Frankies Corner-hide and go seek

Good Morning dear readers,  It's Friday and time for Frankie's corner. I know a lot of the U.S is still experiencing extremely cold weather and the pets can't go outside.  Much like a child a pet needs activity for a certain amount of time each day.  So get those toys out and play with your pets.  Did you know some cats play fetch.  Frankie on an occasion will bring a toy back to me for me to throw it.  Frankie will play chase with conor around the house.  They have a lot of fun.  I was reading some of the pet sites and they say an average of 20-30 minutes a day is good for their health.  It also helps the owners get some exercise.  Have fun with your pet.  Here's the little nuts photos for this week enjoy.

Easy Shoe Box Jewelry Display Case

Good Morning dear readers,  I'm posting today because I will be out tomorrow.  I found this lovely craft in one of my craft email newsletters that I fell in love with it.  It was an easy craft using shoe boxes and it fit into my budget.  You turn the box into  a jewelry display case showing you what you have available to wear.  If your like me you have a jumble of things in jewelry boxes and sometimes you forget what you have in them.  I love jewelry especially vintage pieces.  You'll see some of them in pics at the end of the post. So here's what you'll need to make this easy craft.

1 shoe box preferably only 2 inches deep the long narrow ones work best

multiple toilet rolls without the paper of course

your favorite color of paint (purple) plus brush

a roll of decorated duck tape (found lovely french theme tape at Wal-mart)

fabric remnant (can be found in the bins at Wal-mart)

Glue (started out with tacky glue which seeped through so switched to Elmer's glue all)

scissors

your lovely pieces of jewelry

First off your going to paint your box the outside only.  I ended up putting two coats of paint on it and I let it dry between coats about an hour. Once that's done you can decorate the inside with your duck tape.  I put long strips along the bottom and sides.  I put short ones on the ends trying to keep the flow of the pattern.

The next step for me is a little hard. I don't do a lot of sewing. I didn't have straight edge so my fabric was a little uneven but no one will see the bottom of the rolls.  Wrap the rolls in the fabric and leave a little overage.  Once you cut in you will put glue under the overage.  Press down to seal it.  If  you leave the ends a little long they will tuck inside the roll without having to glue them down.  But if you want shorter ones you can glue them down.  Once that"s done place them in the box.  Now your ready to put your jewelry to where you can see it.     

                                         

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For related articles on this post check out these links.  Find out why Frankie the Siamese is mad because I took his shoe box.
http://lorrainesresources.blogspot.com/2014/02/Frankie's-corner-box-love.html

If you want to find really good vintage jewelry pieces like you see in this post check this link.
http://lorrainesresources.blogspot.com/2013/07/where-to-find-good-vintage-jewelry.html

If you like the cat pin check out my review of the company.
http://lorrainesresources.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-magic-zoo-review.html

Have a great day and get your craft on.

Wearin of the Green

Good Afternoon dear readers,  Sorry this is so late ran around doing errands this morning.  Do you ever wonder why we wear green on St. Patrick's Day.  What really is St. Patrick's Day all about.  I'm Irish and I didn't even know this stuff. I did some research and thought I'd share it with you.  St. Patrick was a christian missionary who brought Christianity to Ireland.  Instead of banning all the pagan rituals he incorporated some of them in our traditions today.  St. Patrick's Day March 17 is actually the day he died.  I thought we would have celebrated his birth.  The color used was originally blue but because Ireland is called the Emerald Isle and its known for its shamrocks the color was changed to green.  That little thing about being pinched if you don't wear green involves a legend where leprechauns will pinch you if they see you and if you wear green you become invisible.  We like to celebrate this holiday with Irish Food.  Last year we cooked Irish Roast Beast(yes its a Joanne Fluke recipe),  colcannon and soda bread.  Unfortunately we are not close to any of the parades.  Do any of you do the parades.  Conor loves to wear Irish T-shirts and other things.  So what are you doing and wearing for St. Patricks Day?

                                               Frankie's ready for St. Patrick's Day

Some of things that Conor wears T-shirt , Hat and Tie

Murder Mystery Food--St. Patricks Day Coconut Green Pie

Hey Foodies,  It's back murder mystery food.  The place where we cook those recipes found in our favorite murder mysteries.  Today we are revisiting the Sugar Cookie murder mystery by Joanne Fluke.  Can you tell we love this author.  If you haven't checked this book out you really need too.  Besides a lovely Christmas time murder mystery it has over a dozen recipes in it.  You'll find links to some of the others we've cooked in the past.  For now, we are cooking for St. Patricks Day.  This is a really easy recipe no mixing bowls were harmed in the making of this pie.  No bowls are needed just your blender and pie pan.  Don't you just love it. So lets get cooking.  Here's what you'll need.

In the blender add  note: do not attempt in bullet blender not big enough
1 1/2 cups water
one can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz)
1/2 Bisquick (I used jiffy baking mix)
3 eggs
1/4 cup butter melted
2 teaspoons vanilla
3-4 drops of green food coloring (I used the green pastel and you can't tell but this is optional)

Blend on low for 3 minutes

Pre-treat your pie pan with cooking spray.  Pour contents of blender into pie pan.  What really neat about this recipe your going to let it sit. The baking mix forms the crust while its sitting on the counter at room temperature.

Almost forgot this step as you'll see in the pictures sprinkle a cup of coconut flakes on top of pie.

Here comes the fun part put the pie on a cookie sheet so you don't spill then place in oven at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.  Test for doneness using knife with comes out clean pie is done.

Cool on a wire rack.

You can serve this warm or room temperature.  Personally I like it cold.  Remember food safety when not eating put it back in the fridge.  Bon Appetite and enjoy.

                                             This is where I almost forgot the coconut.                                                

Here's the links to the Joanne Fluke recipes.

http://lorrainesresources.blogspot.com/2013/06/love-smell-of-banana-bread-in-morning.html
http://lorrainesresources.blogspot.com/2013/06/lets-continue-party.html
http://lorrainesresources.blogspot.com/2013/11/chocolate-candy-cane-cookies-for-cookie.html

Overdose of Cuteness or Frankies at it again

Good Morning dear readers,  Here's Frankie's wordless Wednesday. What do you think he's saying?

The Secret To Conquering Procrastination

Good Morning dear readers,  Do you have trouble getting motivated to do things.  Are your house keeping chores behind or do you have projects piling up.  I'm guilty of this affliction and I've found a way to get motivated.  I use to follow fly lady and I learned a few tips from her website.  One of my favorite tips is you can do anything in 15 minute increments.  You will be surprised at how liberating this can be in helping you get motivated.  Do you have an area that's the family dumping ground papers, toys and odds and ends?  Set the clock and start clearing it out.  Another way to do it is make a list of areas that you just look at and throw your hands in the air.  Set the clock and go to it.  This will get some of the little things done and motivate you to do more.  Kids having trouble getting home work projects done set the clock and tell them to work for 15-20 minutes.  This really does help.    Another tip I love and gets the kids involved is the 15 minute room rescue.  You set the clock and the kids run around in the room you pick and put their things away.  You would be surprised at how much gets done.  So hope this helps because less clutter means less stress and means a more healthy momma.

                                                       
                                                    This only took 10 minutes to go from this
                                                           

                                                             to folded

and put on hangers and another 5 minutes to put away

Frankies Corner-Box Love

Good Morning dear readers,  It's Friday and time for Frankie's Corner.  He found out we had shoe boxes in the house and he's had fun putting is little body inside them.  He also took his first selfie this week so check it out.

                                               Gotta Love those Blue Eyes
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                                                     Do you mind I'm napping here

Hurray My First Selfie

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