On the 8th day

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! I mixed up nine different kinds of cookie dough on Friday and Saturday, and it's all tucked away in the freezer until it's a little closer to Christmas. Whew, I'm glad that's done! It snowed all day on Saturday, and I finished decorating on Sunday so it's starting to look like Christmas around here! Next weekend I think we'll get the tree.

And since I feel like I'm blog cheating with this book, I found a few other fun things for you all. :)

- Cute holiday tags for baked goods from every little thing

- Christmas decoration ideas from the red thread

- An adorable free embroidery pattern from orange you lucky!

- This really cool notepad tutorial from Sarah & Abraham

- And another cookie recipe that I mixed up this weekend: Icebox Shortbread. I made these last year with orange zest and cranberries (very good) but went for plain this year. I really love plain old shortbread.