Carrot Cake Cupcakes

After Josh brought home a piece of awful carrot cake from a local bakery I became hell bent on making GREAT carrot cake. I of course am not a big cake person it’s the whole slice thing so I figured I’d make some cupcakes.
I have more tweaking to do still but so far it’s so [...]

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SCORE!!!

I purchased this machine for Josh at target on clearance. I got it for 22 bucks!!! Now I can have some help with my sewing. I still can’t believe I scored a really nice manual sewing machine for under 25 dollars. I’ve looked at the other Targets in the area and have not found anymore [...]

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Cereal Yummies

I have this thing for cereal, I could eat it for every meal and never get bored with it. What I love more than cereal is something sweet made from cereal. I took some of my favorite sugar cereals and made marshmallow yummies out of them.
Making them is easy, equal parts cereal and mini marshmallows [...]

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I love fried foods… or why I’m fat

While I was home I tried to get in all the yummy greasy foods I would eat while I lived there. Who would have thought that something as simple as dough fried in fat would be so freaking awesome.

These yummy little gobs of deep fried goodness are what Rhode Islanders call dough boys. I was [...]

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I Love Handicraft – The Book

I was so excited when I heard the knock on the door and the dogs whip themselves into a frenzy of barking and jumping. There was only one reason for the knock and that is the arrival of the much anticipated book “I Love Handicraft – 56 Craft Creators’ Interview and DIY Tips”.

After rounding up [...]

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A girl could go crazy.

Who thought these tiny little pellets could drive me over the edge?
I’m working on yet another project for someone else. Everything has been done for months now except I needed the filling which happens to be these hard to find in bulk little pellets. I wasn’t going to spend 7 dollars a bag at the [...]

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