Feb. Recipes

Well, its February, time for the ETM recipes!! For my first one, I did Strawberry Frappe. Here is a picture of the finished product. (Although, I have to say, I added a handful of blueberries to this batch, so it is a little darker in color than yours will be if you make it.)

Here's the recipe.

Here is the Family Baked Beans...

Here's my recipe for them. Everybody loves them. People ask me to make them all the time when we go to functions. So, here's the recipe, hope you like them too!

Hope you like!!

Hippo Post!

Maybe I figured something out, after hours of reading what is wrong with blogger...maybe not! But, I had to share a Hippo Post for you before the first month of the year ran out!
I love this little girl!!!
She says, Hip, Hippo, Ray! Inside it says, Hippo New Year! I painted her with Radiant Pearl Paint, she's mounted on Eggplant Envy, then Pirouette Pink!
Hope you like!

Help!

I have been trying to post for days... My pictures keep being called, "server rejected".  Does anyone know what's up with that????

Personal Recipe Album

I needed a new recipe album for the recipes I design for ETM.  I thought that I would make one of my own, with one of my favorite colors.  I found the papers at Michaels.  They are Bohemia from My Mind's Eye and two papers from Anna Griffin.  All the pages matched so well, I was so excited.  One of my favorite colors is Red.  (Purple being the "most" favorite) but red is the color of my kitchen.  So, have a look!

Here is the outside cover.  The papers had a sea blue through them, so I used it as the accent.

The album is 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches.

 here is the side view...all books must look good from the spine! 

 Here are what my tabs look like, and they are the same on both sides.  I attached them to the protector.  I used a hinge punch and a circle punch.

 So here is the appetizer page.  I gathered my ribbon right on the page.

 My next page.  I loved that one of the Anna Griffin papers had botanical all over them.  So I cut most of them out for accents on the page.  This one has a butterfly.

 This one has a Lilly for an accent, but the page behind, also has one!  I gathered the ribbon on this page too, but the ribbon was crinkly ribbon.

 here is for sides.  This was probably my least favorite paper.  Big funky flowers, and lots more blue than I wanted, but I think it turned out ok.

 my breads divider, with a delicate Lilly on it.

 This is the last page, desserts.  I gathered ribbon on it too.  I really liked the jumbo sunflower.

So that's my book!!  Hope you like!

January Recipes

Happy New Year!!!  I am starting out the new year by showing you my recipes for the month, plus a picture of what they look like cooked!! 

My first is Stuffed French Toast.  I made up this recipe, and we had it for Christmas Breakfast...and a couple days before too, so that I could get it right! 

This is a picture of the second recipe.  It is Raspberry salad.  I made it a couple of times over the break too, only I didn't make up the recipe myself.  I got it from a friend. (Hey Georgia!)  I think that she blended it in a blender, but I just whisked mine together.  Its very pretty, and we all voted on no whip cream, we liked it a little tart!

So, here is the layout for it.  I had to use some purple.  Kim over at ETM, had a pack of purple that finally came in, (I am pretty sure, purple is Not, her thing) but it is mine, so I was very happy to do a purple layout!!

 These two layouts are from December, they were the other designer's recipes.  I of course, changed them.  You can see her layout  HERE.  But this is my redo.  I think that it is kinda fun redoing things to make them more my style.  This one, I even changed the color.  She had a blue to match the blue flower in the print.  But you know, I love purple!

 This one was really cute too, I really liked the stocking made with this paper.  It would be a hard paper to use and the stocking worked great for it.

 Hope you like!  Let me know if you like seeing the finished recipe or not!

New Recipe Binder

I needed a new recipe binder.  So I got playing around and here is what I come up with.  Only, this is just for Desserts!  So, I will have to make another one for other recipes!  So here goes!  This is the cover..  I got my paper over at ETM.  It was the Hot Chocolate style.  It came with the sticker letters and the cardstock stickers too...

 Here is the first divider, it is for Cakes...it has a tab on the side, but the tab stays with the protective cover...

 The next divider is for Cookies.  I tried to do the folded paper theme on all of the pages.  It kinda looks like ribbon.  Then, it was having a hard time sticking to the paper, so I got out my sewing machine...

 This divider is for Pies... me and my sewing machine go way back.  It is a singer, it only does the straight stitch it is soooo old.  I was ancient when I received it for Christmas when I was 10!  It is blue, metal and weighs close to 30 pounds or more.  She is one heavy girl!

 This is for Candy....my poor sewing machine, it made creaks and groans, and needs oiled very, very badly.  There were times when it wouldn't even put the needle down.  I feel bad for it.  But I learned something.  You shouldn't tape/glue and sew.  It gums up the needle and breaks the thread.  Or, you should use wax thread...:)

 Last divider is for Other, like puddings and such... Don't fret too much over my poor sewing machine.  I will take care of her.  Maybe instead of sewing coats and Levi, she will be devoted to paper now! 

Hope you like!

My recipes for Dec....

I'm behind!  I made recipes for ETM, for the month of December, and I forgot to show them to you!  I haven't even taken pictures of the other ones yet!  (I'll get on it!)

So here is the first one, Pear Streusel Muffins.

 And my second one is Pomegranate Salad.  Really strange, but the family loves it!  We have been getting fruit and vegetables from Bountiful Baskets and we have been getting quite a few pomegranates in the baskets, so this is a great way to use them, plus its just that time of year!

Hope you like!