Thursday, October 27, 2011

Fabric, Crafty Business Cards


Do you ever have a need to hand out business cards?
Sure you do!

When you go to
The Market
Play Dates
Craft Stores
or other Blog Conferences

Someone is going to ask "what do you do"?

Now you will have a crafty business card to whip out
and proudly say I am a BLOGGER.
This will make you sound and look like a real business.

Melissa over at MOMCOMM has a wonderful post on

I wish we knew about Melissa before we made our cards.
(next go round we will have everything correct)

How did we make our Fabric Business Cards?

We designed our business cards to look like our blog.
Printed them out on our home printer.

Now comes the fun part.
Choosing fabric
We have a fabulous stash of fabric.
In our other life we make pillowcases for

These are the fabrics we chose for our cards.


Must say perfect color match!

Iron fabric
we used our handy dandy

Lay out the fabric right side down.
Spread glue onto the center back of a business card.
Make sure not to get the glue along the edges.
Sewing over glue is not a great idea.

Cut around business cards with pinking shears.
This will help fabric from ripping.


Now you get to show off you sewing skills.
You do not have to be a pro at sewing.
This would be a great project for a beginner.
Choose a thread with contrast.
Sew around the card making sure not to get too close to the edges.
Trim left over thread.


TA-DA you are now official,
so be proud to hand out your
Business Cards.


Every woman should have 4 pets in her life.
A mink in her closet,
A jaguar in her garage,
A tiger in her bed,
and A jackass who pays for everything.
~Paris Hilton

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Trick or Treat!?


How do you like our Halloween Cottage?

Trick?
or
Treat?

BOTH!

It is

The trick is...
The Cottage is made of durable plastic!
No Baking


The treat is
The Cottage is
Ready to Decorate
Snaps together in seconds
Sturdy walls and roof will not collapse
Reusable
Wash it off and decorate
again and again...


Now for the fun job
Decorating!
It is so simple and easy.
Grab a can of frosting and candies.
That's right, no need for special frosting or candies.
We took a trip to the dollar store for all of our supplies.
(we had food colors on hand)

The only hard part was not tasting all of the goodies.


We added black food color to the frosting for the roof.



Top with candy corn, ju ju beads and grape Mike & Ike's.


BOO!
Don't be scared.  He's a friendly ghost.
Made with Smarties and a dot of black frosting.


 Our Stucco is frosting with orange food color.
How do you like our pumpkin garden?


Now for the real treat.
You can win your very own

There are 5 ways to win.
Leave a comment on how you would decorate your
That is a total of 5 ways.
Leave a comment for each chance to win.

We will be drawing on Tuesday, November 1st.

We can not wait to hear all of your decorating ideas.
Next month be on the look out for our
Thanksgiving Cottage.

Quote from Shrek
(we all need a little love)
Gingerbread Man: Wait! More sugar.
Muffin Man: But that is not the recipe.
Gingerbread Man: Trust me, Muffin Man, this girl's gotta be real sweet. I want someone who will love me forever.
Muffin Man: I must warn you, Gingy. No one has ever made cookies with this much sugar. You are tampering with forces far beyond your comprehension!
Gingerbread Man: Just put her in the oven.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Corny Muffins

How many of us lead busy lives?
We do!
In fact we have been so busy we have not had a chance to blog!

Yikes!
Zonkers!
Woa!
But, we are BACK!

Today we are making a quick dinner for the family on the run.
A dinner that you can eat on the run.

Corny Muffins

Corn muffin Box Photo
Ingredients:
2 boxes of corn muffin mix
(Jiffy is always our choice.)
and ingredients to make muffins
1 can of corn drained
1 cup of cheddar cheese
1 pack of hot dogs sliced
1/2 cup butter melted

Mix corn muffin mix and add corn and cheese.
Fill half of muffin cup and top with sliced hot dogs.


Cover hot dogs with more corn muffin mix.
(we like to add a little extra cheese)
Bake according to directions on muffin mix.
Top with melted butter.


You can even add a little frosting
(ketchup)


Check out the cute little corny breads.


Serve with tater tots and enjoy.


Ask any carny — a corn dog isn’t just batter fried meat on a stick; it’s the filet mignon of the carnival world.