Happy Easter

Easter Story Cookies

Here is a great way to share Easter with your childern Easter Story Cookies go over Tiffany's blog and she has the recipe and the story.

I also found these adorable rice crispy treats....I can't wait to make them both!

It's been a very busy day today. Fixed brunch,got the girls off,made DH cookies for his lunch tomorrow (he is starting at a new store),found some of the Easter recipes I wanted,finished a couple of projects around the house and I just put dinner in the oven and decided to sit down and start this post.

I brought my scrapbook supplies into the living room so I can work on some projects after Mark goes to bed. I've got some more Easter die cuts I want to get made and I need to finish up my Easter cards so I can get them in the mail tomorrow.

Here is a layout of my grandson. He was excited about turning 7....he is growing up way to fast! It seems like just yesterday he was learning to walk.














Here are a couple of easy craft projects for the kids to make with egg cartons aren't they adorable?



Have a great evening, Bonnie

More Easter Layouts

We are leaving on Friday to see the grandkids for Easter so I've been busy making Easter layouts. I thought this year I would get a little a head of the game and have some of my layouts done before I take a million and one pictures over Easter weekend.

My grandson is waiting to color eggs until I get there so I made this layout. I can't wait to get his picture to put on it. I also have some Easter charms and flowers I want to add after I have the pictures

Here is the other side....isn't that the cutest little rabbit in the cart?



This week I'm also going to be busy making Easter Candy. I'm going to paint some chocolate and make these adorable little chicks and peeps





I better go make dinner. Hope you have a wonderful day. Leave us a comment we'd love to hear what your planning for Easter.

Layouts

These aren't the greatest pictures but I wanted to show you the adorable Snowball fighting Penguins and the Monarch Butterfly boarder I found.

I really need to get my scanner hooked up so I can scan these layouts. I will work on that this coming week. I have more layouts to show you but I think I'll wait until I get the scanner hooked up.

Easter Eggs

Do you remember these adorable Easter Eggs?


I thought I would make them again this year.
Here's what you need to make them
1 dozen eggs
Food coloring
Sharp Knife

Directions
Hard boil your eggs and peel. Place in food colors of your choice. Leave until they are the desired color you want. Let dry then cut jagged edge with sharp knife and fill with your favorite deviled egg recipe.

We took a mini-vacation and got out of the snow for the past 4 days. It was so nice to be in warm weather....short sleeves and flip-flops :-)

I got to have lunch with girl friends I haven't seen in awhile. It was a great time. Now it's back to the Retreat and back to work!

There was no snow when we got back yesterday....in fact the weather is beautiful today. It's still a little brisk out but the sun is shinning and the sky is a beautiful shade of blue.

I best go get ready for the Retreat. Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Easter Layouts

Here are a couple of the layouts I made for Easter. Sorry the pictures aren't better. I still haven't figured out a good way to take pictures of layouts. Anyone have any suggestions?

It's snowing again today. Right now it is coming down pretty good here is a picture of just before I started to write this and here is one about 5 minutes later. It sure didn't take long for it to turn white! One thing about this cold weather I love to stay inside and bake. I'm off to make some cookies and banana nut bread. Have a great day!

Do you know what this is? Yes it is the Yudu and Michael's has it on sale for $99.99 today! That's a great price if you've been wanting to get one of these this would be a great time.

I've heard mixed reviews on them. Some people say the are really difficult to use and others just love them. Here is their website Yudu just in case you want more information.

If you have one or get one let me know how you like it I'm still trying to decide if I need one. I've heard to many negative things so I've been putting off getting one however this is a great deal. It's probably a good thing I live so far from town or I might be at Michael's picking one up!

Today I am busy making bread and cookies so I will post some Easter ideas either later today or tomorrow. Hope you have a fantastic day!

Easter Carrots

Ok ladies remember these Hot Chocolate Bags and I told you you can make them for any holiday or party favors?

Well how about a cute little carrot for Easter. All you have to do is fill them with orange jelly beans,gumballs or M&M's.

Looking for something for the little guys who can't eat candy or just want something a little healthier? Fill them with Fish Crackers. I saw this cute idea on The Moody Fashionista's Blog.

What you need to make Carrots

1. Piping bags (1 per carrot)

2. Green Ribbon

3. What ever orange filling you want....jelly beans,gumballs,m&m's, crackers

Directions

Fill piping bags with jelly beans and tie the end with green ribbon.

These are Cute and Easy.....what could be better?

How about Chocolate Dipped Peeps

I can't remember where I saw these sorry if any one knows I would be happy to give that person the credit.

Since the rage this season seems to be everything taste better on a stick I'm going to add a sucker stick and put them in a vase for a center piece for the kids table on Easter Sunday.

Ingredients

Peeps

Chocolate for melting

Easter Sprinkles

Directions

Melt chocolate in microwave or on top of store. Take your peeps and dip them in melted chocolate and roll in Easter Sprinkles

I would love to see or hear about what you are making for Easter. Have a great day!

