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Amazing White Trash Puff Balls
recipe by Ashley Elles
recipezaar.com

These are wonderful! My cousin brought them as an appetizer for Thanksgiving
dinner one year, and I got the recipe. I make them for work parties, and even
quick snacks at home. You can always make more or less by using more or less
cream cheese and crescent rolls! Trust me, these are excellent!

48 servings
31 minutes 20 mins prep

1 package hormel sliced pepperoni (or any brand)
1 package cream cheese
2 packages Pillsbury Refrigerated Crescent Dinner Rolls

Take out the crescent rolls, and separate into the individual triangles.
Flatten each triangle and slice it so that it becomes three small triangles.

Dice or chop your pepperoni into tiny, tiny pieces. Mix the pepperoni into
the cream cheese, stir very well so all of the pepperoni pieces are mixed into
the cream cheese.

Take a little spoonful of your cream cheese/pepperoni mixture and put it in
the middle of one of your crescent rolls triangles. Pinch up all of the sides
around the filling. Repeat and place them all on a cookie sheet.

Bake for the amount of time stated on the crescent rolls (usually 11 minutes
at 350) Let cool for a few minutes before serving!
Snagged from OriginalFoodies yahoo group

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Angels we have heard on high

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing over the plains
And the mountains in reply,
Echoing their joyous strains.

Glo-ori-a. In excelsis de-o
Glo-ori-a. In excelsis de-o

Shepherds, why this Jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be,
Which inspire your heavenly song?

Glo-ori-a In excelsis de-o
Glo-ori-a In excelsis de-o

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King

Glo-ori-a In excelsis de-o
Glo-ori-a In excelsis de-o

See Him in a manger laid
Jesus, Lord of heaven and earth!
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
With us sing our Savior's birth.

Glo-ori-a In excelsis de-o
Glo-ori-a In excelsis de-o

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http://www.christmascrafts.com/ornaments/christmas-tree/ornate-bead-christmas-tree-ornament.htm

Ornate Bead Christmas Tree Ornament Craft

This beaded Christmas tree craft make a cute ornament or decoration for your presents. While this little creation has been created in green to help set it off on your green tree, you can also use green beads and use light colored ornaments for decoration.

And please share any crafting ideas that you have with us. we would love to hear from you.

Craft Supplies Needed

1- 18mm plastic crystal cartwheel bead (also known as paddlewheel or sunburst beads)
5- 6mm round plastic red beads
8- 6mm plastic round faceted crystal beads
4- 6mm round plastic gold beads
8- 3mm round plastic gold beads with large holes
60- 3mm round plastic pearl beads (approximately)
1- 7" length of thin gold cord for hanging the ornament
1- 36" length of 22 gauge wire (approximately)
Wire cutters
Scissors

Crafting Steps:

We are going to start with the star on top and the tree trunk. Cut a piece of wire approximately 6" long, as well as another piece of wire 30" long.
Thread both the long and short pieces of wire through the crystal cartwheel "star" so that the short and the long pieces of wire now will hang equally out both sides of the cartwheel star. Now twist these two wires together to secure your cartwheel star, so that four wires now hang down below the star (two short and two long)
Slide all four wires (two short, two long) through the 6mm red bead.
Now the shorter wires will form the trunk of the tree. Put the two wires together so that they touch. Slide the beads in this order through both short pieces of the wire: 3mm pearl then 6mm gold. Repeat this 4 times. This is your tree trunk. Bend the wire a little so the beads will not fall off, but leave some gap between the beads so we can weave wire through trunk wires to form the branches.
Branch one. Now it is time to form the branches. On each long wire that is currently sticking out of the top red bead, place the following beads: 3mm white, 6 mm crystal, 3mm white, 6mm green, 3mm gold. This forms the top branch on each side.
On each side, loop the wire around the 3mm gold bead, thread back through the 6mm green bead and then place two more 3mm pearl beads on the wire. Now thread each long wire through the two tree trunk wires just below the top most 6mm gold bead on the trunk. After threading branch wire through the middle trunk wire, thread each wire through one pearl bead on the other side of the trunk, before starting branch number two. Now you have the top branch on each side.
Branch two on each side (shown ion steps 8 and 9 below) is exactly like steps 5 and 6 except where we have underlined below.
Now it is time to form the branches. On each long wire that is currently sticking out of the top red bead, place the following beads: 3mm white, 6 mm crystal, 3mm white, 6mm red, 3mm gold. This forms the top branch on each side.
On each side, loop the wire around the 3mm gold bead, thread back through the 6mm red bead and then place three more 3mm pearl beads on the wire. Now thread each long wire through the two tree trunk wires just below the top most 6mm gold bead on the trunk. After threading branch wire through the middle trunk wire, thread each wire through two pearl beads on the other side of the trunk, before starting branch number two. Now you have the top branch on each side.
Branch three and four. Repeat steps 8 and 9 two more times to form the rest of the branches, noting the only difference between the branches is that you will alternate a green and red bead at the tip of each branch, and more importantly, you add one more 3mm pearl bead to the bottom of each successive branch and thread through three 3mm pearl beads on the other side of the trunk on the third branch and only two beads on the fourth branch, so we can form the base. (See the difference between steps 6 and 7 versus steps 8 and 9- the differences are underlined)
You will now have tow wires left dangling from the pearl beads two away from the trunk just under the last 6mm gold trunk bead. String both wires through the same five 3mm pearl beads that form the tree base and tie the wires off on the lowest branch. Cut off the excess wire and guess what- you are done.

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things to do at christmas time

Read The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (titled "The Worst Kids in the World" in Australia, New Zealand and the UK) is a book written by Barbara Robinson in 1971. It tells the story of six delinquent children surnamed Herdman. They go to church for the first time after being told that the church offers snacks. Despite protests from other church members, they are given roles in the Sunday school's Christmas play, in which they tell the Christmas story in a nonconventional fashion.^[1] Robinson first published the story in McCall's magazine before it was adapted into a book, which sold over 800,000 copies.^[1]

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