What happened to the holidays?

Its already the end of January and I haven't managed to find the time or motivation to post my holiday projects. What has the world come to?!

My absolute favorite would have to be the Christmas stockings that I made using a pattern by Alicia Paulson from her book, 'Stitched in Time'. Of course I have no photos so it will have to wait for another day. I did manage to take some pictures of a cake I put together for our Christmas dinner. We hadn't bought anything to decorate it with so I scrounged around and managed to put together this snowy scene using powdered sugar, graham cracker crumbs, crushed oreos, and grated chocolate. The little blobs are supposed to be snowmen representing everyone that came to dinner that night. The poo looking blobs towards the left were all of my mothers dogs and cats. It was horribly sweet and so dense you had to lean on the knife just to cut through the 4 layers of cake and 4 layers of fudge filling. Oy (and merry christmas).

The recipe for the cake and the fudge icing came from the book '1 mix, 100 cakes' by Christine France. I tried finding a link for this book, but maybe it has been discontinued?

By the way, the terrariums are all still alive, yay! The only thing that isn't doing well is the live moss in the opened containers. The moss in the enclosed terrariums are so happy and super green, but the open-air ones are looking like I might be pulling them out soon. So sad.