December 2011

top 10 posts of 2011

Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2011

December 31, 2011 0 comments

Well it’s officially New Year’s Eve and I can’t believe 2012 begins on Sunday.  This year has flown by in the blink of an eye.  This was a great year for my blog as far as visitor and page view numbers go. In 2010 I had 101,436 visitors and 141,656 page views, but this year it grew to 329,071 visitors and 450,188 page views!  Not as impressive as a lot of other recipe and beauty [...]

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China Glaze Glittering Garland

What’s On My Nails – China Glaze Glittering Garland

December 29, 2011 0 comments

Christmas is over and I was just about to take off my nail polish from last week when I realized I never shared it with you!  For the Christmas weekend I went festive green with Glittering Garland by China Glaze. Glittering Garland is a forest green color loaded with green sparkle.  As you can see, China Glaze holds up really well for me.  It’s been 6 days since I painted my nails and as you [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Have a Very Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2011 0 comments

Merry Christmas!! Wishing you and your families a joyous Christmas holiday.  Here’s hoping that the new year has great things in store for all of us!

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chocolate mint kiss cookies

Chocolate Mint Kiss Cookies

December 24, 2011 0 comments

Hershey’s mint truffle kisses are dark chocolate candies filled with mint truffle cream.  I wanted to use these in a cookie this year but wanted to make sure it was some sort of chocolate cookie base.  I found a chocolate cookie recipe that looked more like a brownie consistency and used that. The mint truffle kiss candies are pretty minty so I didn’t add any mint extract into the chocolate cookie dough.  But if you [...]

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pecan thumbprint cookies

Pecan Thumbprint Cookies

December 23, 2011 0 comments

These pecan thumbprint cookies turned out so cute and they were really easy to make.  The recipe calls for a handful of basic ingredients and literally only took maybe 15 minutes to make the dough. It doesn’t make a large batch though, I only got close to about 2 dozen cookies.  I filled the thumbprints with just some basic frosting but you could use whatever you please. Pecan Thumbprints adapted from Baked by Rachel Ingredients: [...]

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soft frosted sugar cookie recipe

Super Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies

December 22, 2011 2 comments

I love a good frosted sugar cookie once in a while as long as they are super soft.  Anything hard and crumbly is just not my cup of tea.  The store bought packaged sugar cookies in the plastic containers are one of the best.  The sugar cookies are so soft and the icing is just the right amount of sweet. I happened to come across this recipe that mentions that these were very close to [...]

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Urban Decay Naked2 palette

Urban Decay Naked2 Palette Has Arrived!

December 21, 2011 1 comment

As if the first Naked palette from Urban Decay wasn’t awesome enough, they had to blow our minds again with a second Naked palette.  The Naked2 palette came out a few weeks ago and it’s been flying out of stock left and right.  It’s only being sold at UrbanDecay.com right now but will probably become available at Sephora and Ulta sometime after the first of the new year. I missed the first round of sales [...]

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