Lucky’s Birthday

So Lucky will be two on thanksgiving, what a great day for a birthday! Happy Birthday your mommy loves you!

peanut butter birthday treats

red sunflowers

Simple red sunflowers, add a bold statement to any mantel.

Caramel Apples

 

How to make Caramel Apples

 

Ingredients:

(24 oz.) caramels, unwrapped

4 tbsp. whole milk

10-12 medium-sized apples, craft sticks

*Wax paper coated with Pam

1.

1. Take off the stems of the apples, insert craft sticks.

2.2. Melt caramels and milk together in a double boiler, stirring often.

3. Dip apples into hot caramel. In order to get as thick a caramel coating as possible, dip each apple at an angle and rotate within the caramel.

4. Pull apple out vertically and allow excess caramel to drip off. Then turn the apple right-side-up a moment and let the caramel settle for a few seconds. This prevents large bare spots at the top of the apple.  

*Decorate as desired. I rolled in chopped walnuts.

5. Place apples on greased wax paper or foil.

6. Letcool to set. When your done with all apples, refrigerate for 1 hour

PBandJ

Reusable sandwich bags…one for every day of the week! Every day I take my lunch to work; but now I don’t feel too much like a litter bug when I can reuse my sandwich bag. Beside, how cute are these!

My mom and I started making them….

Pumpkin Seeds

 

Not sure about you, but we have carved a lot of pumpkins this October! I the weather has just been so great and we would use any excuse to be outside.  So what to do with all of the pumpkin seeds!

 

 

 

 

How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds

1. Cut a hole on the top of your pumpkin and scoop out all of the seeds, place on a tray. 

 

2.  Pull out any of the large pieces of pulp and string, put seeds in a bowl of cold water. (excess pulp will fall to the bottom and good seeds will float.

tip: (This is easiest just after you've removed the seeds from the pumpkin, before the pulp has dried.)

 

3.  Place the pumpkin seeds in a single layer on an oiled baking sheet.

 

4.  Sprinkle with sea salt and bake at 325 degrees F until toasted, about 25 minutes, checking and stirring after 10 minutes.

 

5.   Let cool and store in an air-tight container.



 ...place on a tray




..pull out any of the large pieces of pulp and string

 ...excess pulp will fall to the bottom



My hubbies pumpkin



yep, this one is mine!

Happy Halloween!

35 years…10 of which were in the attic.

It was an attic rescue and my first attempt of refinishing a chair! These chairs were my dad’s chairs from in the late 70’s, they have seen some tush.

Before

After

 

The Study

Vintage Steel Tanker Desk…found it!

I have a new project, I found a great deal on a single pedestal tanker desks. I’m going to attempt to refinish it.  Reading up on the best way to do it I found some great room designs, check it out my vision… 

It was love at first sight…I can see the potential under the rusty exterior.

So ever since my hubby and I went to L.A. to visit his brother and sister in-law I’ve been obsessed. Jessica introduced me to this great little retro shop, only problem was I couldn’t get the desk I wanted on the plane. Jess suggestion…your next blog should be a piece on Mad Men style offices, I’ll be taking notes!  http://www.glamournest.com/

 

I’ll post before and after photos when I’m done!