Inspired by Pinterest

In the weeks leading up to Easter I saw a few ideas on Pinterest that I thought…

“I could totally do that!”

I made this wreath for my mom’s apartment door.

And these cute little deviled egg chicks for Easter.

Of course, today I went to link to the original pin and share the link to the owner of the photo…no luck.

It says “original pin deleted”.

All I have is the photo in Pinterest.

I’m not about to post someone else’s photo on my blog without being able to give a photo credit.

Yet another reason that I’m now labeling my photos.

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Holidays, kitchen, Pinterest

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201204/01

Garden 2012

Preparation for this years garden has begun.

All of my seeds have sprouted into these cute little seedlings…hooray!

I have 4 varieties of tomatoes, basil, mint, parsley, thyme and dill in one tray and petunias just getting started in the second.

Not sure if the flowers will be big enough by the time I want them outside but I had to try anyway.

The garden plot is waiting to be prepped as well.

I haven’t dared do any raking or hoeing since hurting my back. I’ve got plenty of time though, we usually don’t plant anything outside until after Mother’s Day. Then the chance of frost is pretty slim.

Can’t wait to get the rest of the seeds into the ground!

We love having a garden to eat from.

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frugal living, gardening, kitchen

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201201/21

Fridge facelift

So we have this old fridge that just keeps humming along mechanically but cosmetically it was getting really nasty looking.

I used to keep papers, magnets and comics on it to cover as much as possible.

It was rusting from underneath the finish on the doors. I’m guessing that it was a manufacturing issue since the rest of it isn’t rusting at all.

I sanded all the rust and painted over it with Rustoleum paint.

I decided on dictionary pages to cover the fridge. My thought was…it’s got to be better than the way it looked before.

And in my opinion, it totally is!! I still need to put a couple coats of sealer on top so I can wipe it down as needed. I picked up the Golden polymer medium I used as glue in the recycle center reuse room for FREE!! Just two cheap foam brushes were purchased for this facelift.

Yes, I know we’ll eventually have to replace this beast but until then it’s definitely a conversation piece in my kitchen!!

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frugal living, kitchen

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201111/15

Breakfast tea

…actually coffee. Kimmie is nice that way…she doesn’t mind if we join without the proper beverage. Thanks Kimmie!

I have yet another busy Tuesday. Although I feel much better that I have a few things crossed off the list already.

Tomorrow, I’m sending my oldest off on his 6th grade school trip. They will be gone 3 days and 2 nights. This is a huge step!! For both of us. :)

He is super excited. I’m nervous because it’s 4 hours away.

I have the packing list at hand and am checking and rechecking it.

What are you doing today??

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fiestaware, kitchen, Tea Tuesday

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201108/17

Every once in a while…

…I feel very domestic.

As in old school… starting from scratch with all basic ingredients.

Today was one of those days.

I was inspired by this blog post by Krista to try making butter.

Into the mixer goes the heavy whipping cream…

Several minutes of high speed mixing brought me to here…

Notice the solids separated from the liquid….that liquid would be buttermilk. Cool huh!

After draining the buttermilk off and “washing” the butter…see Krista’s recipe…

I ended up with this nice ball of butter.

Remember the buttermilk I mentioned earlier…

Oh yeah..pancakes for lunch baby!

During the midst of all that mixing I made a batch of salsa or maybe it would be pica de gallo depending on how you want to look at it.

Aren’t veggies beautiful!?!

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kitchen, not art at all

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201106/15

Special eggs and muffins

So my baby girl…started the process of getting braces today.
Getting the impressions taken…gack!
And having spacers put in to move the teeth slightly for the bands.

A day like today needs “special eggs”.
I’m not sure what you call them but they are “special eggs” at our house.

I also tried out a recipe I found over at the Smitten Kitchen for Whole Wheat Rhubarb muffins. I made one batch with rhubarb and one substituting the rhubarb with zucchini.

My picky children noticed that something was up right away.
I couldn’t just pass them off as yummy streusel muffins.

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Domesticity

Since we were “blessed” with MORE snow today…heavy wet snow..over the top of rain and sleet…I was homebound. Not worth getting stuck, going in the ditch or getting in a wreck for basically nothing.

I decided I’d do my best to play happy homemaker.