Easter S'moores

Druuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum Roll and the winner of a Weekend trip to Scrap-n-Away is Debbie. Congratulations! If you e-mail me with your address I will get your gift certificate out to you. I've been busy getting stuff together to start making Easter goodies. I'm off to get groceries in the morning. Here is one of my favorite things to make for the grand kids. I've posted it before but thought it was worth posting again since it is so easy and they love them. directed. *This gift jar may be created to suit any holiday for which marshmallow candies are available. Easter S'moores INGREDIENTS AND DIRECTIONS: 1. 1 1/4 cups of Easter M&M's 2. 8 marshmallow bunny peeps 3. 1 package of Graham Crackers 4.1/3 Cup Brown Sugar Spoon M&M's into jar first, then Peeps, then put combined brown sugar and graham cracker crumbs in baggie. I put a cute Easter napkin over lid before closing. Attach a gift tag with the following instructions: 1. Empty the jar contents into a bowl. Snip the bunnies into bits with kitchen sheers or cut up with a knife. Return the bunny bits to the mixture. Mix well. 2. Melt 1/2 cup butter; add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Pour this over the dry ingredients, mixing well. Pat into a greased 9" square pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes. Cool and cut into bars. (Makes 9 to 12 bars.) *Option - leave bunnies whole; combine remaining ingredients and place the bunnies on top; then bake as directed.

Finally the snow is melting and I am done with my taxes whooooooooohooooow! Now it's time to play. I've been wanting to get started making some Easter crafts. I will post them as I get them done....I will also post some cute ideas I've been seeing around.

The animals have been out in full force lately..... I guess they are enjoying the nice weather too. The birds and squirrels have been fighting over the bird feeder. I wish I could get a picture of this crazy squirrel. He gets on the gate and jumps onto the window trying to reach the bird feeder. Of course he falls off every time.....you think he would learn after the second time Oh no he keeps trying and trying. This poor little guy isn't going to give up. I felt so bad for him since he kept falling and never did make it to get any food so I put some out for him. We have also had jackrabbits playing in the snow. I didn't get a picture of them play but here is a picture of one of them the other one took of as fast as he could.

If you click on this picture you will see a woodpecker eating out of the bird feeder. Have a great day!

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Snow,Snow and MORE SNOW

Ok enough is enough it can quit snowing anytime now. It's been snowing since Sunday. Ok not continuously but off and on. I am so OVER WINTER!!!! Poor Mark has been shoveling snow for days now and can't get caught up....it's kind of like laundry and dishes no matter how many times you do them there is still more :-) Poor Guy!

Today snow is just now starting to stick so there is only about 2" so far and accumulating rapidly. We still have power,sporadic phone service and absolutely no CELL service....text come in once in awhile but we can't return them. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or bad. It sure has been peaceful with no TV,Radio or Phone.

So enough about our situation here on the hill have you seen the new Pantone Colors for this Fall.....well here they are.....aren't they gorgeous?

WOMEN

MEN

No Power for over 24 hours

There was no late night scrapping here on Sunday even though the girls where stuck here until late on Monday. We lost power at about 7 on Sunday and didn't get it back until Monday night after 8. Just as I was trying to fix dinner by candle lite.

It was very quite around here. You could hear the branches and trees falling. All day Sunday and Monday you heard snow blowers from sun up til sundown. The snow in the driveway was over 3' deep. On the patio it was up to the railing.

We lost two trees and I'm not sure how many branches but they are all over the yard.

We are suppose to be getting another STORM tonight. I'm not sure how much longer we will have power. There are still a lot of power lines done and we could lose more if the winds get as strong as they are predicting.

I'm trying to decided if I want to go to work with Mark and stay at a friends house or just be here in the storm by myself. I pretty sure he won't be making it home until probably Sat.....we are suppose to get snow the rest of the week. I don't mind being here if we have electricity but it's a little hard around here with none and I'm not sure I'll have enough firewood to last that long. I'm sending Mark to get more wood now.....I don't want to be without heat. I can live without everything else but I draw the line at being cold.
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Snowed In

It's the first day of Spring and we are snowed in. Here is what it looked like at noon today

Here's what it looked like at 3 and it is still snowing. The trees are so heavy with snow the branches are breaking and we have one large pine tree that fell over. They say it's suppose to be like this for the next 7 days. I feel sorry for the girl's families that are stuck here. Don't you wish it was you ;-)

Super Moon

Don't forget tonight is Super Moon so get out those cameras....this won't happen again until the year 2029!



We woke up this morning with a light dusting of snow on the ground GRRRRR I'm so over winter. I was soooo hoping Spring had arrived to stay....we've been having such nice weather and there are a few sings of Spring starting to pop up around here.



I've been knee deep in taxes YUG but I almost have them done HOORAY. Hopefully this week I will get them finished and out of the way. It is always such a relief when I get them finished.



