Owls

So those of you WHOOOO know me know I love owls! I had made a pillow last year for someone and decided to make some more to sell. I decided $25 was a reasonable price after looking around on other websites and advice from friends. Here are the creations! My mom helped inspire some of the names...hopefully soon they will fly away to a new home. 

All are unique and have different button eyes and they also all have vintage chenille on them! 

If you are interested in one just let me know I only have these 5. 

Twilight

Today we went to Portland and insisted on going to the Cullen's which is near downtown.It was very modern in the midst of older colonial style homes. I was soo excited and cannot believe I was on the same grounds that Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen has walked on. They were doing some work as you can see from the bulldozer in the background...maybe they are adding on a room for Renesmee. 

Here are some pictures!! 

The balcony where Rosalie and Bella stood and talked 

Edward's room that I think is on the top floor of the house! 

Cookies

I am always up for a challenge so to be honest when I found out an enemy of sorts had started making and decorating cookies....I had to challenge myself and see if I could do the same, for my first try I am pretty pleased but I enjoy cupcake and cake decorating much more and the making everything from scratch and mixing a ton of different colors can be annoying. 

Here are the results...

The dough made from scratch is rolled out and then I cut the cookie shapes out.

Stars cut out ready to be baked at 350 degrees  for ~10 minutes 

Then you use the icing to outline what you will fill in with thinner icing, it's called "flooding" the cookie

The cookie with the "flooding" icing added

I decided to do a tie-dye effect on some...I added a blob of the color I wanted, here blue, in the center of the cookie

Then take a toothpick and swirl around in different directions and ways for an array of designs..and no one will know if you messed up with this design!

This is a Palm Tree I did..excuse the fingerprint from me moving the cookie

The finished Stars..I also wrote July 4th on some of them!

More designs all done with the toothpick!

Strawberries...they were my favorite! 

Pineapples that are pretty cute...and my favorite fruit in non-cookie form. 

Hope you enjoyed this I got most of my helpful information from this great blog...Bake at 350...but I will warn that it is time consuming! 

Table

I found this table on the side of the road a long time ago and decided to distress it and put it in my study.

In all this project was FREE...the table was as I mentioned earlier found by the road, the paint was a free Valspar sample I had won, and the Polyurethane I already had from previous projects. 

Before..

The top after paint.

My new Forrest Green side table!

Free Valspar "Forrest Green" sample

Polyurethane I use..it dries really fast so you don't have to wait impatiently to move anything and start decorating. 

I am using it as a side table in my study and I put an old suitcase as an accessory and magazine holders on the bottom. 

Baking

My grandfather is growing a garden with lots of vegetables this summer and I had gotten some zucchini and squash last week so before the zucchini got too old I decided to make Zucchini Bread last night! 


Here is the recipe I used:

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 3 whole eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups grated zucchini

I also added 1 cup while chocolate chips and 1/2 cup coconut to half of my mix...and it was WONDERFUL, it was sweeter and next time I will add it to all of the mix. 

My adorable girl grater ....be sure to remove the seeds from the zucchini 

Added while chocolate chips to the mix! Yum

The final product it was very good!



This recipe makes two loaves. It does not taste like a vegetable is included so it is also good for you, so enjoy! 

Crafts

I get extremely bored when I have time to sit around and relax, so naturally I have to find SOMETHING to do which normally means a craft or baking. I had a wood wreath and I have tons of fabric so I decided to make a fabric inspired summer wreath. Here are the steps to the project: 

1. Start with a wreath..mine was wood and was $1 at the Dollar Tree

2. I cut 5 different fabrics into ~12 inch strips and I cut ~15 strips of each type

3. Tie the strips around the wreath keeping an order to the fabric types..double knot them!

4. Keep tying!...be sure to push them together so that none of the wreath frame shows through

5. I used some of the extra strips and cut out flowers layered them and put a large button on top....

6. I then tied the flowers on and Taadaa...A summer wreath! 

7. I of course had to add an owl... this was some fabric I had I cut our two of them used stuffing and sewed it on a strip and tied it on the wreath.

 Hope you enjoyed this! Switching the fabric pattens can change the wreath for any occasion. 

Samples

So I have not been able to update in a while, and I have received quite a few samples since then! 

Purex Laundry Sample, Bounce Sheet, Carefree Sample, Eucerin Lotion, and Dove Shampoo/Conditioner 

Gillette Razor, Biolage Shampoo, Gold Bond Lotion 

3 Emergen-C Samples

I love getting FREE samples!!