I’ve been on my coconut oil kick this week. I hope you have been inspired to go out and try some. It is such a versatile oil that I think you will enjoy incorporating into your kitchen creations. My sister-in-law, Annie Bhagwandin, and her husband have a chestnut orchard in Washington. This prompted her to…
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Coconut Oil Information
I don’t know what the weather has been like near you but it has been blistering hot here. As a result, I did not make two of my recipes for you using coconut oil Monday or Tuesday. It was just way too hot to heat up the kitchen! So, instead I have compiled some links…
Justin Inspired Almond Coconut Butter
I love almonds and I love almond butter but it can be quite astringent…unless you get Justin’s. This brand is super yummy. Not at all astringent. I can eat this by the spoonful! It has four ingredients: almonds, maple sugar, palm oil, and salt. I assume that the palm oil is added to help keep…
Whole Wheat Biscuits
I have always been a fan of those light, flaky, southern style biscuits. How about you? I’ve been trying to make similar biscuits using whole wheat flour but they usually come out tough and not very light. But…NOT ANY MORE! Look at what I can now make!!! Look how light and airy! YUMMY. Do…
Poor Man Milk Glass
When I was a little girl, I remember going to my grandmother’s house for holidays. My granddad had a serious sweet tooth and so there were candy dishes in various rooms of the house. A few of them were milk glass. What is milk glass, you ask? Take a look. I found this glass cutie…
Painting and Dyeing Upholstered Furniture
My husband and I have been small business owners for our entire marriage. This has meant that our income has always been feast or famine. So, when it has come to furniture and home improvements, we have never had the funds to go out a purchase whole new sets: dining rooms sets, bedroom sets,…
Cute Little Burlap Shelf
What do you get when you have one project in mind, it doesn’t go as planned and then you try to save it? In this case, you get this cute little shelf! So what happened? A couple of weeks ago I had planned on participating in Newlyweds on a Budget’s craft night: magazines. I had planned on…
Pink Lemonade Mini-Cupcakes
Tomorrow is my daughter’s 21st birthday…woo hoo! Pretty big day for her! She plans on having a pretty big celebration with her friends and she loves anything miniaturized! So, I decided to make her mini-cupcakes for the big event. I was also inspired by this recipe I found on Pinterest: Pink Lemonade Pound Cake. How…
Homemade Dog Food Recipe
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of homemadedogfood.com for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When our daughter was just 1 year old, my husband and I traded an old drafting table for a yellow labrador retriever puppy. We named her Suzy and she lived to be 11 years old. She…
Stained Glass?
I love stained glass. Whether it’s in a church, an old tiffany lampshade, a window in an old victorian home, it’s just gorgeous. Many years ago I took a stained glass class from our local Arts Castle but I never mastered the art. I thought I’d try out the new alcohol inks and see if…