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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Shutter Love Winners | Cookies

| COOKIES | These cookie photos made me gain 10 lb.s just looking at them. HA! HA! I loved looking at them all and some of your stories behind them were so cute! Thank you to everyone who entered their photos in this theme!

The top 10 Winners for this theme are ....

#1 goes to | Continuous Shutter

#2 | Peanut Butter Cookies
#3 | The Cookie Thief
#4 | Fiddlehead
#5 | 525,600 Minutes
#6 | Nicole @ Another Day Another Diaper
#7 | Dina @ 4 Lettre Words
#8 | Biscochitos
#9 | Boys Love Cookies
#10 | The Secret Recipe
Viewers Favorite | Another Tie this week! Our winner by draw is Chic Homeschool Momma!

A few of our favorites | In No Particular Order

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

St. Patty's cupcakes

I'm totally stealing this post from myself from last year.
But if you've seen my blog and have seen photos of my house lately
then you'd understand why.

These fun rainbow cupcakes are perfect for next week...
I don't think I'll be making them, so make and enjoy some for me.

But really you could make these anytime.
What a fun birthday cupcake this would make.
A special little surprise when they bite into it!

The cupcake was very easy to make,
and just a little bit messy!

What you need:
White cake mix
Food colors
Frosting

Just make the cake mix according to the directions on the box.
Then split the mix into 5 bowls
Add food coloring to each bowl to make
red (9 drops)
orange (4 red, 4 yellow)
yellow (7 drops)
green (7 drops)
blue (8 drops)

Then drop a spoonful of each color into a cupcake liner
(I like to spray my liners just a bit for easy removal)
Start with blue, then add green, yellow, orange and red.
I spread the colors out a bit so that they would reach the sides
but you don't really have to.

I love how you can see the color through the wrapper!

Then I took my white whipped frosting and added
lots of yellow food coloring and one drop of red
to try and make "gold" frosting.
Close enough!

Beautiful and delicious!

Would love to see your version if you try these out!
The idea came from Family Fun!
My kids really liked them, last year...
hopefully we'll get around to doing something fun like this again sometime soon.

But for now...still packing boxes and getting things in order.
We will start our drive north next week,
so you probably won't hear from me for a while!
Thanks for all your encouraging words and advice...
I really appreciate it!
Prayers are appreciated too!!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Re - Fashioned Dress

This is a simple tutorial on how to make a re-fashioned dress from an old t-shirt and some extra material. My daughter LOVES Paul Frank. I searched and searched for the perfect outfit with no luck. So I decided to take an old shirt, some pajama pants and extra material to make this dress for her.

What to know how I made it? Check out the tutorial below!

First, find an old t-shirt and extra matching material you have from other t-shirts or extra material.

Cut the top of the shirt, leaving the arms and neck hole in tact. See above pic as a reference. Then measure and cut strips of your other fabric. Alternate the pieces until you have your desired length. I just measured mine off the shirt. It's a 9/10. I made the lower strips a bit larger as I went down to give the dress a bit of flair.

After you lay out the strips of fabric how you like it, sew each one together. I like the unfinished look a lot, so I kept mine on the outside of the dress. Once I had both the front and back sewed, it was time to sew them together. Place the front and back together, right side in. Sew and keep it right side in.

Now it's time to add it to the top of the dress. I did this by (and sorry for not having a pic) slipping the bottom of the dress through the neck hole. Sewed it together and then let the bottom of the dress down through the neck, keeping the unfinished look on the top of the dress too. I also added a little monkey to the top by just sewing a straight stitch around the material.

Here is your finished dress. Isn't it cute. I love it and lil miss birthday girl was so surprised when she opened it! I loved seeing her face when I told her she could wear it to school that day!!!

Here is a close up of the cute material. I also wanted to point out that I just used a straight stitch on this dress. You can surge it too if you like. When I washed this, it frayed a bit, but I liked the look of it.

I also made this barrette to match the dress. I did this by just tying and knotting it to the barrette. No glue. Done. The whole outfit was a hit. Yeah!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Creative Share Wednesdays

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I always look forward to this day of the week. It's fun to go through all the fabulous link ups.

I decided to start featuring some of my favorite link ups again. There are just so many that inspire me and I wanted to help them get seen a bit more.

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Shutter Love Tuesdays | COOKIES

We have been loving hosting {Shutter} Love every week and wanted to thank you all for participating each week. You have all made it so fun. We enjoy looking at each of your photos every week.

This weeks theme is | COOKIES |

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Tara's | COOKIES | Photo

Remember these cookies from a post a while back? This cookie recipe is so yummy. I can easily get addicted to them. I made these peanut butter bars to surprise the family one day and they are now asked for all the time. Now I think I will have to make some this week. Mmmm!!!

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