Thanksgiving!

Among other things, this year we give thanks for the fun & success of our little project Prudent Baby, and for our favorite blogs that helped us get here.  Add them to your daily reads and you will be thanking us next year!  And to all of our readers, thank you for sharing your projects, ideas, and time with us.  We hope you all enjoy magical, wonderful Thanksgiving days and we can’t wait to see you next week!
Much Love,
Jaime & Jacinda

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10 Tools/Supplies for Fancy Sugar Cookies and A GIVEAWAY!

I’ve avoided talking about my obsession with decoration fancy sugar cookies here on Prudent Baby because, well, I just don’t find them very prudent. They are tedious. They are time-consuming. They are temperamental. But with that said, they are totally addictive to make and there is nothing quite like the delight on a toddler’s face when you hand them an edible work-of-art. People, I’m here to confess, I dream about decorating sugar cookies.

The other day I ordered this book that had been floating around in the old Amazon wishlist for a while. I was ordering my book club book and was under the $25 to qualify for free shipping, you know how it goes.

This book is amazing! Full of information that I had always wondered about… the perfect way to pack sugar cookies for shipping, the fact that you can not only freeze cookie dough in balls, but un-baked cut cookies and also baked cookies, with no damage. This book is full of helpful tips of wonder and amazement!

So since Christmas is upon us and if you are ever going to try royal icing, now is the time, I’m going to share the top 10 things I think you need to jump in. This “kit” would make a fun gift for someone interested in getting started.

10 Tools/Supplies for Fancy Sugar Cookie making and the details of our first giveaway after the jump.

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Prudent Project Round Up

Amber at Daisy Chain spruced up her nursery with some pom pom curtains!

Krista at Look Ma No Patterns made this insanely cute embroidery hoop & button version of the Cozy Embroidered Clock!

Carla at 1 Nice Thing made her own spooky Halloween Bat Mobile!

Reader Sarah made these happy versions of the ever-popular Baby Food Jar Fabric Tea Lights!

And check out little cutie Sumner gobbling up one of Rick’s Rich Jam Muffins, YUM!

Add your project pictures to the Prudent Baby Project Pool on Flickr with your URL in the description and we may link to it here.  There’s nothing we love more then seeing your versions of our little tutorials!

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Backyard Tangerine Vanilla Bean Marmalade


We are so lucky that our new home has a gorgeous, giant tangerine tree and the fruit is just ripening, so get ready for an onslaught of tangerine recipes. Up first is tangerine marmalade.  I guess you aren’t really supposed to use Baby Food Jars for preserves but I feel like that’s all part of the big brother jam & jelly racket keeping us down.  I sterilized the jars and used a technique to seal them (after the jump), but in reality baby food jars are so small you’ll easily use up the contents pretty quickly anyway.  Bring a jar to your holiday dinners and serve with the cheese course, yum!

Get the full Tangerine Marmalade Recipe after the jump…
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DIY Silky Baby Blanket


My daughter has one favorite blanket that she insists on sleeping with every night, but after two years it’s a little stained and run-down.  What she seems to love about it is the soft coziness on one side and cool silkiness on the other.  It was a fancy, generous gift (thanks Stella!) so instead of buying a new one, I was hoping to be able to replace it by making one myself.  Did I succeed?  Let’s see what Scarlet thinks…

It’s a simple two sided blanket, but adding satin binding is a little tricky, learn how to sew a Silky Baby Blanket after the jump…
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