Holidays

Homemade Bath Salts

December 4, 2009

We are working with a tight Christmas budget this year, and we’re hoping to do as many homemade gifts as we can. While I love making edible gifts to give, there is only so many people like to recieve–so I had to broaden my horizons. Recently while shopping, I began to look at some of [...]

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Packaging Ideas for Edible Gifts

November 18, 2009

**UPDATED** Winner is announced at the bottom. Welcome to this weeks round of the Holiday Food Fest! This week we’re covering Packaging Ideas for Edible Gifts. I absolutely adore packaging Christmas presents. My husband makes fun of me for all the time I spend on packaging up our gifts. I usually try to give a [...]

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Creamy Mashed Potatoes

November 12, 2009

Mashed potatoes aren’t something that I make on a regular basis, but they are requested every year for our Thanksgiving get together. Even when we travel the 8 hours to Iowa. They are that good. I really have no secret tips, or measurements for that matter. I usually add a little bit of this ingredient [...]

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Making Themed Birthday Cakes

January 29, 2009

**Edited to add link to spongebob cake** I love making cakes. It all started after my oldest’s 1st birthday. His babysitter was a cake maker, so she offered to make his cake for free. I was elated, until I seen the cake. I don’t know what she did, but it didn’t look like Blue Jean [...]

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Shew! It’s over!

July 7, 2008

Kaitlyn, Noah and Nicholas sporting their $2 bargain Wal-Mart shirts. I LOVE the 4th of July! It symbolizes so much, our freedom as a nation, and our freedom of worshiping freely. We take these things for granted daily, and it is so wonderful to be able to set aside a whole weekend (generally) and reflect [...]

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