12 Days of Christmas Cocktails! Day 8: Santa Hat Cocktail

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To make a Santa Hat Cocktail,
You'll Need:
3 oz. Cranberry Juice
1 oz. Coconut Rum
1/2 oz. Grenadine
Ice
Powdered Sugar (rim)
1 tsp. Water (rim)
Coconut Flakes (rim)
Mini Candy Cane

Make It! 
Mix sugar and water together on a plate.  Dip the glass in the sugar then coconut flakes.  Add the cranberry, rum, and grenadine in a shaker with ice.  Shake and strain into the glass.  Garnish with a candy cane.
*Drink recipe found on Pinterest.  Link to pin found here.

12 Days of Christmas Cocktails! Day 7: Hot Scarlet Wine Punch

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To make Hot Scarlet Wine Punch,
[Be warned: this is a crock pot/slow cooker recipe.  It takes 3 1/2 - 4 hours to cook on low or 1-2 on high!]
You'll Need:
Cinnamon Stick
4 Whole Cloves
32 oz. Cranberry Juice
1/3 cup Brown Sugar (I'm going to suggest light brown, since the recipe didn't say)
1 Bottle (750mL) White Zinfandel or Dry White Wine

Make It!
(They suggest making a spice bag out of cheese cloth, but ain't nobody got time fa that!  Just fish out the cinnamon and cloves before serving,  If you want to do it the right way, see Better Homes & Gardens's recipe).  In a 3 1/2 to 4 quart slow cooker, combine spices, cranberry juice and sugar.  Cover and cook on low for 3 to 4 hours; or on high for 1 to 2 hours.  Remove spices.  If cooking on low, turn to high.  Stir in wine.  Cover and cook for 30 minutes.
*Drink recipe found on Pinterest.  Link to pin found here.

12 Days of Christmas Cocktails! Day 1: Elf Cocktail

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To make an Elf Cocktail,

You'll Need:

1 oz. Melon Liqueur

2 oz. Citrus Vodka

1 oz. White Cranberry Juice

Maraschino Cherries (garnish)

Ice

Make It!

Add ingredients into a shaker with ice.  Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.  Garnish with cherries!

*Drink recipe found on Pinterest.  Link to Pin found here.

Wasted Wednesday! Chicks Dig It

Oh my!  I almost completely forgot about WW :O  I don’t know what it is about coming back from a holiday, but I can never seem to get everything done on time.  Probably (definitely) just me procrastinating.  Anywayssss, dudes:  Here's a drink the chicks will not only dig, but also think you’re gay for drinking!  Enjoy!

To make a Chicks Dig It,

You’ll Need:

1 ½ oz Vodka

1 oz. Triple Sec

¾ oz Peach Schnapps (I’m loving this stuff.  Can you tell??)

Splash Cranberry Juice

Splash Ginger Ale

Ice

Make It!

Combine in a shaker and shake all ingredients.  Strain into a glass.  Looks pretty in a martini glass if you’re tryin’ to impress your lady friends, boys.  We love a nice presentation ;P

See y’all on Friday for some more of Wicked Polish’s amazing stuff.  You tired of me posting about it yet?  No?  Good.  Me neither!

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Thanksgiving Week: Drink 4 - On The Deck

Ahh jeez.  It's Wednesday.  You probably picked up the fam and are prepping all the dishes for tomorrow.  Get hammerfied and enjoy their company!

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Can we all meet up there?  Looks amazeballz

You'll Need: 
1 1/4 oz Spiced Rum (the recipe calls for Captain, but I love Sailor Jerry)
3/4 oz Dark Rum (calls for Meyers, but Kraken is bettah!)
1/2 oz Cointreau
4 1/2 oz Lemonade
1 oz Cranberry Juice
Ice

Make It!
Cup.  Ice.  Everything else :)

Thanksgiving Week: Drink 2 - Ocean Drive

Alrighty, it's Monday.  Are you grocery shopping for all the fixins yet?  If you were, I'm sure the store was packed and probably out of your key ingredients for your famous sweet potato pie.  Make one of these as a reward for not strangling someone!

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You'll Need:
Malibu Rum
Curacao (I only have blue, I'm sure it's all the same)
Orange Juice
Pineapple Juice
Cranberry Juice
Ice

Make It!
Cup.  Ice.  Glugs of Malibu and Curacao.  Splashes of juice.

Cranberry Smashed and Tiffany’s Nails

Hey y’all! I hope everyone had a great week. I know I’m glad it’s almost the weekend!  My Drink of the Week (I guess I should change it to Weekend) is called a Cranberry Smashed – it’s a twist on the regular vodka-cranberry.

You’ll Need:

·         Vodka

·         Cranberry Juice

·         Ginger Ale

·         Ice

Make It!

(Pretty self-explanatory guys…I shouldn’t need to say, but here ya go!) Put the ice in the cup, add the vodka (a few glugs – you be the judge), then fill the rest of the cup with ½ cranberry and ½ ginger ale. 

I like this drink because the ginger ale tones down the sour of the cranberry…and I just like fizzy drinks! :)

Tiffany’s Nails

First I applied the Seche Clear basecoat (pictured in my previous “Weekend Haul” post) because I will be putting glitter polish on (which, as you may already know, is incredibly hard to remove).  I heard it was the best basecoat and that you can practically peel the glitter off when you’re ready to take it off – we shall see!

After that was dry, I applied two coats of China Glaze For Audrey.  I hadn’t planned on doing anything special with this manicure, I was just going to leave them plain since I did the nail art last week….but I got a crazyyyy idea.  This stuff looks JUST like a Tiffany’s box! So, what else would I do but add some silver sparkle (Essie Shine Of The Times) and a little white bow stamp?  It just made sense guys! :)  After everything, I finished it off with a topcoat so the bow stamp would last longer.

Two Coats China Glaze For Audrey

Two Coats China Glaze For Audrey, Konad Bow Stamp,
and One Coat Essie Set In Stones

Close Up - kinda blurry - sorry!

Now, as freakin amazeballs as they look, I am NOT happy with this China Glaze polish…AT ALL!!  It was so gloopy and thick.  It took F O R E V E R to completely dry before I could stamp the bows and put the glitter coat on.  It got a million bubbles once it did finally dry, so my nails are all bumpy (most annoying thing ever!  I’m really OCD about bumps/bubbles/smudges/chips etc.).  Speaking of chips, two of my nails chipped the next day.  I have never had polish chip on me that fast.  Maybe it was the Seche basecoat, because I really did peel half of my thumbnail’s polish off.  I will give it another try because I’m seriously in love with this color, but if it does the same thing again, I’m going to be really disappointed.  This was my first time using China Glaze (as a “regular” polish – I have the crackle stuff, which honestly has the best crackle effect I’ve found so far), so it was a double bummer for me.  Maybe I just got a bad bottle…who knows?? :(

TELL ME!  Did you try my drink? How was it?  What are your thoughts on China Glaze polishes?