Victoria's quilt

I finally finished Victoria's quilt, so I thought I would post some pictures to share. It was a pretty easy quilt to make and she is thrilled to have it. The back is just a solid blue flat sheet. I bought a sheet set for her and sewed the flower material onto the pillow case to match.

What have you guys been making all summer?

Jessica's Skirt

I finally finished this skirt. Hurray!

The girls love it, but it is a little big in the waist and I think I am going to add more ruffles to it....  Eventually... Maybe... If I decide to make the attempt in fixing it... Ok, so it might not happen, but that is Okay!
 -I''m good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me! :o)-

Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

1 cup Butter- soft

2 cups Sugar

2 Eggs

1tsp. Vanilla

1 cup Sour cream

½ tsp. Baking soda

4 tsp. Baking powder

5+ cups of flour

½ tsp. Salt

o   Preheat your oven to 350 degrees

o   Cream butter, eggs, sugar, and  vanilla until light and fluffy

o   Add in sour cream

o   Sift in dry ingredients

o   Add flour to batter until it isn’t sticky- which for me is usually another 1- 1 ½ cups

o   Dump dough onto plastic wrap and wrap it up

o   Refrigerate dough for an hour

o   I like to roll out my dough to be about ¼ inch thick

o   Bake cut out cookies for 12-15 minutes (mine take 13 minutes to be perfect)

o   Yields around 6 dozen

Frosting

 *my coveted recipe*

1lb. Powder Sugar –which equals 3 ½ cups

8 oz. Cream cheese- Soft

2Tbl. Evaporated milk- you can use regular milk too-

1 tsp. Vanilla

Orange zest to taste

o   Combine all ingredients in your mixer.

o   I like to sift my sugar to break up the clumps

o   Be careful with you milk because too much will make it too runny and it is hard to get it to equal out again without making it taste like powder sugar.

o   The secret is the evaporated milk. It makes it have creamier taste. Using milk will still taste really good though.

o   Add any desired food coloring

o   I also like to pipe the frosting onto my cookies. I find it easier and less messy.

Christmas Cheese Ball

2- 8oz. packages of Cream Cheese -softened

3- Green Onion tops- chopped

1/2tsp. Dry Mustard

2 1/2 tsp. Bon-Appetite (it's a seasoning)

a few shakes of the dry chives

Mix all ingredients together and chill to refirm cheese. After it's chilled, form it into a ball and roll it in slivered almonds or any chopped nut. Serve with crackers of veggies.

Spidey bag

Thanks Maria for showing us these cute scripture bags. I made this for my nephew's birthday.

Key Lime Pie

Key lime Pie

1 Graham cracker pie crust

1 14oz can Sweeten condensed milk
3 Eggs

½ cup Lime juice

Preheat oven 350°. Mix condensed milk and eggs together. Once the oven is ready, mix in the lime juice until it becomes creamy. Pour into pie crust and bake for 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes and then put in fridge to cool completely. Serve plain or with cool whip.

Graham Cracker Crust

1 pkg. Graham crackers

6T Butter- melted

1/4c Sugar

Crush crackers and stir in sugar. Add melted butter and press down onto the pie plate.

Advent Calendar

While grabbing a picture of the chair covers I saw my advent calendar picture and thought I would put this up as an option. It is kind of pricey to make (around $30), but worth it.

I also have a Cricut that cuts vinyl that I used to make It's your day Chargers. (You use it for a birthday to put a plate on) I gave a birthday set as a gift for Christmas last year. (chair cover, charger, and centerpiece)

Chair covers

Here is another idea we thought of doing. I made these for Christmas and through out December we filled the back pocket with "love notes" that we opened up Christmas Eve. It set a great tone in our home for that night and the next day. I also made one that was bright for birthdays that we stick on the birthday persons chair and that day we write a "love note" to that person. Good stuff- thanks to Carlene Tanner for the idea.

Garden Soup

2 cups Chicken-cooked/cubed
1 cup Minute Rice- uncooked
1 cup Carrots- grated
1 large Zucchini -grated
2 stalks Celery- chopped
1 can Cream of Chicken
3 cans Chicken Broth or 6 cups water & 6 Chicken bullion
1Tbl dried Onion
Salt and Pepper to taste

Put all the ingredients in a crock pot and heat all day on low.

2Tbl Butter 2Tbl Flour 1 cup Milk Green Onions- chopped

About an hour before serving brown butter in a sauce pan and then add flour and milk and stir until smooth. Heat on med until it thickens and then add it to the soup. Add green onions. Salt and pepper to taste.

Jessica's Pillowcase Dress/shirt

Here's mine. Super cute! I originally was making it for Victoria, but made it Anne's size. So now Anne gets the outfit and Victoria gets to use the shirt as a dress.

Beer Bread

Beer Bread

3 cups Flour- sifted *must*-

3 tsp. baking powder-omit if using self rising flour-

1 tsp. salt -omit if using self rising flour-

2 tsp. dry active yeast

1 (12oz) can beer -or any carbonated drink, I like ginger ale better-

1/2 cup melted butter -I use less, maybe 1/4 cup-

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix all the dry ingredients and then add the beer. Pour into a greased loaf pan and cover with the melted butter. Bake for 1 hour and remove and let it coll for 15 minutes

Quick, Easy, and super good!

THE Jello Salad

Jello Salad

1 small pkg jello- any flavor
1 small pkg tapioca pudding- cook-n-serve
1 small pkg vanilla pudding- cook-n-serve
3 cups of water
1 small tub cool whip
fruit if desired- fresh or frozen

In a sauce pan combine jello, tapioca, and vanilla pudding with the water. Stir continually and watch for it to come to a rolling boil. let in boil for 3 minutes. take off heat and let sit for 3 hours. -It doesn't matter if it is on the counter or in the fridge- add your tub of cool whip and mix thoroughly. Once blended add in your fruit and stick in fridge to set up again. (usually take 15-30 minutes to fully set.)
Enjoy!
*I usually use raspberry or strawberry jello, but my mom has used orange and lime and both have tasted really good.

An idea for the future...

I ran across this blog and loved the shirt. And it looks super easy to do.

Check it out. Enchantresses 3

Jessica's Flirty Skirts!

I finished mine! They are so cute! I LOVE THEM!!!

So I want to see all the other creations!

Thanks for teaching us. I can't wait until next month.

Fruit Salsa & Cinnamon Chips

2 Kiwis, peeled & diced
2 Golden delicious apples, peeled & diced
8 oz Raspberries
1 lb. strawberries sliced
2 TB. White Sugar
1 TB brown sugar
3 TB Fruit Preserves, any flavor

Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl.
Cover and chill in fridge for at least 15 min.

10 (10 inch) flour tortillas - I usually use more than 10
butter flavored cooking spray
cinnamon & sugar mixture

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut tortillas into wedges and arrange an even layer on a baking sheet. Coat them with the butter spray and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture. Spray them once more with the butter spray. Bake in oven for 8-10 minutes. Repeat until all the wedges are cooked. Let them cool for 15 minutes then serve with fruit salsa