T-I-M-E

It is time.  Time for me to say farewell.  This blog has been such a great outlet for me to share and find ideas.  It filled a spot in me that I really needed at a time.  That time is over.  It's time to use my time in a different way.

Thank you for sharing my journey.

French Peasant Bread

I have used dozens of french bread recipes and loved them all.  Some recipes take more than a day to make, others are a little more complicated.  Then I found this recipe and fell in love with it's name, French Peasant Bread.  Not only is it yummy, it is way EASY to make.  With five kids, I want easy easy easy.

French Peasant Bread

From the Recipe Shoebox The ingredients: 1 Tbs. dry, quick rising yeast 2 cups warm water (110-115 degrees) 1 Tbs. sugar 1 tsp. salt 4 cups all-purpose flour ( I used half whole wheat and half white flour) olive oil (for greasing the pan) corn meal (for pan) 1/4 cup butter, melted -Place yeast, water, sugar, and salt in warm bowl and stir until dissolved.   -Add flour and stir until blended, but do NOT knead.   -Cover and let rise one hour or until double in size.   -Flour hands, remove dough from the bowl and place in 2 roughly equal  rounds on an oiled cookie sheet sprinkled with corn meal.   -Let rise an additional hour.   -Brush the tops and sides of the rounds with melted butter and bake at  425 degrees for 10 minutes.   -Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees and cook an additional 15 minutes,  or until golden brown.   -Remove from oven and brush tops and sides of rounds again with melted butter.   -Serve warm.   -Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving

Sharing some cute Thanksgiving crafts made from years past.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

Give Thanks Banner

Here's an easy peasy festive banner.

You can find these printable here at Leslie's Life.

I downloaded them and changed the printables to a jpeg so that I could send them to 

Costco to develop into 4x6 prints for .13 each print.  

Saves a lot of ink this way.

I mod podged the prints onto card stock.

I ran twine through the hole punches to string the cards up.

Always give thanks.

Thank you Leslie for sharing your banner printables!

Framed Pressed Leaves

Autumn leaves make me happy.

I preserved these colorful leaves into frames to make me happy everyday.

I found a set of three frames at the thrift store  - yahoo!

Gave them a roughed up look with my trusty Ralph Lauren glaze.

Pulled out my stash of pressed leaves.

Most were pressed into old text books for a couple of weeks.

Others were sent to me from my mother in Virginia - thanks!

I printed a quote from Emily Bronte to go with my leaves.

I just used good old Elmer's Glue to attach the leaves to the cardstock.

Frame and enjoy the bliss year round! 

Fluttering from the autumn tree, every leaf speaks bliss to me.

-Emily Bronte

Pumpkin Cookies

Looking for a quick autumn treat for that last minute party, cub scout meeting, school function, or for any reason at all?  Try this yummy 3 ingredient recipe.

Ingredients:

-1 (29 oz) canned pumpkin

-2 Spice Cake Mix boxes 

( add dry - NO eggs, oil or water at all)

-1 bag of chocolate chips

That's it!

Mix in a large bowl.

Use a cookie scooper and place on cookie sheets.

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.

Watch them get gobbled up!

Better the next day.

Autumn Silhouette Plates

Two white plates from the thrift store.

The squirrel and leaf silhouette can be found here at Yellow Mums.

I enlarged them a bit, cut them out and mod podged them onto the plates.

Picture Perfect!

Turkey Crafts for Kids

Turkeys are in!

Here are some fun turkey lurkey crafts kids can make on Thanksgiving Day.

2x4 Turkey

See full tutorial here.

What a sweet face.

Hand Feather Turkey

Make a setting for the gobbler to live in.

Hand Feet Turkey

Trace feet for the body and hands for the feathers.

Feather Turkey

My cute daughter made this one evening after she discovered my stash of feathers.

Paper Curl Turkey

Chalk Board Turkey

Does your Gobbler have something to say?

The Traditional Hand Turkey

Trace hand and decorate with feathers.

Paper Plate Turkey

Name Place Setting Turkey

Pine Cone Turkey

These are what my kids have made through the years.

More turkey ideas here and here.

Giving Thanks Tree

Oopsey Daisy made an advent gratitude tree and shared it here.

I made one for my family as well.

I found this magnetic frame at the thrift store for $2.

(joyful dance)

It needed a new paint job.

I free handed the tree and leafy background by hand and mod podged the paper onto the magnetic board.

Hot glued circle magnets (Wal-mart) onto wooden circles (craft store). 

Printed the leaves from Oopsey Daisy and mod podged them onto the wooden circles.

Topped each leaf off with some Glossy Accent glue to give it a shine

I got this November print from here.

I am grateful for oh so many things!