DeeDoo’s Digital Scrapbooking Blog

Couldn’t stop myself from baking some of the little ‘snowball’ cookies we always look forward to at Christmas each year. They are such a common cookie in many families, I’ve found, and the recipes are very, very similar. My mother always cooked them until they were ‘done’, with no soft doughy center, and that’s the [...]

I’ve been working on a second Christmas kit for this year, and it’s almost finished. Lots of brighter reds and greens in this one. It should be pretty cute. It’s probably a bit late to be working on a Christmas kit, but it’s hard for me to be inspired any earlier in the year! I [...]

I suppose we all have a picture of a snowbound Christmas home in our mind’s eye as the ideal Christmas vignette. Having spent my childhood in Illinois, I, too, associate the season with grey skies, tons of snow, sledding and ice skating. Don spent several childhood years in Alaska–brrrrr-too cold even for me–and he, too [...]

Failure! I got a recipe from my fav site, Joy of Recipes, and this time it wasn’t very tasty. Not gingerbready enough, and the texture was dense. Also, they had a lemon glaze on it, which is a bit unusual to go with gingerbread. So, the gingerbread cake is lurking in the kitchen, probably feeling [...]

It has been overcast and dreary out all day, and I’ve been thinking about gingerbread. Maybe it’s because I watched the White House Christmas last night and saw the huge gingerbread house on display. No matter, I’m getting ready to bake again. Will post about the yummy (or not) results soon.