Snowfamily

This is a snow family I made for my sister for Christmas. It is a set of metal measuring spoons that I pained white. Added some scrap fabric for scarfs and a sign for the family name. And some ribbon to keep them together. Add some hot glue and you have a nice homemade gift for the family that has everything.

Peanut butter chocolate trifle

This recipe I took from Facebook. It was super good and easy to make. The recipe is broken into two pictures since I had to use screen shots to get the whole thing.

Cheesecake strawberries

These are a other yummy treat. My only warning is that you watch the pasty bag you use to fill the strawberries, the mixture is very thick and I managed to bust 2 bags trying to fill the berries.

Banana fosters

Yum!!
This is a quick dessert that I made my hubby one night as a treat. The recipe is super easy and most of the time I have everything in the house.

4 lg bananas sliced
1/4 c butter
2/3 c brown sugar
3.5 tablespoon rum (your cant taste the rum but I'd you don't want to use it you can substitute orange juice)
2.5 teaspoon vanilla
.5 teaspoon cinnamon

Melt the butter. add brown sugar, vanilla, rum. When mixture starts to bubble add bananas. Heat until bananas and warm all the way through. Serve hot over vanilla ice cream.
Great way to end a romantic dinner, or surprise friends with your cooking skills.

Getting a little crafty

So for Christmas my wonderful husband got me an embroidery sewing machine. I love it. Still learning how to use it but I love it. These are two if my recent projects.

The dragon for my sister's birthday. He is her school mascot, she is a school teacher.

The purple is vital statistics for a girl at work who had a beautiful baby girl.

The last picture is a gag that I put on my sister-in-laws wood carrier, that I made her for Christmas.

Pillow cases from scratch

I made some pillow cases for the kids for Christmas this year. Since they are easy to cut, sew and move through I made 2 for each of the two big kids and one for my dad as a gag gift.

First choose your fabric. These are the ones that I choose for the 5 that I had to make.

Measure the fabric. I was using the measurements 21” wide and 30” long for a standard pillow.

Cut the fabric. Fold in half with right side facing each other. Iron.

Sew up one short side and the open long side right side facing.

The open end of the pillow case; fold over once about ½”.  Iron.  (Do not fold both sides together. Do the back of the pillowcase then the front of the pillowcase.

Fold over again about ½”. Iron again.  

IRON, IRON AND IRON AGAIN

Sew around the edges that you folded over. You should have a nice finished edge on the inside of the pillow case.

Trim the inside edges, flip your pillowcase right side out, wash and enjoy.

One finished pillow case. Took about 30 minutes to make.

Jeans Purse

This is a binder bag that I made for my mom for Christmas this year. She is a couponer and likes to carry her binder to the store with her. The old bag that she was using was taken out of her cart one day so I had to make her something new and fabulous.

This is the top part of a pair of old jeans. I cut off the legs sewed across the bottom to make a flat edge, added some fabric to line it and some inside pockets.  Mom loved how well her binder fit in the bag and there were places for her phone, pens, and wallet.

The lining is corduroy and I used part of the leg to make the pockets. I left the pockets with the raw edges that I cut with the pinking shears. If it unravels it will stop at the sewn line and give a really cool look inside.  

Front of bag.

back of bag with original back pockets that button close.

It fits perfectly over my shoulder

Pleanty of room for Mom's binder, pens, phone and wallet in the pockets made from the leg of the jeans.