Now that the holdays are over, I usually try to eat a little heathier to make up for all of the cookies, cakes and other goodies I sampled. One of my favorite go to recipes is a simple chopped salad. All of the fresh ingredients are so tasty and the garbanzo beans, help to make it a filling meal choice. Simple Chopped Salad 4 cups chopped iceberg, romaine… Continue Reading
Happy New Year! Can you believe another year has gone by? I am not one to make resolutions at the beginning of a calendar year. I feel that I am a work in progress and am always striving to improve. I live with a set of goals that range from short term to long term. It is my blueprint for my life. Things don’t always go as planned, but… Continue Reading
Easy tutorial on how to make Champagne cupcakes. Made seriously easy with the help of a boxed cake mix. Cheers! Champagne cupcakes are a great way to ring in the new year. These cupcakes are quite easy as they start from a boxed mix. This time of the year I am too busy to make them from scratch so I just played around by adding champagne to the mix… Continue Reading
One of my favorite things this time of year is to receive all the holiday cards that come from friends and family. Every year, I like to save the most recent year’s photos as a reminder of those I do not see very often. Over the years, I have used different methods to store these photos so I thought I would share a few ideas on organizing holiday cards. 1)… Continue Reading
It is Christmas Eve and I want to share a few things I love about Christmas. Of course, we celebrate the birth of Christ, but surrounding that are many things I love about this time of year. Here are some of my favorites: having my kids back home celebrating with family and friends all month long listening to Christmas music seeing all of the photo holiday cards a fire in… Continue Reading
For the holidays, I always want to give a little gift to the people I work with. However, this is about a dozen people, so I have to be frugal and keep the gift cost between $1 – 2. I give everyone the same gift to keep it simple. This year, I am making little sets of jams and lottery tickets. On the tag, I wrote, “have a sweet… Continue Reading
The holidays are always fun when celebrating with others. These festive beverages are perfect for get-togethers and parties this holiday season. These are easy holiday drink ideas – let us know if you try them! In preparation for the holidays, my friend Deanna and I mixed together a couple of festive cocktails. We like to experiment and make unique drinks. It is really fun to offer guests… Continue Reading
These easy gingerbread cupcakes are so special and fun to make! It all starts with a boxed spice cake and full of gingerbread flavor! These go great with a cup of hot chocolate or Vanilla milk. They are so much fun to make and a great way to get that creative spirit going! Well was 12/12/12 lucky for you? It was a pretty good day for me. I got… Continue Reading
If you are like me, you are in the midst of the holiday entertaining season. I just love this time of year because I enjoy decorating the house. I love to peruse all of the catalogues of beautiful decorating and entertaining ideas for inspiration. This year, one of the things that caught my eye was this serving dish from the Crate and Barrel catalogue. I decided to try to… Continue Reading
So if you have been following my blog for a while, you saw my post on dollar store crafts for my buffet table, and my dollar store mantle. Now I made a few things for my Christmas dining room table. Dollar Store Christmas Decorations First I wrapped the candy canes together and attached a cute little bow (both from the dollar store). I am using it to place onto the… Continue Reading
Organizing a Fondue party is easy and fun, but there are a few things to consider. Check out my tips on planning a fondue party that is fun and delicious! Holiday festivities have already started in our neighborhood. Recently we had a fondue party with friends. If you have never tried fondue or have never been to a fondue party, let me tell you they are one of the… Continue Reading
These 5 Ingredient Chocolate Chip Muffins Easy are made super quickly! Sometimes life gets busy and we don’t have a lot of time to bake. This is the perfect muffin when you want to share something homemade, but don’t have a lot of time available to bake. We love muffins as a light, sweet bread. Be sure to check out our popular sweet lemon muffins recipe too! If you want… Continue Reading
It is hard to believe that it is almost December. In order to start to get my house decorated for the holidays, I made some decorations from items from the dollar store. These are three simple crafts that took less than an hour to make (combined). I visit my mother every week and sometimes we work on crafts. I cherish our time together, and lately we have been… Continue Reading
Today is a special day! Ferly from Gifts We Use and I are trading places! I recently got the chance to meet Ferly IRL (in real life) and let me tell you, she is amazing! We discussed our reasons for blogging and our desire to help others through our blogs. We shared stories of our careers and roles as a wife and mom. So, I introduce to you, (drumroll….) Ferly!… Continue Reading
Dollar store Christmas decorations are so fun to make and are truly some of my favorite Christmas decor ideas to make. I love to update my holiday decorating theme with a few crafts made from dollar tree items. These easy Christmas craft ideas are easy to make and do not take a lot of time. I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. We had a nice time… Continue Reading
With Thanksgiving almost here, I wanted to let the following people know that I am so grateful for the support they have given me in relation to this blog. So I am shouting out a big thank you to those of you on the following list. I thank you if you have done any of the following: read a post on my blog, yes this one counts commented on a post… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago I organized my kitchen spices in preparation for the cooking and baking I am going to be doing for the holidays. I wanted to share with you how I organized my spices in my kitchen. Organizing Food Spices The first thing I did was pull all of the spices together to see which ones were too old. Most spices last a couple of years, but… Continue Reading
