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Birthday / Party / Wedding Balloon Decorations
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Baby Arrival, Birthday, Childrens Activities, Cinco De Mayo, Day of the Dead - Dia de los Muertos, Easter, Father's Day, Fourth Of July, Graduation, Halloween, Holiday, Memorial Day, Mother's Day, New Years, Parties, Party, St Patricks Day, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, Wedding on May 31, 2013
This is so simple and cheap and makes a huge impact of color that can be hung from a ceiling or tree or from whatever is above you on your next celebration. When balloon is blown up add a penny to the balloon before you blow it up. This is just the perfect amount of weight to stabilize the balloon so it will hang with little movement from wind or air conditioning. Pictured is all white for a wedding - but think about what your color combinations are for your event and play them up. Multicolored would do for a birthday party; white silver/gold for anniversary; colors of a school for graduation; red white and blue for Fourth of July or Memorial Day; red pink and white for Valentines Day – the possibilities are endless. You could literally have hundreds of these for under ten dollars. Major impact of color(s) and you will be sure to have people in awe.
Balloon Garland
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Baby Arrival, Birthday, Cinco De Mayo, Day of the Dead - Dia de los Muertos, Father's Day, Fourth Of July, Graduation, Halloween, Hanukkah, Holiday, Kwanzaa, Memorial Day, New Years, Parties, St Patricks Day, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, Wedding on May 28, 2013
Blow up balloons and with a needle and thick thread thread them together to make a balloon garland. This is very cheap and a great way to add a lot of color to a party. You can use thread but would be more secure if you used embroidery thread. Mix and match colors for your theme to go with the colors of a school for graduation or just go random for a birthday party. This can be something done at the last minute as well as you can get everything you need and have it ready to go.
Easy Made Bow
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Birthday, Christmas, Christmas, Craft Projects, Easter, Father's Day, Father's Day, Floral Arrangememnts, Holiday, Mother's Day, Mother's Day, Party, Tid-Bits & Funnies, Valentines Day, Valentines Day on April 13, 2013
Cheesecake Crescent Rolls
2 cans of Pillsbury Crescent rolls
2 (8oz each) package cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup butter, melted
cinnamon
sugar
Unroll and spread 1 of the cans of crescent rolls on the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking dish (or 8 x 8 if you want to cut the recipe in half). Combine softened cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla. Spread over crescent roll layer. Unroll and layer remaining crescent rolls over cream cheese layer. Melt your butter and spread over top of crescent rolls. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake for 20-30 minutes in 350 degree oven until bubbly and slightly browned. Drizzle with a little honey if you like. Let cool a bit, slice and eat.
ADDITIONAL: Consider adding some fresh fruit puree like strawberries, raspberries etc. For the chocolate lover add chocolate syrup or cut up candy bars or chocolate chips. Think of crushed nuts and caramel? How about a drizzle of maple syrup with a sprinkle of brown sugar? Just add your favorite ingredient before adding the top layer of crescent and bake as directed. Also, the filling can have some food dye placed into it to add a festive design for a special holiday!
Valentines Day Table Spread
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Celebrations/Ceremonies, Food, Holiday, Mother's Day, Party, Recipes, Valentines Day, Victoriana, Weddings on February 4, 2013
What a great table spread – for a sweetheart – or a party with lots of guests. Just little cake fancifuls on the most of elegant dinnerware. Decorated with colorful pastels to match the different dinnerware designs. Add some lace and roses to make a complete setup.
A Delicant Valentines Treat
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Breakfast, Craft Projects, Dessert, Edible, Holiday, Holiday, Other, Party, Recipes, Snack, Valentines Day, Valentines Day on February 4, 2013
I would absolutely love these – these look so good!
Strawberry Cake Cookies
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Craft Projects, Dessert, Edible, Holiday, Holiday, Other, Party, Recipes, Snack, Valentines Day, Valentines Day on February 2, 2013
.Any flavor cake mix can be used so this could be a great way to make cookies for a cookie drive or for the kids fundraising efforts for school.scouts.sports team. These are good and so very easy to make! This is the perfect quick cookie to make for Valentines Day also!
