If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

Monday, October 30, 2017

Cooking, shopping, sewing, family fun..........

Good Monday morning everyone, 
Below is a very old fashioned dessert that I made last week.  
My aunt made a similar recipe with cream cheese but this recipe is even simpler and lighter than hers. 
 I found this Lemon Fluff recipe at Taste of Home. 

It’s a very frugal recipe using just graham cracker crumbs, butter, sugar, lemon juice, lemon jello and canned milk.  

The secret to its lightness is whipping up a can of cold milk.  

That little can of milk whips up just like heavy cream.  
By itself, it is very bland but when you add the lemon, etc in the recipe,  it comes out delicious.  
My husband liked it so much! So, I made a second Lemon Fluff  yesterday that we will enjoy this week.  


A new food we tried is the ready to cook flour tortillas from Aldi.  
The tortillas are very thin and need to cook about 2 1\2 minutes in a hot dry skillet or gridle. 

The tortillas puff up while cooking.  


They are made in Weslaco, Texas and are probably sold at other stores in addition to Aldi. 
I know some of you are very interested in the nutrition and ingredients of store foods so hopefully you can read the package if you want.  


When cooked, our tortillas didn’t roll but they did fold in half just fine and hold the taco ingredients. 

Each bag has 20 tortillas in it so it will feed my husband and I several meals. 
I think the bags were about $2 -2.75, they are in the refrigerator case near the lunch meat products.  


Another new product I’m really liking are these little clips for sewing.  
They look kind of like tiny clothes pins.  

They are great for sewing knits, to hold the pieces together flatter than pins, especially knit fabric.  
I ordered mine form Amazon, 100 clips were about $9 

Sewing projects- I made a Summer Kimono pattern from Patterns For Pirates for my daughter. 



For myself,  I used some $2 a yard Walmart knit to make a Laundry Day Tee dress by Love Notions.  
And, a summer kimono, which I don’t love.  Maybe mine is too big or maybe I’m just not a kimono girl.  

Another sewing project was hemming 5 pair of suit pants for our son that wears suits 95% of his working time.  
One was Ralph Lauren and it was an especially nice feeling fabric.  



We still like our Rae Dunn pottery but I haven’t added any new pieces in months. 
My son saw a lot of mugs at the Little TJMaxx in our town so I went and checked them out.  
I happily bought some Christmas mugs for us and some others for gifts.  


Granddaughter Elizabeth is in Girl Scouts and they had an old fashioned tea party to learn about manners and traditions.   
These 2 photos are a bit blurry but don’t the little girls look sweet with tea cups and such? 





I’m re-posting our Stuffed Pepper Soup since so many of you asked about it.



Hope you all have a good week ❤️🏡❤️

Monday, October 23, 2017

Dollar General and more soup

I haven’t been to Dollar General in a few weeks.  They have some new digital coupons and I think I did pretty good this morning,  
I used a $3/15 Coupon, $1 Angel Soft and $3 Arm & Hammer detergent pods.  
The Angel Soft is a huge package, lots of sheets per roll and the heaviest package of TP I remember buying in a long time.  
The summer shoes were .50 and will go in the closet for the granddaughters next summer. 
The water hose sprayers were .25 and the seeds were .08 and .12
All my summer stuff was on big markdown.  


I hope the receipt is readable.  I paid $10.95 total.  
All 3 coupons I used are digital and available to anyone.  


My husband picked more peppers.  We liked the stuffed pepper soup so much, I made a double batch.  😱♥️

Friday, October 20, 2017

Rustic fall crafts - child friendly

Hello everyone. I saw this YouTube video a month or so ago and I thought her outdoor fall decorations and instructions were right up my alley.

And then I saw my husband had lots of wood scraps in his shop.  
I looked on Pinterest and saw even more easy fall crafts and decided we had the right size scraps to make some friendly monsters and some chunky pumpkins. 
I gathered up paint, brushes, a cover for the table, permanent black markers, a hot glue gun and gloves for me. 
When 3 of our grands were here yesterday,   they did the painting,  



We ended up with10 pumpkins made from scraps of 4 by 4 posts.  Our stems are made from old thread spools and wood craft balls.  They were hot glued on along with some silk maple leaves.  
I kept 5 for our front porch and the grands took 5 to their home, their mom put theirs on their mantle.  




I saw these happy monsters on Pinterest and wanted to make them too.
They are scraps of 2 by 4s that the grands painted.  When the paint was dry, I added some of the facial features with black markers.  Some of the eyes are eyeball stickers.  
I don’t do scary anything so our monsters are all cheerful and friendly looking. 

They will be standing in this living room window during this season. 

The pile of blankets stayed on the couch because grands were here for 2 days in a row and the youngest ones all take afternoon naps.  


The post pumpkins are on our front porch in between a bunch of ........
Osage Oranges that grow on a tree near a pond in our addition.  I pick them up most every fall to decorate our porch.





We are having a very mild fall. We still have zinnias in full bloom and we still have monarch butterflies.  
I thought monarchs migrated before cold weather arrives?


5 of the grands were here for lunch- we all enjoyed quesadillas, grapes and bananas on Tupperware dishes. 
Meals don’t have to be fancy or elaborate. 
Their afternoon snack was popcorn. 

And here’s 2 year old JackJack since you can’t see his face in the group photo
.  
He’s cute, right? 
And you know the reputation Two Year Olds have? 
Well,  that’s our JackJack.  His name is Jackson but he calls himself JackJack and I like it.  
But his other two year habits......I know they will pass but he is a handful right now.  


We love him lots!