Maple Leaf Cookies, Tasty Lunch and Chalk Doodles!

Almost 2 days in a row! I'm definitely back to posting regularly...lol, I hope!

Anyways, the days are slowly starting to cool down, after what feels like an extremely long summer. It was just extremely hot this summer and with no ocean and tasty drink in my hand..it was just long.

That being said, with the lovely coolness, comes way more baking in my house. The lovely smells of fresh cookies, cinnamon buns and cakes, oh my!

So yesterday, Little P and I made Fall Leaves..in cookie form! Check it out!

Helping Mommy put the butter in the mixing bowl

Being sneaky with the cookie dough!

T-Rex really wanted to help eat the cookie dough

Colors mixed and the dough was ready to chill

After an hour of chilling, we were ready to cut out our leaves.

Bake for 5 mins and we were done!

After we were done with our cookies, it was time to have some tasty lunch!

I made up some quick and tasty Grilled Cheese Tuna Melts, T-Rex thought they were great and Little P was in a 'Boo to Food' mood.

Really good with ketchup or Tomato Soup!

mmmm, whats this Mom?!

My Grilled Cheese Tuna Melts are simple and tasty!

What you need:

2 Slices of Bread (per sandwich)

Butter

Kraft Cheese Slices (1 per sandwich)

1 Can of Pink Tuna (drain)

Salt and Pepper

Mayo

Relish

Mix your tuna with the mayo, salt & pepper and relish, then set to the side.

Butter one side of both pieces of bread, warm up your pan or griddle, once heated, place a slice of bread butter side down, then add a slice of cheese, some of the tuna mix and then top it with the other slice of bread, butter side up. Don't forget to flip and make sure both sides are a nice golden brown!

Devour!

Also, just for fun, P and I were out coloring the pavement All Hallows Eve style!
Why must it still be months away!? *le sigh*

Anyways, I hope you enjoy, I am off to work on some crafty goodness and perhaps bake some cupcakes...mmmmmm cupcakes.... :D

Hello my fabulous little blog!

So slowly I am seeming to be able to get back to my crafty goodness. All these projects have been piling up and I am finally getting to them, one at a time!

So last night while I was waiting for little P to finally go to sleep, I decided to to do another quick little pinterest project that wouldn't take much time, fun storage boxes! By up cycling diaper boxes, I was able to make some handy little bins for all of our hats and mitts, etc.

http://diyhshp.blogspot.ca/2012/06/duct-tape-fun.html  This is the site that my pinterest pic sent me to! To be honest, I didn't check out the link until after I did the project, but she definitely had a great idea!! :)

Anyways, these are the 2 boxes I made! One for mine and little Ps stuff and one for little T and the hubbys. I think we need to get the boys more hats!!! lol.

Diaper boxes and fun duck tape!

Ok, so maybe P and I have a littttttle more in the way of cute hats!

I like them and plan to do a few more, great idea for fun and stylin organization!

Also, as you who read this little blog know ( or at least I think you do!) I have a HUGE obsession with Halloween and I am already making plans. I'm actually going to be hosting my first annual Hallows Eve Bash at our house this year and I can't wait!

Check out a few sweet little goodies I picked up today!

Amazeballs cookie cutters!!! Ok, at least to me, with my crazy Halloween addiction and my sweet glass pumpkin that will no doubt hold some tasty goodness!

So stick around, the next couple of months are going to be busy busy with crafts, events AND I am getting a half sleeve done in November, so I will def be keeping up with some posts on that!

Until then...ciao!

Time Out/Calm Down Jar

So this will be a sweet but very brief post!

My little P has started having some tantrums and time outs don't work the best because she just gets bored and seems to forget she was in trouble in the first place. So we made a glitter jar, she has to sit there until all the glitter settles, and if after its settles she is calm and being good, she is done her time out. If she is still spazzing, we shake it up again!

She helped make it, so she feels that is special and something to pay attention to!

Pink Fairy Cinnamon Buns w/ Cream Cheese Frosting

Ok, I know I really suck at posting during the summer! I just get so carried away doing so many things that to be honest, I completely forgot about my blog.

That being said, I'm back!

Today my little P and I set out to make cinnamon buns! As it so happens, I seem to have lost my fav cinnamon bun recipe, so I went searching for another and came up with this little treasure!

http://www.canadianliving.com/food/quick_cinnamon_buns.php

The only difference between the recipe on Canadian Living and when we did ours was that we didn't use pecans, we used raisins instead. We also topped ours with a made from scratch cream cheese frosting! I didn't actually measure anything for the frosting, I just used 1 package of Philly Cream Cheese and tossed it in with some butter, a little vanilla and icing sugar until it tasted divine.

Anyways, enjoy the pics and if you get a chance to do some baking, enjoy the buns! :)

Checking out whats going on in the mixer!

A little pink for fun!

Ok, lets getting started

We rolled it all out

Nice and smooth (and pink!)

We added our sugar, cinnamon, butter and raisins

Little P ate some of the raisins to!

All set to bake!

Fantastic Pink Fairy Cinnamon Buns!