Garlic Biscuits

Garlic Biscuits

In our home we love biscuits and gravy. My husband will not eat the kind out of the can he has to have homemade from scratch biscuits. I have tried so many different recipes to try and find the best biscuits. Needless to say all of them did not turn out. One day we were at my husbands aunts house and she made these with dinner and they were amazing. So of course I asked her for her recipe and just prayed that mine would taste as good as hers. Does that ever happen you, use the exact same recipe as someone and it doesn't taste the same? Well it happens to me all the time. But these turned out great! I have made them for a few different dinner parties and get togethers I have been to and they are a hit everyone asks for my recipe. So here it is. Very simple

Ingredients



 4 C. Flour (I use 2 all purpose and 2 wheat)

3 T baking powder

1 t. cream of tartar

1 t. salt

4 T sugar

1 C. shortening

2 eggs

1 1/3 milk.

 

Directions:

-Preheat oven 425

- Combine all dry ingredients

-Cut in shortening

-add eggs and milk

- mix well and evenly put into muffin pan.

 

* Once they are in the muffin pan melt 1/4 cup butter and chop garlic. You can add as little or as much garlic as you want. We eat a lot of garlic around here. mix the garlic and melted butter and brush tops of muffins with the butter/garlic mixture and bake.

-bake at 425 for 15 minutes.

 

I hope you enjoy these! 

thanksgiving banner

I just wanted to share my thanksgiving banner. I made this one out of paper. My back paper is 4.5 by 3.25 then my light paper is 4x3. I just cut my letters out with my cricut. This was a super simple and fast craft. Then I just punched holes at the top and weaved the lace in and out of it.

halloween banner

Happy Halloween Banner

I just had to share my new banner. Sorry i hvent posted for a few weeks we have been gone visiting family or a few weeks. everyone keeps asking if its paper or fabric. It is fabric. They had a pattern at  small quilt shop in st. George. I can't remember the name.  Then I just cut it all out and sewe it together. I am pleased with how it turned out. Anyway I hope you have a great Halloween.

DIY Wreath

DIY Wreath

 

So I had made a wreath last winter for this fall and was so excited to put it up. I put it up a few weeks ago..yes I know that is a little early... anyway it fell off my door when someone came to visit and kind of slammed the door as they left and it fell off and broke ;(. So I made another one. Quite different from the first but I think I like this one better. I wish I would have taken more pictures of the process but I didn't. 

Supplies:

Burlap

Wreath

Hot glue gun

Different kinds of material

Ribbon (i got the ribbon from here)

Ok so i cut a 3 inch strip of burlap and just wrapped it around the wreath all the way around. Then hot glued it in place.

 

 

 

Next I took the different kinds of fabric and cut strips. I cut different lengths and widths to whatever i wanted. I also cut some smaller strips of burlap to make the smaller rosettes.

 

Then I made a bunch of rosettes. I am sorry i didn't post  pictures of that process. I will do a post on how to make them another time i suppose.

 

Anyway i made all the rosettes and then started placing them where i wanted them and then hot glued them on. I then took some ribbon and tied bows to add a little different textures to the wreath. Then i hot glued them on.

 

 

And thats it! If you make a wreath similar to this please leave a comment with a link to yours i would love to see your ideas!

If you have a big hook on your door that you hang wreaths by you could just hang it on or if you have a smaller hook you could hot glue a small piece of ribbon on the back to hang it on. Either way would work great i am sure!

color game

So my little guy just turned 2 last month. Crazy I know!! Anyway those of you who have kids know it is hard to entertain a 2 year old for very long!  Winter is coming fast around here and I have been stressed about what to do with him because he wont be able to go outside and play and I dont want him to just sit in front of the TV all day. So I decided I would make games and things so he will learn his colors, ABCs, and counting.  

So today we made this! Just a simple matching type game of his colors.. I make him repeat the color before he puts the clothes pin on. He actually likes it a lot so that is great! 

It is super simple to make.. I saw something like this on Pinterest and thought "hey i have all the stuff to make that i will try it out". I traced a circle onto a box and cut it out. Then i attempted to make even sections and color them. Don't judge i couldnt get the sections perfect but i figured he is 2 he wont care. 

Then i painted each color and he helped by painting the newspaper I put under it. And i panted the clothes pins and let it dry and then gave it to him. So i will let him play with it today then maybe put it away for a couple weeks and trade out other activities so he doesn't get bored with it. 

Anyway I will try to post all my ideas for the winter as i make them so keep checking back :)

diy hairties

DIY Hair Ties

So apparently these are the new thing! I have seen them everywhere! They are super fun and easy to make. 

So lets get started.. 

Get some fold over elastic I got all mine from Here she has so many different kinds of elastic and they are all super cute! she has solids, prints, polka dots, chevron everything so go check it out! I know chevron is the "new thing" but honestly I like my polka dot hair ties more than the chevron. I am not sure why i just like how they look in my hair more. 

