Mary's Recipes Week Two

 Welcome back to Mary's Recipes.  I'm including a picture of the great lady herself with each post.  Isn't she a sweetie?  

I'm posting five recipes a week. That should keep you busy! 

 

 

DOA’s Merry Murderous Christmas Mysteries

 Here’s my stack of Christmas Murder Mysteries.  There’s one book which is coming later this month for some reason, pictured separately.  I hope to have them all read and reviewed by December 31st. Could happen!

DOA's December

 

We made it! It's the last month of the year and we are all (mostly) still standing.  This post will be the 84th post for the Librariandoa blog.  I'll just need sixteen more posts to get to the ever desirable 100 posts :)

Though I posted every day in November, I don't plan to do that in December.  I will be keeping three themed post days active this month:

DOA On TV Sundays

Mary's Recipes Thursdays

Saturday Puzzles

 

Never fear, there won't be a content drought!

DOA In The Kitchen!

 

I recently purchased several great cookbooks I'll highlight.

I've four nice sized cookie jars, I think they're all from Walmart, but I plan to put one type of cookie in each, with a little label so a person can just dig in.  Date filled cookies, Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Sandwich Cookies and Spritz are this seasons selections.  Pictures and recipes used as I make them.

On the side, I'll make half recipes of Muddy Buddies, Rice Krispie Bars, and daringly caramels and divinity.  Good luck with those last two, you say.  This could be the year when I succeed.

Crafty DOA!

Time to soothe the inner beast by doing craft projects. Crafting can put you in a "meditative state", they say.  Unless you mess up.

I've recently started painting ceramic things again.  I've no artistic talent, but I see painting these fun objects as being much like working in a coloring book.  I've always liked using nice colors and I must stay inside the lines. Some of these are new, some I’ve had for years.

I recently purchased a book called 100 Crochet Tiles.  I saw it in a store and looked at the directions, and determined I can do the stitches required.  Bozo that I am, I didn't pay attention to the yarn used, which is Paintbox and Scheejpes, a European yarn.  You can get this on Amazon.  I picked a square to try and ordered the Paintbox Yarn for that square.  The skeins are 1.7 oz, perhaps just enough for one square?  Watch this space to see.  Another roadblock here is I can't make a "magic ring" to save myself, so I either finally learn it, or just have a hole in the middle, lol.

 

A Merry Murderous Christmas!

I have a pile of Christmas Murder Mysteries I plan to read and review this month.  Since two of the books are short story collections, I'm giving myself a goal of having read all of my Christmas Mysteries by December 31st.

I don't quite have all of my books yet, so I'll post that list when I have them.  

This plan is inspired by the Ho Ho Ho Readathon at the Caffeinated Reviewer Blog.  I would love to have signed up for this reading challenge, but just not this year.

https://caffeinatedbookreviewer.com/2025/11/ho-ho-ho-readathon-begins.html 

 

 

Have a very Merry December!