Fun with My Niece!

Last year I helped my niece (5 at the time) make Valentine Cards for her Dad, Mom, Cousins and Parrain (Pa –rain) (Godfather- which is my husband). This year she asked to make them again, so Aunt Dawn got everything together and this is the result of our cards this year. Now I did give her a little help with gluing, making a few flowers and a little design suggestions, for the most part it is all Elizabeth. We had a lot of fun getting messy and glued up. She loves to play with the stamps where she stamped “Happy Valentine’s Day!” on the inside of each of the cards.



On the Card below we cut out parts of paper heart doily's and she used markers to color them in. She did really well!


Found some of the items we used at Target in the dollar bin...like the card below.



Love Birds by Fancy Pants is one of the pieces of scrapbook paper that we used on these. We just cut out the little squares and used them on the different cards. I'm looking forward to making cards with Elizabeth again soon.

Cold Icy Day

Guess God didn't want us here in SW Louisiana to feel left out so he gave us a good ice storm Thursday night and Friday morning. Did not get as bad as it was suppose to Thankfully. I took a day of vacation since son was suppose to go to a "Dead of Winter Poetry" retreat. It is a weekend of intense poetry writing, in the end they should have a least one poem that can be published. You have to submit poems and they are reviewed by teachers and then they choose who to invite to attend. Guess son is getting head start on song writing skills LOL! Since this got cancelled due to our ice storm, I decided to still take my vacation day. Got up and was in a cooking mood so made Mexican Cornbread, Gumbo (chicken & chicken sausage) and Bread Machine King Cake. Using the stove also helped warm the house. Here is my Bread Maching King Cake Recipe...not even sure where it came from to start with or would give credit to them.


Bread Machine King Cake
3 oz Water
3 oz Milk
1 egg
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
4 TBLSP butter or margarine
1/3 cup sugar
1 ½ tsp active dry yeast

Filling
¼ cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup sugar mixed (white and brown)
¾ cup ground cinnamon

Combine first eight ingredients into the bread pan of the bread machine. Select the dough setting then, press start.
When dough is ready roll on to lightly floured surface, into 28 inch by 10 inch rectangle. Spread with softened butter, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture.
Roll jelly roll fashion, beginning with long side. Place on greased baking sheet and form a ring by placing the ends together. Cover with kitchen towel and place in a warm place to rise for 30 min or until it doubles in size. Once it rises bake in 350 degree oven for 20 minutes until golden brown.