Valentines Day Puffy Pink Popcorn Hearts
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Craft Projects, Dessert, Edible, Holiday, Holiday, Party, Recipes, Snack, Valentines Day, Valentines Day on January 16, 2013
Ingredients
1 bag (10 oz) large marshmallows
1/4 cup butter or margarine
4 drops red food color
8 cups popped light butter flavor microwave popcorn (from 3.5-oz bag)
1 In 3-quart saucepan, cook marshmallows and butter over medium heat, stirring constantly, just until marshmallows are melted. Remove from heat. Stir in food color.
2 Stir in popped popcorn until evenly coated. Cool 5 minutes.
3 With buttered hands, shape 1 cup mixture into heart shape. Repeat with remaining mixture. Wrap each heart in plastic wrap.
Strawberry Valentines Day Chex Mix
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Craft Projects, Dessert, Edible, Holiday, Party, Recipes, Snack, Valentines Day, Valentines Day on January 14, 2013
Strawberry Valentines Chex Mix
Ingredients
6 cups Rice Chex cereal
1 bag of white chocolate baking chips {12 oz}
1 box of Strawberry Creme Jell-O Pudding {make sure you use pudding!! Gelatin does not have the same effect, trust me!}
Valentines M&M’s, sprinkles, food coloring- whatever you’d like to make them more festive!
Measure out 6 cups of Chex into a large bowl.
Dump white chocolate chips into a glass dish. Microwave for 1 minute. Remove and stir gently.
Return to the microwave and melt for an additional 30 seconds. Stir. Microwave another 30 seconds and even though the chips still hold their shape, once you stir it, you’ll see that they are in fact melted!
You can add about 1-2 tsp of shortening to the chips and it will help the consistency be slightly thinner and smoother. It’s easier to cover the cereal when you use a little shortening, however it’s optional.
Note: Microwave times will vary. I have a 1500 watt microwave, so this is what worked for me. If your microwave is less powerful, you will have to increase the times. Go slowly. You don’t want to seize the chocolate. In my experience, the chocolate is always done before I think it is. If it’s nearly melted, just let it sit on the counter for a minute or two and stir again- chances are the heat from the mixture itself is enough to melt the chips the rest of the way.
Add 4 TBSP of the strawberry creme pudding into the white chocolate and stir gently until smooth. You can also add a bit of food coloring if you’d like. Since you added the pudding, it tastes like strawberry, but it doesn’t actually add any color.
I opted to divide mine, making most of it pink, but leaving some white.
Dump the chocolate mixture over the Chex cereal and stir gently until the cereal is coated in chocolate.
Add any Valentines candy, sprinkles, etc.
Lay out on pieces of wax paper to cool and solidify. I found the M&M’s looked better if you sprinkled them on top, once the mixture is laid out to cool. The candy sticks to the Chex cereal but it doesn’t get coated so you can still see the colors.
White Grape Peach Hawaiian Punch Spritzer
Posted by Jeffrey Scott Thomas in Birthday, Christmas, Christmas, Craft Projects, Drinks, Easter, Edible, Father's Day, Father's Day, Food, Fourth Of July, Halloween, Holiday, Holiday, Kwanzaa, Memorial Day, Mother's Day, Mother's Day, New Years, New years, Parties, Party, Party, Recipes, Snack, St Patricks Day, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day on January 1, 2013
A delicious white grape spritzer is the perfect drink to bring in the New Year. Frozen fruit serves as yummy ice cubes and the super sour rim just might be sour enough to knock you into 2013.
What you need to make this delicious drink: 6 cans Welch’s white grape peach juice, 1 bottle cold sparkling white grape juice, fruit cocktail that you will freeze into pieces, Hawaiian Punch “singles to go” packets.
Dip the rim of a glass into the Welch’s white grape peach juice and then press the rim down into the Hawaiian Punch powder.
To create the Spritzer: 1. Add a few pieces of frozen fruit to the glass. 2. Fill half of the glass with Welch’s white grape peach juice. 3. Fill the rest of the glass with sparkling white grape juice.
Fruit flavored suckers make the perfect stirrers for these Super Sour White Grape Spritzer! If the Hawaiian Punch is too sour on the rim, use sugar instead.
Thanks to Colleen Beckem for this submission!
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