True’s allergic to peanuts, so instead of peanut butter cookies, we do sunflower butter cookies. This is my take on the sunflower butter cookie. Sunflower butter isn’t for everyone. If you would much rather have peanut butter, which I happen to like much better, just substitute the sunflower butter for 1 cup peanut butter and you can add more sugar to the recipe, but I try to lessen it a bit for moderation’s sake. Plus, I put in chocolate chips, so I think that is plenty sweet right there. Before I put them in the oven, I sprinkled some with sugar, and others I sprinkled with salt. Your choice, do you want savory or sweet? I think I am more a sweet person, but savory is a nice change once in awhile.
The girls ate them up, so I guess I had happy customers. Share me some of your favorite cookie recipes!
Days are warmer now, well most days, and Spring weather makes me want to put on floral dresses. Then I threw on some pretty, red braided clogs with it and I was good to go! If you love clogs too, you might just love these new ones Lotta has. The orange one is my fave because orange looks just so fun!
The color run was amazing, but that post will have to wait for another day because this mama is beat. The kids are in bed, I am pouring myself a glass of wine and calling it a night. Hope your weekend was just as colorful!
Are you a shoe addict like me? Then, this giveaway is for you!
Blowfish Shoes is giving away a pair of shoes to one of you. You pick! If they have your size, it’s yours! I’ve got these and must admit they are comfy.
Here are some things you can do: 1. Leave a comment on this post telling me what shoe you would want from Blowfish Shoes. 2. Blog, tweet, or facebook about this giveaway and leave the link here. 3. Follow Blowfish on facebook, twitter, or pinterest and leave me separate links telling me you did so!
Now, if you do all of the things mentioned above, you might even be able to up your chances by getting your name in 7 times! Fantastic, right? Open to U.S. residents only.
The giveaway will end at 8am PST on Wednesday, April 25th and the winner will be announced via twitter (follow me on twitter here on Friday. Good luck! Go visit Blowfish Shoes now…
We’ve got one week left until Ben goes back to work. Ben and I feel there is an invisible hourglass just counting down the minutes. Our list of to-dos are hardly done and we are scrambling to finish. In fact, it seem like new to-dos come up before we are done with the ones we already have.
This week’s learned and links…
– Aunt Flo came back after being gone for 16 months. I didn’t miss her one bit and really don’t like her much, but I don’t plan to get pregnant again, so looks like she will be sticking around for a long while.
– Glow does the army crawl. It’s funny.
– I haven’t ran at all this week, blame Aunt Flo, but I am running the SoCal Color Run tomorrow. Anyone else running it? Maybe I’ll see you on the track!
– Picking up my dining room light fixtures today and my dad is putting it up for us. Yippee!
– True’s got her long a sound down, for the most part, along with different long a vowel pairs and now it is time to move onto long e.
– Brave is my romantic chid. This fact deserves a whole post of its own.
– Got one poster left. The tulip one. If you want it, send me an email!
– True’s birthday is this week and we have got a colorful day planned. Excited!
– No more wrong holes in the wall. Thank you for this Rachel.
– My prayer life sucks and I am slowly crawling out of this laziness of not wanting to pray and started praying for little things.
I want and need to depend on God daily, but honestly if you look at my everyday life, you will see a whole lot more of self-centeredness than God-dependance. This usually results in a train wreck and leaves me discontent because obviously being self-centered is always a problem. I definitely want to be more God dependent.
I got some sponsors to share this weekend, so check back and have a happy Saturday and Sunday!
This is all her. I may have chose the shirt, but I can’t remember now. Though I know she for sure chose the boots, that was not my doing at all. No sir. Not so sure I would have been bold enough to pair knee highs and boots together. Hey! She’s a kid and this is her world and I think if anyone can pull it off, it would be this shy girl here. Just looking at these pictures you would never know that she is glued to my leg out in public, wouldya?!
I have a large growing pile of fabric scraps. I refuse to throw them away because I am sure they can be used for something. I have been seeing different types of interesting necklaces made of buttons, beads, and fabric. Then, I figured why not make one out of my scraps...
I think it made my white shirt a little less boring. This was so quick and easy to make.
How to make a recycled scraps necklace (which is very similar to the straps on my braided tablecloth bag):
1. Take your scrap fabric, I cut a .5''-1'' snip and tear the rest of the fabric down for a nice frayed edge. Used 3 different fabrics for each strand.
2. Take 3 of the torn pieces and tie the ends together with a rubber band.
3. Braid the 3 pieces together and tie ends together with rubber band when done.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for more strands. Remember you can make the strands any length you want, if run out of fabric, just weave more into the braid.
5. Once all the strands you want are braided, gather one end of each strand together and straight stitch together with sewing machine. Repeat for the other ends of the strands. Snip off any excess.
6. Gather ends of the necklace and sew together (snip excess) or a ribbon can be sewn at the ends to be able to tie the necklace closed, but I just sewed both ends together.
7. Voila! A nice way to make use of all your lovely scraps.
Sorry if the directions get you a little lost, but it really is easy. I promise. Maybe I should put some in the shop. Please share any other good ideas you may have of things that can be made with scraps. I would love to hear (read) them!
