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saturday.........

I had a Princess Cookie/Cupcake order this weekend for a 5 year old and it was all about crowns, dresses, wands and lots of glitter and fluff.......some of the photos are a little blurry but just so you know the pink and turquoise frosting was all over my kitchen ........ I always enjoy decorating sugar cookies and cupcakes!  I hope they had a fun party!  Happy Birthday Harper!

After the delivery this morning my husband and I headed down to the OKC fairgrounds to the Antique weekend...........I usually don't go every time they have one but today it is raining and he was off so we headed down and I came home with some goodies.

I have been adding these to my bracelets and they were all calling my name.  I love how worn and different they all are........I found a few other things and we had a great time just poking around and being on a time limit! 

 

Enjoy the rest of this weekend.........

red glittttttttttttttttered shoes.........& red velvet brownies

recipe to follow.........

 

and here they are all finished and full of those wonderful Adventures in Tea stamped Paper Dolls....

There you have it........these girls finished their projects and they were so fun to see each individuals special touch they added!  Thanks girls for another fun evening at the Paper Crown!

 

Red Velvet Brownies

 

1 (4 oz) unsweetened or bittersweet chocolate baking bar

3/4 cup butter

2 cups sugar

4 large eggs

1 1/2 cups flour

1 (1oz.) bottle red liquid food coloring

1 1/2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. vanilla

1/8 tsp. salt

Line the bottom and sides of a 9inch square pan with aluminum foil, allowing 2 inches to extend over sides and then spray with pam.

Melt the butter and chocolate over med heat until melted.  Whisk in sugar.  Add eggs 1 at a time and whisking just until blended after each addition.  Gently stir in flour and next 4 ingredients and pour into prepared pan.

 

Bake in a  350 oven for 45-50 minutes or until wooden pick comes out with just a few moist crumbs.  Cool completely about 2 hours and then lift brownies from pan using the foil sides as handles.  Gently remove the foil and spread on the cream cheese frosting.

1 8oz. package softened cream cheese

1 cube softened butter

2 cups powdered sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

Beat cream cheese and butter until creamy and then gradually add the powdered sugar, salt and vanilla and continue to eat until blended!

Well I guess that is it on this friday morning...........enjoy your weekend and I hope to have some Easter Class photos next week.  

Thanks again girls for last night class..........

Come join these gals with those red glittered shoes to class thursday evening....I think we still have a spot or two left!  Call the store today 405-848-2389!

 

Have another beautiful warm day wherever you live!

monday morning recipe..............

I have always loved Ina Garten the Barefoot Contessa's recipes and her Food Network show! She always makes it so easy to follow her recipes and nothing that's to hard to make!  Christmas time usually means trying a new recipe or two and this year I decided on her  Roasted Cauliflower Snowflakes.....I forgot to take photos so these photos are from her new cookbook Make it Ahead!

We all loved this and to be truthful I am not a big Cauliflower fan.........but this was really tasty and so super easy!  I will give you this recipe below.......

ROASTED CAULIFLOWER SNOWFLAKES

1 head cauliflower ( about 2 1/2 lbs)

olive oil

kosher salt and fresh black pepper

1/2 cup panko crumbs ( Japenese bread flakes)

1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Remove the leaves and trim the stem of the cauliflower but leave the core intact.  With a sharp slicing knife cut the whole cauliflower in large 1/2 inch thick slives.  Don't worry if the slices fall apart: they will look like snowflakes.  Place the Cauliflower on a sheet pan  and drizzles with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.  Roast the cauliflower for 15 min. Take out and toss the panko with 1 tbls oilive oil, sprinkle on the caulifower and roast for another 10-15 min., until tender and browned.  Sprinkle with the Parmesan and roast for another minute or two.  Immediately scrape the pan and toss the mixture together.....serve hot or room temperature!  Enjoy!  I think you will enjoy this wonderful Ina Garten recipe!  

Enjoy this beautiful monday.......here in Oklahoma the weather will get to 72 and tomorrow 80!  I feel sorry for all those in New York and Boston...........stay warm people!

 

And we may have a couple spots left in class for Thursday evening.  Call the store to reserve your spot! (405-848-2389)

red glittered shoe class............

For those of you taking the shoe class this coming thursday evening Jan 29 you will need to do some homework before class.  You will need to have your high heel shoe painted red and to be another step closer to finishing in class you can add the glitter........you can use either a spray adhesive or a good heavy glue and use the Martha Stewart red fine glitter!  This way it will be dry for class and you will go home with a finished project!  If you don't have red glitter and don't want to do it at home I will have glue and glitter for you in class.  Whatever works the best for you.  And remember to bring your basic class kit along with colored pencils, small scissors because we will be doing a lot of cutting, glue gun and glue stick.  If you have any questions call the store 405-848-2389!  See you all thursday night at 5:30.........

friday.........

