This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. I like to check out Dollar Tree when their new seasonal items come out. I recently went in to see their new Fall items and found some cute stuff! One of my favorite little items were these little pie shaped clips that I think would make great bookmarks for a cookbook. Back in the 80s, I used to do a lot of Tole Painting. I still get the bug to pull out my paints and do some decorative painting. This little project was perfect because it was small, quick and still let me practice my comma strokes and side-loading! Here are the paint colors I used:
If you don't own a million bottles of acrylic paint already, like I do, Dollar Tree has a selection of paints as well. Or, you can order some on Amazon here. Why I Love These Little Clips When I use a recipe from a cookbook, I find myself always having to weigh the page open with something so I don't lose the page if the cookbook isn't spiral bound. A little clip like this can really help with that issue. Even if it isn't heavy enough to keep the book open constantly, you can clip the page so it is easy to open again. This picture shows the clip holding open the printed copy of our new eBook, Jam in 3 Winks! It would be even cuter with our eBook called For the Love of Pie! Combine it with a little pie, the cookbook and the bookmark. Or for the jam book, with a jar of jam and the cookbook! There you go! Christmas gifts complete. Except, you need to paint the bookmark clips. The handmade touch is always great when giving a gift. Besides the pies, Dollar Tree also has trucks full of pumpkins, leaves and pumpkin clips. All of them would be so much fun to paint. For a group activity, you can order them online in bulk, or go find them at your local Dollar Tree.
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This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. Here is a true story, when I was a kid, probably around 12 or 13 years old, I had a job picking figs.
I grew up in the central valley of California, and there were many people who had fig trees. One family that we knew needed to hire help to pick their figs, so my brother and I got jobs. If you don't know, figs are picked by harvesting them off of the ground. A tractor with a grabbing mechanism would go to the trees and grab them and shake them. The figs would fall to the ground and the pickers go and start throwing figs into their buckets. Well, at least that was how it was done when I was a kid back in the day. You had to crouch down and fill your bucket as fast as you could because you were paid by the bucket load of figs. About 10 cents per bucket back then, as a matter of fact! It was hard dusty work and by the end of my first day, I was sick. So, my employment didn't last very long. The funny thing about that story is, I don't remember eating a lot of figs as a kid. Sometimes we had Fig Newtons, and I think that once in awhile we had some dried figs, but they weren't a major part of our diet. That is why when I was able to order some figs from our local wholesale produce distributor, I was anxious to get some and see what I could do with this funny looking fruit, the fig! This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. Okay, first I have to tell you that I forgot to take some really good pics of these cupcakes before taking them to the baby shower that we threw for my extra daughter Charly. These were the practice ones. Do you see the liners in the back that are blue with polka dots? Those are the ones I used. Charly and her husband are not finding out the gender of their baby until she gives birth, so we wanted a very neutral theme for her shower. Charly loved the Rubber Duck idea, so I looked on Pinterest of course and found this idea from Sweets & Treats. I hadn't heard of their company before this, but I fell in love with theirs large variety of sprinkle mixes and their cupcake liners keep such bright color after baking in them! I definitely recommend checking them out. They have some great items on their sale page as well! You know I love sprinkles and I can definitely use some new ones when Hot Cocoa Bomb Season begins! To decorate the cupcakes, I simply used a large circle piping tip to dot on frosting to look like bubbles. I enhanced the bubble look with large and small round candy sprinkles. Finally, I popped these rubber duckies on top! They were the perfect size for the top of the cupcakes. These rubber ducky cupcakes were definitely a hit and a centerpiece at the party. I love when treats are easy to make and pack a big punch! I wrote this post in 2018 after my granddaughter was born. Now she is almost 4 and there have been 2 more grandchildren born. Unfortunately, those 2 grandchildren were only able to be with us on this earth for a very short time. While they were here, I fell deeply in love with them, as I have each of my grandchildren. Being separated from them for a time has been so difficult and watching my daughter and her family mourn their loss makes it even harder. Thankfully, because of the hope we have in Jesus Christ, we know that our family is eternal and that He can heal our hearts and that we will one day all be together again. As a grandmother, I look so forward to having all of my grandchildren around me and on my lap once again. I love them all so much and I miss them when we are apart. Here is the post expressing some of the things that I adore about being a grandma. At the end, I will add photos of numbers 11 and 12, Elodie and Henry. I mentioned on a post earlier this week that I became a grandmother for the 10th time! That is her right there, beautiful little Amelia! Since the 9th of September is Grandparent's Day, I thought today's Friday Faves should have a special twist in honor of that and that I will share what I love about being a grandmother. If you are a grandmother, be sure to share what you love about it in the comments below. I also got some great ideas from some other grandmas I know! As you read, I will show you photos of my beautiful grandchildren!
"There is nothing like a grandchild to put a smile on your face, a lump in your throat and a warm feeling in your heart."
"Being a parent is the most important job in the world. Being a grandparent is the most fun!"
"Some of our greatest blessings call us Grandma and Grandpa." "Grandchildren are like snowflakes, each one is beautifully unique." My family is my treasure and these grandchildren are so precious to me. My husband and I are so blessed with this family of ours! Be sure to tell the grandparents in your life what a blessing they are to you and enjoy those grandchildren of your own! They get big so fast! |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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