Easy Pumpkin muffins

I love fall, and I love pumpkins!! I saw this on another website and thought I would give it a try. I changed a few things to make it my own.

What you need...

1 box white cake mix
1 can pumpkin

Just mix them together in a large bowl. I then made mini muffins with my mix. cook at 350 for about 15 minutes. Time will change depending on if you make mini muffin's or large muffins, or just a pumpkin cake. There is SO much you can do with this simple mix! Adding powered sugar to the top or cream frosting is also a great treat. We have been eating them for breakfast, snack, lunch and whenever else.

Enjoy this super simple pumpkin muffin mix.

Daily Workout

I saw plenty of different workout tips and tricks on Pinterest, but I wanted something that I would do. I'm not a motivated person in just working out. So I found an idea that I made my own. I looked for many different workouts that I would do. This is what I came up with...

 

What you need to make this super simple daily work out plan is...

2 Plastic cups
1 sharpie marker
35 pop sickle sticks (I do 5 sticks a day 7 day's a week)

I wrote TO DO on one cup, and DONE!! on the other cup so when I finish a stick I can move it to DONE!! and feel very well about it just being done!

So I've been doing this for a few weeks now and I seem to be working out more now then I have every in my life. There are some day's that I might not do all 5, but I don't let that bother me. I do what I can for the day. No stress!

I hope that you can also find motivation to do a work out everyday.

DIY Quoted Canvas

My husband and I are expecting our first child in March, so the brain storming has begun as to how to decorate the baby's room. As I was thinking, a Bible verse that we pray over the baby everyday came to mind. This was it. I'll put the Bible verse on canvas, paint it and hang above the crib. 

Here's what I used:
Canvas - I bought a 20x24 size
Paint - I used Mysteria
A Cricut machine
Vinyl

I used the Opposites Attract cartridge. I tested a few letter sizes until I got the one I wanted. There were two words within the verse that I wanted to have stand out from the other words, so I cut them out in a different font and made them a little bigger.

Once I had all of the letters cut, I placed them on the canvas. Then I painted the whole canvas, including going over the vinyl letters. I used two coats of paint to make sure it was all covered and no white was showing.

Once it was all dry, I slowly peeled off the vinyl letters. The paint did bleed through a little bit, but I think the effect is pretty cool, so I'm going to keep it as is. If you don't like it with the paint coming through, I would think that getting a small paint brush with some white paint you could paint in the letters and it would look good.

Pumpkin Poppers

Here's the recipe for another successful Pinterest recipe. I got it off of http://hwescott.blogspot.com blog. Hope you enjoy.

Pumpkin Poppers
recipe from Domestically Speaking

• 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. allspice
• 1/8 tsp. ground cloves
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup pumpkin
• 1/2 cup milk

For Coating

• 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 tbsp. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 F and spray mini muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray.

Combine flour, baking soda,salt, and spices in a bowl and whisk until combine.

In another bowl, mix oil, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, pumpkin, and milk.  Pour in flour mixture and mix until just combined.  Fill mini muffin tins until almost full and bake 10-12 minutes.  

Melt butter in small bowl.  Mix sugar and cinnamon in a separate small bowl.  After popper cool for a few minutes, dip them in the butter and roll them in the sugar mixture.  Enjoy.  :)

The only thing I would say about these is that they are really sweet, especially with the coating on the outside and the pumpkin taste is minimal. I think next time I'll add just a bit more pumpkin. Otherwise, we really enjoyed them. Here's a picture of my finished product:

Easy Burlap place mats

Material:

Sharpie marker

Scissors

burlap

I had a wedding shower to go to in a rush. I had no idea how she decorated her home, or what was on their wedding registry. I took a huge risk and made these easy awesome place mats.

I simply used another place mat as a guide to the size. I cut four mats out.

I then got a large sharpie marker and wrote their initials in the bottom right corner.

When she opened her gift, they both fell in love with them. They loved that it was personalized and that it was home made. Something they use everyday.

Scrapbooking Memories

I thought I would take a moment of your time and post a blog of memories. I love to scrapbook and want to share some of the pages I've done with you.

In 2007 my brother moved to Redding, CA. My brother, mom & youngest brother drove out to California to help him move into his apartment there. I then flew out to California to meet my family, see my brothers apartment and then help my mom drive home. On the day I visited my brother in his new town we went to the Sundial bridge and saw Mt Shasta. It is absolutely gorgeous out there. This trip is definitely one of my favorites I've taken over the years.

I love football and I love the Indianapolis Colts. A girlfriend and I wanted to be at the welcome home party for the Colts after they beat the Bears in the Superbowl. So we left work early and headed down to the RCA dome. As we were entering the stadium, they opened up a new section of seating, so I ran. We ended up getting third row seats that sit on the side of the stage the players and owners would be standing on. I got so close to some of my favorite players, it was amazing. By far one of my favorite memories.

I love my family. There is 18 years between me and the youngest and we all have a lot of fun together. There aren't many pictures of the 6 of us together, but these happen to be a few of my favorites. It was a long time ago, I'm thinking back in 2002 around Thanksgiving. We were just hanging out in my parents basement and decided to bust out the camera. Good times!

My family has never been much for Halloween or even decorating for fall, but one year we decided to go to the pumpkin patch and carve or paint our pumpkins. We had so much fun doing this. As you can see we have some very creative people in my family and a Yankees fan. :)

Thanks for letting me share some of my favorite memories with you. Hope you enjoyed them.

A Tutu-torial

I saw this awesome table idea on Pinterest (I know- shocking!).  The only problem is that it didn’t have a tutorial to go with it. So, this is what I came up with-

What you’ll need:

1.     A round side table (found at Wal-Mart for $18)

2.     White fabric for the table top (1/4-1/2 of a yard)

3.     16yards of pink tulle (I bought three different shades and divided it into 4 different pieces)

4.     Medium width white ribbon

5.     Scissors

6.     Staple gun

7.     Hot glue gun

How to put this adorable table together:

1.     Put the legs on the table and flip it upside down with the white fabric underneath

2.     Make sure the fabric is pulled tight and staple it to the bottom of the table top (about 2inches in)

3.     Cut off the excess white fabric

4.     While the table is still upside down begin stapling the tulle to the back of the table top by gathering a few inches and stapling it, moving over an inch, gather a few inches of tulle and staple. Continue around the whole table (in this picture I had not cut off the excess white fabric yet)

5.     Once you’re around the table do it again with the remaining three pieces of tulle

6.     Once all the fabric is stapled securely, flip the table over and trim off the excess fabric that is hanging on the floor. This will allow the tulle to poof out looking more like a tutu.

7.     Take the hot glue gun and begin trimming the rim of the tabletop with the white ribbon

8.     Once you’re around the whole table cut the ribbon. Tie a bow and attach it to the rim where the ribbon begins and ends.

Tada! You’ve got an adorable tutu table!