'Tis the new school season and I hope all you with wee ones have gotten everyone one back on the school year schedule. Here at my homestead my nephews began 2nd grade and my niece started middle school. Or at least I think it's middle school. Maybe it's junior high. I still don't fully understand the difference.

I came across a nifty thrifty craft online and decided to use it to show some love to my big sis's kids. I have all the supplies to make a few more for some other children call me Tia Gia but I've yet to complete them. Does anyone else suffer from such inertia? You spend all this time prepping and once you're all set things just slow down... I've got so many hours in a day and not enough time to do everything and keep my Hulu queue in order!

My momma taught me well so I also included a little note and personalized the wrappings. The great thing about craft projects is you often end up with remnants and can re-purpose stuff. These are the left over mini clips and treat bags from my grad party take-aways.

Also, I recently watched Duff Goldman's new show Sugar Rush on Food TV. Although I really wish his friend and cake constructor Geoff got a spin off I was still inspired by a segment of the 1st episode. I wanted to try and make a flat chocolate chip cookie. After some searching I came across Alexis Stewart's (Martha's daughter) recipe and it seemed simple enough. I looked around a couple days for those flat chocolate disks but couldn't find them even though I swear they used to sell them at Whole Foods. In the end I just used some Ghiradelli chocolate chips since they tend to be a bit bigger than Toll House's.








As one of my official taste testers said... they ain't too pretty but they sure do taste good!