My Mother's Day Gift

For Mother's Day what I wanted was a shoe storage bench. So the family and I spent the day building me one! I painted it. Ahhhhh organization. I'm thrilled about this gift! Much better then the shoes that were everywhere!
If your interested in building your own, here's the Bench building info here.

Mother's Day Albums

I made these albums my mom and my husbands mom for Mother's Day to thank them for being awesome moms, and remembering them for what a great job they did!

The first one is my husband and his mom. I had him do the writing on each page to his mom and took the pictures before he wrote in them. He mostly used humor, pretty funny. But he also wrote her a sweet sappy card and got it and wrote in it on his own doing, I didn't even know till after that he did. 

This is the card I made for my Mom.  

I wrote about all the things I'm thankful she did for me growing up. 

 

Thanks to my Mom and my Mother in law for being wonderful loving moms! Happy Mother's Day!

I've lost 60 lbs in just over 4 months!!

Before: January 1, 2013

                                                               1/2 Way: May 13, 2013

To see more before and after pics and read more go here. https://www.facebook.com/ILoveScrapbookingMyLife/posts/626534110709228

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

Ingredients:

for the Pancakes:
4 cups all-purpose flour
8 tsps baking powder
2 tsp. salt
4 cups milk
4 tbsps vegetable oil
4 large eggs, lightly beaten

for the Cinnamon Filling
1 cup butter, melted
1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tbsp ground cinnamon

for the Cream Cheese Glaze
1/2 cup butter
4 oz. cream cheese
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

To make the Cinnamon Filling:
Mix the three ingredients together. Place in a disposable piping bag and snip the end off or put in a Ziploc bag and snip the corner off.


To make the Pancakes:
Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet ingredients in another bowl. Stir them together until everything is moistened leaving a few lumps.

Heat your griddle to exactly 325 degrees. You don't want these too cook too quickly, and you won't want your cinnamon to burn.

Make desired size pancake on greased griddle and then using the piping bag and starting at the center of the pancake, create a cinnamon swirl. Wait until the pancake has lots of bubble before you try to turn it. You will find that when you turn it the cinnamon swirl will melt. The cinnamon will melt out and create the craters which the cream cheese glaze will fill.

To make the Cream Cheese Glaze:
In a microwave safe bowl melt the butter and cream cheese and then stir together. Whisk in the powdered sugar and vanilla. Add a little milk if needed to make
it a glaze consistency.

Place pancake on plate, then cover with cream cheese glaze.

*I got this recipe here The Parent's Room . It just looks really good and I wanted to save it somewhere. 

Blue Skies Mini Album

 This album is for the most recent winner on my Community Scrapbook Page . Come check it out!

                                    I cut this album to 6x6, added paper, tabs ink and ribbon.

                                I ended up adding this blue cloud. I felt like it needed something.

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Project Life Journal Card Mini Book

To make this mini book I simply used Becky Higgins  Project Life Journal Cards . Then I punched wholes in them with my  Crop A Dile. I put in small jump rings, then added ribbon, tickets and   Washi Tape for tabs. I made one of these in another post a while back if you want to view it with photos Here . These are very simple and fun to make and they make great gifts!

                                   

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Simple Quick Easter Decor

 I simply cut out some clouds and lowercase "t"s on my Cricut and threw it all together pretty quickly!

 For the mobile. I ran the clouds through my sewing machine as well as the cross then just taped them to the ceiling in a circle with the cross hanging in the middle.

For the banner I spayed Heidi Swapp's Mint Color Shine on old book pages and ran it through my sewing machine to attach the crosses. Then strung them on twine and hung them on thumb tacks. Ready for Easter in no time! :)

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St Patty's Day DIY Decor

 This banner was very simple! I tore 3 pages out of a free book from the Library. I sprayed them with  Heidi Swapp's  Gold Color Shine (my 1st time using it & I love it)! I cut out a flower shape that resembled a clover on my cricut and hung the banner on a string.

    Here's a couple pictures that show the gold spray better. It's hard to see with out the flash.

I made a row of circles from 1"- 3" cut out on my Cricut. Then sewed the row of each color one at a time. I did each color of the raninbow.

I made the black pot by cutting out a circle and an oval on the cricut and then added the gold by using a hole punch with white paper, then spraying Heidi Swapp's Gold Color Shine mist on the tiny coins.

                                                             Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Inside Out Omelet

Here's the ingredients I used in my omelet.

1/4 ea. yellow and green bell peppers 

1 Tbls minced garlic

1 green onion sliced

2 eggs beaten

Shredded Mexican blend cheese

Deli ham cut into squares

1/4 tomato

1/4 avocado

sour cream for topping

                                                      

Step 1: Stir fry your onions, peppers and garlic over medium heat.

    

Step 2: Turn down heat to low for about 30 seconds. Pour beaten eggs over stir fried veggies making sure they are all spread out and covered.

   

 Step 3: Flip eggs like a pancake and immediately sprinkle with cheese, then add ham cut into squares.

  

 Step 4: Top with sour cream, avocado and tomato and enjoy!