Updated Fondant and Cake Pages

View my updated cakes and fondant pages.  Next Month the cake will be a Ladybug for a 1 year old!!!

Get a free bakers catalog with unique and hard to find items at King Arthur's Flour.

For your other cake decorating helpers and hard to find stuff, shop at Kitchen Drafts.

Cool Droid Apps

Cozi

Keep track of your family calendar, shopping lists, and
to do lists, home page, list chores for each child, family homepage—Bright and Colorful, Very friendly!

Cozi Features

• Family Calendar
• Shopping Lists
• To Do Lists
• Reminders and Messages
• Mobile Access
• Family Journal
• Photo Collage Screensaver
• Outlook Sync
• Cozi iPhone App
• Cozi Android App                         Thank you Betty Crocker! 

PCWorld has the top apps +

The best android 22 apps

Theft app

Toddler Lock

Scan Bar Codes

QR Droid   square, dot-matrix variants of the venerable UPC

Fun Apps

Talking Tom- Silly KittyYou can also find Talking Santa, Talking John Dog.  There is a lot of apps on this page to browse around.

Starter Friendship Bread

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and

today is a gift:

That's why they call it the present."

Elenore Roosevelt

Live each day to the fullest and try not to regret anything you have done or said and apologize if you do. It will make you feel better and you will be a better person.

Try to live in another persons shoes.

Be the bigger person and Forgive.

A man told me once when I offered to pay him for helping me.

That God put us on this earth to help each other.

It would truly be a better world if everyone did.

Hope everyone has a great and wonderful day!!

Give your friends Amish Friendship Bread

Amish Friendship Bread Starter

It is very important to use plastic or wooden utensils and plastic or glass containers when making this. Do not use metal at all!

Ingredients:

1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup white sugar
1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F)

Directions:

1. In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water for about 10 minutes. Stir well.

2. In a 2 quart glass or plastic container, combine 1 cup sifted flour and 1 cup sugar. Mix thoroughly or the flour will get lumpy when you add the milk.

3. Slowly stir in warm milk and dissolved yeast mixture. Loosely cover the mixture with a lid or plastic wrap. The mixture will get bubbly. Consider this Day 1 of the cycle, or the day you receive the starter.

For the next 10 days handle starter according to the instructions





Day 1 - receive the starter

Day 2 - stir

Day 3 - stir

Day 4 - stir

Day 5 - Add 1 cup each flour, sugar and milk.

Day 6 - stir

Day 7 - stir

Day 8 - stir

Day 9 - stir

Day 10 - Add 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar and 1 cup milk. Divide into 4 containers, with 1 cup each for three of your friends and 1 cup for your own loaves. Give friends the instructions for Day 1 through Day 10 and the following recipe for baking the bread.





Amish Friendship Bread starter with the following ingredients in a large bowl:

2/3 cup oil
3 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 to 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda

Using a fork beat by hand until well blended. You can add 1 cup raisins and 1 cup nuts (optional).

Grease two loaf pans with butter, sprinkle with sugar instead of flour.

Bake at 325 degrees F for 45 minutes to 1 hour . Cool 10 minutes, remove from pans. Makes two loaves of Amish Friendship Bread.

Smell of Bread

With winter hopefully in the past (you never know about Texas weather), cool breezy nights upon us, I smell bread.  Someone was baking bread and it smells so good.  Comfort food.  So I break out the bread maker and start making bread.  I do not use it to bake the bread, I do not care for the way it looks when it is done, so I just use the dough mix, and bake it in the oven.

Here is a basic bread maker recipe-

Ingredients

Water  1 cup
Skim Milk Powder  1Tbs.
Shortening   2 1/2 cups
Sugar  2 Tbs.
Salt  1 tsp.
White Flour  3 1/3 cups 
Yeast  1 1/4 tsp.

You add the ingredients just as they are listed and turn on to your dough number.  Approximatly 1hr 30 min later take out the dough put in a greased bread pan and I refold the dough and make it the shape of the pan, not a tight fit, let it rise for a little bit.  Put a little shortening on top for a pretty brown, and stick it in the oven 350 degrees for 30 min.  Take it out, but butter on top and let it cool while the aroma is filling up your house. 

Linky Lists

Testimonials for Tecnu

Recently I Blogged about Tecnu, and how to send a story about your experience using the product.  I submitted my story to tell them about an exceptional product, I did not even think of the possibility of receiving anything from them.  Today I received Staph A'septic and a couple of informative pamphlets with coupons.  WOW!  

I will tell you how this Staph A'septic works as soon as I use it, but I have no doubts it will be just as great as Tecnu. 

I hope you guys submit your stories as well.  This is a great company and product.

 

 

 

  Thank you TecLabs.

Spring brings Poisen Ivy

Since the weather is starting to warm up and the plants are starting to grow, unfortunately so is poison ivy.

  My two little dogs decided to go on a field trip yesterday.  Where they went I am not sure, they wouldn't tell me, however they did bring home something on their skin, poison ivy oil.  I did not know this and being highly allergic, did I say Highly allergic, I scratched my dogs ears and played with him-(picture @ right Chester). I felt my arm burning I looked down and it was 3 red swollen whelps, I knew it was poison ivy.  The only thing that you need to keep in the house is Tecnu Extreme.  This is medicated poison ivy scrub.  It  relieves the burning and removes poison oils.   I don't get paid for advertising their name, I don't receive any kickbacks.  This is what I use and the only thing I have found that actually works!
       I also bathe the dogs in this which will in turn get rid of the poison ivy oils.   This is a great product to also get rid of other oils like skunk.  One morning when I let my little dogs out they came face to face with a skunk, or should I say face to tail.  

I tried tomato sauce, yuk what a mess,  It  did not work.  So trying everything in the house I came across Tecnu and decided to try it.  I rubbed it on them and almost instantly the smell was gone.  I was scared my hands were going to smell like that but they did not.  I recommend keeping this stuff in the house.   I hope they invent a spray to quickly spray on dogs=although it was not their intention to use on animals, it does work well.
  If you visit Tecnu page they have a story page to send in to receive a free gift.