I am sorry for the pictures i couldn't quite figure out how to show all the different types of elastic. 

Anyways lets get started on the hairties. Super complicated so pay attention. 

Cut a strip of elastic. I did mine 7 and 1/2 inches long. You can do 7-8 inches if you go smaller it is harder to tie. It really depends on how thick your hair is and how tight you want the elastic or how many times you want to wrap it around your hair. 

Fold in half and tie a knot in the end. I burn the ends so they dont fray but you don't have to. 

And your done! Super complicated I know!! haha. 

The elastic in this post was provided by Hairbow Supplies Ect. But the opinions are my own!

zucchini boats

Zucchini Boats

 

I dont know about any of you but I have had zucchini coming out my ears this year. We have had so much I was running out of things to do with it! I went to pinterest to see if I could find new recipes for it and i came across one like this but I took the idea and did my own thing with it.

Ingredients;
Sausage
yellow squash
zucchini
mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
rice
onion
seasonings (i used basil and parsley and celery salt)
garlic salt
salt and pepper

Directions:
Cook sausage.
Add yellow squash, rice, onion and seasonings to it. ( we had some rice left over from the night before so i just added some of that. It was about 1 cup.)
Scrape out the insides of the zucchini.
Put the sausage filling in the zucchini and top with cheeses.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until the zucchini is the tenderness you would like.

ribbon bows

I found my new favorite place to buy ribbon!! This etsy shop has amazing ribbon! I am trying to make bows out of ribbon now and Hairbow Supplies ect. is the place to go to get your ribbon. Seriously she has every thing you need. She has skinny ribbon and fat ribbon perfect for any project! Really go check out her supply, she has chevron ribbon, polkadot, holiday themed. The set I have is this one for Halloween.

Anyway those are just a couple of examples of the types she has! go check out the rest she has a lot! 

Ok onto my tutorials. 

Supplies:

Ribbon

Needle

Thread

Directions:

I got 3 different kinds of ribbon and cut them 7 and 1/2 inches long. 

Then i got 3 of them and laid them one on top of another

Stick the needle through the printed side in the middle. But don't pull all the way through. 

One at a time flip it over and stick it on the needle making a loop. (picture below)

Until you have all of them flipped over. Then pull the needle all the way through. Then poke the needle back through back and forth a couple times to secure it. Then tie a knot and you are done.

You can make another one and stack them to make it look more full or leave it like that! You could also start out with more strands of ribbon. I only started out with three. You could also layer them doing each layer one color instead of mixing the colors however you like! There are many options

Tutorial 2.

Supplies:

Ribbon 

needle

thread

hot glue gun

Directions:

I have done a tutorial like this before just with fabric not ribbon. 

Get a thick piece of ribbon of your choice. and a skinny one. 

I cut the thick one to be about 7 inches

The skinny one was 7 and 1/2 but afterwards I trimmed a lot off so you could probably start out with 5 inches or even shorter depending on how you want your middle

Fold each end of your ribbon into the center so they over lap a little bit. 

Sew down the center

Then pull the thread so it bunches up. Then tie a knot so it will stay all bunched up.

On the back of the fat ribbon put a small dot of glue. 

Take your skinny ribbon and at one end glue the end to the back of the fat ribbon. 

Wrap the skinny ribbon around a few times then glue the end to secure it! 

And your done!  :)

I have quite a few more ribbon bows and flowers to show you so keep checking back :) 

Really go check out her site you wont be disappointed! She has an etsy shop that i linked earlier and a website here if you would like to go there. 

Al lthe ribbon for this post was provided by Hairbow Supplies Ect but the ideas and opinions are all mine.

stuffed pumpkins

So the other day I got together with a friend and we made these pumpkins! They are so fun and festive for the holidays! They were also super super easy to make! I got the idea from pinterest and this site!  The tutorial and everything is on that site. She gives the measurements and everything. For these pumpkins I made, I used the small, medium, and large. Give or take a few centimeters from her measurements

 

 

shopping flowers

Before I show more headbands I have made I want to talk a little bit about buying flowers. When I first started looking around I did not realize you can get a lot of things without breaking the bank. 

Lilys Flower Supply shop I absolutely love. She has everything you need to make headbands with flowers all in one spot. A lot of shops just have one or 2 different types of flowers, not this shop she has many different kinds.

I have found that buying them in bulk is the best way to go. Like I said before when I first started I was looking around and seeing like $3 for 1 flower. And that was a cheap flower. I remember thinking to my self holy cow my daughter will only be able to have a few headbands. 

So anyway wholesale/bulk flowers. This shop has amazing deals. Let me give you a few examples of the deals you can get with each of the different flowers I have listed. 

