cookies & crafts.

It's finally December! I'm officially allowed to start christmas-izing the apartment (although I did cheat and put up the tree last weekend!) To kick off the holiday season, my room-mate Brittany and I hosted a cookie exchange and decoration making night.  


We decided to make m&m cookies using a recipe from my friend Linsday's amazing food blog, pink peppercorn (check it out!).  After going to four different stores looking for christmas m&m's, we finally gave up and bought a package of the regular ones - I was set on the cookies being christmas-y though, so Brittany picked out all the reds and greens!

The cookies turned out great!  The only change I made was to switch the measurements for the brown and white sugar (I used 1 c. brown and 1/2 c. white)

We ended up with soooo many delicious cookies - lemon shortbreads, hello dolly squares, oatmeal, and fancy french macaroons!  After recovering from our sugar comas, we started crafting...

Our efforts resulted in some 'interesting' decorations, and a lot of glitter everywhere!  

Not exactly Martha Stewart worthy - but still festive!