Ah, the NEW year

2012 welcomed itself with quite a celebration, we certainly have never thrown a party quite like that before! Lots of people, lots of fireworks, lots of mess to clean up the next day... But it was fun and everyone seemed to have a good time. 

Here's a few pictures of the food! :)

I made "apple-blue cheese bites". I looked for recipes with blue cheese with something like this in mind, but couldn't find any (even on pinterest!) so I made it up as I went. They were super easy to make and everyone loved them! 

I had 1kg of puff pastry (thawed), cut into small squares (we had 80!)

2 egg yolks for the egg wash

2 apples cut into small bits

about 200g blue cheese, crumbled

I baked them at about 200C until golden and yummy looking! 

I also baked some chocolate cupcakes using the Annie's Eats recipe. It was AMAZING! A bit more fiddlesome than other recipes but soooo worth it. They turned out perfectly and the batter as well as the cupcakes were to die for! It was definitely a recipe I'll use again!

I frosted them with the Our Best Bites cream cheese frosting and then shaved some chocolate on top with a veggie peeler. It turned out really nice!!

We also had some chips, carrots and cucumber with dips. And some folks brought some chocolates. It wasn't as much as we've done in the past, but I wasn't really feeling up to days and days worth of preparation. Ah, lazy party hosting. :)

The weather has slightly improved as of New Year's Eve... Snow again! In fact, yesterday it snowed almost ALL day! But sadly, today it's kind of wet slush again. Argh! Where is our winter?!

This week is my second to last week of vacation but I'm kind of considering it my last because I will try to get some school work done next week. Boo! 

Therefore, I have started a few projects. I am making some baby stuff for my sister-in-law who is having a baby shower at the end of the month! I am hoping to get it all done in time to make it through the mail! 

And to top it off, a new project for myself: pink, white and gray hexagon blanket. I'm going big (or trying to anyway) and hoping for enough hexies to make a queen size blanket for the bedroom. :) I have all year, ya know! I made 7 hexies last night, the first ones took forever to wrap my head around! I used the Attic 24 pattern but I'm not joining as I go. I prefer to sew them together. I always worry that if something comes undone with the join as you go method, the whole blanket will unravel.

I'll try to share some pictures next time, at least of the hexies! They're GORGEOUS!

Thanks for reading, hope your year is off to a good start, too! :)