Pumpkin Cinnamon Chip Mini-Muffins

Posted on October 21, 2012 by admin

I love pumpkin and during the fall I cook and bake with pumpkin at least once a week! Here are the Pumpkin Cinnamon Chip Mini-Muffins I whipped up this morning! They are delicious and all of us at the HoB agree! Here is the recipe, a printable version is available at the end! Happy Fall Y’all!!

Ingredients:

3 c Bisquick (either store bought or homemade, here is a great homemade recipe, way better & cheaper!! )

2/3 c Brown Sugar

1 can (15oz) Pumpkin Puree

1 egg

1/2 c Milk

1-2 tsp Pumpkin Spice (either store bought or homemade, here is a great homemade recipe, I use the Pumpkin Pie Spice#2)

1/2 c Cinnamon Chips (if you don’t care for the cinnamon chips, just add an extra tsp of Pumpkin Pie Spice)

Mix all ingredients together, spoon into a greased mini-muffin tin

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 mins or until done, makes approx. 48 mini muffins

Printable Recipe

Happy Fall Y’all!!

Posted on September 23, 2012 by admin

I love fall! It is one of my favorite times of the year!!! I just put out my Fall Subway Art that I made last year! You can get your own copy just click on the image!! Enjoy!

Fall Wreath

Posted on September 15, 2011 by admin

Here goes my first attempt at a wreath! I think it turned out all right. This is rounding out the last of my fall projects. I actually did my first Halloween project last night and I am super excited to show y’all! My idea turned out way awesome!!

Now onto the Fall Wreath!

Items needed:

Foam wreath form – or make your own with Plumbing foam from Lowe’s! I found this tip at The Penny Parlor via Pinterest (Don’t you just love Pinterest!! Come pin along with me!)

Scissors, Duct Tape, Straight Pins

Fabric(approximately 1 1/2 yards cut into 4 inch by 4 inch squarea)

Felt strips for Felt Flowers or any other embellishments you would like

So I started with a 6 foot tube of foam from the plumbing department at Lowe’s for $.97! Cut the tube in half and taped the ends together with duct tape. Next I cute some leftover brown fabric from my stash into 4 inch squares.

Then I found this great tutorial on bubble wreaths at Today’s Fabulous Finds. I took pictures as I did mine because I need practice taking pictures while making my crafts. This is more difficult than I though it would be but I am getting the hang of it!

So for each bubble take a 4 inch square of fabric and fold over the opposite corner to make a triangle. Then bring the top left corner down to the middle. Next turn over the piece of fabric holding the corners in place and bring down the last corner to the middle.

Put a straight pin into the square through all the corners. Push the pin with the fabric bubble onto the foam wreath form. Continue filling in the foam wreath form with the bubbles. Fluff the bubbles by gently pulling the fabric out on each bubble.

Continue along until you filled the entire wreath. Mine took about 105 pieces cause this is all the fabric I had left. If I had about 10 more bubbles I would have been very happy but I made do with what I had!

Finally I made these cute felt flowers! I found a great tutorial on I am Momma Hear Me Roar. Cheri made her’s for a cute autumn belt but mine worked great for the wreath. I just made the felt flower but instead of gluing I just took a straight pin with a colorful head and pushed through the middle of the flower into the wreath.

There you have an easy Fall Wreath! With all the bubbles it took about 2 hours but only cost .$97 for the foam as I had all the rest on hand! Love when that works out!!

Fall “Mantel”

Posted on September 13, 2011 by admin

Over the weekend I finally finished my Fall “Mantel!” Now I use the term “mantel” loosely as the area I am referring to is the half-wall between the family room and playroom but “mantel” is just easier!

So here it is!!!

I wanted to do some more but I also need to start working on Halloween so that I can have all that done and ready to go by the end of September. So for this year this is all the Fall but this is a start! I am excited to have pretties sitting on the flat surface instead of stacks like usual. I truly hope this will keep me from stacking on this space, we will see.

Here is a break down of what is up and links to the projects either here on my blog or a link to the blog where I found the idea.

1. A FALL sign I made last year. Super easy just mod podge and leftover scrapbook paper.

2. Painted Mason Jars

3. Fall Paper Flower

4. Fall Frame

5. Fall Subway Art - Free download! (this is the only money I spent on the mantel, I paid for the printing, everything else was done from what I had on hand!)

6. Felt Leaves – I found these on Made, Dana has a great tutorial and they were super easy! I strung together 6 leaves to make a garland across the top. These will be on the only pretty “falling” leaves we will see here!

So there you go Fall Mantel is done! Thank you for this blog cause with the blog I actually followed through on the project and finished! Enjoy the pictures and I hope this inspires you to get some Fall into your home!

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Fall Frame

Posted on September 6, 2011 by admin

We are finally getting some cooler weather! Now here that means the high was 91 today not 101!!! I will take it!! Now if we could just get some rain, it is so dry and the fires are really bad.

Now onto my Fall Frame. I put together this frame to add to my fall “mantle.”

Super easy I just took a wood frame from Michael’s and spray painted it with gold, lightly. I did not want it fully covered in gold so just 1-2 quick sprays over the whole frame. I let the spray paint dry for a few hours and then went back over the frame with tan craft paint and a foam brush. I only applied a thin coat and dry brushed the paint to get a “rustic” look. I wiped off any paint that was too thick with a damp paper towel. I then did the same technique with a little black paint.