I have had sometime to scrapbook with the girls at the retreats the last couple of weekends so that has been a lot of fun.




How many of have tons of Glimmer Mist and really don't use it.....raise your hand. O ya my hand is up there with the rest of you :-D Anyhooo today when I was blog surfing I saw this really cute table scape for Spring and guess what they used....YEP Glimmer Mist. So here is a picture and if you would like detailed instructions head on over to Tattered Angles

Rainbow Pudding

The snow is almost all gone YEEEEAAAAAA! as you probably can tell I'm not a big fan of snow. We have had way to much snow for me this year. I know it's not over but I'm always glad to see it disappear :-)



I've been working on some layouts for Saint Patrick's Day and Easter I will post them in a day or two. Until then here is something fun to try.

Ok so yesterday I found a site that showed you how to make GOLD and today I found RAINBOW PUDDING.....a great project you can make with your kids. What kid wouldn't love to make and eat these. I found this rainbow pudding over at MakeandTakes all you need is




Vanilla Pudding Mix




ingredients to make pudding




Several different colors of food color









Head on over to Make and Takes if you'd like to see how easy it to make....she has great pictures. What kid wouldn't love having their own pot of gold and rainbow pudding on St. Paddy's Day.






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Pot of Gold

Need some GOLD for your LUCKY POT of GOLD? Aren't these rocks just the cutest thing ever. I can't wait to make them.....if you want to make them go on over to Yesterday on Tuesday she has a great turtrial on her blog. I know my grandkids are going to love these!

LUCK OF THE IRISH

Can you believe tomorrow is March 1st? Is March a LUCKY month for you......well it could be this year! We are going to giveaway a 3 DAY WEEKEND TO SCRAP-N-AWAY to one of our lucky readers. We are even giving you more than one chance to win. Here is all you have to do
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We will be picking the winner at the end of March so you have plenty of time to get your entries in. Wishing you the LUCK OF THE IRSH!

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Come CELEBRATE SHAMROCK SEASON IN STYLE. We will be serving up a blend of traditional Iris fare like Corned Beef and Cabbage,Colcannon Potatoes,Irish Bread and treats like Blarney Stones and Lucky Leprechaun Cookies. How would you like to feel like a LUCKY LEPRECHAUN? We're going to add SAINT PATRICK'S DAY to your weekend on us....an EXTRA 24 HOURS OF CROP TIME at NO COST TO YOU. The LUCK OF THE IRISH is certainly with you this weekend! so come join us on this 4 DAY WEEKEND for a weekend of relaxing,scrapbooking,food,friends and fun!

I will also be posting some ideas for Saint Patrick's Day starting this week. Don't forget to come back daily and leave us a comment! We can't wait to hear from you.

Another Storm

Boy this week flew by. We had a Retreat from Friday - Monday and the next Retreat started on Thursday and goes to Sunday so we have been non stop. Monday Mark started his vacation so Tuesday we went to Santa Clarita so I could get my birthday facial and massage :-) (thanks to my wonderful friend Shelly). If you live in Santa Clarita and feel like pampering yourself you need to visit RoseMary's Salon her and her husband are wonderful! Wednesday we went to Bakersfield and spent the day spoiling our grand daughter. She is growing way to fast. She already 15 months old.

We are suppose to get hit with another storm tonight. We've had snow flurries off and on all day....they are saying we are suppose to get 1-2" of snow tonight. I hope not! I am so over winter LOL. Just like last weekend the girls are hoping for snow. This group is really hoping they get snowed in. In fact they are the only group that has ever been snowed in so they are hoping for a repeat ;-)

I found this wonderful soup recipe (can't remember where. I really should write down where I find these recipes) if you looking for something easy and YUMMMMMMY to fix in this cold weather

Tortellini Soup
Yield: 3-4 servings
Ingredients:
1 tbsp. olive oil
½ cup onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic,
minced½ tsp. dried oregano
1 (15 oz.) can diced tomatoes, with juices
4 cups low-sodium vegetable broth (or chicken broth)
9 oz. tortellini, any variety (fresh or frozen)
3 cups fresh baby spinach, loosely packed Salt and pepper and Grated Parmesan, for serving
Directions:
In a large pot or Dutch oven, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions to the pan and cook until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add in the garlic and cook, stirring frequently, just until fragrant, about 1 minute. Mix in the oregano and diced tomatoes. Add the broth to the pot. Bring the mixture to a boil. Add the tortellini to the pot and cook according to the package directions. One minute before the tortellini is fully cooked, stir in the spinach. Remove from the heat. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve warm with grated Parmesan as desired.

I usually double this recipe it taste great the next day too! This really a must try recipe it's so easy and good! Let me know how you like it.

Only 8" of Snow

We were suppose to get up to 2' of snow. We ended up only getting about 8" . Here are a couple of pictures. this is what it looked like yesterday morning and here is what it looks like this morning