Found a great site

Yummy...found a great cooking site. I'm not one who cooks a lot but if I love a recipe, I'll make it often! Here is the site: http://creatingpostitnotes.blogspot.com/
Can't wait to try some of her recipes....
So here is one of my favorite recipes, created by your truely. Its pretty good, I must say

Stuffed Green Peppers
6 Large Green Peppers
Cooked Rice (I use 3 cups white rice and 1.5 cups water)
1 can tomato paste (small size)
1 can chicken broth (soup size-14oz), warmed
chili powder
Cavender's Greek Seasoning (you all gotta get this!)
salt/pepper
.5 lb each ground beef and ground pork
3 small can's chopped, stewed tomatoes, drained
2 med onions or 1 very large, chopped in 1" pieces

Brown pork and beef, chop very finely in pan as you cook using a potato masher. Drain, put meat in large bowl, add cooked rice and onions(raw). Add 2 cans of the stewed tomatoes to rice mixture. Add spices (no measurements, just eye it). Set aside and put in the refridgerator for several hours (this step helps, but not necessary). Cut pepper tops 1" from stem (save), clean out seeds and the veins. Put pepper shells in large casserole dish, fill(stuff!)with rice mixture. Put tops back on. Add last can of drained tomatoes to top of peppers. In small bowl, put can of tomato paste and gradually wisk in the chicken broth until the consistancy of thin pasta sauce. Season to taste. Pour over peppers. Bake in 375 degree oven for 90 minutes. Serve. For a twist add some of your garden tomatoes to the dish. Just scoop our the center, and add the rice mixture. It will add a nice taste to the dish. I love to do this in the summer cause we get so many tomatoes.

Speaking of the greek seasoning, I make greek potatoes with this seasoning! I'll post that sometime soon!

congrats to Steve and Cherry

Congrats to Steve and Cherry, who just got married yesterday in Orlando...sorry I couldn't be there!! You both look so great! Steve is Ozan's best friend and he is the one who introduced us plus he was our best man 10 years ago at our wedding. Ozan was the best man and just flew back home today. Kendall missed him so much!! he took these pics of the kids before we took him to the airport...with our OLD camera. No way I'd let him take my Rebel on a trip! We don't get pics of the kids together too often, so I really appreciate these!!! 4 days ago it was in the mid fifties, today we have on the air. Funny how the weather is up and down like that!

I had a lot of down time at night when the kids went to bed, but I was too tired to do much scrapping...got some done. Its tiring being a single mom! Did this page last night. Used another sketch from the BHG magazine! Got to use my Maya Road stamps ("hello my name is tag" and "pencil") that I've never used. My pics of my LO's look terrible when I take them inside...I prefer taking them out in the beautiful sun, but it still has been pretty windy outside.

Speaking of which, we had some terrible t-storms come through here in the middle of the night. Woke me up!! There were some terrible tornados in the midwest, luckily nothing here. Usually we are in the basement several times a season in the warmer weather with our tornado alarms going off...usually in the middle of dinner.

Products used on the LO:

cardstock, ink, spiral punch, and markers: Stampin Up (the sky blue 12x12 paper is textured...new this year, love it)

Patterned Paper: Sassafrass Lass and We R Memory Makers

Stamp: Maya Road

Ghost Star: Heidi Swapp

Journaling Tags: Jenni Bowlin

Tag, Staples, Brads, and Die Cut Border: Making Memories

Have a good week!

quick post

Did this LO last night and didn't like the orginal way I used my journaling. I was using some large chipboard black pieces and it just looked way too unbalanced. Then I got some goodies from Laura, and a light bulb went off that I should use some of those goodies. So I switched it out and used some of these noteworthy Making Memories products...and a lot of stuff here was from her. So now, its better. Thanks Laura.

This was from a sketch in a special issue from Scrapbooks, Etc. Loved the stripes of patterned paper here. All the supplies here are Making Memories. TFL!!!

On a Roll

First of all, I have to thank my friend, Laura Vegas for her generous gift to me. This was waiting on my doorstep in a delivery box when I got home today. She also included a beautiful card but I forgot to include it in the picture! Thanks so much Laura!! I love all of it! You are so sweet!

This weekend I had a list of pages that I wanted to do so I placed an online order for some photos and picked them up down the street...printer isn't getting my colors right. I have a dozen pages that I want to do so I think it get the work done quickly by getting the pictures printed first. Before I placed my order, I went through some sketches that i wanted to do. I jotted down the resource for the sketch and the colors and/or embellishments that I wanted to use.

This one I did last night...used photoshop and printed the pics on one 8x10, so much easier to scrap that way. Kinda nice to put the pics in one spot, that way you don't have to worry about the pages getting too busy.

