Labor of Love

February 13, 2012




I am no Martha Stewart, or Pioneer Woman.  I do however like to bake.  I recently came across a cute idea on pinterest to make mini pies with your cupcake muffin pan.  Cute idea!  They had made apple pies, but my BF and youngest prefer cherry so I decided for valentines I would make them.  



Cast


Cupcake muffin pan, one can of pie filling of your choice, and one box of refrigerator pie dough.  (Or if your really suzy homemaker you can make it from scratch.)




Preparation

I used a coffee mug to make the circles big enough to fit the muffin tin.  All those little divots you see in the dough is where my nails got in the way of pressing the dough.




Divide the pie filling evenly into the cups.



Okay so here is where it gets tricky!!!  I was feeling good until I got to this part. I could have used more dough to cut the strips so I had to be creative with the left over dough scraps to fill all the tops.  Not the prettiest, but I was hoping they would look better after baked.






Baked Pies


Well they were a hugh hit. The cherry filling bubbled out of the edges making them look a bit messy still.  They may not be county fair blue ribbon pies by the looks of them, but they all disappeared in under 24 hours.





I told my daughter in law that she should make the apple pies for my son for valentines!  I hope she has better basket weave tops than mine!!

Union Jack

February 08, 2012

This is my youngest son's room.  This is the after picture, AND the before picture.  You see my youngest is 15, soon to be 16. If you have never experienced a teenage boy in your house (this is my third) you haven't experienced the carnage they can do to a wall.  There were so many holes from posters and pictures and then moving of said posters, then moving again that I thought we would have to replace the sheet rock.

 He went to summer camp in Minnesota for a month this past summer and I thought it was a perfect time to redecorate.  He helped before he left by taking everything down and moving everything out for me.  I proposed the idea of the Union Jack flag for the focal wall.  (He is a big Beatles fan.) I didn't want to go to all that work for him to hate it.  He agreed that it was cool!  So I began my trasformation from a latte colored room (sorry I dont have those pics, and trust me you wouldn't want to see them) to this color.  It is Behr Parchment Paper.  We searched for the Union Jack and the proper way to paint the design.  After taping and more taping, I began painting.  It took me about a week from start to finish. He Loved it!











working away





Admiring my finished project.  Look at that pile of tape on the floor!





I think this would look great on his bed!  What do you think?



Get it here






Photos by Lisa

Orlando

February 07, 2012


Friends...
I recently traveled to Orlando on business for a week.  While there I met two wonderful gals that I gladly can call my friends now.  They were there on the same business.  We ended up spending every moment outside of the class together.  Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner, then sightseeing and shopping.  We were less than a mile from Disney World so we hopped over to Downtown Disney two nights.  Carol is from Boston, and Cheryl is from a Dallas suburb. We shared receipes, storys of our kids, and grandkids, our husbands (BF for me) and  funny stories about ourselves.  It was as if we were meant to be friends.  We vowed to stay connected after the class and I can successfully say that we have.  Have you ever met someone and just connected?  Does this happen to you?

This was made out of Legos in the lagoon
The Night Sky







 



Pirates of the Caribbean Store


We spent time in the Toy Story shop with Mister Potato Head.  We had fun shopping for the grandkids!  We hurried back to our rooms to put together several variations of Mister potato Head..... (A little quality control ya know) hehe.  The had every imaginable part to make endless potato heads.  It was so much fun!


Tourist At Disney World Potato Head

 Carol


Me




Cheryl


Darth Vader Potato Head

Aren't we all just big kids at heart? Thanks Carol and Cheryl for making the class so fun!





All images by Lisa and Cheryl

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