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  • Gnome Cookie Cups

    Gnome Cookie Cups

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    4-ingredient gnome cookies are as cute as they are delicious! A perfect dessert for your Christmas cookie exchange, a garden party or whenever you want a treat.

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    Ingredients:

    • 1 pkg. Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough. I used the break apart kind
    • 24 oz. White Frosting about 2-3 tubes of prepared frosting
    • 24 Strawberries
    • 24 Skittles. I used the pink ones from the Skittles Smoothie mix
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    Directions:

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a mini muffin pan with cooking oil spray. You can also use mini cupcake liners if you have them.
    2. Place one cookie into each muffin cup. You don’t need to flatten or roll them.
    3. Bake cookies for 20 minutes and place pan on a wire rack to cool.
    4. While the cookies are still warm, take a small scoop to gently press the cookies into a cup shape.
    5. Cool completely before removing from the pan.
    6. Wash strawberries and cut out the crowns in a v shape.
    7. Take a fully cooled cookie cup and pipe frosting into the cup. You want to be a little generous here.
    8. Then push a strawberry on top of the icing and add a pink candy nose just under the strawberry.
    9. Take a toothpick to spread some of the icing to create the white beard.
    10. Enjoy!

    Credit given to justisafourletterword.com for this fun treat.

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  • Paper Plate Bearded Christmas Gnome

    Paper Plate Bearded Christmas Gnome

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    This easy kids craft is perfect for Christmastime. Get the little ones involved by letting them choose the colors of paper plates and hats to create their very own festive bearded gnome.
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    Materials:

    • Large or Small Paper Plate {one per Christmas gnome craft}
    • Scissors
    • Scrapbook Paper {in Christmas colors if you can!}
    • Brown Cardstock Paper
    • School Glue
    • Hand-Held Office Stapler
    • Snowflake Stickers or Paper Punch
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    Directions:

    1. First things first – the beard of the gnome. Go ahead and take your paper plate & cut it in half.
    2. Keep one half for the craft today and save the other for another day
    3. Along the curved edge of the paper plate half cut small notches, that are really close together, until you get to the other side of the paper plate {make sure to not go all the way through the paper plate and accidently cut your plate in half} If your child needs help on this step and doesn’t know where to cut, you can draw some lines with a marker and have children cut each line.
    4. When you are done cutting the paper plate and making his beard, curl a couple of the strips up and down to give it some texture and some flair. Set aside.
    5. Now grab your choice of color in scrapbook paper.
    6. Cut out a LARGE triangle from the scrapbook paper. This will be the Christmas gnome’s hat.
    7. Next, out of the tan cardstock, cut out a large oval shape for his nose.
    8. To finish off the Paper Plate Gnome craft, staple the triangle hat to the paper plate beard.
    9. Follow that up by gluing the nose in place.
    10. Add a few snowflake stickers or paper embellishments to the hat, to tie the winter theme together.
    11. Then let it all dry completely before displaying proudly.

    Credit given to gluedtomycraftsblog.com for this fun craft.

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  • ALERT: Fraudulent EBT Texts

    ALERT: Fraudulent EBT Texts

    Mountain Laurel Federal Credit Union has received reports of a scam where a member receives a scam text message about their EBT being blocked.

    The message says “(Contact 1-888-670-1335) #Pennsylvania EBT – Blocked. #MSG ID PA972166843”

     Do not respond to these texts or calls. 

  • Halloween Coloring Page

    Halloween Coloring Page

    Simply download or print the word search from the link below, and share it with your friends and family!

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  • Halloween Candle Lights:

    Halloween Candle Lights:

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    This is one of the quick Halloween crafts that kids will love to do with the things available around the house.
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    Materials:

    • Artificial googly eyes.
    • White paper towels, cut into strips.
    • LED or candle lights.
    • Small glass jar.
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    Directions:

    1. Take a glass jar and cover it with paper towel strips similar to a mummy.
    2. Place the googly eyes in the glass jar and place the LED lights or tea lights inside the jar.

    Credit given to stylesatlife.com for this fun craft.

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  • Hot Dog Mummies

    Hot Dog Mummies

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    These cute appetizers are sure to be a huge hit no matter who is attending your party!
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    Ingredients:

    • 8 hot dogs
    • 1 package of refrigerated crescent rolls
    • 1 teaspoon of yellow mustard, ketchup, or other condiment
    • candy eyeballs
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    Directions:

    1. Preheat your oven to 250 degrees. Place your hot dogs in a saucepan and cover them with water. Once the water has begun to boil, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for five minutes or until they are warmed through. Once you have drained the water and the hot dogs are ready, roll your crescent dough onto the work surface and tear it into eight pieces. Roll one piece of dough around each hot dog to create the mummy look. Add the eyes with your preferred condiments as “glue.” Bake in your preheated oven for about ten minutes or until the crescent dough is golden brown and flaky.

    Credit given to PerryHomes.com for this fun treat.

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  • BEWARE: AMAZON SCAM

    BEWARE: AMAZON SCAM

    Amazon impersonators: what you need to know

    Has Amazon contacted you to confirm a recent purchase you didn’t make or to tell you that your account has been hacked? According to the FTC’s new Data Spotlight, since July 2020, about one in three people who have reported a business impersonator scam say the scammer pretended to be Amazon.

    These scams can look a few different ways. In one version, scammers offer to “refund” you for an unauthorized purchase but “accidentally transfer” more than promised. They then ask you to send back the difference. What really happens? The scammer moves your own money from one of your bank accounts to the other (like your Savings to Checking, or vice versa) to make it look like you were refunded. Any money you send back to “Amazon” is your money (not an overpayment) — and as soon as you send it out of your account, it becomes theirs. In another version of the scam, you’re told that hackers have gotten access to your account — and the only way to supposedly protect it is to buy gift cards and share the gift card number and PIN on the back. Once that information is theirs, the money is, too.

    Here are some ways to avoid an Amazon impersonator scam:

    • Never call back an unknown number. Use the information on Amazon’s website and not a number listed in an unexpected email or text.
    • Don’t pay for anything with a gift card. Gift cards are for gifts. If anyone asks you to pay with a gift card – or buy gift cards for anything other than a gift, it’s a scam.
    • Don’t give remote access to someone who contacts you unexpectedly. This gives scammers easy access to your personal and financial information—like access to your bank accounts.

    Have you spotted this scam? Report it at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.

    If you think someone has gotten access to your accounts or personal information, visit IdentityTheft.gov. There, you’ll find steps to take to see if your identity has been misused, and how to report and recover from identity theft.

    For more information on Identifying whether an Email, Phone Call, Text Message, or Webpage is from Amazon, click the link below to watch a brief video.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G4YFYCCNUSENA23B

  • VISA Payment changes

    VISA Payment changes

    Effective July 1, 2022

    Effective July 1, 2022, Payments to your Mountain Laurel FCU VISA Credit Card can no longer be paid by phone. You can make a payment online at www.ezcardinfo.com or you can drop off or mail your payment to any of our branches. You MUST include your payment coupon located at the bottom of your VISA statement. Any payments received without the payment coupon will not be processed.

  • ATTENTION VISA CARD HOLDERS

    ATTENTION VISA CARD HOLDERS

    Mountain Laurel FCU is not in control of your VISA payments when you mail them to the Dallas, TX address.

    Therefore, to ensure your payment is credited to your account in a timely manner, your best options are making payments in person with your payment stub at your local branch or mailing your payment with your payment stub to your local branch, or going online to www.ezcardinfo.com.

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