The Creative Connection

The Creative Connection is having a fantastic give-away!!!
Amy Barrickman, owner of Indygo Junction is donating a fat quarter bundle (18 different coordinates) by Red Rooster Fabrics which is gorgeous, along with a signed copy of The Sew-It Book. 
Oh, I would love to win this beautiful collection!

We are working diligently to finish school for the year and move on to more exciting summer activities like gardening and reading some fun books!


Today I planted oregano, thyme, and lavender to my little collection of herbs. I've only planted a few here in the house and look forward to planting some in the garden.

Working on cleaning my house today, laundry and dinner plans. Whew, that's enough for one day!

Monkey Bread

 Monkey Bread

This is one of our favorite snacks, especially when we go camping.

So fast and easy to make!

Ingredients:

3 cans refrigerated biscuits

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

Using kitchen scissors, cut each biscuit piece into 4 pieces

 

Drop pieces into 1 cup sugar and teaspoons cinnamon. Drop sugar coated

pieces into buttered bundt or tube pan.

Put 1/2 cup of the left-over sugar/cinnamon mix and 1/2 cup packed brown sugar and 1 cup

butter into a small saucepan.

Bring to a boil, remove from heat immediately and drizzle over

sugar coated biscuit pieces.

Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Cool slightly in an upright position, then tip pan onto a plate and

remove monkey pull-apart bread.

YUMMY!!! ENJOY!

My finished Day Tripper Bag

The colors are gorgeous, the picture doesn't do 

it justice. Lighting in the house was terrible when I took 

the picture.

Last but not least, I wanted to share my latest purchase for my quilting/sewing stash.

I found these wonderful little needles which is supposed to be wonderful for

stippling on my machine. I thought the packaging was so cute!!

My Favorite Soup

Easy Cheesy Potato Soup

With the weather a bit rainy and cool I thought today would be a good 

day for my easy cheesy potato soup. We love this soup with 

those easy freezer rolls you can pop out of the freezer and bake while

still frozen. How easy is that?!!!

Ingredients :

1 Box Augratin Potatoes

1 lb. Velveeta Cheese

1 can corn or 1 cup freezer corn

3 cups water and cheese mix from box

1 can Ro-Tel tomatoes

1 onion chopped

2 to 3 cups milk

1. Bring 3 cups water to boil, cook potatoes until tender.

2. When potatoes are cooked place in crock-pot adding cheese mixture, stir

3. Cut the Velveeta cheese in cubes and add to potatoes

4. Add corn, onions, and 2-3 cups milk, 

Cook 2 to 3 hours, STIRRING OCCASSIONALLY. 

I add the tomatoes last, about 5-10 minutes before serving. In the past when I added it with the rest of the ingredients my soup came out kinda lumpy and curdled.  This has helped and the soup is thick and creamy.

 

Recipe Blog

This morning I was browsing the internet for a recipe and came across Cooking During Stolen Moments, an awesome blog with wonderful recipes and more!
I remembered making some type of muffin egg biscuits and found the perfect recipe here on this blog called, Bacon Cheese and Egg Biscuit Cups. They are delicious and very easy to make! Wow, I could spend all day looking at these amazing recipes. Hope you enjoy.

Let the Sunshine In

Gorgeous weather today....... I've opened the doors and windows to let the breeze blow in!
Today I've been busy re-potting some houseplants and also took a little time to work in the yard for a few minutes. I love being outside on these beautiful days. The sun feels so refreshing!

The past few days I've got quite a bit of sewing accomplished with the blocks for the Pinwheel Sampler. I'm having issues with my camera and the computer so I won't be able to show you the blocks until I get it resolved.
They are fun to make and have actually helped me to have more patience with the sewing of the blocks to assure perfect quarter inch seams and square blocks. Sometimes I have a bad habit of rushing.......not a good thing.

Looking forward to dying Easter Eggs this weekend! My girls still enjoy doing this together when we can.
We still hide Easter eggs too! We will enjoy time with family this weekend after church on Sunday.

Oh, and my blogger friend Randi, over at i have to say..... is having a fantabulous giveaway!!
All the fabric and patterns are 20% off and the giveaway is a super $50 Gift Certificate to her shop!!
I would love to win any of her gorgeous fabric or patterns from her etsy shop. Take a look!

Pinwheel Sampler Blocks

 Love making these cute little pinwheel blocks! I found a great tutorial over at ps i quilt's blog! You will want to grab a button to post on your blog and join in her Pinwheel Sampler quilt she's making. 

 Practice blocks with orange scrap fabric below

 

 This is the block with my new Moda layer cake fabric

Spring Break

Spring is in the air! Oh, I'm sure we will have at least one more good snow, LOL! But it won't be long now, the birds are singing each morning outside my window and so I can look forward to sunshine days very soon!
I'm one of those people who "thrive" on sunshine. Seriously, I get depressed and feeling so very emotional during the winter months. Yeah, Praise the Lord for that beautiful sunshine.
Hubby is having coffee and relaxing while we shop in a cute little shop with a million Vera Bradley bags!
My girls love em!!

Last week we took a little trip to get away for a few days for Spring Break. Enjoyed time together with my precious family with a little shopping, eating ,reading, and just plain old doing "nothin", except relaxing in the pool at the motel.I took a picture of the gorgeous snow-covered mountains in the background where we were shopping.
Of course I did visit my two favorite Quilt shops while we were there too. More pictures later of what I found there.