Some Yummy Goodness

I think I just found my new favorite treat. Pretzels, peanut butter, chocolate.... mmmmm.

I followed this recipe except I had to add more powdered sugar to make it easier to handle. It was still pretty sticky. I think the next time I make this I will use this recipe for the peanut butter filling:

1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar

Stir peanut butter and butter together. Add powder sugar and mix till combined. Shape into balls using about a teaspoon of the mixture per ball.

Sandwich peanut butter ball between two pretzels.  Then dip pretzels into melted chocolate. Allow to cool on waxed paper.

So yummy!!!

Rock-a-bye!

Apparently more and more people are acquainting themselves with some of my talents.  This is a good thing!  I love to share what I can do with others.  It makes me happy!

My latest project was a cake and cupcakes for a friend's baby shower.  The theme was Rock-a-bye baby/Rock and roll.  So I made an electric guitar cake and a ton of somewhat matching cupcakes.  They were all really cute!

The cupcakes have chocolate guitars and chocolate duckies on top of them.  They were really cool, but they kept breaking.  Which was kinda frustrating.  But the ones that held up were awesome!

Garden Harvest

Here in Texas we can garden pretty much year round. Among my winter crop is green onions, lettuce, kale, and cauliflower.

The green onions were ready, so I harvested ALL of them. I think I planted way more than my family will ever eat. You could say I now have a "year supply" of green onions!

So... I cleaned them up...

Chopped them up...

And put them in the freezer.

I'll never buy green onions again!

I also cut some kale and lettuce to have for dinner.

There is something immensely satisfying about growing and eating your own produce.

This post would not be complete without pictures of my very cute, golf ball sized cauliflower. I think I may have a year supply of these too. I'd say there are about 20 + plants.

Aren't they adorable?

And finally some signs of spring...

I love roses.

Baby Shower Gifts

I recently went to a friend's baby shower. I think my talent as a cake decorator is becoming more well known. I love the opportunity to make something! The theme of the shower was rubber duckies. This is what I came up with.

Everyone loved it! I think it turned out really great too! Yay!

As my gift for my friend I made her some burp cloths. I found this tutorial from Petit Lemon Blog and got to work. They were easy to put together and turned out so nice! Why didn't I make myself some of these with my babies?

Wrapped Bracelet

I found this tutorial on Pinterest and fell in love with it. I'm not really a bracelet person, but this one is really cool!

DIY Wrapped Bracelet

So you have leather cording, a ball chain, waxed linen cord, and a large bead of some kind. They used a hex nut. I just used a large wooden bead. And then you wrap them around each other and voila! You have a neat wrap bracelet.

Here is mine. I like it a lot! Now I have something to do with all those ball chains I have laying around!

Here is another wrap bracelet I found on Pinterest that I want to try next. They just look so neat to me!

This one can be found here. And I really love that elephant!

Mini Pies

A while ago my mom bought me these mini pie molds. I think she likes getting me new kitchen gadgets to see what I'll come up with! We finally gave them a try. I bought already made pie crust from the store for those that can eat gluten and then had to make some gluten free pie crust for those who can't. {I am now a believer in store bought pie crust! So much easier! Too bad they don't make a gluten free one!}

So we first rolled out the dough. And cut out the shape with the mold. This is the wheat one, gluten free pie crust has to be rolled out between two sheets of plastic wrap.

Then place the cut out on one side of the mold and fill. We used blueberry pie filling. Love it! Then you have to brush an egg wash around the edges to help seal the pie filling in.

Place the other cut out on top and squish the mold together to get that nice crimped edge.

Place on a cookie sheet, brush with more egg wash, and bake. I think I sprinkled them with a little sugar too.

Oh my! They were delicious! I hadn't had blueberry pie in a long time!

This is one of the GF ones. They turned out so nice!

Absent Minded Reason #3

I've recently learned not to garden while wearing flip flops.

I was fixing the broccoli I planted. It was way to close together and I FINALLY got around to doing something about it.

Things were going pretty well when one of the bricks came loose.

This is what happens when a 25 pound landscaping brick falls on your foot. Ouch!

It looked way worse a few weeks ago when it happened. That alone should says loads about how it looked a few weeks ago! I can barely wear shoes some days it still hurts a lot!

So here is my very nicely spaced broccoli (I think it's broccoli, nothing got marked!). It actually survived my replanting. I hope the broccoli starts to grow soon!

After telling my husband what happened and showing him my foot, he very politely says,

"Now what did you learn from this experience?"

{sigh}

Yes dear... do not wear flip flops while gardening.

Some radishes I harvested. They are so pretty!

My 3 Pinkalicious Girls

For Christmas I made my girls dolls that look like Pinkalicious. They were wrapped with a ticket to see "Pinkalicious: The Musical" this spring. They were SO excited! I mostly can't believe I finished all three dolls in time. I love them all! They do such a good job portraying each of my girls perfectly!

They each had their own little sewing challenges, but turned out so beautiful! I must admit though, I am really digging those braids!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Since it is Valentine's day soon I thought I would make some cool Valentine's for all those special people in my life! It was super easy to make. All I did was wrap a regular size Hershey bar with pretty paper and embellish. So easy...and who doesn't like chocolate?

Minnie Mouse Clippies

A friend of mine asked if I would make her a pair of these mouse clippies. I can't believe how cute they turned out. I got the instructions to make them from the Girly Things website. All their instructions are free, and they have some cute stuff!