Cream Cheese and Pumpkin, these are some of my favorite flavors, what more could you need for a dessert? These cream cheese pumpkin bars are a great mild dessert to share with friends and family. They also are great paired with coffee and tea. I found this recipe from Julie’s Eat and Treats. Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bars! …
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I can’t believe it is December already! Are you getting ready for Christmas? We only have 26 days from Thanksgiving to Christmas this year, not much time to get all the decorating done, cookies baked and presents purchased and wrapped. So I made these cute Countdown to Christmas Frames to help keep track of how many days until we Celebrate….
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My favorite thing is to find what others consider to be junk and turn it into something with a purpose and value. I repurposed dresser drawers into chalk boards. Here is what I started with: Plain, boring dresser drawers that had seen their better days. These drawers had stickers on them along with a child’s art work. I…
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I have been on a pizza kick with you all lately and now I want to share MY favorite, homemade veggie pizza. Thankfully Mr. DD is not picky and he likes the same things I like, so I never have to make pizza just for him. Nothing is better than all the fresh veggies, homemade pizza crust and homemade…
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It is great to take something old and turn it into something useful and decorative. I found a few uses for these repurposed wood windows. I loved how these repurposed wood windows turned out. These windows did not have years of paint and cracking on them. I wanted the windows to have an old antique feel, so I…
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Today I am sharing a really simple way to decorate your plain cylinder vases. Give your glass vase a face lift by making it into burlap vases. You just need a few supplies to transform your plain glass vase: Burlap ribbon, gold ribbon, flower petals and vase filler. I found the flower petals in the scrapbook section at…
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It has been Pizza time at our house. It started last week when I shared my Copycat Pizza Hut Pizza Crust Recipe. Now it is time to share what toppings we like on our pizza. My boys are meat lovers, so of course I have to make a meat lovers pizza just for the boys. I start by…
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Eeekkk! Can you hear the excitement? I just built my first mantel shelf from scratch. I mean my first build project period. What a sense of accomplishment, to build something out of raw wood. I purchased a 2 x 6 x 8, 1 x 8 x 8 and decorative molding. I had Lowe’s cut the large pieces in half…
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Have some old books that are just sitting on the shelf? Or maybe those old books have been packed away and you are looking for some creative ways to repurpose those old books? Last week I shared how I made a few quick changes to the mantel to decorate things for Thanksgiving. Sitting on my mantel was this repurposed…
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