Taking a break :)

We recently had an unfortunate event happen in our family and have decided to put the craft blog on hold for now. We love the blog and all of our followers. Thank you so much for sticking with us!! I am not sure when we will be posting again...hopefully soon :)

Holidays

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have not abandoned you! Katie and I are taking a short break for the Holidays. We are in the processes of opening up a new Etsy shop under the name Crafting LT http://www.etsy.com/shop/CraftingLT

That way it will be easier to find. I have started putting up some adorable holiday barettes so go check them out. Big changes will be coming this next year so check here and always check our ETSY shop as things are always getting added.

Have a great Holiday and we'll see you in a few weeks!

Recipe Friday: Chicken Wreath

My good friend made this for our sewing night get together and it was awesome! I brought some home to my husband and he also loved it. It is a Pampered Chef recipe. I had to google the recipe and found it on What's Cookin, Chicago?

Chicken Wreath Recipe

1/2 C. red bell pepper, chopped
1/2 C. broccoli, chopped (you can subsitute green bell pepper, which is how my friend made it. So good!)
1/4 C. water chestnuts, drained and chopped
2 T. onion, chopped
6 oz. cooked chicken breast, chopped
2/3 C. cream of chicken soup
1 C. (4 oz) shredded Cheddar cheese
2 (8 oz.) pkg. refrigerated crescent rolls
 
Preheat oven to 350ºF.

Chop pepper, broccoli, water chestnuts, onion and chicken. Combine all ingredients except crescent rolls in medium bowl.

Unroll crescent rolls and arrange triangles in a circle on a 15" baking stone with the bases overlapping in center and points toward the outside. Scoop filling mixture onto widest portion of each triangle. Fold points of triangle over filling and tuck under base at center. (Filling will not be completely covered.) Bake 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cut into wedges and serve warm.

You can also bake it on a cookie sheet, but it turns out the best on a baking stone. ENJOY!!

Tutorial Tuesday

Boxed Flowers

This makes a great end of the year or Christmas gifts for teachers, grandparents, whoever. I helped my girlfriends make this for one of her daughter's student teachers. It was easy and is so cute. I am making them for my girls teachers at the end of the year.

1. You can use a flower box type basket, or if it just a few flowers you can use a cute flower pot.

2. This step was already done when we got it but, all you do is use a Cricut machine or handcut the flowers and the hot glue them onto the painted popsicle sticks.

3. We then circle cutted mats out of cardstock paper and pictures of the kids heads and glued them onto the flowers.

This is what the backs look like

4. Then you take foam or styrofoam blocks that you use for fake flowers and line the bottom and arrange the flowers in the foam.

5. We then found a cute matching ribbon and hot glued it all the way around and made a bow on the front.

6.Then we put the varsity letter stickers on the front.

7. Then we put brown crinkled paper to fill in around the flowers so the foam doesn't show and it looks more like dirt.

Tutorial Tuesday

Felt Mr. Potato Head

I saw this on U Create and love it! I am going to make this during naptime today. This would make a cute Christmas present too!

 

Recipe Tuesday: Puffins :)

I love the Bakerella site. All the cake pops are so cute. I found this recipe on her site and we make it at least once a week. We call them Puffins (how cute is that?!)

Mini Maple Pancake Muffins

Generously grease a 24 cup mini muffin pan with non-stick spray.

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup buttermilk*
1 egg
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips

*I did not have buttermilk so I used this instead: Use one tablespoon of acid (lemon juice or white vinegar) for every cup of milk. Let stand for 5-10 minutes before using. Don't forget to measure out 2/3 cup!*

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a medium bowl. Sift together with a wire whisk.
• In another bowl, stir buttermilk, egg, maple syrup and melted butter until just combined.
• Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until combined.
• Stir in chocolate chips. Reserve a few chips to sprinkle on the tops.
• Bake for 8-9 minutes.

Makes 24 mini pancake muffins.
Let cool slightly and remove from the pan. You may need to use a toothpick around the edges to separate the pancake muffins from the pan.
Serve immediately with warmed butter if you like or even just with maple syrup.

Looking fo new fonts to use??

I found this great site that has tons and tons of fonts! I love it. I have downloaded so many fonts and used them with my digital scrapbooking. Click on the link to go visit the site:

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