Happy Valentines Day!

 Happy Valentines Day!

Cute Cute Cute... Bunny Nightlight

I love love love this little guy from My Sweet Muffin. I am thinking of getting it for my girls for their room. We will be moving this summer and they will be sharing a room and I thought this would be a wonderful new room gift for them to share. 

They both love bunnies, so even better. 

Be sure to check out their website

mysweetmuffin. com

 

Have a great day!

Wintery Natural Beauty....

Happy Tuesday!

Instead of hating the snow, I am enjoying the quiet. 

Silence....

; )

Winter....

Hello Monday!

Kids back to school. Sitting on the couch with coffee and catching up with my dvr shows. 

I actually love Mondays....

and I am actually enjoying all the snow we have gotten lately. It really feels like a blanket all around us. For a moment, I am going to enjoy the stillness.

 

; )

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Sunday

Happy Sunday!

 

I am thinking muffins sound good with my coffee this morning. 

 

I am thinking of trying these that I found on Pinterest. YUM

 

Have a great day!

 

 

If you are a chocolate lover, these are for you!! Rich and delicious.

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 Tbsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups of milk (whole preferred)
2 large eggs, beaten
1/3 cup vegetable oil
6 Tbsp. cold black coffee
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus 1/3 cup additional of chocolate chips for sprinkling

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare muffin tin with paper muffin liners.

Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. In another large bowl, add the milk and oil, whisk together. Whisk in beaten eggs. Whisk in cold coffee and vanilla extract.
Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones, only mix until all ingredients are combined, do not over mix.
Gently fold in the 1 cup of chocolate chips into the batter. Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pan. Sprinkle tops of muffins with additional chocolate chips.
Bake in the oven about 18 minutes. Let the muffins rest 10 minutes before eating.

Makes about 18 muffins.

Crazy Happy Panini Love...

Yay!!!

The weekend is here. Saturday Morning. I am so happy to be sitting here with my coffee and everyone is still asleep. I decided I need to be getting up an hour before everyone to get my peace of mind in order. No Mommy this or mommy that until a decent hour. So now I am taking this time to blog and enjoy the silence...

which every mom knows, does not last long. 

Today, I am hoping to get in some shopping. I am planning my grocery list. I have to admit, it contains lots of ingredients for yummy Panini's ( a recent love thanks to my bestie for introducing me to this wonderful machine), and smoothies. (yesterdays post!!!)

I love simple kitchen gadgets. 

Have a wonderful weekend. 

; )

Magic....Smoothies!

Hello, Happy Happy Friday!

I am thrilled with todays post. This summer, my husband and I picked up a wonderful tool. A Magic Bullet. I am ashamed to say that as soon as I got home I washed it and stuck it in a cabinet. BUT... Yesterday I got it out and whipped up some great Strawberry, Banana smoothies. YUM. So now, today, the girls and I did some experimenting. My oldest daughter whipped up a great tropical fruit smoothie that she and my youngest shared. And I made a great Blueberry one. 

What a wonderful tool. And so much easier to use and for my girls to use than a normal blender. 

I Love it.

Have a wonderful Friday!

Snow Day!

No School, No Dance, No Where to go....

Ahhhhh

Love a good snow day!

Have a great weekend!

Coral and Turquoise

 Loving this yarn, where can I get it? Some headbands and scarves would do nicely. 

Happy Wednesday!!!

There is just something about the snow that makes me wish it was Summer. TOOO Cold. 

I am loving loving loving... 

Coral and Turquoise right now. 

All I can think about is getting these colors into my wardrobe. Preferably in Hoodies because...

BRRRRR

Hope your days is warm!  Where is my Coffee?

; )

Scrapbooking Options...

 Project Life.  Insertable cards and pre-cut embelishments. 

 An awesome punch to make your pictures fit right into your pages. 

 Great new papers from a new favorite, Little Yellow Bicycle... Cute!

 Ahni and Zoe.... Simple, premade album choices. 

 

Hello, Happy Tuesday!  It is a frigid -15 here, but the sun is shining and it looks to be a gorgeous blue sky day. 

 

I am catching up with all things computer related and have been doing some scrapbook research. 

 

I have been an avid scrapbooker for over 15 years now. I love it. It is my go to craft. I admit, I do love other crafts from time to time, but my heart always goes back to this craft. 

 

I may dabble in card making, knitting, crochet, and sewing, but there is something about putting all my photo memories down on paper that makes me feel accomplished and complete. 

 

Recently, one of my favorite companies went under and re-organized themselves. Creative Memories was always my go to for the products I needed. Now, I also loved going into other craft facilities and shopping their many isles for goodies, but they had some great basic items that I always used. So lately I have been looking for some other items to expand my arsenal of memory making supplies. 

 

I got the chance to do a bit of scrapbooking with my bestie on Saturday, and she showed me some great products along the lines of the new Ahni and Zoe products. (the new Creative Memories). So now that I have researched, they actually look like fun. I am excited about the idea of having everything precut and just sliding them into the pockets. So I ordered a few things and think I might give it a try. 

 

I have always stuck to one system, trying new things yes, but never really deviating from the original way that I learned 15 years ago. 

 

But I think its time for a change. 

 

Hope your day is great!

 

; )

 

Fun Makeup Caddy Makeover

Hello, Happy Wednesday!

 

I am so excited to show off my recycled traincase. I have had my eyes on some cute makeup organizers lately, and just cant bring myself to spend the money on one. So I started looking through my garage and found an old traincase that was my grandmothers. 

It was perfect for the project. 

 

I got out some old Tilda wrapping paper (that I saved for just this kind of project) and some mod podge, some funky ribbon and some gingham scraps of fabric. It was so much fun, I cant wait to do it again. 

 

I am very happy with my fun makeup caddy. And it is kinda neat that it is the same one my grandmother used for her jewelry and other keepsakes. 

 

I like to think shes looking down and saying good job. She was always the best recycler that I knew. 

 

Thanks Gram!

 

Hope your day is great!

 

; )