Crouton Crusted Tilapia

I forgot to take pictures, but I thought I’d share today’s dinner recipe. It was easy, healthy, kid-friendly, inexpensive and quick. My favorite kinds of meals.
1-Thaw out some tilapia (or whatever kind of fish you want really) – I run mine under cold water for like 5 minutes
2- Coat with mayo or eggs – [...]

Today’s Thrift Shopping Bounty

This afternoon, I set off with-out children to the thrift stores. I had no real idea what I was looking for, I just wanted to get out of the house for an hour or so.  Here is the strange mix of things I came home with after spending around $30.
1- A french drip coffee maker [...]

Starbucks Banana Bread

A couple of weeks ago, I picked up this recipe card from the counter at Starbucks. I tried it today and thought it was pretty good. It tastes exactly like banana bread should taste. Not too sweet and nice and moist with plenty of yummy banana flavor. If you have a [...]

Vintage Pillowcase Apron

My friends over at Clever Nesting have been making vintage pillowcase aprons following this tutorial from Glitter, Vinyl and Thread.  It looked fun and I really need another apron, just ask my husband (HA HA HA).  

I used a pillow case that I bought today at the thrift store for 50 cents.  It’s really fun. [...]

Project number 2- Fabric Cabinet liner.

So every time I to go a thrift store, I scour the wallpaper stash for some beautiful vintage wallpaper, but most of them are just ugly.  I knew I wanted to line this cabinet ever since I took the doors off, but just hadn’t found the right liner.  Till now.  

When I was scouring the [...]

All natural cleaners

This has been a long time coming for me.  I’ve been wanting to try the all-natural cleaner route for a while but I’ve also had quite a stock from the generous pounding from our church of cleaners to use up.  Well, this week I ran out of laundry soap, all purpose cleaner, sanitizing spray, baby [...]

Easter Baskets

Easter baskets- basically breakfast.  Complete with cheerio filled eggs for the little one.

Painting Eggs

Key Lime Pie

My Mother in Law gave me this recipe about a year ago and I haven’t made it until now.  Boy have I been missing out.  It turned out great and really wasn’t much work at all.  It was a fun alternative to traditional birthday cake to celebrate the big 2-9 for Andy yesterday.  
INGREDIENTS
For the [...]

The shirt that should have been an apron all along

This shirt was $1 from the thrift store.  It took me about 15 minutes to transform this teeny-bopper tank into a motherly apron.  That was fun.  

I’m planning on embellishing it a bit with some lace, but I ran out of thread in my bobbin, so that meant it was time to quit.
I think Devona [...]

Ginger Beer

Ok, I’ve made quite a few homemade things that have made people scratch their heads saying “How do you do that exactly?” but I’ve never made my own soda. I’m thinking about giving it a try. Read this article and maybe you’ll be inspired too.  It seems pretty simple and you know how [...]