Christmas tree snow

This year I experimented with snow on my tree.  I have a couple of places that have garland and I put snow on the garland and loved the way it turned out so I thought I would put it on the tree.

At first I just used batting, but that looked flat and no matter how I fluffed it, it still looked dumb.  A co-worker told me about "Buffalo Snow", so I hunted and hunted to find this product at the local craft stores and could not find it.  So my friend at work gave me the stuff she had left over.  Buffalo snow puffs up much better than other pillow stuffing stuff.

I like it, I think I will do it again next year, a little bit of snow goes a LONG way.  I think I will add more next year.  Laura doesn't like it, so the "jury is still out".  At the conference center for the Christmas concerts they did snow trees that were awesome, I just want mine to look like theirs!

Merry Christmas!

Krumkake - our Norwegian tradition

One of the Norwegian traditions passed on to me by my Grandma Johnson was a taste for Krumkake. They are thin cookies rolled into a cone shape.  To me they are the taste of Christmas.  You could eat an entire container of them and never get full.  When I got married some ladies in the ward gave me a krumkake iron for my bridal shower, I don't think I thought much of it at the time, but it was a great gift.  I use it every year, and my own tradition is that I watch/listen to "It's a Wonderful Life" while making them.

These cookies take a Tablespoon of batter at a time, so it takes a while to make and roll each one.

This is the part that takes asbestos fingers...Hot, Hot.....Katie Jo had this job this year.
You can't eat them with one hand, you have to hold a hand under your mouth because they crumble all over.  However if you squirt whipped cream into the center they don't fall apart, they stick to the cream.

Yes, now it tastes like Christmas.  Thanks grandma.