best peanut butter cookies i have ever made. plus PW best chocolate sheet cake. ever.

i love - cookies. peanut butter. chocolate chips. my favorite? keebler's soft batch cookies. that's how soft i love my cookies.

smittenkitchen has a recipe for {the only} peanut butter cookies she makes. tried them today. made half a batch for me and JP (soft) and half a batch for ruben (crunchy). photo from smittenkitchen

if you want to see how to make this cookie. hop on to smittenkitchen. you may be enticed to try it and like me, be persuaded to have this recipe as the only peanut butter cookie recipe you will ever follow. :-D

got to try pioneerwoman's chocolate sheet cake too. my boys just love it. :-)

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on another note, is everyone done with their Christmas shopping? not me. and i don't know what fate awaits me when i go to the mall to complete all gifts. a tree with no gifts under it

oh, well. i brought this to myself. now suffer! {hihihi}

i really hope you have completed your holiday shopping. really. it's for your own good. :-D

school friends

twilight really had an effect on me (haha). i kinda missed school. friends. barkadas. crushes.

came across this old picture. so young. there are 2 other girlfriends missing in the picture. my college barkada. missed these gals.

jp's into shawarma lately.

and found this picture of us having shawarma at home (taken december 30,2007). we were going to watch the fireworks display at SM and we do not have time to grab some shawarma so we made our own when we got home.

as you see, eating is one of our favorite bonding time. hihi. just wanted to share. :)

double pager

i started scrapbooking with 8.5x11 pages. moved to 12x12. liked it. i now do pages on this format. tried mini albums. loved them. but a 2-page layout? i have a hard time putting together a layout with 2 pages. the first one i did was based on a becky higgin's sketch. i never did it again.

this month, got the courage to take on the KAYA November challenge. the last of the weeklies is a double pager. how will i ever do it?

checked my magazines. browsed the web. finally, in ali's book i found the perfect inspiration. i just love this girl.

and here is my ali edwards-inspired 2-page layout. tfl! :)

twilight

i have only these words to say. see the movie. and if you haven't read the book. try to grab a copy after seeing the movie. you'll appreciate the story, promise. :-)

now, i am off to re-reading the whole series. :-D

this pix was from yuletide '07

in a few more weeks, it'll be the most awaited time of the year {for young ones and the young once alike}. this time is really meant for our children and our parents (grandparents). we look forward to this time to make our children happy. to make their wishes come true (or at least some of them). and for our parents and grandparents, it is the time that they'll see us make our children happy.

{between the 2 of us, it's my favorite time of the year too} i just love shopping and wrapping gifts, preparing the decors and the Christmas menu and all the shenanigans we all do at Christmas time.

gift giving has always been a very important part of this season. it is also our way of sharing our blessings to those important to us. it is the time when we have {more } spare money to give to charities.

but i am worried this year. with the recession news all around. US economy affecting the world as well. big companies going bankrupt that no one can ever be secure with their jobs.

my wish is that we'll still be able to make a lot of people happy this Christmas.

thank you jiroken :-)

i haven't won any scrapping challenges but i guess this is very similar to how it feels when you get that notice from the mailman that you have a parcel to pick up.

got the notice on a thursday middle of november and was very, very excited. i wanted to dash out of the house and go to the post office that instant but i needed to wait another day for there seem to have a hundred errands each time you take your days off from work. but you won't be able to imagine the smile on my face and i owe that to Michelle. :-D

won this RAK from her birthday post. and i love all the items she sent me. i equally love the personal card she made for me. i now have an actual card from a very talented cardmaker that i can cardlift. ;-)

thanks so much Michelle for your lovely gift. :-D

and Sarah is having a RAK. so be sure to visit her blog to check it out. :-)