Veteran's Day Art Page

Good Morning dear readers, sorry for the delay on this page had some health issues crop up. I was finally able to finish the page yesterday.  I like this one a lot better then my journal 52 magic prompt still haven't posted that one.  Any ways used bright colors for this one. I started out with  a nice yellow acrylic paint.  I then used some fourth of July plaid stencils and colored them in with oil pastels and lined it with black paint pens.  I glued found images in magazines to the center and stenciled the stars around the corners and filled them in with oil pastels and lined them with black paint markers. I rubber stamped celebrate in blue ink.  My neighbor gave me some L stencils for my name.  She knows I do art journaling.  I'm making my signature the cat with the L over it.  I thought it would be a neat idea. Okay readers what book do you get techniques from on how to make stencils please let me know.  I've read the reviews on stencil girls book and they say not for beginners.  So please let me know what you started using to make your own stencils.  Enjoy and create.

Cookie Club #2 The Cheese Burger Cookie

Good Afternoon dear readers,  here's my surprise for you today.  I got this book last year I try to read a new holiday book every year.  This book is called "The Christmas Cookie Club" written by Ann Perlman.  This a wonderful heart warming story about the women who have a yearly Christmas Cookie Club and their lives, loves and friendship throughout the year.  Another wonderful thing about the book is it has cookie recipes.  Today I get to share with you one of the most unusual and tasty cookies in the book--The Cheese Burger Cookie. This recipe as been altered to fit my families needs. So lets get to the recipe.

1-12 oz box nilla wafers

2 egg whites

bottle of sesame seeds to sprinkle liberably over cookie

1/4 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

4 cups or more to get desired consistancy confectioners sugar

yellow, red and green food coloring

1 cup coconut

1-10 oz, package chocolate grasshopper cookies

Get two plates and by the way the kids can help assemble these cookies their is no cooking involved.

One plate is  filled with faced side up and the other face side down.  On the facing up cookies brush eggs on them and sprinkle with sesame seeds then set aside.  

Mix milk, almond extract and confectioners sugar together stir in yellow and red food coloring until you have the consistency and coloring of cheese this is your frosting it holds the cookies together.

Take your coconut and sprinkle green food color and then stir or if container with lid shake until turned green this is your lettuce

Now your going to assemble your cheese burger put frosting on the face side down cookie then place grasshopper cookie on top then proceed with another layer of frosting dipping cookie in lettuce.  Take the face side up cookie put frosting on it and then put on top of other cookie with lettuce coconut and their you have your cheese burgers.  You can make 2 dozen with the one box. I cut back it originally called for 2 boxes.  Conor does not like mint cookies so I bought devils food chocolate cookies to see how it would turn out. It makes the cookies look like big Macs and gives them a different flavor. You can try either way enjoy.

                                               for easy pinning http://www.pinterest.com/pin/362610207472273338/

Monthly Meat Shopping at Save Mart For November

Good Morning dear readers,  I did the monthly run with kyle for the meat sale.  He's learning how to do this so maybe more than monthly visit.  My knee is still messing up so I can't walk to much.  Any ways we did the sale.  It was not the $5/$25 sale they did the $5.99 per package sale on certain items.  We were still able to get some good deals buying the large max packs of chicken.  So here's what we got for the deal.  I also balanced it out with reduced priced meat.  

2-Foster Farms Chicken Strips Bags @ $5.99 each

2-Rosina Meat Balls @ $5.99 each

2-Packages Foster Farms 2 lb. Ground Turkey @ $5.99 each

3-Max Packages of Chicken @ $5.99 each

1-Pork Roast on sale @ $2.52 lb  got for  $8.26  got for Conor he found out it was the anniversary of Berlin Wall coming down so he had to celebrate.

6-Reduced priced packages of various cuts of steak between $2-$3 each

24 pack Pepsi

1-10 count hash browns

1-gallon of milk

1-package of ice cream drumsticks

2-cans of  Friskies sauce sensations with cheese-the only place I can find them besides rite aid @ $.55 each 

1 bottle of roasted sesame seed @ $4.99  only place I can find them for this particular cookie recipe which will be on blog sometime today.

