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December 11, 2010
Heather L
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Gluten Free Chocolate Whoopie Pies

Posted in Gluten Free, Homemaking, and Photography

After reading about all of the different whoopie pies people were making, I knew that I needed to dig out my grandfather’s recipe and try a gluten free version.  While the result isn’t perfect and doesn’t look quite like a traditional whoopie pie, it was delicious.  I had purchased some Jules Gluten Free Flour to try, so I used that in this recipe. Gluten Free Whoopie Pie Recipe Cake Ingredients: 2 large eggs 2/3 C butter 1 1/4 C sugar 1 C milk (I used vanilla almond milk) 2 1/2 C gluten free flour (I used Jules Gluten Free Flour…

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December 10, 2010
Heather L
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Snowy Sugar Cookies

Posted in Gluten Free, Holidays, and Homemaking

We miss snow.  What can I say?  We’re actually a family of strange people who really enjoy snow.  Now, please keep in mind that we still very much like the mild winters here as we are able to do all kinds of outdoor activities without freezing. Since we won’t be having snow any time in the near future, we decided to make some gluten free snowy sugar cookies in addition to other frosted gluten free sugar cookies.  We just used my easy gluten free drop sugar cookie recipe for this batch.  We decided to use the multi-grain flour blend instead…

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December 10, 2010
Heather L
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Paper Mache Christmas Tree

Posted in Holidays, and Homemaking

Our next project was a paper mache Christmas tree.  I picked up these cardboard cones at Michaels very inexpensively after Thanksgiving.  We then cut out shapes with our Cricut in 3 different sizes – 1″, 1 1/2″, and 2″.  Munchkin chose to do triangles and I did stars. Using Mod Podge, we put on the various designs of paper shapes.  I chose to do the 2″ shape on the bottom, the 1 1/2″ on the middle, and the 1″ on the top.  Munchkin put hers on more randomly.  (Notice the black garbage bag on the table. I learned from past…

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December 8, 2010
Heather L
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Easy Bib Apron Pattern

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Christmas usually means lots of baking and/or crafts, so you may like to have an extra apron or two on hand.  This apron is very quick and easy to put together.  It can easily be adjusted for different sizes.  I’m not use to doing a tutorial for these types of sewing things, but I thought I would give it a try this time. Supplies: 2 large cloth napkins (or 2 18X18 pieces of fabric with edges finished) thread ribbon Directions: You’ll want to make sure everything has been washed and ironed.  Ironing each step of the process will end in…

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Fuzzy Sock & Bath Scrubby CupcakesFuzzy Sock Cupcakes
December 5, 2010
Heather L
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Fuzzy Sock & Bath Scrubby Cupcakes

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As I was looking at some of the gifts that I will be giving this year, I decided that I wanted to figure out a unique way to package the fuzzy socks and the bath poofs/sponges.  While I was trying to think of ideas, I came across the diaper cake and thought that I would try to make cupcakes from the socks and sponges. First, I cut out some cupcake wraps using decorative scissors for the top of the wrapper.  I just used some scrap paper and cardboard from some packaging that was being tossed out.  It had a cute…

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