2013 New Years eve Cuban style

We celebrated the 31st at the home of my brother Tony and his wife Esther, it was also their wedding anniversary. She decorated Black and Silver and they cooked the pig old school like my dad use to do.

look at the beautiful table clothes Esther bought online



here are the center pieces I made (notice the black glitter ornaments I made hanging from the branches)

Tio Jujo and my brother Tony

Tio Jujo removing the metal brackets from the 100 pound pig

Here is the brick oven we cooked the pig in, made by placing an aluminum plate on the ground surround it by large bricks and cooked on top of a fence door and covered it with banana leaves 



I decorated my cup cake stand with 5 different diamond brouche



this ring and cake was Tony and Esther's anniversary celebration

mom was so happy here

Cubans love to eat the toasted pig skin, I'm not fond of it

Cuban coconut flan

my cousin Tania

Michael in front of the pig and here is also a full look at the old school brick oven

Cindy, Michael and Katherine

Enrique and tio Jujo

It was a beautiful night Esther and Tony out did them self's to make it a magical night. They invited the whole family and only a few of us went. Half of the family cancelled just hours before dinner. Our family has split up!! My dad is looking down from heaven with a tear rolling down his face. I'm sorry dad :-(

How to make glitter ornaments

I purchased clear heart ornaments below for 50 cents each box @ Michael's after Christmas clearance.

I will show you step by step how to make these. I will use these for Valentines and again for Christmas ....

HERE ARE THE FINISHED ORNAMENTS

ingredients:

1. ONE BOTTLE OF MOP AND GLO
2. CLEAR ORNAMENTS
3. 2 FUNNELS
4. FINE GLITTER *will not work with any other glitter

steps:

1. pour a little bit of  mop & glo into an ornament/make sure the whole ornament gets saturated with the liquid, including the tip 
2. place funnel over the bottle of mop and glo and pour the liquid back in make sure you let it sit for a few seconds
3. now place the other funnel over the ornament and pour in the glitter, move the ornament round and round till all of the glitter covers the glass ornament
4. pour shake ornament back into the glitter bottle to remove any extra glitter
5. place to dry back
6. once glitter is dry replace the hook

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here is the ornaments on my Valentine tree

I LOVE THE WAY THE ORNAMENTS CAME OUT, I PICKED UP SOME BRANCHES FROM A LOCAL PARK AND DECORATED THEM WITH THE ORNAMENTS. IT TURNED OUT BEAUTIFUL.

oreo balls

ingredients

place your cookies in food processor

here I used vanilla oreos

mix in one box of cream cheese @ room temp

form  into small balls just as if you were making cookies

place on wax paper

melt chocolate and dip oreo balls ,, place back on wax paper place in fridge for  15 min

FINAL PRODUCT ... decorate as you wish.

Christmas 2013

vintage mouse from one of my trees

of course I must have  coca cola ornaments



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Christmas tree #3 Coca Cola/Vintage

Christmas tree #2 Candy Land

1950"s Vintage ornament

more Vintage ornaments

my Nut Cracker Collection

Zachry's 1st Christmas



my boys Josh and Zach



why are babies always scared of Santa?? poor Zach

my boys in front of the main Christmas tree

Zachry

Joshua

door décor I made for my sister in law

Josh 12/25 on our way to Disney World 

Zachy could not keep up with us during our Christmas shopping at Walmart