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Cupcakes in a Jar

I was viewing a scrapbook tutorial on making stars at Scrapper Guide (I love her tutorials) She created an embellishment in the tutorial and showed the sample. My interest quickly moved from scrapbooking to cupcakes.

What a cute idea. Bake the cupcakes in a mason jar, cool, frost, and decorate.
These are from Cupcake Fabulous

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My Teaching Supply Center & Printable Labels

My boys each have 12 drawers using the Workbox System and now mom has 12 Teacher Supply drawers!

I was so excited to organize my teaching supplies. The scrapbook storage drawers I was using were bursting at the seams and the the drawers would stick and go off the tracks.
I made labels for the drawers. Click [...]

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Refrigerator Magnet Menu Planner

Instead of meal planning charts and index cards and computer generated worksheets, etc. Try hanging meal magnets on your refrigerator! You can see all the meals we usually have at a glance and shift them around (hang high enough your toddler doesn’t mess up your week.)
Step 1: Make a list of main dinner meals [...]

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How To Organize A Car: 8 Sizzling Tips

If I had a nickel for every time I have gotten into someone’s car and they have said something like, “Oh I’m sorry for all the mess, I just had my grandchildren”, or “I’m really embarrassed, my car is so dirty”, or “Please excuse the mess I just can’t keep my car [...]

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Do Not Pick Strawberries Until You Read This!

We have a vegetable garden but no strawberries. So we picked strawberries at Valley Home Strawberry Farm.

If you plan on visiting a pick your own strawberry farm these tips will help.

Wet picked strawberries mold within HOURS! Can you guess how we found out? We picked right after a rain. The next day I had to [...]

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12 Health Benefits of Organic Apple Cider Vinegar

The saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” has truth to it.It is extremely beneficial to healing our bodies.
My husband grew up with a bottle of vinegar on the table with every meal not knowing it is much more than a condiment cooking ingredient. It should be part of your first aid kit.
It [...]

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Super Cheap Natural Fly Repellent

Fly Water Bags
We spend summers outside on our patio.Our horses are fairly near the patio so flies are a big problem.
We’ve tried a lot of things. Fly Predators worked well but are just don’t fit our budget. Automatic fly sprays are out becasue my son is sensitive to any chemicals. So I looked for a [...]

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Why You Should Take Probiotics

Probiotics, when translated, literally means “for life.” They are living microorganisms—“friendly” or “good” bacteria that, when consumed in sufficient numbers, can provide health benefits that go beyond basic nutrition.
Studies have proven that probiotics can actually help allergies, lower cholesterol, reduce colon cancer, assist constipation, drop blood pressure and help you live longer.
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Do You Eat this Super Food?

Parsley is a storehouse of synergistic nutrients that rejuvenate and detoxify the body.
I love adding parsley to my green smoothies. Nothing taste as fresh as a parsley smoothie. I planted a lot of parsley this year. While waiting for a harvest I purchase organic parsley at Wholefoods. It’s very cheap under $2 for a [...]

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7 Uses for Bounce Sheets & the New Bounce Bar

There are a few emails with information on bounce sheets circulating that are a bit of a stretch. Bounce Sheets don’t get rid or ants or bees nor do they repel mice (see Snops)
But Bounce sheets are handy for several thing things:

Eliminates static electricity from your television screen.
Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean [...]

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Are You Eating the Most Nutritious Foods?

Dr Axe, introduced me to Dr. Fuhrman’s nutrient information and eating style that will allow you to shed pounds while you reverse existing diseases and protect yourself from future health problems.
I use Dr Fuhrman nutrient chart to choose the most nutritious foods to put into smoothies. 1000 being the most nutritious. Notice it takes 5 [...]

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How to Roast Garlic with Vegetables

I roast root vegetables (sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots) with rosemary (from my garden!) at least twice a week. I recently started adding roasted garlic. I slip foil covered garlic in the corner of the roasting panto roast garlic. When the dish is finished baking, squeeze the roasted garlic onto vegetables, stir and serve.

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Super Power Food: Hemp Hearts!

Hemp Hearts are the best source of protein, the best source of essential fats, the best source of vitamins and the best source of enzymes on the planet.
The medical benefits of hemp hearts are only a recent discovery. They’re the tiny shelled seeds
that come from the hemp plant, and they pack a powerful nutritional punch! [...]

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Gluten Free Broccoli Salad

My friend Deloris shared this recipe with me over the phone. I didn’t write it down and made it memory so it might not be exactly what she described but itis DELICIOUS!
I just love it and so does everyone else. I made it for a church dinner last night. It was big hit.
It was so [...]