Used some leftover Bazzill scalloped CS, stars are from gin-x, journaling stickers are American Crafts...they are actually a slick surface, so I'm glad I have a slick writer for this! The corners are punched with a cornerpunch and some PP was placed underneath. The chipboard title is from KI Memories...these are actually a winter theme but the colors go well PLUS i had all the letters for the title. The picture of this page isn't too nice, I can't take any pics outside cause its been really windy lately and my pages are blowing across the lawn.

This card is a complete lift from Making Memories new baby idea book. I don't know the artist who did it because I can't find the credit in the book. If anyone knows, let me know.

My friend, Rose, had a baby girl on Friday( 9lbs, 4 oz!) and I'm going to send this to her. I made two of them and will keep one for future use...I gotta keep more baby cards on hand! I love this card and fell in love with it when I saw it on the cover of the book. The papers and tag are from Making Memories and the baby stickers are from Pebbles...perfect to fit in the tagged shapes. There are smaller ones that fit in the circle size and this sticker is actually rectangular shaped and was perfect for the medium tag..

This is my first scrap page that I ever made; circa 2003...this was a lift from Shannon Taylor. I purchased my first magazine and wanted to lift everything. My previous hobby was cross-stitching and I had plenty of floss! Love Kendall's giant eyes!!

and another early page. These pics are of Kendall sitting in my old rocking chair that I had when i was a little girl. The pics are taken with b/w film...

Kendall's First Christmas..oh, and there's my poor Chloe...

and my baby shower...love these pics cause the one on the left is of my sister, my neighbor, and myself all pregnant...all with a plate of food on our laps. All of our babies were born within 8 weeks of each other. I used Chatterbox paper on here and back then you could only find it online and it was always sold out. I was so in love with that paper...still have some.

Kendall's first b-day party. We had a bash with 50 guests and rented a room at our park district for it! The center of the LO is her actual invitation that I made. Ozan helped me make them...actually have a picture of him using my MM eyelet setter. i should post that!

a page I did of ozan and Kendall for our 5th wedding anniversary.

Paint chips used here...a really popular technique back then. The white portions are embossed to look like grout...and I used a lot of transperancy back then.

a page of Kendall's firsts...I'm pretty sure this was a lift. A good piece of advise my neighbor gave me was to always mark down dates when the babies have a mile stone. Sometimes things don't happen all of the sudden on a certain date, but just pick one close to it.

That was fun. Thanks for looking!

Ballet is finally over...

for now. We've been going to classes every Saturday morning since January...think we both need a break. Today was her concert...OMG, all those little girls in ballet outfits are just too cute. I really enjoyed the show and it only lasted an hour and 15 minutes total, so it was nice and short.

Got some pics after in the auditorium real quick. it was held at our local HS's auditorium. And that stamp on my hand was not an accident from making a card or something (and its SO not my style), it was our proof that we paid admission to the show. LOL!

Did this LO last night and finished up this morning. This was a lift from another SBer from Two Peas and I just loved the graphic look of it. Changed some things around and used a lot of stamping here. The numbers stamp is a rolling one from Stampin Up. The letters "Bliss" is also Stampin Up; a new letter set that I recently got. I tried to use my Stamp-a-ma-jig, but I still messed it up. The leaf branches are from a new Sizzix die cut I recently got. Too cute. Have a great week everyone!

We go from ballet to t-ball

back to ballet...

Sunday is Kendall's ballet show. Tonight she had her t-ball game and this crazy mom took 102 pictures! yes, I'm crazy for taking that many and even crazier for counting them!

There has been a threat of rain or storms almost every Friday for the past 4 weeks during Kendall's t-ball sessions. Today some scary clouds passed through and we had a beautiful, sunny day. I also was missing my telescopic lens for a month or so, now I have found it-yes! Here are some of them from tonight. Its so cute when the ball is hit about 2-3 feet

and the whole team comes rushing to get the ball...those little kiddies look like they are playing human bowling or something!

And just some pics from the other day...kiddies just hanging out. Literally.

This girlie looks adorable here. Funny cause I was trying to get her to turn around because the sun was behind her...I think it was around 6PM...she didn't want to turn, so I was pleasantly surprised how this came out!

...and who can resist a little guy in low pocket classic Levis?

Ballet Layout

I took these pics on Saturday after my Kendall's professional pictures for her ballet class. Her concert is next weekend. It was such a beautiful day out with lots of sun and flowered trees, so I took advantage. She was actually standing on a bench so I could get her face in front of the trees.

