Clothes Pin Magnets

Cute idea for stocking stuffers or a just because gift

Trace clothes pin onto back of scrapbook paper (or any other material you may want to use)
Cut out (I used my xacto knife)
Use modge podge (God's gift to diy-er's) to adhere paper to clothes pin
attach magnet to back of clothes pin, I like the ones that are already cut into strips, but they aren't the strongest as far as hold a whole lot.

Meaty Spinach Pastries

These were better than I could have dreamed of!

INGREDIENTS
- box frozen spinach
- roll of croissants
- 1/2 lb bacon (or ham or corned beef, we made 3 different pastries! :))))
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- Cup Mushrooms (we used baby bellas), chopped
- 3/4 cup whipped cream cheese
- pepper to taste


DIRECTIONS
- Cook spinach according to box directions
- Cook Bacon
- Mix onion, garlic, and mushrooms, and sautee with bacon grease(or whatever you want to use)mix with spinach.
- Coarse chop bacon and mix with spinach
- Butter or spray your muffin pan
- Use 1/2 to 3/4 of a croissant for each muffin section, cover the bottom and sides (you may have to press them down or roll them individually to get them to cover all of the muffin.
- Scoop in spinach/bacon mixture
- cover slightly with croissant dough
- bake 12-17 mins on 350

NOTE: Don't try to be perfect with the croissant dough, do what works for you! We liked the ones with out quite so much dough over the ones that we used a whole croissant on.

Mac n' Cheese Muffins for Grown ups

These Mac n Cheese Muffins turned out sooooo good! I really wanted to cook something delish for dinner tonight and decided to do these and I also knew I wanted some type of spinach (see the next post.

Ingredients

- 1/4 lb Bacon
- 1/2 lb bag of shredded motzerella
- 1/2 lb bag of cheddar cheese
- 2 tbsp Italian seasoning
- 2 tbsp black papper
- stick of butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 lb pasta of your choosing


Cook bacon, coarse chop
Cook pasta according to package directions
Drain and rinse pasta
Whisk 3 eggs together, add Italian seasoning and pepper ,add milk
Mix bacon, pasta, and egg mixture together in large bowl
Add Cheese (we like a lot of cheese, you may not want a whole pound of cheese)
Use icecream scoop (I actually used a table spoon, but a scooper would be soooo much easier)


BAKE at 350 for 20-25 mins.

Enjoy!

o0o0o0o0o0o Halloween o0o0o0o0o

Peacock Costume!

Borrowed the tail from a friend, she made it herself!

Daniel and Me .... Really wish I would have been a crow now! Tomorrow I'm dressing up as the Tin (wo)man .... so we'll be a little more in sync for Jimmy and Alyse's party Saturday night!


UPDATE:

TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

TIN MAN!

- One goodwill suit ( $3.50)
- One can silver spray paint ( $3.00)
- Dollar store set of three funnels ($1.00)
- Dollar store windshield cleaner handle ($1.00)
- Dollar store childrens plastic hatchet ($1.00)
- Dollar store pitcher ($1.00)
- two cans silver hairspray

Spray paint suit
Take hatchet off of handle it comes on
Take square thing that is cloth covered off of the handle to the windshield cleaner
Hot glue hatchet blade to windshield cleaner handle, spray paint
Hot glue medium sized funnel to bottom of pitcher, spray paint
Tie stretchy string to small funnel

cover yourself with the silver spray paint!

Book Page Roses

All you need to make these roses are:
- Book pages (bought one from goodwill for 50 cents, I'm not ripping up my favs!)
- Scissors
- Wire
- Hot glue gun (don't try it with other glue, I so generously tried this for everyone so that I could tell you, hot glue is the only one that works)

I will provide step by step instructions and better pictures once I find my camera charger! Where is that thing....

New Wreath!

You are never going to believe what this is made of! Toilet paper and paper towel rolls! Crazy, huh?

Here's how it goes:

- Save up empty cardboard rolls
- Flatten rolls
- Mark 1/2 inch section on rolls and snip, snip!
- Hot Glue petals together, I do two at a time and then attach them
- Make flowers of 6 or 7 petals
- Hot glue each flower together how you see fit
- Glue pearls or other accents onto your wreath
- Weave ribbon through the wreath and tie at top to hang where you like!