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G-Free Quinoa Mediterranean Salad

This is a Gluten Free Recipe
I tape and watch Your Health with Richard and Cindy Becker every day on Christian Television Network. This show is packed with nutritional information.
Cindy made the recipe below on the show this week. Its my first experience with Quinoa.
Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wah) is not well known in North America. [...]

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G-Free Roasted Cauliflower Recipe

This is a Gluten Free Recipe
Roasting is an easy way to prepare delicious and nutrient rich vegetable dishes adding wonderful flavors to dishes without a lot of fat and calories.
The process of roasting brings out the natural sweetness in vegetables and intensifies the natural flavors.
Try roasting carrots, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, [...]

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Avocado Makes the Best Salad Dressing Ever

I’ve gone Gluten Free or G Free so I eat a lot of salads. I’m trying several new dressings. This is my very favorite.

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This Common Food Ingredient Is As Addictive as Cocaine?

the number one source of calories in the American diet might cause obesity, high blood pressure, and a number of other common diseases. Fructose corn syrup isn’t natural. It’s been chemically altered to enhance its sweetness. And it certainly isn’t part of a healthy diet. Research shows that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) can damage your organs, trigger weight gain, and increase your insulin resistance leading to diabetes.

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Roasted Cabbage, Kielbasa, Potatoes, Carrots & Goat Salad

I adapted this recipe by Emeril Lagasse. My version is healthier. I started with 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking dish but we like lots of potatoes and carrots so I needed to use a second pan You could use a large roasting pan.

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Beat Dry Winter Skin with Goat Soap

Tackle dry winter skin with goat soap. Once I started showering with goat soap I gave up Oil of Olay and Caress. All the dryness and itchiness is gone. I now use goat lotion for feet and elbows.
I buy my soap at our local goat shows. You can buy goat soap at many drugstores and [...]

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Growing Kids Photos and Video

I was trying to get a side by side pic to compare the 2-month-old kids to the newborn kids but it was like dressing an octopus. I gave up and had David hold them.

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Help Us Name Our New Twin Kids

Sweetie (Alpine/ Nigerian miniature blue-eyed goat about 35 lbs) finally had her kids. These photos were taken with my cell phone. The kids are one day old and weigh about 3 lbs.
Cameo (Sweetie’s sister) had twins in January we names Jack and Jill. See Jack and Jill here.
We’d like you to help us [...]

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Benefits of a Square Foot Garden

I am in the process of planning my Square Foot Garden. This concept is brilliant. It involves creating 4×4 raised beds. You never walk on your garden only the paths between. Conventional gardening demands using heavy work to loosen the soil, but here the soil stays loose and loamy. Weeding is easy too because of the soil.

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3 Bible Verse Valentine Craft Ideas

Three beautiful Valentine craft ideas using Bible verses.

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Our New Twin Kids

Jack and Jill were born to Cameo on January 19 or 20, 2010. They are miniature Nigerian Dwarf / Alpines. We found in the early morning around 6 am. I lost my camera the day before so I couldn’t get any good photos. But here are a few from my phone camera.
Christopher and [...]

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Quick & Easy Stromboli Recipe & Video

Ever had a meal you crave often? This is one of them. My recipe is different from the one in the video but I included the video so you can you can see how easy it is to make it.
This is a family favorite and so easy I make it at lease once a week. [...]

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Basic White Sauce & Creamed Chipped BeefI have

White sauce, also known as Béchamel is the base for many sauces. Here is the recipe for basic medium white sauce.

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Brunch Egg Bake

I modified this recipe I found at AllRecipes this morning.
It was a big hit (creating it and eating it). No photos as I misplaced my camera.
I used make something similar and lost the recipe. This works great and is a keeper.
I love All Recipes becasue they have a rating reviews. See [...]

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Broccoli Cheese Potato Soup & Croutons

Creamy potato soup with home made croutons is an ultimate comfort food when the weather starts to get colder. If you are in a hurry on time you can use instant potato flakes instead of peeling potatoes.

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Fab French Scrapbooking Freebies

I ran across DigiCrea French blog that offers regular stunning freebies. As far as I can tell the freebies are offered for a limited time so you must go back to visit to get new freebies (the freebies offered a few weeks ago are no longer free).

The freebies link to a great little scrapbook store [...]

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More Free Digital Scrapbook Kits

I decide to blog about my freebie finds to pass them on to you and so I stop flooding my daughter’s emails subject line: “Ohhh look at these freebies!” This week’s darling freebies are from Shabby Princess

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