Red Enchilada Sauce

Enchilada Sauce

Recipe from: Food.com

I made this sauce a couple months ago and LOVED it. 

This is the only sauce I will make for now on. 

Ingredients
3 tablespoons chili powder

3 tablespoons flour

1 teaspoon cocoa powder

¹⁄₂ teaspoon garlic salt

1 teaspoon oregano

3 cups water

1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce

1 beef bouillon cube

Directions

1. Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl.
2. Stir constantly, slowly add enough of the water to make a thin paste.
3. Pour into pan and add rest of water.
4. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens.
5. Stir in tomato sauce.

Thanksgiving 2015

I made napkin rings, pumpkin place setting cards and Caramel Apples this Thanksgiving.  The pumpkin place setting cards were a little time consuming but I think they were worth it because they really looked cute on the plates.

click here to see my Thanksgiving idea's on Pinterest

Thanksgiving Clip Art

DONUT CAKE

Michael loves donuts so I decided to make him a donut cake for his birthday.  Since his birthday is December 24th so I am always busy and stressed.   I was even too lazy to go to the actual donut shop to get the donuts, I won't make that mistake again.  This cake would have been a big hit if I had gotten Michael's favorite donuts from the donut shop. 

I was looking at old pictures and saw this donut

cake I made for my youngest son last year.  Boy, I must be sick of making cakes, both boys got donut cakes. 

Cupcake Crafts

Inspired by  DYI maniacs

Christmas Pinterest Projects 2015

The Santa Belly M&M holder is really cute. 

My Santa Belt Cookies for my cookie Exchange.  What I experienced while decorating these cookies is~ make sure all your food coloring is fresh before decorating cookies.  The night I was decorating I found out my black food coloring was all dried out.  I had to melt chocolate chips at the last minute for the belt.  It was a pain because I don't work well with chocolate.  To my surprise, I pulled it off.

Santa Belt Candy Bars.  Really cute and easy.  I couldn't give them away, too cute.

Snowball gifts 

Inspired by Kerryspapercrafts

Inspired by Keepingitsimplecraft
For step by step instructions click here.

Inspired by funholidaycrafts

Inspired by Tidymom

Inspired by Speckled Egg

Fourth Annual Cookie Exchange 2015

Decorated cookies inspiration by Tidy Mom

I will never have people bring appetizers again. Too much work for everyone, the party is at 1:00 anyways. Next year is going to be bring two dozens and go get your cookies everyone.   Very simple.  And the ornament exchange will stay the same (white elephant).

3rd Annual Cookie Exchange

Cookie Exchange 2017