Raspberry, blueberry, yogurt and oatmeal muffins!

Brandy Melville Black Coat
 Brandy Melville Black T-shirt/slit top
Grandma's Cream & Black Knit

Hi All!

Before I give you my raspberry, blueberry, yogurt and oatmeal muffin recipe, I would like to chat about some vintage clothing I have recently inherited. As most of you know, my grandmother passed away a few weeks ago and it’s been my duty to help clean out her closet! While sorting through, I found tons of beautiful knitted cardigans, sweaters, denim button ups and plenty of vintage costume jewelry pieces. Today, I wore a one of grandmothers knitted sweaters. It’s black and cream, with some black beadwork on the front. The only thing I needed to adjust was the shoulders pads... ripped those things right out! Check out my newest vintage knit! --->

Raspberry, blueberry yogurt & oatmeal muffins.

Now back to the muffins! These muffins are the exact same recipe as the pervious muffins I just made. (Blueberry, oatmeal, yogurt and orange zest muffins) Click the recipe in PINK to make my newest muffins, But the only difference is to add 1 cup of raspberries instead of the orange zest!! 

ALSO, as you can see I added some pink & red sprinkles to the top of the muffins to give them a vday flair.

Good luck & happy baking! 

White chocolate Valentines Day Bark

Happy Thursday!

Today, after my workout I had a huge craving for chocolate… unfortunately, the craving won and I started looking on pinterest for a chocolaty desert. I came across this cute valentines themed chocolate bark, and had to try it. I then spent a small fortune just to get all my ingredients at bulk barn, plus a few more unnecessary treats.. MINI EGGS! I also headed into the dollar store in the search of a small heart mold. Unfortunately, my molds were a little large for my bark, but more chocolate the better! Below check out how I made these sweet treats!

Prep Time: 10 Minutes

Chill Time: 1 Hour

Total Time: 1 Hour & 10 Minutes

 

Ingredients: (Making 12 hearts)

3 Cups of White Chocolate Melting Wafers

Red & Pink Smarties or M&ms

Red & Pink Sprinkles

 

Step 1: Put the white chocolate in a small pot on low over the stovetop. Put sprinkles and smarties in the bottom of each heart mold.

Step 2: Once the white chocolate has melted, poor it on top of the sprinkles and smarties in each heart mold. Poor slowly, this step can get messy.

Step 3: Once all the molds are full, let sit for an hour or 30 minutes in the freezer. Then, when hearts are chilled, pop them out of their mold and enjoy your Valentines Day bark!

Valentines Day Heart Tree Tutorial

This heart tree is a cute valentines day craft,  it's also very easy to make!

Items you’ll need to create this craft:

Sticks

Krylon Spray Sparkles

Red & Pink Construction Paper

Brown Twine

Vintage Jar or Vase

Hot Glue Gun

Scissors

**You can purchase majority of these items from Wal-mart.

Step 1: Time to pick up sticks. I am very fortunate to have a forest on my mom’s property. Therefore, I was able to cut some tiny branches off some trees and use them as my sticks. Another way to find sticks is to take a walk/drive to a forest or park and cut some tiny branches off some trees. At this point make sure you have a jar or vase to put your sticks into, this way you can cut your sticks accordingly to your vases size.

Step 2: Lay your sticks on some cardboard and spray them with some sparkly Krylon paint. The spray makes the sticks look stained and sparkly, giving the sticks a girly touch.

Step 3: Now that the sticks are drying, take some red & pink construction paper and start cutting out little hearts. I used one piece of each colored paper and had plenty of hearts for my tree.

Step 4: When the sticks are completely dry, put them back into your vase. Now you can start gluing the hearts on your tree branches, the more the merrier! Once the hearts are glued on, I used my twine and wrapped it around the lid of my jar. The twine gives my jar a vintage look!

I hope you guys enjoyed this valentine’s crafts as much as I did!

Blueberry, oatmeal, yogurt and orange zest muffins!

Beauties,

I made some delicious blueberry, oatmeal, yogurt, and orange zest muffins yesterday! I posted them on Instagram and everyone has been dying for the recipe. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for this one! Check out this website for this yummy recipe. Damn Delicious 

Grandma's Funeral

Doris Cecilia Draper
December 9, 1940 - January 15, 2014

Hello All,

I do apologize for my uber long delay since my pervious blog post. As I’ve mention in my last post, my grandmother had passed away and I would be extremely busy putting together her funeral. I wanted to share some of the things that I personally put together for her day. I gathered as many photos of my grandmother as I could find. I made sure that in each photo she was smiling and that a sibling, parent, husband, child, grandchild and friend were sharing a photo with her. I enlarged my favorite photos and then started designing a board of Doris Draper. I then added all her photos together and designed a slideshow. I also created her memorial card. I chose the photos and poem, and then added angels and praying hands to her card, it turned out beautifully. And lastly, I chose to play her most favorite songs, amazing grace, and what a wonderful world. My grandma's funeral went lovely, my two cousins and myself, each said a speech about the many memories we shared with her. My grandma was a wonderful women and she will be truly missed. Miss you already grams.

For more info about my grandmothers passing click HERE.

Grandma & Grandad's Wedding Day, 1958

One of her favorite flowers, red roses.

My brother, Myles, Grandma & Me! 

Photo Boards I designed.