These ones are the satin puff flowers! She has a lot of great deals on these! For example there is this grab bag deal where you can get 10 of these flowers for 8.99. Keep in mind a lot of flowers are more expensive so some grab bags are different prices but still great deals! The white and light pink also has a deal of 10 for 7.50.

 

 

These rolled rosettes you can get 10 for 10 dollars here or you can get 20 for 15 dollars here These are made out of satin also. So they are a little bit more expensive as well!

 

 

 

Now for the shabby flowers!! You can find great deals on these a lot of places. But the key to getting a lot of stuff is buying it all from 1 shop! That way you will have to pay the minimum on shipping!  She has a great deal where you can get 50 shabby flowers for 12 dollars! here That is a great deal! Now you might think holy cow I don't need 50 flowers. But if you think about it if you double them up on headbands that only gives you 25 headbands. She has other deals for smaller amounts also. She has 25 flowers for 6 dollars or 12 for 3 dollars! She has all kinds solids or prints! They are all so cute! She also has petite flowers of all kinds! She has a deal on her petite shabby flowers 50 for 5 dollars! here. The petite ones are really cute to double up on one headband!

 

She also sales embellishments that you can put in the center of the flowers and tiny little rosettes. You will just have to check out her shop to see all the different kinds of rhinestones she has!

 

 

These are probably one of the more expensive kinds but they are super cute! You can get 2 of these kinds of flowers for 2.50 here. Which really is a good deal!

Now I didn't show the elastic that she has yet that will be for another post! But she does have elastic. So seriously you can buy every thing you need to make headbands all from this shop! She even has the felt backing for the flowers. Really go check out her shop! Its great you wont be disappointed!

~Everything from this post was provided by Lilys Flower Shop, but the opinions and ideas are all mine!~


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Headwraps

Apparently these are the new things! My sister has been wearing them forever and so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon. I tried them out one night and I actually liked them alot! I was super suprised when my husband said he even thought they were ok.

 

The top picture is out of knit fabric i had left over from a skirt I made. The bottom picture is just cotton left over from a quilt. I would definately reccommend the knit. It forms to your head a lot better!

 

The top one I just tied in a square knot in the back.  The bottom one I put an elastic on the back. I will do a tutorial on how i did it coming up. I was just so excited about these that I wanted to share!

 

 

 

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Headbands

 

As you know I had a cute baby girl about 10 weeks ago now and I have been obsessed with making headbands for her. At first when I started looking around, on pinterest and other places I got overwhelmed because I thought there would be no way I could afford to make her all the cute headbands and they all looked hard. I never realized how simple they are.

 

First of all etsy is the way to go. There are so many shops that you can find great deals. The headbands I am showing today all came from the etsy shop Tutu Chic Supplies. She has the elastic, flowers, felt backing, cute jewels for the center of the flowers, and more. She has everything.

 

When I first got my package immediately started sitting the flowers on the headbands deciding which flower I wanted to put on which elastic and so on. I decided that I wanted to put clips on the flowers so that I could trade out the elastic and flowers so they could go on any elastic. So I had to make my elastic so i could clip different flowers on and off.  There are many different ways to attach flowers to the headbands so I will show you a couple different options.

 

So what I did was cut about 1 inch off and then hot glued the inch around the elastic ends holding it together so the clip could slide on and off. ( see below pictures)

Now there are tons of different clips out there. I honestly like these ones the best because they dont make the flower stick way far off her head. I like it to look like the flower is perminately attached. It is kind of tricky to get them glued on without gluing the clip together. I learned it was easier for me to put a dot of glue on a bobby pin from my hair and then spread it on the parts i wanted to glue down that way i wasnt getting glue everywhere and it wasn't making the other part of the clip glue shut.

 

 

Now i think this is the most common way to attach a flower. This is more perminate though so if you dont want to trade the flowers then you can do it this way. On the back of every flower is a felt circle. you would lay the elastic over the back and then hot glue another felt circle on top of it so it sandwiches the elastic in the middle.

If you put the flowers on clips there are many different varietys that you can come up with. Which equals many different outfits to match.

 

 

The last way I like about attaching. If you just take a needle and thread and you can stitch a few stiches in the back. Going up to the felt on the back of the flower back down through the elastic. Just do a couple stiches to make it secure. Then when you are done just use an unpicker and your flower comes off. That way it looks like it is perminately attached when it is not.

 I love this elastic because it is super soft and it doesnt itch my daugthers head. She will actually keep these headbands on. I have been looking for a grey color for a long time now and I haven't liked any of the ones I have. But this grey matches really well and i like it alot!

If you like this kit that i got it comes with 5 elastics. 2 skinny and 3 5/8 inch. and 5 flowers with felt backings and 4 jewels to go in the middle of the flowers if you would like. The link for this kit is here.