Showing posts with label Hand Made. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hand Made. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Valentine's Day Treats


 
We all are in the phase of preparing for Valentines Day!

Whether you celebrate it, or not, nothing feels better than to show your loved one that he's loved!

This is a recipe that my grandma had, a recipe that doesn't have a name. Um? Well, we now call it, Grandma's ;)

(If you happen to know when these would be called, plz let me know!) ;)

These are the engridients that you will need:
3 1/2 cups flour
200 grams margarine (2 small pkgs)
1 cup sugar
1 cup of jam (preserves)
2 eggs
1 tsp soda (w/vinagar)
1 tblsp corn starch
pinch of salt
powdered sugar


Beat the eggs, mix in sugar


 Melt the margarine, mix it in with sugar and eggs.


Pour the vinegar over soda and let sizzle for a few seconds (kinda like a science project ;) 
and pour into the batter




Add 3 CUPS (save the 1/2) flour


Grease a 9x11 pan (i forgot to line mine, you could use waxpaper or foil :) So much easier to clean!


 Spread HALF the batter in a 9"x11" pan.


Sprinkle the corn starch, spread around


 Add the jam, make sure it's the thicker kind

 

 Add 1/2 cup of flour into the rest of the batter, mix.


It should come out like this:


 Using a grater, grate the rest of the batter on top. Make sure it's even :)


Put into a heated over, 425 F for about 25-30 min. Middle rack. Until golden brown.


 Ta-da! (I kinda burned it....uhg, it still came out delish ;)


Using cookie cutter, make hearts!
Sprinkle with some powdered sugar :)


Hope you try it and enjoy it!
It's much easier than it seems.
I think I made it look harder than it really is.
It's super fast and doesn't take much ingridients.

This is my first recipe that I'm sharing online, so please, bear with me, I'm not the best explainer. lol

Enjoy and happy early Valentine's Day!

xoxo

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hand Made Baby Birth Announcements


After our newest arrival was born, I looked online to order birth announcements.
I really wanted something different and unique, but did not want to pay big bucks for it.
Unfortunately, you can't have both :)

I decided to make my own. I went in to Joann's and picked out some Photo Mats. I think that taking that route saved me time and money. I'm not too crafty and I don't have all the supplies, so the double photo mats worked out great!

I also picked up some ribbon, brown and blue, the best color combination ever!


Oh how could I forget buttons!? :)

With some double sided tape, scissors, time and creativity, I came up with this!







The photo mats came in all sorts of colors and designs, I did not use all of them though, there were quite a few greys, blacks, and white. Perfect for next project! Whatever that might be. lol

So I made about 15 announcements, these are the totals :)

Photo Mats - $3.49 Orig. $4.99
Buttons - $2.49
Ribbon - $5.08
Photos - about $8
I used a 20% off coupon that took $2.61 off

Comes out to about $16. Note that I didn't use up all the mats and i have a TON of ribbon left, I also have photos left. ;)

That's like $1 per announcement! Good deal I think :)

I really enjoyed this project. :)

Please let me know what you think!
Would you do this yourself or would you rather just order them online?

I LOVE your comments! They mean the world to me!

xoxo