sweet tooth

Continuing with my 'if we can make it, we do' spree. I've been seeing recipes for home made mints all over the net recently and it was time to try my hand at making them. This is an easy no-bake cream cheese recipe which can be frozen for up to 3 months. That's my kind of cooking!
Recipe can be found here.

hello hello

Well, hello.
Here's a little of what we've been up to lately. We've gone 'home-made'. If we can make it, we are. So here we have a new home made spaghetti sauce.

This Pizza Sauce is from AllRecipes.Com

Rolling pasta thru the Kitchen-aid pasta maker.

More home-mades to come. Happy Wednesday!

cookie love

I made these yesterday and there isn't even one left to take a picture of. If you don't know what to do when faced with a house full of preschoolers these will make you a superstar! Not only were they good, they look great and are easy peasy! Check out the fabulous V and Co. for the how to:)

sunday morning

This is my breakfast this morning. Bacon and egg cooked in phyllo pastry with a little whole grain mustard and cheddar cheese. So yummy. We will be making these again.
We also used our phyllo pastry to whip up some mini quiche with sauteed onions, hot peppers and bacon, topped with cheddar cheese. Also voted yummy by our panel of judges. Happy Sunday everyone( :

what will it be wednesday

This week I'm doing 'what will it be wednesday?'. This 'thing' in the picture above is 100% pure noro wool and was knit on size 13 needles. I did 112 stitches in the round and made it a little over a foot long. I then single crocheted the bottom of the (bag?) for stability and I'm knitting a separate shoulder strap to felt at the same time and to be attached later. Will it be a tiny purse? Will it be a big market bag? What will it be?

soap

The Soap Keeper. This is the fastest, easiest thing I have crocheted yet. So fast in fact that I just kept making them for fun and to use up all my little balls of cotton yarn. I tailored the bag to the bar of soap so it's a perfect fit for gift giving. These bags are great for all those little bars of soap that are not quite big enough anymore. The bag acts as an exfoliator and when hanging stops soap from getting all goopy in the soap dish.

fun birthday party ideas

(Salad dressing on J's face at Brown's Independent)

The kids were lucky to be invited to several parties lately and all were at great businesses in our community. If you have little ones and are looking for something out of the house this year I recommend these fun spots.
E had a great time at Corona Gymnastics.
J & E had fun at Playtime4kids and also had a great cooking class at Brown's Independent. You might even remember we had E's birthday at Saunders Farm which is also a great spot for those summer babies. If you prefer having the gang at your house, one of my first posts was about the Princess we hired for E's 4th birthday. Another wonderful party the kids really enjoyed. Thanks to all the kids who invited E & J out- they had a blast!

snow day

This was our second snow day so far this year and we knew just what to do with it. We now have a lovely assortment of cupcakes in our freezer for the next time we need a little pick me up. (that is if we dare to eat them... fruit loops on icing get sort of gross)

After the sugar high they had a nice time running it off in the snow:)