After a brief Thanksgiving-induced hiatus, Friday Favorites are officially back!
It’s been a busy week ’round these parts, what with kicking off and wrapping up the first week of the 20 Day Holiday Workout Challenge!
TGIF, right?!
Without further ado, here are my favorite finds from around the web this week!
Favorite new year’s idea: Easy closet clean out. Flip all your hangers around on new year’s day. After one year, or a season, donate any clothes that you haven’t worn, aka the hangers are still flipped!
Favorite Christmas cookie: Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. My parents used to have a Christmas party every year which my Mom would make dozens and dozens and dozens of cookies for. These were my favorite!
Favorite foodie gift idea: Stuffed baking mitt. Perfect for a newly married couple, or someone just out of college and starting to cook for themselves.
Favorite Giggle: The Truth About Book Clubs. I personally don’t belong to a book club, but every single one I know of pretty much follows this format. HIGHlarious!
Favorite winter must-have: Sorel Joan of Arctic Boots. Uggggh, luscious foot hugs.
Favorite Holiday pup. Poor, hilarious pooch!
Favorite DIY craft: Scented candle upcycles. Melt half burned candles and combine them in one candle. Genius – I have like a zill of these laying around!
Favorite casserole: Chicken Broccoli Supreme Casserole. Hearty winter casserole without cream of something soup.
Favorite photo: Chocolate Wasted Cake. I mean!!!
Favorite Christmas card. Rustic, cute and clever.
Favorite find: Copykat Godfather’s Dessert Pizza. Do you KNOW how many slices of this pizza I ate growing up?
Favorite personalized gift: Thumbprint Heart Pendant. Perfect for husband/wife, mom/dad/children, grandparents/grandchildren.
Favorite fitspirational quote. It’s so true!
Favorite MUST MAKE recipe: Hot Chocolate Bombs. Make these truffle-like balls, wrap and freeze. Drop in warm milk for instant, homemade hot chocolate!!
Favorite flashback: Santa Mugs. We had these exact mugs growing up, and I clearly remember having Swiss Miss hot chocolate with mini marshmallows in them after cold winter days spent sledding and building snow men. Awww!
Favorite eco-chic fashion statement: Hand Block Printed Bamboo Scarf. Each scarf is made of bamboo and stamped with stamps from India. Cool, and cute!
Favorite fancy nibble: Shrimp Pesto Pizza. Yes, yes and yes. To all those things.
Favorite coffee flavor: Wild Blueberry from Green Mountain Coffee. This tastes IDENTICAL to a blueberry muffin. Unreal! PS get 15% your order and free shipping until 12/15 with code AM0015-3592 at GreenMountainCoffee.com!
Favorite holiday sight: Rockefeller Christmas Tree. Seeing this bad boy is on my bucket list!
Favorite funny: Inappropriate Elf on the Shelf ideas. I actually think the EOTS concept is genius, but these ideas are absolutely hysterical.
Favorite true words. Been there, done that!
Favorite holiday indulgence: Eggnog syrup. I want to try this ONCE!!!!
Check out these previous Friday Favorites posts.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone! :D
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What was the best part of your week this week?
Always look forward to your friday faves!
I just placed a k-cup order for Mocha Nut Fudge and German Chocolate Cake – hopefully they are as good as they sound!
The best part of my week so far was a trip to the twin cities with my coworkers to visit the graphic design exhibit at the walker art center. We have way too much fun together. :)
Love the candle idea and the chocolate wasted cake made me laugh out loud!! I am definitely trying the godfather dessert pizza.
Oh snap! I just placed a big order for my k cups yesterday:( guess I’ll have to order more! Great promote code! I love the blueberry too, have u tried cinnamon pastry?? OMEGA…
hahaha “the moment where you have so much crap to do, you decide you’re not going to do any of it!” i’m SO guilty of that! LOL!
I don’t know if it was the same recipe as the one you have here, but I have made at-home dessert pizza before and it tastes JUST LIKE Godfather’s dessert pizza… no joke!!! PS I’m off to watch the Luther choir tonight for Christmas at Luther :)
Haha! My Mom still has those Santa mugs, and my brothers and I will still argue and fight over who uses which one on Christmas morning.
I’ve been meaning to do that hanger idea for years. I just slowly remove stuff every couple of months instead.
I love reading your Friday favorites each and every week. This part of my week…finding out on Monday that we’re (my boyfriend is taking me) going to see your above “Favorite Holiday Sight” – that’s right, I’m spending a weekend in the most magical city in America very soon!!!!!!
That chocolate wasted cake looks amazing and reminds me of my Death By Chocolate recipe.
You take one bite and its all down hill from there. ;)
OMG How did I forget about Godfather’s dessert pizza?!?!? I also love the hanger flip idea! So smart!
Drooling. Laughing. “good-idea-ing”. Thanks for these Best-Ofs on Fridays.
Of all the blogs I read, I think the most often with yours that we could be real life friends. Let me list the reasons why from this posting alone:
1) someone told me about the hanger flip last year so I did it for 2011. I discovered I own too many hoodies that don’t get worn.
2) I make those peanut butter cookies. They are too stinkin’ good.
3) My husband and I still have our santa mugs- and use them every christmas.
4) I saw that Wine Book Club sign earlier this week and thought it was hilarious
5) I saw that thumbprint necklace on etsy this week and thought it was sweet
6) The 5:30am alarm that goes off on my phone m-f says “you’re only one workout away from a good mood” instead of “alarm”
And now I totally want to make those hot chocolate bombs (pinning after I submit this comment) and I want to dive my face into that chocolate wasted cake. Not to mention, I have my husband cook up one of your recipes almost weekly :)