I made this bag for my favorite brown haired sister. I LOVE IT!! I think I might have to make one for myself. It’s from Simplicity pattern # 2396. It was super easy and fast to make.
I have orders for a few more. Anyone else want one while I’m at it?
When I saw the cover of Woman’s Day magazine this month I couldn’t stop smiling. They had the cutest cupcakes I had ever seen! So today I made some.They were super easy.
You’ll Need
cupcakes (the magazine actually has a recipe in it for cupcakes that includes cornmeal but I just used a white cake mix.)
white icing
yellow & white Jelly Belly jelly beans
yellow Starbursts
black sprinkles
I lightly iced my cupcakes
Then I just started adding rows of yellow and white jelly beans.
Then I cut a yellow starburst into quarters and smashed it a little bit to look like butter.
Then I added some black sprinkles for pepper.
Make two more cupcakes and line them up to form a corncob. You can add corn holders on the end for a nice look.
Enjoy!
FYI* If you really want to make more than just one corncob you should go to a candy store that sells Jelly Belly jelly beans by color. Otherwise one corncob is all you’ll get. You could check that place that has a whole bunch of stores in one spot that teenagers like to roam around aimlessly, I think they call it a mall. You can usually can find a candy store there.
My hubby was making dinner last night when he got a little to close to the gas flame I heard him say, “I’m on fire.” I looked up and he really was! The flames were traveling fast but luckily he was right next to the kitchen sink and was able to put it all out before any bodily harm occurred. Now I’m wondering if he was just trying to get out of making dinner forever??
I made some stuff for my nephew who is becoming a brother for the first time this week. I love how the pocket pillow turned out! I found the robot fabric at WM and I thought it was just perfect for my projects. Sometimes you can find the cutest fabric at WM. I made a pillowcase, pocket pillow and a fleece tied blanket.
The Pillowcase
The Pocket Pillow
I printed the big robot from my clipart onto iron on printable transfers and ironed it on. I made the pocket first and added all the embellishments then I just top stitched it with a zigzag stich onto the pillow.
The Blanket
Well the fleece for the blanket anyway I still have to tie it. I think I’ll go do that right now while the baby is napping. Have a great day!
I was making cupcakes to bring to a girl scout event tonight when I realized I didn’t have enough icing. And because I kind of hate icing, and I hate making it even more AND since the girl scouts are the ones given credit for inventing s’mores. I figured s’more cupcakes were the way to go.
Here is my version of s’more cupcakes. You’ll need chocolate cupcakes.
First I melted some chocolate and put it on top of the cupcake. You could probably substitute chocolate frosting if you wanted but the melted chocolate was YUMMY!
Then I dipped the top of the cupcake into a bowl of smashed graham crackers.
Then I added half a large marshmallow to the top of the cupcake. I squirted a little melted chocolate on the bottom of the marshmallow to help it stick to the cupcake.
I lined 4-5 cupcakes on a baking sheet.
And then I broiled them, first on one side of the broiler then I switched them to the other side of the broiler until they were nice and brown.
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So easy and yummy! Just perfect for summer.
My daughter wanted a Kung Fu Panda cake for her birthday and my hubby came up with this design. It was easy and cute. So in honor of Kung Fu Panda 2 here is the Po cake.
You’ll Need
cake mix
2 blue Jelly Belly Jelly Beans
Pull n Peel Licorice
Black sprinkles or icing.
Divide your cake mix into 2 round cake pans + 2 cupcakes. Bake according to package directions.
After the cake has cooled stack your cakes on top of each other and ice with white icing. Using black sprinkles or black icing shape eyes and nose. We used a homemade stencil to make the eyes and nose and then sprinkled the sprinkles nice and thick. This worked awesome, but when we took the stencil off some of the extra sprinkles that were on the stencil fell through the eye and nose holes and got on the white parts of the cake. Then add your blue Jelly Belly jelly beans for eyes, and the licorice for the mouth. For the ears ice your cupcakes with chocolate icing and sprinkle with black sprinkles or just ice with black icing. Enjoy!
We are lucky enough to have a pretty awesome strawberry patch. So last year when I was looking for recipes to use all of our strawberries I came across this Strawberry Vanilla Pancake recipe at allrecipes. I made it again yesterday for Memorial Day. And I hope your Memorial Day was just as wonderful as ours was.
The batter is thinner than most pancake batters but it didn’t seem to be that big of a deal.
Pretty & Yummy!
