A Rubber Ducky Baby card - Cricut Craft Room

My Doodlebug Designs papers are at it again.

I shared a CAS baby card the other week and

here's the second one in my "baby series!"

This sweet little rubber ducky die cut was made

using my beloved Cricut and a free cart from

the Cricut Craft Room.  

Cricut Craft Room basics, Cricut, Inkadinkado sentiment stamp,
Doodlebug Designs paper (Snips & Snails),
kraft cardstock, flower button, jute twine

The rubber ducky song kept going through my

head as I was making this card.

Rubber Ducky you're the one,

you make bath time lots of fun...

I hope this post brought a little smile to your face!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

This baby card series will 
continue in the coming weeks. (:




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My TO-DO List Altered notebook - Bella BLVD

Happy Earth Day!

Here's a fun little recycle/upcycle - reuse

project I've been wanting to share.

I am an admitted list-maker, yep, it's right there

on my "About Me" page! Lists are a constant in

my life. 

My mind naturally works in lists.

When I have a project to do, I see the steps in

list form before my pen even hits paper.

So where does a prolific list-maker keep her lists?

Notebooks!

But I'm a crafter too, so they need to be

embellished notebooks!

I make one for each season. (:

notebooks - Summer '15 & Winter '16

Recycling or is it Upcycling?

I use the kids old composition books; they 

never use all the pages. Would that be 

recycling or upcycling?

Upcycling the kids old notebooks.
The used pages are carefully cut out and
the cover is joyfully altered.

Most notebooks have more than half of

their pages unused, in that case I just 

alter the cover. 

However, my current edition was pretty

much thinned out so I made a quick 

bookcover from kraft wrapping paper.

This will allow me to transfer my spring 

cover to another book when this one

is finished before the end of the season.

creating a kraft paper book cover

Ironically, some of Bella Blvd's winter papers 

were perfect for my spring notebook!

Bella Blvd Winter Wonder design papers were

used, earlier in the year, for both my winter notebook 

and my 2016 daily planner, I really liked the color scheme.

Winter '16  with Bella Blvd design papers

My 2016 daily planner using Bella Blvd Winter Wonder papers

spring 2016 To-Do list notebook

Are you a list-maker?
Do you keep notebooks of notes?



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5 Favorite Books from My Childhood

We've been de-cluttering our home for the last two 

years. I think I can claim that I'm a minimalist now!

It's a lot of work but it feels sooo good!

And you find things you haven't seen in years. 

My mother had kept my favorite childhood books

to pass onto my children, hoping they would enjoy

them as much as I did. 

I'm happy to report, they loved them too!

Gus was a Friendly Ghost - I loved how kind Gus 

was and how patient he was with that mouse!

We Were Tired of Living in a House - this was

such a wonderful adventure to me and gave me

a warm, cozy feeling when they ended up back

 home.  Ooops, maybe I should have labeled

that a "spoiler alert"! (:

The Monkey and the Crocodile - 

I was impressed at how clever the 

monkey was!

Down Down The Mountain -

such a sweet story and a great

lesson that generosity is somehow

always rewarded. 

The Strange Story of The Frog Who Became a Prince -

I'm not sure why I like this book so much, maybe the 

black & white sketch-like drawings or maybe it was just

a funny story.

I'll admit...when de-cluttering uncovered these books,

I read through each one...and enjoyed them all over 

again!  (:

Blessings!

Do you remember your
favorite childhood books?

Cheesy Bacon Quiche - Printable Recipe

Quiche is one of my go-to meals!
And I have an easy one to share with you today.

      quiche: (keesh) 
              is an open-face pastry crust with a 
              filling of eggs and milk which, when
              baked, becomes a custard. It can be 
              made with vegetables, meat and seafood.

This definition tells me that as long as I have
milk and eggs, I can pretty much dump any
thing else I have in a pie crust and have 
dinner on the table in about 30 minutes!

That's a winner in my book.

And the fact that you can "customize"
your quiche for your family puts this
meal over the top!



