Christmas Cookie Gifts

I wanted to give boxes full of Christmas cookies for some gifts 

this year!  Here's how I did it....

  First of all, I started early

with my baking.  Around Halloween, to be exact, and put

one kind of cookie in the freezer each week.

I bought clear storage boxes with hinged lids, cut parchment

paper to line the bottoms and printed off a label and used a

craft stamp to finish off the look.

A day or two before delivery, I pulled everything from the freezer

and arranged the cookies in the boxes.

Finish off with pretty ribbon.

Then the fun part comes...playing Christmas Elf and

delivering the goodies to ones you love.

My boxes went to bosses and coworkers, teachers, aides, 

Sunday School helpers, and our attorney. 

Nineteen in all.

A pretty, yet affordable, gift!

So fun!

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Remember me talking about Christmas bloopers like

tree lights not working and burnt crusts?

I had a few doing these boxes!  lol.....

First, I got to the stage of filling the boxes with cookies

and realized my labels were missing the Lemon Sugar

Cookies.  ha.  Had to reprint, restamp and reattach.

Second, my dear Alex sneaked and ate all of the peppermint

bark from three of the boxes while I was out one evening.

Fortunately I noticed and fortunately I had just enough 

extra to fill the empty spots again.

It always pays to have a little more than you need! :)

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How are you coming along on any Christmas prep?

I'm happy to report that my shopping, decorating and

baking is done!  The only thing left on my list is

the gift wrapping, and for once I'm not going to

grumble as I throw it together very late on 

Christmas Eve. haha.  Much better!

♥