Not garden art, but today I baked... chocolate truffle cookies, cocoa rum balls, a giant batch of fudge, and the cut out cookie dough is ready to be cut out. Tomorrow: bake and frost those, and mincemeat tarts!

And DH Tony crafted a shooting star to add to our outdoor decorations, we'll hang it up tomorrow! Pictures soon!

Many thanks, Vicki!

Love the baked art, Charleen!

I am blown away at the art y'all have shown this last week! I can't even think of enough superlatives...I told DH that this is why I am so quick to buy handcrafted artwork; what you guys have done is so far above and beyond anything that I could think of doing and is of such a fine quality...

JuneBug said:I am blown away at the art y'all have shown this last week! I can't even think of enough superlatives...I told DH that this is why I am so quick to buy handcrafted artwork; what you guys have done is so far above and beyond anything that I could think of doing and is of such a fine quality...

I will add wishing I had more time to play with crafts .I have gotten a few things made,made 3 batch`s of cinn applesause dough cut outs,decorated them yesterday,baked 2 loaves Orange cranberry bread ,Gingerbread cookies,and a huge batch of Vegtable Beef soup,MIL will be Happy today,she loves my soup.

Poly clay would be so much fun ,i could make snow balls... oH OH snowmen,i could do that...hmmm does that clay keep very well ??? Im thinking next year with the GK.

Love the foam board Gingerbread house too cute ,I thought you used caulk ... ..worked perfect...

well...since this thread is aptly named what were working on.. and not have finished... here's more of the gingerbread house.. now to paint the inside and set the windows in the openings.make a front door...and. get a fiberoptic lit christmas tree for inside.. and finish decorating.. I plan to set it out on the sidewalk.. in my planter there... it sets up about four feet high.. so it will be the perfect height for the small kids to look into.. after I string a few dozen new ribbons behind it I usually set the silver/white ribbons for christmas.. and it gives the morning glories something to climb on in the spring... I usuallly get two years out of a ribbon ..guess I should bring it in about 10pm

Brilliant, Gordon. I wish I could see it on the sidewalk.
Be sure to take a picture of it there for us.

Charleen...I tried some of that baked art.... a friend was getting ready to return to FL for the winter and ride her horse Spencer.. an appaloosa ...so I made a Spencer for her to enjoy... actually I made five of them for her... and kept a couple for myself to enjoy.. I ate one already... real sweet... OH.. these are cookies...

I also made a few oysters on a half shell.. cookies... I couldn't resist making these ugly cookies when I saw the candy pearls in the kitchen shop

Very COOL Gordon!

- keep the pictures coming

Artistic and chocolate - what a sweet friend you are!

Beautiful Gordon. Please T-mail me your address and I'll send you a couple of Clay Charley.
Gordon, you are amazing.

Gordon, your gingerbread house will disappear, I predict! It's really clever.

Charleen, I bought the clay and am going to play with it when my DGS comes this afternoon. I'll post our project unless it winds up in the trash!

Don't throw it away!!!! don't bake it til you are happy with it, if you don't like it then throw it away.

It's a rainy day here. After our "craft session," I may be ready to throw DGS away! His mom has a party to go to this afternoon, so we're picking him up from kindergarten. His parents have a party tonight, so he's staying with us until they pick him up late tonight. Going to be a long day and night! Hopefully he'll be in bed here by 7:30. I'll post our progress no matter what!

No!! Don't throw the little feller away either.
Dear Child, sounds like you need some "me" time for yourself.

Charleen, he IS my "me time." All house chores around here will come to a screeching halt in about 45 minutes. We will have nothing better to do than play with him today! I'm teasing about him being any trouble.

I know you love him,What kind of clay did you two get??? I want to see. I know he will have fun. You know little boys love bugs and dragons. So you won't go wrong making either one......

OH..Sandi What do you mean my GingerBread House will disappear... What do you know.... You're thinking it's Puddles..going to play a hand in this weren't you... or Buttles... whatever her name is... I might have known her as Puddles .. You've got an inside track with her.. what's going on there... with your prediction and all...
well creeping up on just about enough...

Fantastic job Gordon! When do you find time to do everything? I'm worn out just looking at all your great 'foam' projects you've done.

fiinishing the binding on 2 Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts

Oh how pretty, Janice! I haven't seen that pattern in awhile. It isn't one of the many that I inherited from my mom and grandmothers, but I love it. I didn't even know you quilted! Beautiful.