Bunny Napkin Ring Holders

Uncategorized

I wanted to create a fun napkin ring holder after finding the wire and beads in my craft room. After brain storming I decided to make bunnies!

What you’ll need:

Wire

White Pearls

Wire cutters/Pliers

Steps:

1. Cut wire for the bunny head. Make this big enough to hold a napkin.

2. Add Pearls to the wire. Leave enough space to tie off the ends.

3. Twist the ends and then take the pliers and warp the ends so they are warped around the circle.

4. Cut two pieces of wire for the ears.

5. Warp one end of the wire near when you tied off the end of the head.

6. Fill this up with pearls, leaving enough space to tie off the other end. I

7. Tie off the other end, I left 1 pearl in-between each end of the ear.

8. For the 2nd ear, repeat steps 5-6!

Orange Sesame Ginger Glazed Salmon

dinner

Last night my husband made orange sesame ginger glazed salmon and it turned out amazing! We served it with sugar snap peas and brown rice.

Ingredients on the original recipe is for 4 servings but we make it for the two of us.

Salmon filets (we used the precut ones from the seafood counter at Jewel)
Salt
1/3 cup orange marmalade
1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon ginger powder
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flakes

4 green onion chopped up

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Place salmon in a glass baking dish.

In a small bowl mix the orange marmalade, soy sauce, sesame seed oil, ginger powder, garlic, red pepper flakes. Put half of the mixture over the fish and bake for 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes is up, take the salmon out and put the other half of the mixture over it. Bake again for 10 minutes.

We used a rice cooker for the brown rice and Matt cooked the peas in a pan on the stovetop.

Here’s where the original recipe came from: https://www.fromvalerieskitchen.com/orange-sesame-ginger-glazed-salmon/

Fat Tuesday

Desserts

For Fat Tuesday I wanted to be reminded of my honeymoon in New Orleans. So I decided to make beignets. I’ve never fired anything before so I thought I would try baking them. Half of them were baked with the hopes that they would puff up. That didn’t happen. Since the baked ones were already hard, I tested frying on them. I fired the rest of the beignets and got some pretty good ones! They work best if you stick closely to the 1/8 inch thickness.

Lemon Pepper Tilapia

dinner

For dinner my husband made lemon-pepper tilapia with mushrooms. We got the recipe from here: https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/lemon-pepper-tilapia-with-mushrooms/. The recipe calls for putting the seasoning on the fish while you cook, which we found out the seasoning gets unevenly spread by doing this. Next time we will create a rub to marinate the fish in.

Galantines day party!

party

We ate. We drank. We crafted!

Creating the table setting was one of my favorite parts of this night. I started by laying the gold glitter plastic runner through the table. This came in handy when a drink was spilled. Then I placed the plastic heart placemats down. Next I put down the white Crate and Barrel plates. Since we were doing embroidery, I knew I wanted to incorporate the embroidery hoops in the place settings so I laid them directly on the plates. I rolled the socks to look like flowers to place in the center of the embroidery hoops. I put out the craft supplies by placing the fabric and tissue paper in center of the table. For smaller supplies I used little dishes to hold them throughout the table.

I served a cheese tray, taco seasoning dip, spinach dip, chips, chocolate covered strawberries, French macaroons, donuts, homemade Mac and cheese, and raspberry pressco punch!

The dips were bought from target. The donuts were bought from a grocery store (my husband picked them up on his way home).

The French macaroons and chocolate covered strawberries were homemade! I will post a how to make French macaroons closer to Easter!

For the punch, I used a bottle of La Marca, 1 cup of raspberry vodka, and 1 container of frozen pink lemonade. I also added raspberries to my ice cubes and to the punch.

For crafts we learned how to create paper flowers and embroidery with the guidance from Bluprint.

Food Day

Desserts

Three of My Favorite Words: Office Food Day.

For birthdays we go all out and do treat tables. For this food day we are celebrating two birthdays, including my amazing boss’s birthday!

My boss is doing weight watchers, so I’m making these weight watcher friendly chocolate peanut butter balls but am being a bit extra and making them look like cats. I got the receipt from here https://www.wwsmartpointsrecipes.xyz/2016/02/peanut-butter-balls-smartpoints-2_26.html off of Pintrest. As you can see the piping bag ripped due to the white chocolate being too hot so there was only a few with cat whiskers.

I usually make cupcakes but my coworker requested orange cranberry muffins. Since I was on a time crunch I used Krusteaz’s mix.

Shakey Heart Placements!

Uncategorized

I saw this idea on Pintrest and decided to make them for Valentine’s Day! I started by making a template from leftover poster board I had. Sadly, I didn’t leave enough room to make the tip of the heart, so I had to make sure I left enough room to cut the tip when placing the pattern on the plastic. Next, I cut out the plastic carefully around the pattern without using pins so there were no holes in the vinyl. I decided to use red thread when sewing the placemats to create a contrasting look. After threading the machine, sew about 75 percent of the heart and then stop to funnel the confetti into the center of the heart using a piece of paper. Once all of the confetti is in the center, sew the rest of the heart. I finished making the second placemat then I cut off the extra threads. Luckily I finish them to have my husbands and my traditional Burger King Valentine’s Day meal on them!

P.S. check your bobbin so you don’t run out of thread in the middle of the project like I did….

This project took me about an 45 minutes to make two hearts.

What you’ll need:

Clear plastic from Joann Fabrics

Scissors

Paper to make a template

Pencil

Paper to make a funnel

Sewing Machine

Thread

Confetti (I got mine from the Target craft section)

Vday Front Door Envelope

Uncategorized

Valentine’s Day Envelope

I decided to do a quick 30 minute project to make my front door more festive for Valentine’s Day! I made the envelope out of white felt. The flowers were created by cutting out circles and then cutting a spiral towards the center of the circle. After cutting, I rolled the spiral until I was happy with the way the flower looked and then glued them onto the envelope. To finish the flowers, I glued a few green felt leafs by the base of the flowers. I cut a heart out of red felt and glued it to the envelope. To finish this project, I glued a piece of pom pom trim at the top to hang it on the door. Now to add some love letters!

What you’ll need:

Felt

Scissors

Hot Glue Gun/Glue

Trim

Painted Envelopes

Uncategorized

Once the days of wedding planning were over, I cleaned out my craft room and found a decent amount of hunter green envelopes left over from the wedding invites and the RSVP cards. I decided to challenge myself and come up with creative ways to use them. Since I’m hosting a Galentine’s day party in the beginning of March (yes, I know it’s a bit late), I decided to find a way to make it Valentine’s Day themed!