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These are like the ones I have that used to be on my parent's tree...so special...I have one red, two blue...
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These are like the ones I have that used to be on my parent's tree...so special...I have one red, two blue...
AND while in Costco today, I picked up a set of 3 tall hurricane-type candle holders with painted poinsettias on them...a nice deal for $30. I got home, put them out, poured some fake snow I had just bought at the buck store into them to a couple of inches, then put in 3, 2" high fake battery candles that flicker. So cute! I can't use candles for any length of time because of my asthma, but they still look so cute!
I found them: much like these, only mine have twirly stems on them and the top cup part is taller, more hurricane shaped...
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...they look MUCH nicer in person! :)
I saw those too Lynn.. so pretty.
I just couldn't resist them, Sunshine! Hubby laughed at me and said, "More chachki"?, (because he knows I hate chachki) and I said ya just can't have enough chachki at Christmas...new rules....:)
They are very pretty!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lynn49
I don't consider them tchotchke since they are functional, too!
Just FYI, did you know that term is Slavic, adapted later to Yiddish
цяцька in Ukrainian
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beautiful holidays balls.
Oh, gosh...we even had that striped bell....and the one in the top right corner...several of those, too!Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal50
I wish I had treasured them back then.........I'd have more of them now.....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Natalka
I didn't know it was originally Slavic!! Cool! :)
I still enjoy reading this each year! :)
Best Fruit Cake Ever
Ingredients:
1 or 2 quarts Whiskey
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
4 large eggs
1 cup dried fruit
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup of nuts
1 oz of lemon juice
Mixing Instructions:
Before you start, sample the whiskey to check for quality. Good, isn't it? Now go ahead.
Select a large mising bowl, measuring cup, etc. Check the whiskey again as it must be just right.
To be sure whiskey is of the highest quality, pour one level cup into a glass and drink it as fast as you can. Repeat.
With an electric mixer, beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 tsp. of thugar and beat again.
Meanwhile, make sure that the siskey is of the finest quality. Cry another cup.
Open the second quart is necessary. Add the 2 arge eggs, 2 cups dried fruit and beat till high.
If druit gest stuck in the beaters, juse pry it loose with a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey again, checking for toxscisticity .
Next sift 3 cups of the salt or anything: it really doesn't matter.
Sample the whiskey. Sift 1/2 pint lemon juice.
Fold in chopped butter and strained nuts. Add one babblespoon of the brown thugar, or whatever color you can find and wix mel.
Grease oven and turn cake to 350 degrees. Now pour the whole mess into the coven and bake. Check whiskey again, and go to bed.
Or...How To Cook A Turkey
Go buy a turkey
- Take a drink of whiskey (scotch) OR JD
- Put turkey in the oven
- Take another 2 drinks of whiskey
- Set the degree at 375 ovens
- Take 3 more whiskeys of drink
- Turn oven the on
- Take 4 whisks of drinky
- Turk the bastey
- Whiskey another bottle of get
- Ponder the meat thermometer
- Glass yourself a pour of whiskey
- Bake the whiskey for 4 hours
- Take the oven out of the turkey
- Take the oven out of the turkey
- Floor the turkey up off of the pick
- Turk the carvey
- Get yourself another scottle of botch
- Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
- Bless the saying, pass and eat out
Love this one...lol!
"Christmas is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, Here, kitty, kitty." - David Letterman
Okay, it's about Thanksgiving, but too funny...for an NFL fan, anyway...:)
"Christmas dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck
(sorry for the following random pics; I posted in the wrong tab, thought it was a games room thread!)
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