Graduation Gift bag

Hi All,

I know I have been posting a lot of graduation stuff, but guess what??  That's because I've been working on a lot of graduation stuff!  I like this bird cartridge and this grad bird kinda cracks me up a little.  I thought I'd give it to one person whom I ended up just giving cash to - not enough time to do everything I'd like to do!  SO now I have a head start for next year!  Lol!  Hope I have a girl to give it to (because of the white) and thre is the small detail that I already wrote Ball State on the cap....  Oh well, I'm sure it will find good use in due time!
Enjoy your day!
Tammy

SSDS Challenge - Stars and Stripes

Time for another CHALLENGE!!!
YAY!  It's sponsered by BUGABOO!!!!!
This week's challenge is Stars and Stripes.

God Bless the USA!

Foodie Friday - Cherry Cobbler

Foodie Friday- Cherry Cobbler!!!
WOW!!  This is AMAZING!!!!

I love, love, love cherries!!!  I think part of the reason that I love them so is because when I as a kid we had a cherry tree in the side yard and I could literally open my window and pick and eat them.  It seemed like it was a huge tree and every year we'd pick buckets full and mom would make the most delicious desserts and we'd all eat cherries until we were red in the cheeks!  Well, a few years ago I planted my very own cherry tree in my back yard.  It was scrawny and small, but I had high hopes for it!  It didn't seem like it would make it for a couple of years...it has been broken and sawed off but treated with care and respect.  This year it paid off!!!  I had a harvest of cherries!!!!! 

We got about 5lbs off that tree and the first thing we did was make cobbler.  I don't have my mom's recipe so I went to allrecipies and found a really good one! I added more cherries than Miranda did, but other than that I stuck to her recipe. 

Cherry Cobbler:
Ingredients:
1/2 C butter
1 C flour
1 C sugar
1 t baking powder
1 C milk


3 C pitted cherries
3/4 C sugar
1 T flour

Preheat oven to 350'.  Place the butter in a 9x13 baking dish, and plce in the oven to melt while the oven is preheating.  Remove as soon as butter has melted.
In a medium bowl, stir together 1 C flour, 1 C sugar, and 1 t baking powder.  Mix in the milk until well blended, then pour the batter into the pan over the butter.  Do not stir.
Place cherries inteh bowl and toss with remaining 3/4 C sugar and 1 T flour.  Distribute the cherry mixture evenly over the batter.  Do not mix.
Bake 50 minutes until golden brown.

The results are FABULOUS!!
Enjoy!
Tammy

Grad Gift Bag

Hi crafty people!!  I am having a lot of fun getting ready for graduation parties!  I wanted to decorate the gift bag and thought this would be cute.  I found the cuts using my gypsy (LOVE that thing!) and voila!  I think it turned out pretty cute.  I will blog the gift later this month, but thought I'd go ahead and show off the bag.  I used regular twine to wrap around the diploma and it was white so I colored it with a marker.  I know I have baker's twine, but I couldn't find it last night and didn't have much time to look for it.  I tell ya, I really need to redo my room and organize it a lot better.  Big dreams - we'll see!

Enjoy today!
Tammy

 

Oh, I used my Marth Stewart scissors to cut the tassle.  It has 5 blades and makes cutting things like that really easy!  one cut!!

YAY! Graduation Time!

Tis the season for Graduation!  What a great, exciting time and this year I have been blessed with more graduation open house invites than ever!!  I will post some gifts that I made, but this one, is a cash holder.  Nothing is better sometimes than cold, hard, cash! :)  It could also hold gift cards too, but I preferred to give cash to spend where ever she'd like. 
Enjoy!!!

Tammy

Seahorse Sweetness

I love the Create a Critter cartridge!!!!  I haven't used it in a while, but am working on a present for a friend that is having a baby and pulled it out.  I saw these seahorses when I was browsing the cartridge and HAD to use them!!!  I thought I was going to make a card, but now I am thinking that this may be used instead for a layout of our spring break trip to Hilton Head.  I'm working on that scrapbook now too so this would blend in beautifully!!!  Either way, I think it's adorable!!!!! 
So many possibilities!!!
Enjoy your day!
Tammy

Hi My Crafty Friends!

Hi all!  It's been a while since I've posted and I don't even think I’m going to share a card today.  I am just going to let you all know that I haven't forgotten about you and that I haven't stopped working on stuff.  Life is just working hard on me right now and I haven't taken the time to sit and blog.  You all know this takes some time and writing doesn't really come naturally to me.  I had an awesome conversation via text last night (is that even possible?  In my world it is!) with my BBFF.  It's nice to have crafty friends who 'get it'.  I'm working on several things and sometimes feel overworked and underappreciated.  However, I still craft because it's what I do...I love it and I want to continue to love it.  I have been on a DT for over a year and have even put much less effort into that.  When crafting becomes a chore it's no longer fun and that's the only reason I do it - because it's fun!  SO....I have cut back on some of the things I feel like I 'have' to do to do things that I WANT to do!!!  My blog is somewhere in the middle.  I don't have too many followers so sometimes I wonder who I'm even doing it for....the answer is usually me.  I'm doing it for me.  So I can look back and see what I've done and so that my kids can use it as kind of a legacy.  When you are like me you don't really have one niche one area that you focus on....so even I forget what I've done before this helps with that.  Even the recipes...if I blog them I know where to find them!  :)  It's selfish but fun.  I'd love to have a bigger blog even one that I could make money off of.  But that takes time and energy that I do not choose to put into it right now.  Maybe one day...maybe not.  Time will tell. 
I appreciate you understanding and knowing where I am coming from.  I will post a project soon - I have several ready and I hope to do a bit of blogging this week still!  Until then....ENJOY!
Tammy