Today's recipe is a very basic one, you could 
switch out the bacon for any meat or seafood
and use any cheese that compliments the 
protein you chose.
OR
Use whatever you have on hand; leftovers
work great!

My hubby likes to make a big breakfast for the family

over the weekend; bacon, eggs, pancakes and french

toast. Its a regular breakfast bar. 

So this past weekend, I asked him to make some extra

bacon so I could make quiche this week.

Well, you would have thought I spoke in a foreign 

language, both my son & hubby cocked their 

heads and in unison said, "There is no such

thing as "extra" bacon!"

Ooookay!

So I just bagged some up before bringing it 

to the breakfast table and no one even noticed.

This quiche starts simply by putting your pie

crust in the pie plate. Homemade crust or

store bought, both work fine.

Feel free to make a pretty crimped edge,

I just throw my store bought crust in this

time and didn't worry about the pretty part.

Then toss gently place your bacon and 

shredded cheese in the crust.

Beat your eggs, milk, salt and pepper together

and pour it into the crust.

Pop it in the oven and in about 30 minutes you'll

be enjoying a yummy meal with your family.

It's that easy!

Here's the handy dandy printable recipe.
I hope you'll give it a try.

Blessings!

Cheesy Bacon Quiche
(printable recipe)

Pastry for 9 inch pie

5-6 stripes of bacon, cooked and crumbled/chopped

1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon ground black pepper

4 large eggs, beaten

1½ cup  milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven, 375 degrees

2. Fit pie crust into pie plate, fold ends under and crimp.

3. Spread shredded cheese and bacon evenly in pie crust.

4. Beat salt, pepper, eggs and milk until well blended,

5. Pour over cheese and bacon in pie plate.

Bake 30-40 minutes or until set. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

yield: 6 servings

Maria Matter @ http://asimplefive.blogspot.com/

If you like this recipe,
be sure to check out my
Sausage Cheddar Quiche
it's a bit more spicy!

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A Clean and Simple Doodlebug Baby

A CAS baby card

The end of the world is NOT near!

I just thought I would put that out there today.

How do I know?

Because of the un-naturally high number

of babies being born over the next few

months to friends & loved ones!

With all that new freshness coming into our

world...the world can't possibly be near it's end!

Cricut Craft Room basics, Cricut, Memento ink,
Doodlebug Designs paper (Snips & Snails),
My Favorite Things (DC stamps: notched tags)

CAS (clean and simple) cards are 

definitely my go-to approach to

cardmaking, it fits nicely with

my minimalistic lifestyle!

Doodlebug Designs: Snips & Snails paper 

was perfect for all the baby boys cards I 

crafted; love this monkey print!

Then I used my beloved Cricut and the 

Cricut Craft Room basics cart, available

for free online, to cut my little onesies.

This design would be great for mass 

production but I wanted to get a bit 

creative with each of the cards I made.

Stay tuned for a "series" of baby cards

over the next few weeks!

Thanks for stopping by, have a blessed day!

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Springtime Centerpiece - Chicken Wire Flower Cage

Spring has sprung!

So I thought it appropriate to dust the 

cobwebs from my blog and say HELLO!

This past winter season was a busy one
in our home, more on that later but I
wanted to share my first spring project
with you.


A Chicken Wire Flower Cage

centerpiece using  recycled bottles

My original idea was to place

single stem flowers in plain 

clear bottles spaced across my

table. Cute idea, right?

Turns out it was not very practical 

once I needed to move them every

evening for meal time. So hubby 

made me this sweet chicken wire cage!

So simple but I'm lovin' it!

general materials used:
soda/beer bottles, labels removed.
flower bouquet (Walmart $3.00),
 snipped to separate stems.
scrap wood.
chicken wire.

*side note...we have a very long
farm table (nine foot long) so I
needed at least seven bottles to
make the piece look right. If you
have a normal size dining room table,
and you wanted to make a similar
centerpiece you could probably get
away with using only 3 to 5 bottles.

Sweet & Simple

What do you think?

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