I love my family, music, vintage, saving money, making art, and cooking food. Does it get any better than that?
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Ugh.
I promise I will post again really soon I have just been feeling so sick lately, I need to make a doctor's appointment to find out what's wrong with me. As far as projects I've been working on, The refurbished jewelry box I'm making for my sister is coming along great. I will post pictures when I'm done. And a new recipe soon! Stay tuned.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Why am I so horrible at updating my blog?
Guess I've been in a funk for the past few weeks. Christmas shopping, trying to get ready for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving came and went, It was a pretty good day even though I didn't get to spend it with Noelle :( It should be a good weekend though. My little sister is coming over tomorrow, I need to find something for the three of us to do. Now if you will excuse me, Noelle is about to spill juice all over my carpet.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
DIY: Upcycled skull shaped crayons
So after seeing posts about this a billion times I finally decided to try these today. These came out awesome! I'm thinking Christmas presents for some family this year.
Things you will need : Old crayons, broken crayons, any kind of crayons.
Silicone tray or muffin tin. I used a skull shaped tray I bought from the dollar tree.
Children to peel your crayons
Directions: Start peeling the crayons.. if you have kids that have a hard time sitting still (like mine) you might want to do this ahead of time instead of letting them help. I made them put crayons and wrappers in two separate bowls.
Things you will need : Old crayons, broken crayons, any kind of crayons.
Silicone tray or muffin tin. I used a skull shaped tray I bought from the dollar tree.
Children to peel your crayons
Directions: Start peeling the crayons.. if you have kids that have a hard time sitting still (like mine) you might want to do this ahead of time instead of letting them help. I made them put crayons and wrappers in two separate bowls.
After you peel the crayons try to break them into small pieces, as small as you can.
After all crayons are broken up, place them in the silicone tray. Try to match the colors as well as you can, otherwise they come out all brown and yucky looking. Make sure the tray is full, if it leaks over that's okay just make sure you put a baking sheet underneath it. If you don't fill them as full they will break when you remove them from the tray. Also, make sure you use a tray that you don't mind ruining with crayons. ;)
Bake crayons in the oven at 250 degrees until completely melted, once melted pull out then swirl with a knife.
Place in the freezer for 10 mins or so, until hard.
Remove from the tray.
TA DAH!!
Cool right?
The best part about this project?
It cost me absolutely nothing to make!
And even if you don't have a silicone tray or a muffin tin they are only a dollar at the dollar store.
So cheap project right here! And I love how they turned out.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Good food alert.
I love the raspberry cheesecake flavored ones.. These are on sale at Dillons for 2.50 and I had a 1.00 off coupon, making them 1.50. Nom nom nom
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Christmas Decor :)
We aren't "officially" supposed to be putting up the Christmas decorations until Friday... but I couldn't help but make one little thing. Well, a center piece. :) I bought a bunch of Christmas Decor from the thrift store and to make this I used gold painted pine cones, (only cost me 50 cents a bag), a vase.. which i already had, a little bunch of silver leaves, and then I just tied some red and green ribbon around the center. Tacky? Maybe. I don't care. I like it :)
Sorry for the horrible picture quality... A camera phone doesn't take the best pictures.
Tonight's Dinner
Crispy Cheddar Chicken.. I have it in the oven right now. Yum!
Ingredients: 4 large chicken breasts
2 sleeves ritz crackers ( I only used one and had some leftover)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 cup of milk
3 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
1 tsp dried parsley
Sauce: 14 oz can cream of chicken soup
2 T sour cream
2 T butter
Directions: Cut each chicken breast into 3 large chunks
Grind up ritz crackers, I put them in a plastic bag and crushed them
Pour milk, cheese, and cracker crumbs into 3 separate bowls
Add salt and pepper to the crushed up crackers
Dip each piece of chicken into the milk, then the cheese, then the cracker crumbs
Spray pan with cooking spray and lay chicken inside pan
Sprinkle parsley over chicken
Cover pan with foil and bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes.
Remove tin foil and bake for an extra 10 mins, or until chicken is golden brown.
In a medium sauce pan whisk together soup, sour cream, and butter until it's nice and hot.
Serve over chicken and enjoy!
Thanks to http://jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com/ for the recipe!
Ingredients: 4 large chicken breasts
2 sleeves ritz crackers ( I only used one and had some leftover)
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 cup of milk
3 cups of shredded cheddar cheese
1 tsp dried parsley
Sauce: 14 oz can cream of chicken soup
2 T sour cream
2 T butter
Directions: Cut each chicken breast into 3 large chunks
Grind up ritz crackers, I put them in a plastic bag and crushed them
Pour milk, cheese, and cracker crumbs into 3 separate bowls
Add salt and pepper to the crushed up crackers
Dip each piece of chicken into the milk, then the cheese, then the cracker crumbs
Spray pan with cooking spray and lay chicken inside pan
Sprinkle parsley over chicken
Cover pan with foil and bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes.
Remove tin foil and bake for an extra 10 mins, or until chicken is golden brown.
In a medium sauce pan whisk together soup, sour cream, and butter until it's nice and hot.
Serve over chicken and enjoy!
Thanks to http://jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com/ for the recipe!
Monday, November 14, 2011
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