Thank You Card

I was just dying to figure out what I could use my new blender pens on!  Found it!

We needed thank you cards at work, so of course I volunteered!

Items needed:
  White Cardstock
  Stampin Up "Happy Watercolor"
  Stampin Up "Tag Topper Scalloped" Punch
  Stampin Up Blender Pens
  Ink Pad - I used Stampin Up's Elegant Eggplant and Always Artichoke
  Color Cardstock to coordinate with Ink
  Ribbon to coordinate with Ink
  Staz-On Black Ink

The first thing I did was to divide a piece of 8 1/2" x 11" white cardstock in half.  Using one half, I cut my 2" strip to make the scalloped tag.  Take the other half and fold in half to make the main section of your card.

Using the watercolor stamp, I first made the blotches by stamping the artichoke ink pad, scrap paper, then on the tag so it wouldn't be too dark.

I then stamped the flowers using the Staz-On Ink (I didn't use the whole stamp!)  I have a lot of old Stampin Up word phase stamps, so I chose the "Many Thanks" from who knows what year!  Use whatever saying you need.

Using Eggplant and Artichoke with my blending pens, I filled in the flowers and stems.

I attached the matching ribbon and then applied to the colored card stock with dimensions.Then attach it all to the white cardstock.

You can use this simple card for any occasions!  Just stamp what you need!

Maggiano's Lemon Cookies

Okay ladies and gents, I am just now getting to this but last Saturday I made some awesome cookies. If you've ever gone to Maggiano's for your birthday, or someone else's, you have probably received a plate of complementary lemon shortbread cookies, and I found a recipe for them, they were great! To see the original recipe (or at least the one I used) Click Here

But, I'm going to teach you how to make these wonderful things.

What You Need:

• 1 1/2 sticks of butter room temp. (the recipe says unsalted, I used regular old Country Crock)
• 3/4 cup of white sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract
• a few pinches of salt (I used like 3 pinches, but my fingers are small, so you can guess)
• 2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice

What To Do:

1. Beat together the butter and sugar until it is fluffy. 
2. Add the egg yolks, vanilla, and salt, mix all together.
3. Add flour slowly while beating. (the original says until just incorporated, but I mixed it till it was dough)
4. Divide dough and roll into two logs. (the size of the so called logs does not matter in my opinion)
5. Wrap the logs in wax paper, refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. (When you do this turn your oven onto 350 degrees Fahrenheit so it's already ready.)
6. Slice the logs into cookies (kind of like pre-made Pillsbury dough, I got 9 slices out of each log. I rolled the slices into balls and squished them a bit so they wouldn't be so round. I used a stone baking sheet, but a metal one works too)
7. Bake the cookies between 15-20 minutes or until they look light gold, or like shortbread color.
8. Let the cookies cool on a baking sheet. (This is when I started making the icing)
9. Combine the powdered sugar and lemon juice together making icing. (I ended up using a little bit more than a cup of sugar and a few extra squirts of lemon juice to get all the cookies covered,)
10. After the cookies have cooled spread the icing on the cookies (I just use a spoonful of it on each cookie, it's easist to just use a spoon to spread it any way.)
11. Let the icing harden, and enjoy!

And now, a pretty collage of the process:

Pinterest WIN!

Hello all my fellow bloggers out there. This week I decided I actually have to do something I've seen on the beloved site Pinterest. So I decided to make a wonderful bacon egg grilled cheese. It was a heavenly experience eating it. SO her is whatcha gotta do.

1. Fry an egg. Simple as that, you can make it anyway you want it, over easy, medium, hard. Whatevs. I prefer over medium though so the whites aren't runny but the yolk still is.
2. Fry up some bacon, or be like me and get the premade kind.
3. Get bread.
4. Put butter on one piece of bread, place the butter side down on a skillet, place a piece of cheese on said bread. Then place bacon, egg, and another slice of cheese (if you wish to do so) on top of the beginning cheese. Top it off with another piece of buttered bread with the butter facing the top.
5. Let the magic happen and grill that sandwich.
6. Enjoy the little piece of heaven.

That is it for now, have a lovely week. - Reagen

Being Sick Sucks

Hello everyone, and happy new year! As you can tell from the title I am sick. Like vomit everywhere sick. The only thing I can keep down is saltine crackers, and I hate saltine crackers. Great way to start out 2013 right? Well I have had some fun. I got my drivers license, that is always a great thing. And I went shopping, that's fun too. But now that were all back on track with our normal lives their isn't much to do. I was going to do a Pinterest recipe but because of reoccurring nausea that won't be happening. I will get to it soon though. See ya soon.

Waiting For Summer

Hello all you beautiful people. I hope you've had a wonderful Christmas. I know that I have. And now, we wait until summer. This summer I get the opportunity to go to San Antonio, Texas. I will be going with my church youth group for a whole week. It's going to be hot since it's in July. But the reason I am telling all of you this is because were collecting money. I know I hate to ask but you don't have to donate anything, every dollar helps. For all the information click the following link.

http://www.marathoneventmarketing.com/mem_participant.cml?u=TheJohnFamily

Thanks so much! Um well copy and paste the link, haha sorry.

Thank You

I didn't actually think that people would read this, I'm sort of using it as an online diary that everyone can read so this is great. I mean almost 100 views. I think that's pretty cool. I didn't think anyone cared about what I say because I'm a teenage girl. But cool deal. So I just wanted to thank you all for viewing my blog, whether you read it or not. THANKS A BUNCH!

Pinterest Fail and Win

So, I decided to try making these chocolate chip cookies with Reese's and brownie batter on top. They turned out shitty. They were as hard as rocks. Seriously. So I threw them out. I had some extra batter and cookie dough so I tried it using Oreo's and with a different recipe, they, fortunately turned out to be a little bite of Heaven. So I encourage all of you to make them if you have the time!

Oreo Brownie Chocolate Chip Cookies

Watcha need:

Cookie dough (pre-made of hand made)
Brownie Batter
Oreo's or Reese's or both
Cupcake tin or baking pan

Watcha Gotta do:

PREHEAT you oven to 350
1. Make the dough and batter
2. Put enough cookie dough in the bottom of the pan to cover it, if your using the pre made dough use about 1 square or half of a slice if it's the roll kind.
3. Place an Oreo or a Reese on top of the cookie dough
4. Put brownie batter on top until cupcake well or pan is 3/4 full.
5. Bake in oven for approximately 18 minutes, I did 16...




notice, mine didn't look as nice but they're just as delicious!

Hope you have a very merry Christmas, and a happy new year!