Easy and Yummy Strawberry Dip

So, here is the story…every time my husbands side of the family get’s together with his Aunt Linda we all pig out. She is the best cook! She has this tiny little house and that woman knows how to cram like 20 people in there and feed us till we are stuffed and happy!

Now Aunt Linda has this famous Strawberry dip, every time we have a family get together someone always requests this yummy dip! You just can’t get enough of this stuff! so, one day hubs and I are just craving this dip..and I want to know how the heck she makes it so I can take it to some of my side of the family's get togethers. So, I call Aunt Linda (dude really, she is way better than Martha..lol) and ask her can I please have the recipe for you famous Strawberry dip. I need it!! she laughs at me and says..it’s only two ingredients …Yep, all this time we are craving it and waiting to go to aunt Linda's to get it and it’s that simple! Oh goodie!

Here is the “recipe”

Cream Cheese and Marshmallow Cream..that is it!

Let the cream cheese soften a little. Just set it out for a bit. Plop it in a bowl. Get your spoon or classic Scraper wet with warm water and scoop the marshmallow cream into the bowl. (The water help it come off the spreader or spoon better)

Mix it up real good with your mixer.

Wash and cut your strawberries…look how cute this one is, even the Strawberry loves this dip

Put it in a pretty bowl and serve! Dip and eat! Yumm-o!

You want some don’t you? ya, I knew it!

Have a great day!

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Free Cycle Desk Makeover

So, have you all heard of Free cycle? If you haven’t you should Google Free cycle for your town. It is great! It’s a group where the member post the stuff they don’t want of need anymore and they are all free for the taking. You can also post your needs and see if another member might just have what your need! It’s pretty darn great and keeps things from going to the dump! so, my daughter wanted a small desk for her room. I figured hey I might as well check free cycle before I go buy one. So, I check the page like once a day and up pops a desk. I contact the poster of the desk and no one has claimed it yet! yea! (That is one thing about free cycle, the good stuff get’s grabbed fast!) They send me a pic and I say yep I’ll take it! WE go pick it up. That’s it! Free Desk!

So of course the desk needs fixing up before it goes in Kayla’s room. That’s when hub’s and I went to work. Here is the desk before…

This is the pic the people who were giving away the desk sent me. Yes, it needed some work, but that didn’t scare me off. We sanded and painted, got some new pretty knobs, we added some fabric and batting to the drawers with a staple gun.

just spray glue on the batting and wrap the fabric around and staple. We put a few coats of glossy black paint on it, and covered the top with some really cool black and white vinyl fabric that matched her room. we added some gimp to finish off the edges of the vinyl. And even put some fun “eyelash” fabric on the sides for fun…the really good thing is that all the fabric we used my Mom already had in her shop They were left overs from our days of sewing for interior designers (before she retired, now that was a fun job) We already had the black paint, so the only thing we bought were the knobs!

So, here is now. in her room. I actually did this at Christmas time but never shared it on my blog

Here are the knobs, you can see once we wrapped the drawers in fabric, we just poked a hole and screwed the knobs in the holes that were already there form the old knobs. We just got the knobs at our local ACE hardware, they were only a few dollars each. The fabric is a black raw silk.

I think it turned out pretty chic and fabulous! Especially for being free

I hope this inspires you to make some old furniture into something new and wonderful, it just takes little imagination and elbow grease!

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Lemon Sugar Hand Scrub.

Day 3 of Show Your Teacher Some Love! I have Tyler's gift for today all wrapped up and ready to go! Now I just have to wake him up and get him off to school! Mornings and Tyler…those 2 things don’t mix well. Actually he has gotten way better since I started his “star Chart” He really wants to earn those stars! Positive reinforcement really does work!

So, what are we giving his teachers today you ask…Lemon Sugar Hand Scrub! I got this recipe over a year ago. I have made it tons of times. It mixes up super quick and I always have the ingredients on hand! So, it’s perfect for a quick little gift when you can’t run out and spend money Everyone loves it..I have a few asking for re-fills! I found this recipe on the blog Under the table dreaming. last night I didn’t even measure…lol..I just eyeballed it. It comes out perfect every time. Although I did finally use up all my lemon blossom essential oil sent, so I will have to get some more of that! it lasted me like like 10 years though! haha. It only takes a drop!

Anyway, here is Lemon Sugar Hand Scrub all done!

I had to wrap it up cute, and of course they are wrapped in tissue paper in the bags so they don’t get broken in Ty’s backpack!

I made some little bag labels and bag toppers. I used the kit Fresh Baked by, The gingerscraps designers and the bag topper template is in the hybrid birthday kit I made, in my creations by Julie store at gingerscraps.

Here is a close up of the topper.

This will be perfect for Ty’s kindergarten teachers! They work so hard with their hands doing all kinds of fun projects!

Enjoy!

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