Musical Thank You Card

Here is the card I made this week. The border punch is from Martha Stewart (I borrowed it from my Aunt).
The Music background is from a blog called "The Antique Image"
http://www.theantiqueimage.com/?p=562
The "Thank You" I made on my computer. Once I figure out how to put images on here available for download, I will have a section for downloads.

Homemade Cake and Candy Stand for Sweet 16 Party

It was my daughters birthday this past week. I wanted to make a "sweets" display. Here is the finished product.....

I made three all together. This is how I made them. I bought three sizes of round cardboard cake boards....

I doubled them up, gluing right sides together and then put a trim of ribbon around them.

I wanted to use these again, so I put shelf liner on them to make them easy to clean. I made three of these stands so I thought I would try one without the liner to see if it made a difference.

There are some really neat shelf liners around. I bought this liner a while back, and if I had more I would have used it. It would have been really pretty. The store I bought this from didn't have any more either.

I used three different sized cans. Clam Chowder was in the biggest can, beans in the middle size and soup in the smallest. I trimmed paper to fit and glued it to the can.

Now glue all the pieces together. I marked the boards before I started gluing to make sure I was gluing the can in the middle. All the boards except the smallest will have two marks. After all the can marks were on the boards, gluing was a snap as I didn't have to guess where the middle was.

Somethings that need to be worked out: I used hot glue for all my gluing as I thought it would be the best; however, one of my three stands came apart. I will have to do some more experimenting with what type of glue would work best. The shelf liner worked good for cleaning; however, some of it lifted. I just pressed it down and it stuck again. I am not sure if it will still be sticking over a few months. 

I made water bottle labels as well. Pictured with the water bottle is a vase I made out of a cardboard tube that I covered with white paper and fancy felt ribbon. 

Here's a picture of the "SWEET" display

Birthday Scrapbook Pages

The scrapbook pages I completed this week were fairly simple. I typed the journaling and the header on my computer, tested it out on a scrap piece of paper, made some adjustments, and then printed it out on the scrapbook page paper.

On the page below, I used some leftover bits of scrapbook paper that I used for the gifts I made for my mom and sister that are pictured on this page. The page could use more embellishments but I like to be frugal with my money and my time.

Peach Pie Recipe

My sister let me pick peaches from her tree and with the three boxes I picked I was striving to find things to make with them. I froze about 20 bags, made peach crisp and thought I would try a recipe I never made before, "PEACH PIE".  It was delicious and fairly simple to make. The only skill really needed is patience to peel and slice the peaches. Here's the recipe......

Chicken Salad Recipe

The "try"al recipe of the week was one my daughter made. I was not allowed to make dinner all week because my daughter wanted to. Too bad for me hey? She did a fabulous job! Although I am posting the recipe that was in the "Slim and Scrumptious" cookbook by Joy Bauer, my daughter did some tweaking to get rid of the ingredients she did not want. I couldn't tell you how Pistachio Chicken Salad tastes, but what we had was delicious. My daughter served the chicken salad the way it was pictured in the book, on a toasted bun, with greens and a slice of tomato. Enjoy!

"Say Cheese" Scrapbook Page

This week's scrapbook page has some pictures I had been putting to the back of my "to do" pile for a while now. These pictures came on a laminated sheet that I did not know how to scrapbook. The solution - just TRY something. The header, the camera, the cheese and the round border are all cut out with my Aunt's Cricut machine.

Homemade Fruit Fly Trap

Okay, the fruit flies have been driving me crazy. I have tried many things to get rid of them, but none of them were very effective. Then my friend told me about cider vinegar in a bowl with plastic wrap on top and holes poked in it. I had heard about, and tried, yogurt in a bowl with the same idea, but it did not work well. The cider vinegar works awesome! I didn't like the look of a bowl so I wanted to try something different.......

I took a small jam sized canning jar, poored a tiny bit of cider vinegar in the jar, put a piece of plastic wrap over the jar and tightened on the ring part of the lid.

Then I poked about half a dozen holes in the plastic with a toothpick.

I then trimmed the plastic. Immediately upon completion, I had my first customer land on the jar, and within two minutes the fruit fly was captured. AWESOME!!!