Saturday, April 16, 2011

Custom Onesies

My sister and I were going to a baby shower for our friend who is having her first boy and we needed a gift. My sister came up with the great idea to make some custom onesies! Here are the ones I made! We hand drew our ideas on to some freezer paper and came up with some pretty cute ideas!

I decided to make a little jersey type one in red because they are Utah Utes fans, and the number 04 cuz he'll be the 4th family member :)


She is also a Disney FANATIC so I decided to make a simple Mickey head.

I just love how they both turned out! My sister will post hers when she gets a chance!
I am loving this homemade "screen printing" thing! I think it's such a great way to customize your clothes and to spruce up some old tees!

Have you tried this yet? I would love to hear about it!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

I am a really great NO baker! :)

Around Christmas time I was really craving some no bake cookies. I am pretty picky about my no bake cookies so I wanted to be sure and find the perfect recipe. I seriously googled something like "number one best no bake cookie recipe ever". Let me tell you, they are the creamiest no bake cookies I've ever tasted! It's probably the evaporated milk! I used quick oats, I have tried using regular but I feel like they don't work as well. With the quick oats, the cookies have a more melt in your mouth kind of texture. With the regular oats it was kinda crunchy and they didn't set up as well! I made some today for the first time since the holidays and they are delish! I made them so many times during Christmas that I had the recipe memorized, but today I had to look it up! Here it is!

2 cups Sugar
1/2 c. evaporated milk
1/2 cup butter
3Tbsp. Cocoa
3 c. Quick oats
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/2 c. Peanut butter

Combine sugar, milk, butter and cocoa in saucepan (I cut up the butter so it doesn't take so long to melt) and bring to a boil. Once boiling, time for 1 minute (over this time, the cookies will be very crumbly, under, they won't set up. So be as specific as possible)
After the 1 minute, take off from heat and add the peanut butter and vanilla and stir until peanut butter is melted. Then add the oats, it looks like you have way too many oats for the chocolate mixture, but trust me, just keep stirring and it's perfect.
Once everything is mixed together spoon out(at a good pace, they start to set up pretty fast) cookie portion sizes onto waxed paper (I used two layers because one time I didn't and the cookies had melted the paper onto the counter!) Let cookies cool just at room temperature and enjoy!

All the ingredients I used

Don't do this with the cocoa...good thing I was home for the day!
This is about to be something incredibly delicious!
Pampered Chef has the perfect tool for measuring out peanut butter!
Not the prettiest cookies ever but they sure taste yummy!
I'd love to hear any feed back from you who use this recipe and instructions! Let me know how they turn out and good luck NO baking! ;)

New Ribbon

So, I haven't ever really LOVED the ribbon that was on our picture frame hangy thing. Plus I have been wanting to change the color of green that's in our house for a little while now. One day when I was at Walmart I found some pretty cool green ribbon, but the only problem was that it was too skinny to really give me the look I wanted. So I thought that layering it with another wider ribbon would be kinda cool. I wanted the green to be perfectly centered on the brown so I used a little glue stick and glued the two ribbons together. It's not exactly the color of green that I have been wanting but the ribbon was too cool to pass up, especially since the design on it is almost identical to the design on the bird decals!

The finished product. What do you think? :)