Merry Christmas! Thanks for reading!

Merry Christmas to all my readers! Thank you so much for checking out my blog! Best of wishes for the new year!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope the year has treated you well and that you're enjoying the holiday season with friends and family! I hope next year is even better!

Santa Claus brought me Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 for Christmas! I was playing around on it, and I thought I'd whip up a little Christmas card to thank everyone for reading my blog! I really appreciate your readership and support.

Did you know that this Christmas marks my one-year anniversary of owning this site? One year ago today, my dad gave me a framed screenshot of my blog to let me know that I was the new owner of rebeccamast.com. I was so excited! I didn't post until New Year's Eve, though, because I couldn't decide what to write about!

I'll have to think of something special to do for the anniversary of my first post!

Until then, Merry Christmas! May your new year be full of comfort and joy!

Gingerbread Cookies

Making and decorating gingerbread cookies is a beloved Christmastime tradition in my family. I really love to go all out with the frosting and candy. This year, my supplies were a little limited, but I was able to come up with a few fun things...

The Dark Cookie Rises

For some odd reason, we had black frosting... So why not?

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Supercookie!

I love his hair!!!

Team-up: World's Finest Cookies

(My dad poked Supercookie's hair. You probably couldn't tell, though.)

Maybe next year I'll make the entire Justice League!

Here are all the cookies that my sister Mikayla, my friend Angi, and I made. Some were more successful than others.  

Merry Christmas!

"Slaying" Song: Finals Shenanigans Part 3

Have you ever considered that the word "sleighing" sounds a lot like the word "slaying"? They're practically the same word.

So there's that line in "Jingle Bells" that goes "What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight!"

Sometimes I imagine a big, huge, warrior-type guy, maybe like Thor or Beowulf, skipping across a battlefield, whacking people at random, singing, "What fun it is to ride and sing a slaying song tonight!"

That's not Christmas-y at all. I'm definitely going to be on the naughty list this year.

You guys, I promise I have Christmas spirit! Lots of it!

Fleece Navidad: Finals Shenanigans Part 1

I'm pretty sure someone's already made this joke. Sorry, not trying to be a copycat!

But I'm listening to Christmas music on YouTube while writing this paper and doing other finals things, and I came across a version of "Feliz Navidad" in which the singer literally sounded like he was singing "Fleece Navidad." So I had to do this.

Oh, I'm up to no good. I'm getting into all kinds of shenanigans in this computer lab. For example, I just discovered that my spinny chair has a lever thingy that makes the seat go up and down.

If they wanted me to be serious, they shouldn't have provided me with unlimited hot chocolate.