I am not much of a Black Friday shopper but this year I was in Mississippi for Thanksgiving visiting my friend Melinda. We went hunting for the deal of the year, the Cricut! I am happy to report we found it, now I have yet another addiction in my life.

For Christmas I was busy making last minute gifts with it. I cut out the last name's of the people I was making gifts for (out of some contact paper that I bought at the Dollar Tree.) Then I used the negative part of it as a stencil (which I just pealed off the backing and stuck right onto the plates.) Globed on the etching solution (It eats the glass away. It doesn't paint it.) I let it sit for 10 minutes and then washed it off with water.

We bought some Coffee mugs from the dollar store (I got this idea from another web site.) Cut out the word "Coffee" on the Cricut.
We used "From My Kitchen" cartridge to cut it.
Pealed off the backing of the paper.
Stuck it onto our coffee mug.

For all you Black Friday shoppers here is a link you might want to check out.

This little guy was all the way up on our porch the other night. These kind of bugs I can deal with. Look at those big eyes!

Amish Bread MONSTER-
I started up some Amish bread for one of the girls up at work. In the middle of the night the darn thing fall off the counter and made a pretty big mess for me to clean up.
Cheese sticks- Tonight I decided to make some Mozzarella cheese sticks.

I bought some egg wrap rolls and some string cheese.

Wrapped them up.

Rolled in the sides and kept wrapping them.
Then I pour my oil. Turned my stove on Med. Heat for about 4-5 min. before I started to cook them.
Put the mozzarella sticks in the oil to cook. I had to flip them about 1 1/2 minutes into cooking so the other side would brown as well.

We had a little spaghetti sauce to dip them into. Everyone seemed to enjoy them