make ahead egg bacon muffin melts

Found this yummy recipe on this blog.  We are loving that it is a make ahead easy breakfast.  I placed some in a pan and froze them, then transferred them to a ziplock, will let you know how they turn out when I pull one out and heat it up!  I also added a sprinkle of parmesan cheese to the top and it was fabulous!  You could easily add jalapenos, etc to this recipe to make it spicier.

**I have pulled all of the frozen ones out and they are awesome.  I micro them for 40 sec then place in toaster oven on toast til warm and bubbly, that makes the muffin crisp again:)

Vinyl Cricut Baby plaques

I made a few signs for some friends babies.  

For the one above I took a plain canvas,drilled holes in it, painted mod podge all over it and let it dry, then cut out the name, date and caterpillar from Vinyl with my cricut and stuck it on.

this was a quickie for me, I had my kids each place a hand print on a sheet of card stock, then cut their names and ages from vinyl and stuck them on it and threw it in a frame.

For the one above I took a plain canvas,drilled holes in it, painted it with acrylic paint then mod podge all over it and let it dry, then cut out the name, date from Vinyl with my cricut and the caterpillar from scrapbook paper and stuck it on.  I went over the caterpillar with mod podge.

yummy avocado egg breakfast!

I made this yummy breakfast this morning and we all loved it!  Easy and healthy! 

Valentines Day Heart cards

I made these last night using the cricut.  I used the Pink journey cartridge for the cards, and the create a critter cartridge for the hearts.  I cut the cards at 5, the large hearts at 4, the small hearts at 3, and the Love at 2". I used a stampin up stamp for the hearts.

3-D Heart Decoration

I attempted to make a hanging heart decoration the other day and it did not turn out like the picture.  No matter how I bent the paper, or how long I let it sit it would not spread out evenly and would flatten out eventually so it looked like I had 6 flat hearts stacked together! So last night I got out the hot glue gun and remembered a christmas craft I had seen so this is what I did.  

I think this will work, I'm gonna hang it up today.  I used the Cricut to cut the hearts out all the same size.

Halibut Dip

Whipped up this yummy halibut and dilled beach asparagus (Salicornia virginica) dip this week and the kids and I are loving it!  I will post how to jar the halibut and the beach asparagus when I do it again, so that I can post instructions with pictures!  I took the Halibut, some chopped up dilled beach greens (you could use dill pickles), Mayonnaise, some salt, pepper, and lemon pepper and dumped it all in a bowl.  Mixed with hand mixer and had a yummy, easy fast spread.

we ate it with crackers and bread :)

tutorial on shaving cream painting

I have done shaving cream painting with my daughter who is 3 multiple times and each time we end up with beautiful paper!  It is easy and fun.  Below are the steps we follow.  I used to use food coloring, but that stains our hands for a few days, so now I use a washable paint like tempera and it works great, I think you could use any paint!  

spread shaving cream in pan

drip paint on shaving cream

swirl paint with a toothpick

press down paper 

remove paper

clean off shaving cream with ruler or a squeegee

I put used shaving cream from squeegee back in pan

repeat process

one of the finished papers

I let them dry for a few minutes then place them on a flat surface and put something heavy on them to keep them flat because they have a tendency to curl.  I have been using the paper to make cards and critters on the Cricut!  You can use as many colors as you like, we only used red here because we were making the paper for Valentines Day.  After we are done I usually set my daughter in our shower and let her play with the shaving cream and paint the shower with it, then I just rinse her, the pan and the shower off.  She loves it!  I didn't link to a site because I didn't find this on the web although there are plenty of sites that show how to do it.