Chocolate Chip Macaroons

These are very easy and fast to make.

Chocolate Chip Macaroons

2 1/2 cups flaked coconut
2/3 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease cookie sheets. Combine coconut, chocolate chips, milk and vanilla in medium bowl; mix until well blended. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets. Press dough gently with back of spoon to flatten slightly. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets 1 minute. Remove cookies to wire racks; cool completely.

This recipe comes from my Chocolate Lover's Collection cookbook. Sometimes I just have to turn to this book when I need chocolate.

Mexican Flowers

I volunteered to be in charge of decorations for our RS Birthday Celebration in March. We were going to have Mexican food served, so it was determined that we needed Mexican decorations. Thankfully, Mom and Dad were coming for Audrey's baby blessing and I was able to enlist Mom's help to make some of these flowers. It was fun layering the tissue paper and deciding what colors would look good together. Mom helped out by cutting most of the petal shapes. I made a little over 100 flowers.


The Jarritos's were purchased at the Mercado Latino in Provo. I took the bottle to work and had my co-workers drink up the sodas so that I could have the bottles. The flowers looked really cute in their bottles. The sisters at our activity last night really enjoyed the decorations and it made me happy that it was appreciated.

Now, I have tons of the flowers and I think that they would be great Cinco de Mayo decorations. So if anyone needs some decor, let me know.

I was able to put a few to good use today, though.

PAYBACK

It was a good day to get back at a co-worker for this joke.

Festival of Colors

On Saturday, March 28th, I went with Donna, Torey, Stephanie, Nick, Emily and Andrea to the Festival of Colors at the Krishna Temple. It was the first time any of us went. Now we know what to expect and how to prepare for next year.


"This festival represents the passing of winter into spring. Traditionally, colored powder or water is thrown to signify the joy and colors of spring arriving." You can find out more information about the festival here.


It was amazing to see all the color go up into the air. Some of the color was scented and made me feel like spring had truly arrived. Of course, it snowed the next day to fool everyone. Anyhow, it was fun to take part in the tradition and learn about a different culture.


Here we are together with our few specs of color. Donna was favored by several people and she ended up being speckled in purple. Pretty!

Shelly

Pastel Quilt

My pastel quilt is finally complete. This is the first sample quilt I started back home in Midland at the Needle Nook. The quilt top has been laying around for a long time (over 5 years) and last year I had it machine quilted. Tonight I finished the boarder. Below are details from the quilt.