In The Christmas Kitchen With a Giveaway

Tis the season for holiday baking.

When the weather outside gets chillier as the winter winds begin to blow ~ the warmth of the kitchen is more welcoming than ever.

What will you be baking this season?

Perhaps it will be a pie or two.

Which flavor says Christmas to you and yours?

Perhaps it's pumpkin, or apple ... maybe even mince meat.

Maybe cookies are more your style.

Christmas cookies hold many dear memories for me.

My mom always made many different varieties of cookies at Christmastime. Then they would all be placed into tins lined with wax paper and stored in the coat closet until it was time to make pretty plates of them to share with friends and neighbors.

Maybe you like to bake fancy little cakes and serve them to your friends with a warm and fragrant pot of tea.

You might even like to create beautiful masterpieces out of gingerbread.
Maybe the whole family works together on this kitchen project.

We recently visited the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC where the National Gingerbread House competition was taking place. I can only imagine the many hours the competitors spent in their cozy kitchens creating these masterpieces.

It doesn't matter whether we're baking a batch of cookies or a fancy gingerbread house. What really matters is the memories we are making and the love we add to our baking right along with the flour and butter.
For many years my sister & I would get together and bake Christmas cookies. We made many different varieties and stayed up long into the night mixing and sifting, baking and talking, sipping coffee and laughing.
While we can't get together and do that any more, I still have all my fond and rich memories of our fun times in the Christmas kitchen.

Once you finish your baking, you will undoubtedly want to show it off a little.

Can't you just picture your pie, cake or festive cookies sitting on top of this cute little snowman?
Well, guess what???

That's right ~ Giveaway Time!!

Recently I was asked if I would be interested in doing a giveaway to one of my readers. Of course I would because I really appreciate my readers. The hardest part for me was deciding on an item to giveaway from the many choices offered by dining room furniture.
I was amazed by the variety of wonderful items at this site. If you have never visited them, please take a moment to do so. They are nice people, in fact so nice that they are letting me giveaway not 1, but 2 of these cutie pie snowman plates!!

So, if you would like to be entered in the giveaway, please leave a comment on this post before midnight on Sunday, December 13th. If you don't have a blog, please leave your e-mail address so that I can contact you. Once I choose the 2 winners, your prizes will be shipped directly from the company.

Good Luck to all and thank you to dining room furniture for making this giveaway possible.