Last weekend, all of the women in my family met up at my mom’s house for a craft day.
Here’s what our four generations of girls created together.
Here’s how we made it.
Supplies:
red crepe paper
white crepe paper
fine glitter
thin wire
wire cutters
narrow silver ribbon
glue – we used a glue gun
double sided tape or glue stick
santa scrapbooking paper
coordinating scrapbooking paper [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I doubled the crust recipe when making our traditional Sunday night pizza. I wanted to see if we could make mini pizzas and freeze them. We finally tried them today for lunch, and they were quite good!
Homemade Pizza Dough
2 Tablespoons yeast
2 Cups warm water
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup oil
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We like to have themes for Halloween at our house. In past years, we have done Veggie Tales and Peter Pan. This year we decided to do the Wizard of Oz.
Dorothy
I used McCalls pattern 4948 to make Dorothy’s costume. For the shoes, I spray painted some old shoes red and then [...]
I have had several people ask me lately for help in designing a lapbook. So, I thought I’d share with you how I go about designing lapbooks. I just made an Amelia Earhart Lapbook, so I will use that as an example.
After choosing the subject, I check out several kids books from the [...]
We had a lot of cooking apples in our orchard this year, so I canned some apple pie filling. My brother-in-law loves apple pies, so this will make a nice Christmas gift for him. I used the recipe from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning.
We like to have homemade pizza at our house every Sunday night. So, we make use of some of the extra tomatoes in the summer time and cook up some homemade pizza sauce to freeze.
I use the squeezo to get the tomato juice, then cook it up and freeze it into ice cube trays. [...]
Our chickens laid their first egg Saturday. We were so excited!
It was pretty small, but we didn’t mind.
We all wanted to give it a try, so we scrambled it and cooked it up. Then we divided the very small egg into five bite size portions Honestly, it just [...]
We dug up the sweet potatoes a couple of days ago. We like to get them out of the ground before it frosts because a frost will kill the vines. Most of the big potatoes are concentrated around where the sweet potato slips were planted, but we also found some smaller ones in [...]
You can have tomatoes in November and December. Just bring all of your green tomatoes inside before it frosts. Then store them in a cool, dark place (like your basement) and cover them with a layer of newspaper. Check them every few days to pick out the ones that are ripe and [...]
My son is absolutely in love with our chickens, so he wanted to have a chicken birthday party. They made a game of “pin the beak on the chicken” by drawing our polish crested rooster on a big sheet of paper and making little beaks for everyone to try to pin on the right [...]