2-Keebler packages of grasshopper cookies good price @ $2.29 each also part of recipe

1-box Fruit loops

1-box of pop tarts

5/$5 black eyed peas good deal

3 flavored waters @ $.89 each

     Before coupons/sales/discounts   $164.82                   after coupons/sales/discounts  $119.24

Savings of   27%

Thank You For Your Service-Veterans Day

Good Afternoon dear readers,  I love hearing that phrase to me it means someone cares that I served to help this country.  We honor our veterans on this day not with just discounts and sales.  It's a special day for them much like mother's and father's day.  But shouldn't we as people go a little farther.  If you know a veteran and their family think of something you can do for them.  Your mission if you choose to accept it is to do something nice for a vet that you personally know or donate something to a veterans organization.  Here are some suggestions.

1. If they have kids offer to babysit

2. Bring them a meal

3  Create or give a card  

4.  Help them find a job

5. Offer a ride 

These are just basic ideas get creative and come up with your own.  Hope this helps and to my fellow Veterans a heartfelt "Thank You For Your Service".

Frankies Corner-What do you see?

Good Morning dear readers, I got into a discussion with my oldest son the other day. He said cat's see colors and I'm like I don't know. What do you think, Do cats see colors? Because every time I put cans in front of Frankie to pick what he wants to eat. He goes for the purple can? The purple can is his favorite turkey and of course cheese.  Well, I did some reading cats can see colors but not like you and me.  Cats can be considered color blind.  They see shades of blue and green and other colors can be confusing for instance that purple can actually looks more blue.  Most cats vision can be considered that of a near sighted person but their night vision is so much better than ours. Plus Frankie has the added problem of being cross eyed.  Play a game with your cat today put colored objects in front of them and see what they like.

                                               Yes, I see you leave me alone I'm napping

                                                    Look something just moved in my Territory!

                                                   HAHA you can't get me your too short.

Sea Of Cats Art Page

Good Morning dear readers,  I was trying to do a page for Halloween of just cats.  So here's my page. I gesso'd it with white gesso and then dipped the cat stamp in pink acrylic paint and rubber stamped the page.  After drying, I put another layer of gesso over the cats and proceeded to paint them.  The black cat was done using a black paint marker it almost obscured his eyes until scratched some of the paint away.  I did some cats in orange acrylic paint unfortunately some of the ink ran a little so I switched to painting the cats with oil pastels in various colors still had some runny ink.  So I finished by rubber stamping the cat stamp on card stock and cutting them out and gluing them to the page. I also put a bubbles rubber stamp around the edges.Then put the finishing touches of leopard print duck tape under some of the cats and wrote in black oil pastel the sea of cats.  Enjoy do you have trouble with ink running.  What did you do?

The Return of Cookie Club

Good Morning dear readers, its that time again time for Cookie Club.  This is where I get to share new and old cookie recipes with you.  I don't know a lot of people locally so this is why I love sharing these recipes with you for the holidays.  This recipe also qualifies for the murder mystery genre.  It came from Christine Wenger book "Do or Diner".  You can even say its frugal because a lot of the ingredients can be found already in your pantry.  I've altered the recipe to fit my families needs.  So lets get to the recipe and here's what you'll need:

2 mixing bowls
1 metal spoon

2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cups butter melted in the pot
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. almond extract or any flavor you like i.e. vanilla or peppermint
1 egg
1 cup chocolate chips
you can add a cup of nuts which I omitted
1 cup confectioners sugar

First bowl add flour and salt together and sift
Second bowl add butter and sugar together
Add extract  and egg to wet mixture
Mix dry and wet ingredients together
Add chocolate chips and nuts(if your adding them) and stir with a strong spoon very thick mixture.
Here's a little trick I learned last year so the dough wont be sticky put in the freezer for 20 minutes
take out of freezer and roll into 1 inch balls
place on greased cookie sheet
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and cook for 15-20 minutes
Let cool slightly
Place in plastic bag with confectioners sugar and shake until covered
remove and Bon Appetite