This is a monthly kit (April) from Scrapbook Bakery. I wanted to use this kit right away but was unsure how the bright colors of the pics would work out with the shabby chic colors here. Did a two page LO so I could include all the pics without looking too crowded.

I'm pretty happy with this...added rub ons to the white brads to tone them down and to coordinate with the rest of the theme. I used the Stampin Up spritzer on the flowers as well with chocolate chip ink.

I had these pics printed at Target through Sutterfly, which I've been doing lately cause my printer doesn't seem to coordinate with my photoshop program. I'm pretty happy with the quality, though.

Supplies Used

Scrapbook Bakery Monthly Kit

Additional Supplies Used

Rub Ons: Basic Grey

Photo Corners: Heidi Swapp

Paper Piercing Guide (for holes around pics): Stampin Up Matte Pack

Spritzer and Marker: Stampin Up

Index Letter Sticker: Autumn Leaves (they had these in the 1.99 spot last week)

Doiley Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Scalloped Border Punch: Fiskar's

Mini Alpha Stickers: Making Memories

Thanks for looking!

great week of gifts for me!

Yep...I don't get gifts that much, nor do I win much of anything but this week I feel like I've won the lottery. So it started on Wednesday, I was at Cosco getting new tires for my car and I decided to look around in the electronics department (cause I didn't need anything to buy, believe it or not) and I finally decided to get myself one of these...they have great prices on them. And they only have this color for this style but its the color I wanted...

Then I came home to find these in the mailbox from Nichol...won a RAK off her blog. Thanks Nichol!


And then this lovely April monthly kit from Scrapbook Bakery was sitting at my doorstep...on the same day...

Went to Archiver's today and got the long awaited Recipe Box from Elsie Flannigan. Well, for those of you who don't scrapbook, they are scrapping recipes. You open it up and they are vertical index cards. The recipe is on the back and the pic is on the front. You can see more pics on her blog.


And that's not all, I went back to Scrapbook Barkery's Blog and found out I won a RAK last weekend. Yeah!! Lucky week, maybe I should play the lottery... oops too late. Its worth 150 million!
Have a great weekend...

card inspiration 8

Did a card for Kristina's challenge here:

The inspiration is from Pier One and the colors are brilliant blue, pumpkin pie, whisper white, and bashful blue.

I don't have all these colors, so I used similar colors...got the chance to use my new cut and emboss butterfly from Cuttlebug. The small butterfly is Martha Stewart. Define Your Life Stamp from Stampin Up with their white craft ink.

thanks for looking.

Fastest card ever!!!

cool trick/another card

see the cool catalogue card at the right below the banner? you can make yours here.

And can you handle another card? This was the third design I did for Teacher's Appreciation Week. Once again, used my tree stamps from Hero Arts, my new Martha Stewart doily border punch, Making Memory buttons...these are OLD school, Staz On timber brown...perfect for this stamp. Everything else is Stampin Up: Soft Sky, Choc Chip, and Very Vanilla CS (into vanilla instead of white these days); chocolate chip ink pad and marker; Craft White ink pad; ticket corner and horizontal slot punches; Polka Dot background and Wonderful Words stamps; used the SU spritzer with the choc chip marker to make the spritzed look on the blue paper.
I don't want to stop using this tree stamp, this would work perfect for men's cards as well...TFL.

Teacher's Appreciation Week

This week is Teacher's Appreciation Week. Between both of my kids and all their teachers, etc. I have about 10 cards to pass out. I made a few of these last night. I'm doing about 3 designs...

The cardstock, punches (ticket corner and word window), thank you, and shapes stamps (except the turquiose blue one) are Stampin Up; tree and square stamp are Hero Arts. The ink is Tsukineko Versa Magic Chalk Ink. Bakers twine is Martha Stewart (blue) and red cord is SEI. These inks are beautiful and went on so nice. I love these tree stamps and I feel stumped(oh, a nice pun here...lol!) when I use them. I split the colors just to add something extra to them.

And today Kendall and I made this...

I saw an ad in Michaels today for this Wilton cake pan. Makes a cake that is shaped like a cupcake, but its like 10" tall. Its two molds that you bake seperately and then you paste them together with frosting (top and bottom). I'm not a good froster, but it was fun anyway!

preschool pics

We went to Aydan's preschool today for a scheduled conference...they gave me a CD of some cute pics of him taken at school. I had to share my favs...
Cute pic in the snow...think this hat is WAY to small.


they have these great tricyles and a paved walkway to go around in their fenced in area...I love this look on his face,totally Aydan. Always smiling! Gosh he is really getting tall.


omg, how cute is he in this hat??? I see a scrap page in my future...