge. 

Made from Butterick #3041 (1993).

Harvest Moon Cookies

This is one of our favorite fall treats and a super simple recipe to use when baking with children. This recipe makes about 3 dozen medium-sized cookies. They are light, sweet and crunchy and get their golden color from cornmeal. The whole house wafts with cinnamon when you bake these too. Here's my recipe:

HARVEST MOON COOKIES

Into the mixer bowl combine:
1-1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Into another bowl combine:
1-1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Into a sandwich-size plastic bag:
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

*Lightly grease cookie sheets if they aren't the non-stick variety.*

1. Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg and vanilla until blended.
2. Gradually add dry mixture until soft dough forms.
3. Drop dollups of dough onto a lightly floured surface; roll into 2" balls.
4. Toss & coat balls in cinnamon-sugar mixture inside plastic bag.
5. Place balls on cookie sheets about 3" apart.
6. Flatten gently to 1/4" with bottom of a glass.
7. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden around the edges.
8. Cool for 2-3 minutes before removing to cooling rack.
9. Store in airtight containor when completely cooled.

 

Shutter-Bug Bag

I got a new bike! Actually, it was a birthday present from the Mister. We live in a bicycle friendly community with miles of trails and paths and have been going out on the weekends exploring new places.  I needed a light-weight, easy-to-access camera bag to wear on our bicycling ventures and made this one from an ordinary dishtowel.  It's lined with pretty fabric and padded with quilt-batting.  The shoulder-strap is long enough to wear across my body so it doesn't slip off when I'm on my bike.  The buttons are sewn on to reinforce the strap. I can just slip it off and drop the whole thing right into my purse.

I'm ready to roll.