Category: MISC

For me??


My girl friend around the corner called this morning and asked if I could come over for a minute and maybe have some coffee. This is what she presented me with. Isn’t it adorable???????????

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An Island Life Giveaway

Have you seen the new line of shoes by crocs? Yes, crocs! An Island Life has a giveaway you will seriously be interested in.

From the site: “Originally, Crocs™ Shoes were intended as a boating/outdoor shoe because of its slip-resistant, non-marking sole. By 2003, Crocs™ Footwear had become a bona-fide phenomenon, universally accepted as an all purpose shoe for comfort and fashion. Despite our rapid success, we still stand behind the core values of Crocs™ Footwear. We are committed to making a lightweight, comfortable, slip-resistant, fashionable and functional shoe, which can be produced quickly and at an affordable price to our customers.”

To Buy it! Stop by You by crocs and check out their new fall line for the whole family. I can guarantee that you’ll be as impressed as I was.

To Win it! Are you ready? You by crocs has generously donated TWO pairs of footwear for TWO lucky winners! To enter: Go to An Island Life and enter.

  • Want another chance to win? Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom where they’re giving away 2 pairs of their own!
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I've been BOOED and it's a good thing!

Guess What? I’ve been Booed!

What fun! I couldn’t sleep either so of course I headed to the computer to see if anything new was happening in blogosphere and that’s when I found out that I had been Boo-Ed by my friend at Charli & Me.

Now I am supposed to Boo as many friends as I can.

Here are the rules:
“Go to as many friends as you want and tell them they’ve been Boo-Ed.” Have them link back to your blog to pick up their Halloween treat (picture) and tell them to Boo their friends. (Then put the picture in your side bar so everyone knows you’ve already been Booed and to send the picture to someone else.)

Are you scared yet!!?? Boo!” I have to get going….. I have a lot of Booing to do…

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Tempt My Tummy Tuesday ~ Fresh Guacamole


Hosted by Lisa at Blessed with Grace.

I’ve been on a real Mexican Food kick lately (probably only because I can’t get any decent Mexican Food here) so have been developing many recipes for making it fresh at home.

FRESH GUACAMOLE

  • 3 large avocados
  • 1 bunch green onions, chopped fine
  • 1 red chile pepper or 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic, jar
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1 small tomato, chopped fine seeds and all
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • salt and pepper

Cut avocados in half. Remove seed. Scoop out avocado from the peel. Using a fork, mash the avocado. Add the chopped onion, garlic, lime, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and mash some more. Chili peppers vary individually in their hotness. Add your desired degree of hotness. Be careful handling the peppers; wash your hands thoroughly after handling and do not touch your eyes or the area near your eyes with your hands for several hours. Add the tomatoes. Remember that much of this is done to taste because of the variability in the fresh ingredients. Start with this recipe and adjust to your taste.

My other recent Mexican recipes of late are:

I do the memes: Menu Plan Monday hosted by Laura at I’m an Organizing Junkie, Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Kathryn at Overwhelmed with Joy, Freezer Food Friday hosted by MJ at mjpuzzlemom, Scrumptious Sunday hosted by Meredith at Mercedes Rocks, and Slow Cooking Thursday hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. I’m also going to start a new one this week, Tempt my Tummy Tuesday hosted by Lisa at Blessed with Grace. Doing them all make great additions to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes!

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Tuesday's with Dorie ~ Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes

I recently joined Tuesdays With Dorie. Laurie of Quirky Cupcake formed Tuesdays With Dorie as a form of accountability for baking at least once a week using the cookbook, Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. I already love it and hubby isn’t complaining about being my taste taster. In fact he is throwing in his own suggestions, a couple of which I incorporated for him with this recipe. He is took these with him to a football party on Sunday and they were a BIG success.

Clara of I Heart Food4Thought chose, Chocolate-Chocolate Cupcakes* on pages 215-217

Being new to TWD I didn’t want to miss doing this week but as much as we love chocolate around here, we’re not big chocolate cake fans. So, I added a heaping tablespoon of a strong instant coffee to the batter for a bit of an espresso flavor. Hubby gave it a 2 thumbs up. They took only 20 minutes and were much moister than last week’s Pumpkin Muffins (I think the coffee helped there as well as the shorter cooking time). We’re not big on bittersweet chocolate either and I had some cream cheese frosting left. So, I used the glaze on just a few, the cream cheese frosting on a few and the mixed the remainder of the glaze with the cream cheese frosting and did a few more. The mix of both the glaze and the cream cheese frosting was our favorite.

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Scattegories

I was Tagged by the Funny and whimsical Lucy over at Lulu’s Petals for this fun tag meme.
RULES:

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things … Nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Then tag 3 other people. (It’s harder than it looks!)

WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Tamy
4 LETTER WORD: Team
BOY NAME: Troy
OCCUPATION: Teamster
COLOR: Teal
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Tee shirt
A PLACE: Texas
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Toothpaste, toothbrush
REASON FOR BEING LATE: Traffic
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Time Out
FOOD: Truffles

I want to tag:
Shannon
Martha
Gina

(of course,NO pressure, only play if you want to ladies!)

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Homemaker Monday, Making a Happy Home Monday & Tips on Tuesday ~ Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

Homemaker Mondays is hosted by Robyn at 11th Heaven’s Homemaking Haven
Making a Happy Home Monday is hosted by LL at As for me and my house…
Tips on Tuesday is hosted by Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

We love the aroma of fresh baked cookies around here.
Baking is one of the things I try to do regularly.
This week it was peanut butter crunch cookies dipped in chocolate.

This recipe makes 4-5 dozen cookies.

TUESDAY’S TIP: I split the dough into thirds and with wax paper makes cookie rolls. I freeze 2 of the rolls for future use and make 1 tray at a time so they are always fresh baked and I only make the mess once for 3 batches.

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup creamy peanut butter*
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed light brown sugar
2 JUMBO eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Cream butter and peanut butter together. Be sure and scrape sides of bowl.
  • Add sugars and cream again.
  • Add 1 egg at a time until well blended.
  • Sift together dry ingredients and add in thirds until well blended.
  • Divide dough into thirds.
  • Roll 12 walnut sized balls.
  • Flatten with a fork.
  • Bake 10-12 minutes.
  • On wax paper roll the other 2 portions of dough and freeze for future use.
  • I sometimes dip them in melted almond bark.

*I prefer JIF or Skippy peanut butter

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