An excellent Christmas Concert was performed Thursday evening by Dr. Nancy Allred, Dr. Ka-Wai Yu, and Emily Workman.  It was a wonderful evening of Christmas music performed to perfection!!

          

Circle of 4ths and Cinnamon Rolls!

Today we had a delightful presentation by Ken Foster from the Sandy Chapter on Creativity, Improvising, Knowledge, Evaluation, Composing and more.  We were able to stay a little longer than usual since there was no college class coming in right after us...we love Christmas break!!

Ken had SO much information to share with us, and a lot of it I need to review and think how I want to use it in MY studio...so the greatest part of the presentation, for me, was HIS LINK!!  He told us we could find everything he was talking about on his website, and he was right!!!  Here's the link:

KEN FOSTER'S WEBSITE LINK

I just went and looked at it, and there is so much helpful information there.  I hope you'll go take a look.  Our chapter meetings sure help us be better teachers by giving us more tools to use!!  AND we had a great turnout, with 12 teachers there in addition to Ken.  It was so fun to meet some new individuals, and to get to see so many of our colleagues!

Last, but not least, we had some really good cinnamon rolls, too.  Here's the recipe!

Dough 3-1/2 oz pkg vanilla pudding + milk amount shown on box 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted 1/2 c warm water 2 TBS instant yeast 2 TBS sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp salt  6 cups flour (Makes about 3 dozen good-sized rolls)

Icing  4 oz cream cheese ¼ c. butter/margarine 1 tsp almond extract 1 TBS milk 3+ cups powdered sugar Mix until smooth.  Add a tad more milk if the icing is too thick.  Or add more pwd. sugar if not thick enough.

Add the dough ingredients in large mixing bowl (I usually double the recipe!), except for flour.  Add 5 cups of flour...let it mix really well, then gradually add the last cup of flour...just until the dough barely cleans the sides of the bowl (it make take a little more flour...just don't make it too dry!)  Mix for 10 minutes, then pour into a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let raise 'til double.  Punch down a bit, and let raise again.  

When ready, roll dough out on counter, about 6" wide and 30" long... (pour melted butter [1/2 cup?]) on dough, then spread cinnamon mixture (2 cups br. sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon) on top of butter.  Roll up tightly, to form long "snake" and cut with dental floss.  Place on greased cookie sheet to raise until about double, then bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.  Should be golden brown.