Becoming Christmassy Challenge: 24

Today I'm guest posting on becoming Christmassy at Emily K Designs. Check it out here.

Guest Post: Becoming Christmassy by Becoming a Baker, by Andrea: 23

Andrea and I have been best friends since we were FOUR YEARS OLD. She was awesome enough to guest post on how she's becoming Christmassy and show us her sweet baking skills. Thanks, girl!

I love to bake and what better excuse than Christmas? I love having an excuse to bake all the time, and believe me I've been milking it for everything it's worth. 

Here is just small sampling of a few of the baking projects I've taken on over the last little while. 

J Biebs cake for the sister. 

A...swirly cake? for the other sister. Happy 14th! 

Delicious chocolate peanut butter cupcakes. 

Some tasty chocolate peppermint cupcakes topped with candy cane kisses (favorite!)

And finally we spent a whole day in the kitchen making these delectable plates complete with mini chocolate-kiss peanut butter cookies, mini chocolate peppermint jr. mint topped cupcakes, and chocolate walnut fudge. We have some lucky neighbors.  

Hope you're having as much fun this holiday season as we are! Merry Christmas! 

...hope this works! love ya girl! 

Guest Post: Becoming Christmassy, by Emily K (21)

Emily K. from Emily K Designs for guest posting for us today! I just love this idea! Thanks for sharing with us (And well done on that fort)!

I'm really really excited to be guest posting about becoming Christmassy! I love Christmas and while my family has a few traditions, I'd like to start a few of my own. Have you ever seen The Holiday with Jude Law and Cameron Diaz? I swoon every time I see the little girl's fort. So... boyfriend and I decided to make a little fort of our own.

Made with an embroidery hoop, twin sized bed sheets, and lots of pins, I'd say it was pretty successful. We snuggled in to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in our cozy fort.

And, of course, no fort would be complete without mistletoe...

This may or may not become a tradition but it was definitely a lot of fun! Come visit me over at http://www.emilykdesigns.blogspot.com/ for some photography, fashion, and everyday life. Sometimes there's some giveaways too!

Guest Post: Becoming Christmassy, by Jennie (19)

Thank you, Jennie, for sharing some of your Christmas traditions!

We make holiday trains out of Grahm Crackers and icing and decorate them with candy and small Christmas decorations and then give it to a family. We also do a HUGE white elephant gift exchange Christmas Eve and look at lights. We don't give Christmas Presents to each other, instead, we pick a family and get them Christmas presents or do Toys for Tots. We are going to start doing Humanitarian Aid things Christmas Morning as well...just so we remember that Christmas is about GIVING and not receiving.

Guest Post: Becoming Christmassy, by Katelyn (8)

Thank you, Katelyn for sharing one of your favorite Christmas traditions:

I wanted to share a simple Christmas tradition I had growing up.  At the bottom of our stocking every year we would always receive an orange.  I thought it was kind of weird at first, but when my mom explained that an orange used to very hard to come by at the time of year and be considered a treat (especially by my British grandmother... she was born in 1907, so definitely prized oranges in her stockings) because they were expensive and rare.

I want to continue this tradition with my family.  Even though it's just an orange in a stocking, it is also teaches us about Family History.

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What are you doing to become Christmassy? E-mail me at im.becoming.someone@gmail.com to guest post about it!

Guest Post: Becoming Santa, by Janelle (4)

So happy to have my hilarious sister Janelle guest post today!

In lieu of the holiday season, I got in touch with the big guy by running the Santa 5K.  With friends in my ward, we dressed up in Santa suits and dasher-ed around the city. We had a strict diet of cookies & milk at each station served by Santa’s helpers.  With our beards to keep us warm we ran like Rudolph and dancer-ed across the finish line while our North Pole blared “Here Comes Santa Claus.” The race was legend, but we hadn’t quite had our fill.

Wanting to keep the spirit alive, we prancer-ed back to our apartment for a “party of the elves.” Guests arrived singing Christmas grams and we vixen-ed them specially made hats. We then comet-ed our guests to eat syrup-filled spaghetti covered in candy (Buddy the Elf style). We watched Will Ferrell walk through the Lincoln tunnel and play cupid to bring he and Zooey Deschanel together. While enjoying the four major food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and of course syrup; we donner-ed our gay apparel and blitz-(en)-ed  into singing Christmas carols.   

We “became Christmassy” as we ru-dolph and adopted the CODE OF THE ELVES: (1) Treat every day like Christmas, (2) There’s room for everyone on the nice list, and of course (3) The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.

(Janelle on the left, her roommate Linnea on the right)