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countrymommy85
True Blue Farmgirl
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Krystle
MT
USA
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
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 Posted - Oct 27 2011 : 7:04:35 PM
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| What a wonderful thread. I got excited just reading it! I have been so focused on carrying off the church hayride we hosted this year without a hitch that Nov has snuck up on me. I seem to focus on what is just in front of me and boom there is Christmas and I'm not ready! May be this year I wont do that. |
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Alanna Neupert
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alanna
cabot
PA
USA
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Posted - Oct 28 2011 : 8:59:31 PM
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| Good evening from chilly Pa! It was so good to read of all the great Christmas ideas you all have for Christmas. Here on the farm it is going to be a quiet Christmas as I just lost my best friend and husband of 41 yrs. to cancer. I love baking so very much for Christmas so I think this year will be gifts of homemade cookies for some of my close friends. I make tins of pizzelles up every year and they stay super crisp till we gobble them up. I had every year a cookie swap at my house, but this year I just can't do this. My husband would dress up with his old straw hat and vintage bow tie and vest and pretend to play all of the great Christmas songs. He had a little tin cup and my friends would put their change in it to tip him. What great memories I have. Take care- Alanna "The Farmer's Wife" |
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 05:54:33 AM
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Alanna,
I am SO SORRY to hear of your loss. Please know that I am praying for the Lord to bring you comfort and strength.
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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buffypuff
True Blue Farmgirl
1183 Posts
Claudia
Deer Park
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 1:11:20 PM
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I'm so sorry Alanna that you lost your husband. I know that Christmas will never be quite the same. I hope that you will have plenty of family and friends around to help fill the gap. Until then...blessings and prayers for you.
Buffypuff/ Claudia ~ Farmgirl Sister #870 @}~~
"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." DL Moody
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
7586 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 1:14:50 PM
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My heartfelt prayers are with you
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Originally posted by buffypuff
I'm so sorry Alanna that you lost your husband. I know that Christmas will never be quite the same. I hope that you will have plenty of family and friends around to help fill the gap. Until then...blessings and prayers for you.
Buffypuff/ Claudia ~ Farmgirl Sister #870 @}~~
"God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves." DL Moody
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another" Helen Keller |
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smiley
True Blue Farmgirl
650 Posts
lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 3:21:34 PM
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| Alanna I too prayed for you. What awesome memories you have! |
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Alanna Neupert
True Blue Farmgirl
66 Posts
Alanna
cabot
PA
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 6:55:56 PM
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| Thank you everyone for all of your prayers and well wishes on the death of my husband. I hope I didn't put a damper on all of your excitement about the upcoming holidies. I'll post some of my good cooky recipes so some of you ladies can try some of my fav cookies. I'm also going to take trays of some homemade fudge and cookies to Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh where my husband was treated. What a wonderful place! Alanna |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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Posted - Oct 29 2011 : 8:05:13 PM
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My goodness Alanna, you haven't put any sort of damper on things! Myself, I've been farmsitting since Thursday night and am just run ragged! I was going to make some nut brittle but just ran out of time and energy today. I look forward to trying some of your cookie recipes! I've lost a lot of family to cancer and the cancer centers are always filled with the most wonderful and caring people.
This evening, because I'm just too tired to do anything else, I'm starting to narrow down all of my lists of holiday recipes, decoration choices and handmade gift possibilities, make my semi-final choices and make shopping lists of additional things that I'll need to get. I'm making most of my own gifts this year, and need to get busy!
...But not tonight
Hugs!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
http://thegimpyfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
http://pinterest.com/annikaloveshats/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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Alanna Neupert
True Blue Farmgirl
66 Posts
Alanna
cabot
PA
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 06:15:48 AM
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| Good morning- Going to bake some homemade cookies this morning. My girlfriend has a Christmas Openhouse this weekend and I'm baking for a Harvest Tea on Saturday. I'm going to make Cherry Bon-Bons, Lemon Dreams and Peanut Butter Drops. Did you ever try rolling the dough into balls, roll in sugar and press down with a antique wirk wisk. The cookies look so pretty and fancy instead of a fork. Also, makingfilled pizzelles with a rasberry buttercream filling. So good! |
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crafter
True Blue Farmgirl
2313 Posts
lori
Fort Atkinson
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 06:41:23 AM
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| Alanna- those sound sooooo yummy! What a fun day- baking and baking and baking!!! |
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Penny Wise
True Blue Farmgirl
1903 Posts
Margo
Elyria
OH
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 06:47:06 AM
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filled pizzelles??? have never heard of them filled! how???? i have the rosette irons that belonged to my inlaws and her grandmother but i don't have the pizzelle maker.
Farmgirl # 2139
proud member of the Farmgirls of the Southwest Henhouse
~*~ counting my pennies and biding my time; my dreams are adding up!~*~ |
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 07:02:59 AM
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Oh, Alanna - I can't even imagine how you're feeling. I'm so sorry for your loss. 41 years is a lifetime! What wonderful memories you have, though! Such a blessing! I bet your hubby was a really fun person to be with! My prayers are with you. May the true meaning of Christmas comfort your heart, today and always.
I'm very interested in filled pizzelles, too! WOW! WOW! YUM!!!
Hugs - Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
www.papercraftingwithnini.myctmh.com
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Alanna Neupert
True Blue Farmgirl
66 Posts
Alanna
cabot
PA
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2011 : 8:29:45 PM
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| Okay to make the pizzelles you want to make them on a pizelle maker. You don't put too much on the iron so the pizzelles are smaller. You take them off the iron and while they are still warm you gently wrap them around the handle of a wooden spoon. Carefully slide them off to cool. When cool you use your decorating bag and fill each one with buttercream icing.I'm going to use rasberry extract in my buttercream icing. Then if you want to dip the ends in melted chocolate. I usually use the chocolate disks that cake decorating stores use. You can if you don't want to use chocolate on the ends is to sprinkle powdered sugar over them. These freeze very well and they taste similiar to our local "cream hornes" which most of the weddingd in our area have . When my daughter got married 2 years ago, I made over 150 dozen of cookies for her wedding,plus what my friends made. I also had assorted kinds of fudge-cherry nut, chocolate, peanut butter, half p.butter and chocolate cut into small pieces. If anyone wants the recipe for the pizzelles I'll post mine. Also, the iron I use is a electric pizzelle maker-nothing is deep-fried! |
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56 days til Christmas!!!!!!!
