It's coming!!

Spring is on its way and lookie what I saw outside my bedroom window!! Love the site of the crocus in bloom, cause it means Spring is almost here!!

Got 5 minutes? Make a cake!!

Cake in a mug that is! Such an easy recipe that our Makayla helped make it! I found this over at Life Preserver's and just knew I had to try it.

5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (optional) and vanilla extract. Mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, and rise it does!! Look here:




But it does settle back down before its thru baking.



And finally, my critics had to make sure it was good enough to eat! Looks like it got the nod of approval:


There is definitely plenty for two per mug and, when served warm with whipped topping, made for an EXCELLENT quick dessert idea! Go ahead, be brave, but remember, its not calorie free! But then again, a substitution for the sugar and low fat topping would help. Just trying to help my girlfriends out here!

ENJOY!

Our recent port of call

This week Life Preserver's Cruise Around The World In 8 Layouts port of call was Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece. The kit club's owner, Von, loves the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, hence the location this week. She's a clever one I tell ya!!

Anyways, we were to do a layout on our favorite movie. Since I'm a sucker for the prince coming in to save the damzel in distress, I chose Snow White. With all the snow we've had this winter, I wanted to scrap this photo in a layout and this challenge was just the ticket. Here's my submission for this week:



I love this Bo Bunny Winter Whisper kit from the month of January!! Did I mention Von has great taste in papers, too!!

Sad day......

I made it official today, I cancelled my subscription to The ScrapRoom. I feel so sad. I could sit here and have a pity party for myself, but what good would that do? So instead, let me tell ya a little bit about them......

Tammy's kits have always been the best bang for the buck. I may not have cared for every kit, but that's where my creativity came in. If I didn't like them for a layout, a card or project usually came to mind. I have missed my monthly kits since November, and only felt it was fair to give her a heads up and just cancel altogether.

If any of you are interested, she has some fabulous choices for the upcoming months that I'm sure you'd enjoy! And her customer service has always been topnotch and I always appreciated her prompt replies to my concerns. Check her out, you'll be glad you did!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

So what do you and your sweetheart have planned? Butch is now on his way home! We did celebrate on tuesday cause we didn't think he'd be home, so I guess we get to do repeats. Don't get to do that too often!!

So, while waiting for him, I decided to list some things in my Etsy store BJ's Boutique. So far there's only two notecards on there, but I plan on adding new stuff this next week. I'm so excited because I already see two hits on the one card, and its only been listed for less than 30 minutes! =)

I would have listed more, but this darn sinus headache is doing me in and the screen looks blurry. So I think its time for another round of hotpacks on my face to relieve the pressure.

Godspeed.....

Whosh!!

And another month has passed me by!! Things have just been hairy around here and just trying to deal with the economic situation of today's world is enough to make a person want to run away from it all. Believe me, if Butch & I knew for sure that we could handle being away from our kids and that adorable Makayla, we'd be living in a tent somewhere on one of the Hawaiian Islands by now! Some days we just want to sell all this "stuff" and just RUN!!!

Okay, now that I've gotten that out.......

I've been on a crusie of sorts with the gals at Life Preservers and having a blast! It's called Cruise Around The World In 8 Layouts, whereas you have to solve the clue for the week and then scrap a layout based on the clues. Week one's clue was the tourist symbol for the state of Virginia. Do ya know what it is? See if you can figure it out in my layout:


And week two, was based on a clue about Errol Barrow, a national hero of this Carribean country. Once we guessed which country, we were given the clue to base our layout on. Can you guess which country they are referring to?? And again, my layout based on the clue which had to do with the colors of a photo:



I promise to keep you posted with the remaining six ports of call when they come. =) I figure any distraction from reality right now, is a very good thing!!