Banana Bread Muffins

2 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of salt
2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
3-4 bananas
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 tsp of cinnamon
1 tsp of vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine flour, soda, powder, and salt.  Cream together eggs and sugar then mix in bananas, vanilla, oil, and cinnamon.  Add flour mix 1/3 at a time until combined.  Pour into greased muffin pan and bake for 18-24 minutes. 

These are fantastic muffins!  Sometimes I will pour part of the mix into a loaf pan and then the rest into muffins.  This recipe will make enough to fill one loaf pan and more.

Friend book

I made this for my BFF. First I made of template of each letter, I lined them up to make sure they stuck out just enough. I glued together two 12x12 sheets of scrapbook paper for each letter and then traced the letter on the paper to cut out. Once they were cut and ready to go, I stacked them together and punched the holes. I bought book rings to hold it all together and notted different colored ribbon on each ring. I then went through and basically scrapbooked each letter. The "F" was the introduction, there is a quote on the front and I wrote her a note on the back. The front of the "R" was a pic of one of our first years of friendship. I tried to date the pics as I went through. The front of the last year, "D", was the most recent pic of us at that time (that's one of the pics I posted). I did not scrapbook the back of the "D". I just stamped my handmade by with my name and the year I made it for her. It was a hit!

T-shirt scarf

I seriously have been crafting stuff most of the day...its a bit out of control today! This was the easiest and quickest thing to do.....step 1 find an old shirt or tank, step 2 cut it in strips, step 3 stretch each strip out ( I made seam covers for my strips because my shirt had a side seam). I cut the tops off the tank top and glued the edges under then wrapped around strips where the seams were. 

MY BFF WEARING THE SCARF AND FELT FLOWER PIN!!!

Felt flower pin

Another fantastic idea from pinterest....here is the link for the instructions I mostly followedDIY Mother's Day Corsage.....I used a hot glue gun instead of the bottled glue (the glue gun and I are great friends!!)  I didn't put a pocket on the back of mine either.

Frozen yogurt drops

Scoop some yogurt in a ziploc bag, snip a small corner off and drop circles of yogurt onto a cookie sheet then freeze! I put them in a baggie once frozen for a quick snack. I am thinking this will be a great thing this summer for my boy when its hot out and he wants to cool down!

OMG!! Apple pie with a twist

I keep seeing this recipe for this banana toffee pie. I decided I was going to try it with apples, since I had some that needed to be used. I bought a graham cracker pie crust, a tub of whipped topping, and a can of sweetened condensed milk. You have to simmer the can, completely submerged in water, for 2 1/2 hours. Make sure you remove the label before boiling. Yes you can really cook the can!! I was kind of freaked out by this, but it works. I let it cool for an hour or so before opening the can. While it was cooling I made my own apple pie filling. Once everything was cool and ready I put the apples in the pie crust then dumped the cooked milk on top. They say it is now toffee, tasted and looked more like caramel to me. At the end you top it all with the whipped topping and refrigerate for about an hour before serving.

low sodium taco seasoning

During both of my pregnancies I had to cut back on my sodium intake.  I found this taco seasoning recipe and loved it!  I was never much for measuring, but I actually did when I put this all together.  I saved it in a ziploc baggie with my spices.

2 tbsp chili powder

2 tbsp flour

2 tsp cumin

2 tsp oregano

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp cayenne

Need a good book now....

Hi, my name is Karrie and I am addicted to pinterest.  I have so many ideas that I don't know what to do with myself.  Paperclip bookmarks....why not!?!  Now I need a good book...

Dr. Seuss Day

Being at home with the baby gives me some extra time on my hands, although I will be heading back to work soon....:(  Anyways, I found this awesome idea on pinterest and decided that Bode and I would make them for his kindergarten class since they were celebrating Dr. Seuss the entire week at school! (sandwich cookies, a pouch of cookie icing, and gummy lifesavers)

Lego City....literally

Bode's 6th birthday.....hard to believe my boy is 6!!!  He is absolutely obsessed with legos and of course had to have a lego party....first the invitations, I used my cricut to cut out all of the circles for the invites and then used pop up dots to attach them to the invite.  I dated all of the invites for 2011...nice job Karrie!!

THE CAKES!!!!  That was a treat to ice....okay I hope you sense the sarcasm there!  My awesome husband ended up stepping in and icing the cakes for me!  ILU ELI!!  I baked them in loaf pans.  The only bad thing about this is that you have to bake them longer to get the middle done and then your edges end up a bit hard.  We used half of a giant campfire marshmallow for each lego dot.  You can see them in the first pic behind my awesome son!!

For snacks, we went with cheese and crackers.  The day before the party I sat down with a tip to the pastry bag and cut circles out of cheese slices of mozzerella and cheddar.  I was going to attach all of the circles to crackers with cream cheese, but when I got done cutting the circles I said forget it! LOL!  The kids, or the adults, didn't care either!  My husband has a bit of drawing ability so I got him to draw lego guy faces on all of the cups.  I went with the basic primary colors for everything (red plates, blue napkins, green tablecloth, yellow cups).  Under the cups you can see sheets of lego dots I printed off in all of the same colors to put on the tables also.

The gift bags for the kids were pretty simple!  I bought pencils, erasers, and crayons at the dollar store.  Bode helped me split everything up into the bags.  The only hard part was the coloring tablets I made for each bag.  I found free lego printable online and printed them off double sided.  I stapled the pages together at the top to a piece of cardboard for the backing.  Bode and I went through and glued a strip of blue cardstock to the tops to look like a tablet.