I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!  I'm enjoying some much needed time off and family time.  Last week I baked Christmas cookies using this recipe.  I handed them out to my co-workers and volunteers who work at Potentials.  It was my first time making this particular cookie, but they turned out pretty good.  I love cookies stuffed with candle bars.  Another...

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This year I'm doing much of my Christmas shopping at local stores and buying from local artists.  The first weekend of December I went to Kennett and bought some gifts at the Adelphian Christmas Bazaar, where coincidentally my mom was photographed for the local newspaper.  Last weekend I went to the Kirkwood Farmer's Market (see my earlier visit here), which was transformed into a...

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Decker household.  {Our St. Louis Cardinals snow village.} {Part of our regular snow village.} {Our tree has colored lights on it for the first time.} {Souvenir shop in the Cardinals village.} {Stockings hung by the chimney.} {My favorite new additions.  The Peanuts wireless band.  They all play together.  Thanks mom!} {Mint M&M's in...

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One of my hobbies is to find a fabulous outfit in a magazine and replicate it in my own wardrobe using either what I already own or getting missing pieces at resale stores.  I can usually reproduce the outfit almost to an exact match, spending a fraction of the price of the original pieces in the magazine.  A while back I noticed Katie...

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