Shoes, glorious shoes!

I love shoes!  I love to buy shoes! I love to buy

inexpensive shoes to wear until I replace them with

new inexpensive shoes. These are my newest ones

I can wear this spring/summer. (0ld navy and ross)

I love shoes!

Hair Style

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So I did my hair like this today for church. I had curled my hair on Thursday with my new love, flax seed setting lotion.  Woke up and it was still curly on Friday.  On Saturday I just sprayed it with water so it was damp, and rolled it up in small perm rods to get a tighter curl until it dried - for a retro style I did, and then brushed it out that night and put it in a bun on top of my head.  I woke up for my 9 am church today and just brushed it out and voila, I got this look.  Not bad for 4th day hair...  I also used dry shampoo on Saturday, if you were worried about that.

On another note I've started a weight loss program and lost 4 lbs and 2 1/2" in one week... I know it's not a lot but I'm super excited!  If your interested in what I'm doing check it out here.

Helping in Young Womens tomorrow...

And this is the handout I'm giving them.

Printable available from pinterest, frame and flower

from Walmart. Ribbon from my stash.

Baby gift

I got to new great nephews in two days this week!

Here is what I made for both of them. There are a lot

of easy tutorial's on line for this type of receiving blanket.

(i love these fabs by the way)

when i make burp cloths, i sew them wrong sides together

with a wide zig zag stitch then clip at every "up" of the zig

zag. this gives them the "rag" look after they're washed.

the outfit is from Old Navy. I love new babies....

Superbowl Recipes

I thought I would share a few of my favorite appetizer type dishes for Superbowl Sunday...

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First off my go to wing recipe, from Ree at Pioneer Woman. I only buy frozen drummets - cause lets face it, it is a pain to try to scrap such little meat off of wings! I also bake my chicken instead of frying it and I've started to leave out the Tabasco sauce, and it still is super yummy!

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Ok so I'm using this picture because it looks exactly like our Jalapeno/Bacon/Chicken bites, but their recipe is slightly different. We use any bird we have on hand (pheasant, chicken, or grouse). We marinate bite size pieces in Worcester sauce for at least a half an hour but not too long or the taste can get over powering. Then we take half a bacon strip and wrap it around a piece of chicken and a slice of jalapeno (right out of the jar), stick a toothpick in it to hold it together and grill it on the bbq. Everyone loves these...super yummy!

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Another hit from Ree. The only thing I change is I use half the butter and it's perfect for my taste. I love, love, love this bread - I can eat the whole thing by myself, so I usually take half of the bread - pre-cooked, and stick it in the freezer for another day, but that won't work on a Superbowl crowd!

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Another favorite. I follow this one exactly and serve with tortilla chips or french bread!

Cooking up something scrumptious!

But not to eat...

This is handmade hand/body cream. And it feels

wonderful! It's so easy to make and not expensive

considering you get quite a bit from one recipe.

This is the second time I've made it.  The first time I

used the regular baby lotion but the hubster didn't

like the smell. :( This time I used

the lavender scented baby lotion.

It smells divine and feels so wonderful on my dry skin!

 I'd love to share the recipe:

 

16oz baby lotion

8oz vitamin E cream

8oz vaseline

Use an electric mixer to mix these together until creamy.

If you use a whisk it will be lumpy.

Enjoy!

 

 

Projects around the house

So we moved right before Christmas, and our house has been a whirl wind of projects ever since.  First we had to do a little painting:
Great room before - (the living room pic is from the previous owners - not my furniture etc)

It was very yellow for my taste.  So after living in a completely nuetral house for 6 years I decided to go for some color in the living room and and all white kitchen:

I wanted something bold and colonial with the white trim so I picked Hosta by Martha Stewart, with our lighting it's a tad more green than it shows on my computer screen.  I love it.

I plan on having my sweet hubby build a faux fire place mantle for the living room wall, and I will put two big bookshelves on either side of it, sorta like this:

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This is the mantel I'm looking at building:

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