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    Haley's Bandana Quilt

    I started a quilt for my grand daughter... She will be 3 soon.
    This is something I've wanted to learn to do for a very long time. My grandma passed away before she could teach me. I haven't used a sewing machine since I was a freshman in high school... so it will be an adventure

    So I went searching for a pattern, I found one that uses store bought bandana's...

    This is day 1 of my quilt project...
    I sewed the 12 bandana's into 3 rows of four... after washing and pressing them
    here is  a picture of the "quilt top"

    http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa138/icecreamkisses_photos/crafts/IMG_0359.jpg

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    Amish bread from starter...

    Ingredients:
    2 cups all-purpose flour
    1 cup white sugar
    1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding
    Directions:
    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
    2. In a large mixing bowl, stir together all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, chocolate pudding. Make a well in the center of this mixture. Add Amish friendship bread starter, vegetable oil, milk, eggs and vanilla extract; mix well. Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.
    3. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean, about 60 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing from pan.
    This is the recipe I use and adapt it to whatever flavor of bread or muffins strikes me
    pudding mix
    1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
    1 cup vegetable oil
    1/2 cup milk
    3 eggs
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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    Friendship Bread Starter

    This is the basic recipe for friendship bread starter...

    • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
    • 1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
    • 3 cups all-purpose flour, divided
    • 3 cups white sugar, divided
    • 3 cups milk

    DIRECTIONS

    1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Let stand 10 minutes. In a 2 quart container glass, plastic or ceramic container, combine 1 cup flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or flour will lump when milk is added. Slowly stir in 1 cup milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Cover loosely and let stand until bubbly. Consider this day 1 of the 10 day cycle. Leave loosely covered at room temperature.
    2. On days 2 thru 4; stir starter with a spoon. Day 5; stir in 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Days 6 thru 9; stir only.
    3. Day 10; stir in 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Remove 1 cup to make your first bread, give 2 cups to friends along with this recipe, and your favorite Amish Bread recipe. Store the remaining 1 cup starter in a container in the refrigerator, or begin the 10 day process over again (beginning with step 2).
    I use a Gallon Ziplock bag instead of a bowl... Then to stir the mix you only have to Mash the bag.

    If you run out of people to give it too you can freeze it.

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    Cake in a Jar

    This is an awesome gift to give...
    Please read all instructions carefully.

    Prewash 8 pint-sized wide mouth canning jars (be sure to use the kind that have no shoulders) in hot, soapy water. Rinse well, dry and let them come to room temperature. Grease insides of jar well.Only use shortening, no sprays.

    Pour one cup of batter into each jar and carefully remove any batter from the rims. Place jars in a preheated 325-degree oven and bake for 40 minutes. While cakes are baking, bring a saucepan of water to a boil and carefully add jar lids. Remove pan from heat and keep lids hot until ready to use.

    When the cakes have finished baking, remove jars from oven. Make sure jar rims are clean. (If they're not, jars will not seal correctly) Place lids on jars, and screw rings on tightly. Jars will seal as they cool. Cakes will slide right out when ready to serve.

    **you can remove the rings after cooled/sealed and add decorations and labels.

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    Teaspoon Treasures

    One of the things I like to do during the holidays is to make things in my kitchen...

     I tend to make items and then give them as gifts. Hot cocoa mix is easy and cheap to make yourself.

    1(2-lb.) box of Quik
    1 (16 oz.) jar CoffeeMate
    1(1 lb.) box powdered sugar
    1 (8-oz.) box dry milk

    Mix all ingredients together well. Store in airtight container. Use 3 to 4 heaping tablespoons of mix per cup of boiling water.

    To this I add plastic spoons dipped in marshmallow cream {fluff} and dipped in chocolate.

    dip spoons in fluff, freeze for 10 minutes on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.
    then dip in chocolate and refreeze till chocolate is set.
    To wrap for gift giving I use fold over sandwich bags and ribbon.

    Marshmallow Spoons

    I also enjoy making candied tea stirrers...

    you will need:
    • 1 cooking spray
    • 34 hard candies, crushed
    • 2 tablespoons light corn syrup 
    • Line a jelly roll pan with waxed paper and spray with cooking spray.
    In a small, heavy saucepan over low heat, combine crushed candies and corn syrup; stir constantly.
    1. Spoon melted candy into the well of each plastic spoon. Place spoons on prepared pan with their handles on the edge of the pan to keep the spoons level. Cool at room temperature until candy hardens. Store in airtight containers.
    yield: 32 spoons

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    Day 5... still flying...

     I'm getting better at my morning routine and have read through many of the baby steps.

    The biggest challenge I'm facing right now is getting my 14 yo to be accountable for his end of the chores...

    The next challenge is my piles of laundry...

    We live in a 2 bedroom 3rd floor apartment, the laundry room hours are 8a-8pm.... Many days I find myself working 2-10 or 7:30-3 it just depends. Making a routine is hard when your schedule flip flops sometimes from 1 day to the next.

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    Beginning to fly...

    My sister and I were talking {a rare thing}. She told me about the FLY lady system and suggested that I take a look at it. The funniest thing is that for many years when my children were younger I adopted this approach. It helped.

    After having a nervous breakdown and moving cross country twice, I found myself not following the routines that had helped so much, especially with a special needs child.

    The new relationship I am in has inspired me to try yet again to organize my life and make progress instead of digressing into the chaos of my youth.
    I grew up in a household without the structure to accomplish daily household tasks. This has caused me to struggle with organization all my life.
    When my son's mental illness was diagnosed I found myself overwhelmed with appointments and school meetings. The only way to make things work with 3 children and everything I had to accomplish in each day was to get organized.
    My mom wasn't much help as she's never had to deal with what was staring me in the face.
    Ok, time to get to work and get my home the way I have always wanted it to be...

    Wish me luck

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