Mornin'

Nothing quite wakes me up like homemade mini doughnuts (thank you children from Mother's Day) and a hot cut of Apple Cider....

....oh and the one year old throwing the plate across the kitchen and smashing it into 100 pieces.

Good Morning.

Freshly Featured Friday # 7

Today I'm Featuring the Blog

A Creative Cookie

Found from my list of followers here:

Congrats!

Grab a Freshly Featured Button.

<br /><a href="http://freshlycompleted.blogspot.com/2012/05/freshly-featured-friday-7.html"><img src="http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc448/allisonallsop/FreshlyFeaturedButton.jpg" /></img src="http:></a>

HERE IS MY FAVORITE 5: 
1. The first thing I noticed while visiting A Creative Cookie was how bright and cheery her blog was.
I enjoyed the All About Me page to learn more about her blog and Kate.

2. Kate hosts 5 Things Friday where she shares 5 things she loves from around the internet with different themes.  For example rainbows.

3. Be sure to click on her Tutorials page to see all her original tutorials. 

I love these cute little sock bunnies.  Perfect for Spring and Easter. 

4. I always love to click on the most popular links.  Click here to find her post on adding Washi Tape to spice up a tray.

5. Over on the side of her blog you'll find a great post on how to make you own Pom Poms. 

So fun!

Loved my visit looking around A Creative Cookie.

Be sure to stop by and say Hello!

Ruby Snap

I seriously have the best children (see Husband) Ever.

Want to know one of my gifts for Mother's Day this year?

That's right 12 delicious, delectable, yummy, stupendous, amazing, gourmet cookies all to myself. 

I sincerely Love this cookie shop.  Each cookie is so amazing, soft and delicious. The trick is to eat slow enough to make sure you're savoring each bite.

It does, however, make me wonder what's going on with my homemade cookies, since they taste nothing like these little drops of heaven.

And now I leave you with this mouthwatering picture.  One of my favorites.

Overnight Blueberry Cream cheese French Toast

For Mother's Day yesterday my husband prepared the most delicious breakfast for me.

Two thing you must know about me to appreciate what an amazing Breakfast this was.

1. I Love Blueberries!

2. I Love French Toast!

enter now:

Oh, so good.  Can you see the Yummy?

Here's the recipe adapted slightly from this one found on All Recipes: 

OVERNIGHT BLUEBERRY 

CREAM CHEESE FRENCH TOAST

Ingredients

12 slices day-old bread, cut into 1 inch cubes

1 1/2 (8 oz) packages cream cheese, cut into 1 inch cubes

1 1/4 cups fresh blueberries

12 eggs, beaten

2 cups milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/3 cup maple syrup

Sauce

3/4 cup white sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1 cup water

1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries

1 tablespoon butter

Directions

1. Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Arrange half the bread cubes in the dish, and top with cream cheese cubes. Sprinkle 1 cup blueberries over the cream cheese, and top with remaining bread cubes.

2. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and syrup. Pour over the bread cubes. Cover, and refrigerate overnight.

3. Remove the bread cube mixture from the refrigerator about 30 minutes before baking. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

4. Cover, and bake 30 minutes. Uncover, and continue baking 25 to 30 minutes, until center is firm and surface is lightly browned.

5. In a medium saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch, and water. Bring to a boil. Stirring constantly, cook 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in the remaining 1 cup blueberries. Reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes, until the blueberries burst. 

Stir in the butter, and pour over the baked French toast. Enjoy!

French Toast: 

Blueberry Sauce:

The Shorts with Darling Pockets Tutorial!

 

I did it.  Got my tutorial ready to share with you.

MATERIALS:

1. 1/4 yard of Fabric

2. Elastic

3. Sewing materials.

 STEP ONE: First thing we do is cut everything out.  

I shared a bit about how to cut out your shorts using a guide here. 

 STEP TWO: Now we're going to sew up our shorts.  

First thing I do is head over to the ironing board and get everything ironed down so the hemming is real easy.

STEP THREE: Now we're going to sew up the legs.

 STEP FOUR: Next we hem the bottom of the shorts. 

 I wanted a cute wavy hem. Do this for both pieces.

STEP FIVE: Now we're going to sew the two short pieces together.

STEP SIX: (please excuse this next picture-- I don't know what happened to it).

But it still shows how I sewed the shorts together.  

Then I cut the very bottom of the shorts so they would fit together well.

STEP SEVEN: Now we're going to put the top of our shorts together and add the elastic.

STEP EIGHT: Iron.

STEP NINE: Now it's time for the darling pockets.

STEP TEN: Now we're going to add the rectangle to the pocket.

STEP ELEVEN: Iron.

STEP TWELVE: Sew the pockets onto the shorts. 

All done!!

See ya later!

Freshly Featured Friday # 6

Today I'm featuring the blog

Embracing Messy

Chosen at random from my list of followers here:

Congrats!

Grab a Freshly Featured Button.

<br /><a href="http://freshlycompleted.blogspot.com/2012/04/freshly-featured-friday-6.html"><img src="http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc448/allisonallsop/FreshlyFeaturedButton.jpg" /></img src="http:></a>

HERE IS MY FAVORITE 5: 
1. First things first-- Who is behind Embracing Messy.  Isn't that a fun name?

I'll admit I was curious to find she has an obsession with mason jars.  A rare thing, I'd say.

2. Over on the side of her blog you'll see a fun Tutorial Section.  Where she shares all her tutorials.

3. One of her tutorials there was this for the Tiered Mason Jar Vase

Ah-hah, a use for those mason jars that she's obsessed with.  How cute.

4. Under that you'll have to check out her printables.  I really enjoyed her free Printable: Weekly blog Planner.  Goodness knows I could use that.

5. And lastly while snooping around I saw this really cute Headband tutorial. Looks just darling and easy to make.

Be sure to check out Embracing Messy and embrace your messy, creative side.

KCWC- Day 3

I really like doing these simple 1-hour projects.  Sometimes I have trouble starting my sewing projects because I have serious trouble walking away once I've gotten started.

Which can be a problem when you've got three small children or have to do important things like making dinner-- eh.

But allowing myself one hour only is very swell and allows time for all that other very important things I should be doing each day.

I enjoyed making my shorts so much for day 2, that I decided to make some more on day 3.

I only had a teeny bit of fabric, but I really wanted to use it because I knew it would look so cute. 

It's left over from my Quiet book.

You can see it here on the barn:

Here's a super basic, How To cut out Simple shorts.

You can see there wasn't much room so these shorts were going to be small.

So this is how to cut out your shorts.

I'm still putting together that Tutorial on how to fully make shorts.

But I did make these shorts different than the other ones.

Here's the two things I really like about the shorts:

You can see they're a lot smaller here.

It's okay, I've got good plans for them (giving them to my friend with the cutest little daughter).