Miss Girdie received a makeover this week in the new Character Construction " Adventures in Tea" by Catherine Moore!  Every year around the first of the year Catherine always creates a new line of stamps and with those I like to dress Miss Girdie in the latest!  If you can tell I made giant tea cups with giant tea bags (with real tea leaves) to hang from the ceiling.........If your needing a little CC stop by the store and pick up the latest stamps..............

We had a great group of gals last night who got a jump start with the new stamps and made these cute Valentine tags.

And it was great to have Cathy back in class.........I knoq this gal loves to create because yesterday she moved back from North Carolina and the moving trucks moved her in yesterday and she showed up for class last night.....now that is my kind of girl!  For those of  you who couldn't make it your class kits are at the store for you to pick up!  And as a bonus tag they all went home with another one to make and I forgot to take a photo........Maybe Cindy will take one or when I go back to the store I will shoot a photo and let you see!

and for the recipe I promised you from the Pioneer Woman:

 

Cow Patties

20 oz. melting chocolate, I used the Homeland brand Best Choice chocolate almond bark( that is what she used)

1 cup raisins, dried cranberries or dried cherries ( in the chocolate I used raisins in the white chocolate I used cranberries)

1/2 cup slivered almonds

1/2 cup planters cocktail peanuts

 

melt the chocolate over double broiler.....  take off heat and pour over your bowl of raisins, almonds and peanuts and mix together until well coated.......drop by spoonful onto wax paper and let set at room temperature......

(the white chocolate I used the Ghirardelli white chocolate wafers)

I usually do not use the  almond bark but for some reason it works really well in this recipe.........it is so smooth and creamy...I would of never guessed it would taste so good)  my husband told me not to make these anymore because he could eat the WHOLE batch...........

enjoy another Ree Drummond " Pioneer WOman" recipe, you won't be sorry or disappointed , I promise!!!!!

 

Remember all you PC girls.... tonight is the work night on whatever project you want........hope to see you all tonight!

 

Have a super weekend!

valentine doodling............

And for those of  you in class tonight you better be ready for these....

Oh yeah.........start your diet next week! I will have the recipe tomorrow with class photos, but if you need to make these NOW go to the Pioneer Woman website and look up Cow Patties.......and there you can get with it ASAP!  They are really delicious and you can't stop eating them!  My husband is a fan!

 

Happy Thursday and enjoy the rest of the day and evening......I will see all you girls tonight!

it's not to late........

 

For those of you who like to play paper dolls we have a few spots left in class for this coming thursday evening Jan 22 from 5:30-8:30.......we will be using the new Character Construction " Adventures in Tea".......we will be creating Valentine tags using several of these new wonderful stamps!  Call the store and reserve your spot! ( 405-848-2389)  And for those of you already signed up you will need to bring your basic class along with your favorite colored pencils!

I will have some photos later this week of Miss Girdie all decked out in  her "Adventures in Tea" attire! 

 

Happy Tuesday!

good monday morning.........

Well here we are in the middle of January and so many things creatively going on............everyone seems to be on the Documented Life Project.........I love journals and I do have several started!  Then last week my friend Beth stopped by and she showed me one of her new multi journals!  I loved it and decided I needed to get one started......so I put this together with several individual journals with different kinds of paper in each for different reasons.........and if you all are wanting to get into some creative time with creative people set aside this friday night at the Paper Crown........hit my side bar "Paper Crown" and the details and time for the event!

room of course for doodling.......I just can't stop!

I had several short lined journals I recovered with scrapbook paper.......the one with the girl and black bow, the front is like a clip board.  So if you love to journal like we all do come join us.

 

And don't forget we do have some spots available for the Adventure in Tea Paper Doll tag class on thursday evening.  Call the store if you are interested in this class today 405-848-2389!  Hope to see you thursday and friday night!

 

Hoping you have a wonderful week!

Garth and a peek...........

This past thursday my husband had a meeting in Tulsa.......one of the reason for the meeting to be in Tulsa was Garth Brooks was going to be in concert and they wanted to treat the guys on the board and wives  to tickets for this world tour concert!  Well to be honest with you I am not a big country western music fan so I didn't know how this was going to go but let me just say he can still entertain after a long absence from performing........this is a concert even if you don't like country western music and he is close ........ go.......I don't think you will be disappointed! If your like me you will enjoy an evening with Garth and Trisha! (And some of you know I live in Yukon Oklahoma where Garth grew up.......... whooooooppppppppeeeeeeeeeee do da!)

peeking in.........

And a little sneek peek on Easter Classes coming up..........no dates yet but we will let you know as soon as we know!!!!!

Have a great weekend!  Hee Haw..........