Pretty Pinks in Mid Winter

This Christmas I didn't have much time to bake.   Soooooo last week while blogging I came across some decadent cookies and I can't recall where they were.  Its never too late to bake cookies...even if they are called Cranberry Noels.  Valentine's IS coming and why couldn't they be called Cranberry Amour. Maybe I could have used heart cookie cutters.

I kept them in my pretty thrifted enamel container on a paper doily.   I do adore my enamel containers. 
The recipe is Martha Stewart's Cranberry  Noels.  Its an easy to make cookie filled with cranberries and pecans with that nice buttery flavor and is so yummy especially with coffee.

This weekend was cold at 0F but we still didn't get any snow and that continues to be so seasonally unusual.  The last of my pretty amarillus bloomed.  The day I blogged that I hadn't had one for a long time my son Richard came over with one for me.  They are so beautiful.

I wanted something pretty for my handmade votives and tealights and over Christmas I thrifted for this brand new Partylite wall sconce.  It was just what I wished for and only $5.00.

Its glows so nicely beside the picture Geoff painted for me when he was just a young teenager.

Pretty pinks in mid winter make me think of the oncoming spring. 
Its been a lovely time....enjoy.... Judi xoxo