Snack Time While Watching the Waistline

Over the past couple of weeks I'v made some yummy snacks that I want to share with you. The first one is a twist on chocolate cupcakes.  So simple and so yummy!

There are only 2 ingreidients:

 1 16oz can of pumpkin

 1 box of devils food cake mix

Just mix together and bake at 350 for about 12 minutes.sound kinda weird, well try it!

They are a little less sweet and a little more "earthy" tasting.  But will sure kick your craving! Not to mention the calories are cut in half and you get a kick of fiber and protein with this chocolaty sweet!

Next snack..homemade pita chips.  The other day I remembered to by my fav roasted red pepper hummus but forgot the pita chips!  Lucky for me I had some flatout wraps in the fridge so I jsut preheated the oveen to 350 and cutup a wrap, spayed a thin layer of veg oil, sprinkled salt and garlic and popped them in the oven for about 15 minutes, wallaa yummy snack complete!

before..

after!



Johnny and I got a homemade icecream machine as a wedding gift and decided to finally give it a try! So we made frozen strawberry yogurt so smooth and tasty!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup strawberry, banana yogurt

1/4 cup mashed strawberries

2 T skim milk

2t sugar (could use splenda, but we were out)

Throw in the mini icecream maker and fresh frozen yogurt is made in 7 minutes!

I hope you enjoy at least one of these!

Happy snacking!

Love, T



Sewing Space

I finally have a sewing space! Living in an apartment can be a little difficult sometimes with the lack of space.  Johnny and I decided that there was enough room to make me a small sewing area.  Before this sweet little space I had my crafts strung everywhere and it was driving me crazy! So now I have a place to keep my stuff.  Maybe one day I will have a sewing room, BIG SMILE!!! Until than I have this...

While I'm on the subject of crafting let me show you my newest creation! Spring blossom headbands!!

Happy Crafting!

Love, T



March of Dimes Yard Sale

I've been actively involved with the March of Dimes since 2007.  March of Dimes is a wonderful organization that helps families who have premature babies.  They also provide funding for research to help the quality of life of the premature infants and their families.  It's a wonderful organization that I am very passionate about.  I worked in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for 3 1/2 years and have witnessed first hand the emotions, struggles and amazing strengths of premature babies and their parents.  For a small community Madisonville, KY has an amazing NICU and a great support for March of Dimes.  The big fund raiser is the March of Dimes walk, teams raise money all year long to donate on the day of the walk.  The amazing thing about the walk is all of the money stays right in the region it is raised in! The team I am a part of is made up of our very own NICU grads and their parents along with the NICU nurses, so we are called The Mighty Tykes :) Our most recent "mini" fundraiser for our team "The Mighty Tykes" was a yard sale.  We had a wonderful turnout and raised close to $500!! I want to thank everyone who came out!  The next thing we have coming up is a bake sale Friday April 8th at RMC from 10-12!  Every penny helps! Visit the March of Dimes website for more info!http://www.marchofdimes.com/

Thanks for dropping by Tara!! Glad you got some books for your classroom collection!

The walk is May 14th at the Wellness park by Trover Clinic in Madisonville, KY!

Happy Donating!

Love, T

So I turned 27..

Well my birthday has come and gone once again, I am now 27.  I don't really "feel" 27 but than again I never "feel" as old as I am.  It's a strange thing getting older, I look around at all my buddies and they have families , careers..and I think wow WE are the adults now.  I wonder if my parents felt like this at my age?  Well at my age they had 2 year old twins running around so they probably felt like they were in a flipping twilight zone!  O yeah in case you don't know I am a twin:)  I have a twin brother, Nathan! Our interested couldn't be more different yet there are certain things we do, say, like that are dead on identical.  Speaking of identical...people, on more than one occasion, have asked me if we we are identical.  I actually love this question because it challenges me not to burst out laughing when I calmly respond, "no, he's a boy and I'm a girl." Seriously it happens more than you would think!  Another question I love is, well how old is he??  Really? But any who. Being a twin is pretty neat, I always have someone to celebrate my bday with :)  Happy Birthday Nathan!

tara was the baker:)

Alex was the Cook!

My Birthday was on Thursday, which Johnny and I both had to work but he started my day off just right by leaving this sweet note on the table:) note the zippo holding it down, so johnny!

how amazing is this card?? my grandma knows me pretty well!

Happy Birthday, to me :)

Love, T

GO CATS!

Living in big blue nation can be really exciting when the cats are doing good, tonight they did good!  They are headed to the final four!! Right after the game I went for a nice run with my original running buddy Leigh Ann and during our run I pictured me sporting a sweet UK headband on game day.  After our run I came home and created something that makes me smile..a UK headband! It turned out just like the picture in my mind.  Check it out! 

Woot Woot GO UK!!

Happy Day!

Love, T

First Craft Show..Check

Considering it is windy, freezing and raining we had a pretty decent turnout at the Craft Show today.  I shared a table with my sister Tara and my friend Leah.  Tara had a few of her photographs and Leah has a clothing line called Sookie Says. I really didn't know what to expect from a craft show but it turned out to be pretty fun.  Personally I feel we had the cutest table, I may be a little partial.  There were all types of people there with an array of talents from hand made soap to basket weavers and musicians.  The weather was a major downer but I'm happy people still came out! Johnny brought us some cappuccino which helped a little :) If you came and stopped by, thank you!  If you were unable to make it, so sad:(   Anything I didn't sell today I will be posting on http://www.acupt.etsy.com/ very soon! 

All bundled up:)

I hope wherever you are the weather is better than it is here.  Well I'm gonna make some hot chocolate.

Happy Crafting!

Love,T

Preparing for the Craft Fair on Saturday!

So this weekend is the big Hanson Craft show.  Downtown historic Hanson, KY all day.  Stop by if you have the day off and want to have a lovely day.  There will be little shops open and all kinds of things to look at including my treasures!  I've been prepping for this for awhile so I'm pretty excited it's finally here!  Here are a couple of pics from this past weekend.  I decided to hand stain some of my embroidery hoops, which turned out really well.  The stain made all the grooves in the wood really stand out, so puurtty.

O yeah Johnny decided he wanted a Mohawk, so Tara gave him one.  I love it!!  I'm trying to convince him to keep it!  

Well I hope to see you this Saturday!  If you can't make it...

Happy Weekend!

Love, T