Then I took 2 acorn and 2 leaf foam stickers, barley brushed on some paint from my brushes used to paint the frame. When I put the stickers on the frame I gave each sticker a dab of hot glue just to make sure the stickers would stay.

Last I picked a picture for the frame and added the Vintage Action from Pioneer Woman’s Action Set 1, sized down to fit my frame, printed, trimmed and put into the frame.

And DONE! Super easy and cheap!! I had all the supplies on hand, love when it works like that!

One note of caution! When you go to glue on the acorns and leaves make sure you have the frame in the correct orientation. Since I was using a square frame I did not think about this till I was done! Then I went to put the small round post that holds up this kind of frame and wouldn’t you know -

The hole was on the side! DUH!!!! Oh well, my wonderful husband said he would drill a hole at the bottom for me or I will just prop the frame against something, not a huge deal. I thought it was funny, so me to do something like that!!!

Happy Wednesday Y’all!!!

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Fall Paper Flower

Posted on September 5, 2011 by admin

Happy Labor Day!!

So on my continued quest to decorate the half-wall between the livingroom and the playroom I decided to attempt these paper flowers I found here.

I think the end result worked and the best is the end price $0!! I used all materials I had on hand!! Love that!! And I used DOUBLE SIDED TAPE!! I love double sided tape, it is the greatest!!!

Now for the tutorial!

Items needed:

Paper of your choosing (I used cardstock but I think regular weight scrapbook paper would work better)

Paper cutter or scissors

Double Sided Tape

Circle Punches (I used a 3 inch, 2 inch and a 1.5 inch)

Straw

1. I picked 5 solid fall colors and cut two – 1 inch by 11 inch piece of each color. I used the pinky shear blade on my paper cutter but a straight edge will work too!

2. Stack the five strips and staple in the middle (you will have to fold over the one side to fit into a standard stapler) and repeat on the second stack.

3. Take one stapled stack and put a piece of double sided tape at the top end of the first strip.

4. Fold over the piece of paper with the tape to the center and push down.

5. Move to the next piece and repeat, move around to all the the strips, repeat on the second stack of paper.

6. Take the two halves and place double sided tape on one side and push onto the other half to create an entire flower.

7. Fluffy the flower as needed and if needed put double sided tape between “petals” to have a more uniform shape.

8. For the stem I wrapped a straw in green paper taping the paper when I started and ended.

9. Wrap the top of the stem in double sided tape and stick between two of the petals and push together so the stem will hold to the flower.

10. For the center I punched a 3 inch circle and tripped with craft scissors, then punched a 2 inch circle and stuck onto the 3 inch circle with double sided tape. I continued with a 1.5 inch punch and topped with a B printed on vellum from my computer and cutout.

11. I put the entire center onto the flower with double sided tape and DONE!

12. Enjoy your work! – I plan on adding this to the fall half-wall! (I am putting my flower in my painted mason jar!)

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Have a great Monday!!

Fall Subway Art – Freebie

Posted on September 1, 2011 by admin

Yesterday I showed you the half-wall between our livingroom and playroom that I am wanting to decorate for Fall. In the picture on the left side there is a 16×20 Frame propped against the side wall. My idea is that I would put Subway Art for the season or holiday in there.

So on to the Fall Subway Art! I created a 16×20 Fall Subway Art piece!! I had lots of fun thinking of all the words that come to mind with fall. Right now around here the idea of fall is a bit of a stretch it has been 100+ for so long I don’t think I can remember what 75 feels like but I sure hope cooler temps will be here soon!

I created two different versions of the subway art, one has Football as the last word, as we are big football fans here but I do know not everyone cares as much for the game as us at the HoB. So the second one has the word cornucopia instead!

Download – Fall Subway Art – Football

Download – Fall Subway Art – Cornucopia

I used fonts form Amanda’s scrapbook fonts at Kevin and Amanda! Go check out her blog if you don’t already follow her, she has some of the most amazing recipes and free font!!

I get the cutest scrapbooking fonts at Free Scrapbook Fonts! kevinandamanda.com/fonts

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Happy Fall Y’all!!!
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Painted Mason Jars – COST $0

Posted on August 31, 2011 by admin

I love Mason Jars! They work for all kinds of things, they are cheap and I think just charming! My favorite thing is to use the mason jars that spaghetti sauce comes in, at least the Classico Sauce I buy has awesome jars!

So I wanted to use a couple mason jars in my fall decor but I wanted them to look different than just clear so I painted the inside of two jars. I used paint leftover from painting my kitchen (the rustic muted yellow) and from painting the boys’ room (the milk chocolate brown).

So simple just pour some paint into the clean and dry jar, move the jar around coating all sides, tip over the paint can and allow the extra paint to drip out. Set on a piece of cardboard upside down and allow paint to drip out. Move the jars every few hours and the next day jars should be dry. DONE! How easy and cheap was that!!!! I consider this a ZERO cost project as I buy this sauce all the time and just save the jars and the paint was leftover!

Now to how I am going to use these babies! I have big ideas to decorate this flat surface on the half-wall between our livingroom and playroom. As you can see when it is not decorated it is used as a pile station!

This drives me nuts!!! And yes I am not afraid to show you all of the reality of our house!! It is by no means perfect! It is a lived in house for sure!!! So I started thinking that at Christmas I put decorations and thus no piles show up, so I though I just need to keep it decorated with the seasons/holidays. I am working on different Fall Decor for the area and then will transition it to Halloween and so on! I am super excited about the finished project and will keep you posted!!

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