As Requested

Many of you know how I love a good recipe, and some of you may know that I love love love fall. However, many of you may not know my appreciation for the awesomeness of breakfast food. Here is a recipe that combines all three. So, without further ado and as requested from several facebook friends, my recipe for Pumpkin Waffles.

You will need your baking mix of choice (Bisquick, Pioneer, etc) and the ingredients as directed on the box for waffles.
Extras:
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 can of pureed pumpkin

Measure out your dry mix as instructed on the box. After you have done that, stir in the brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Then add your wet ingredients as instructed on the box. After the batter is mixed together, add the whole can of pumpkin. Heat up your waffle iron and cook as directed by the manufacturer. Top with your topping of choice. I just like plain old butter and maple syrup, but I'm sure whipped cream and pecans would be awesome on these too.

Chocolate Chip Brownie Bars

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After many requests I am posting Paula Deen's recipe for Chocolate Chip Blond Brownies. I whipped these little goodies up yesterday as brain food for my husband who sat for the state insurance licensing exam this morning. Apparently, they worked because he passed with flying colors.

3/4 cup butter

2 cups of firmly packed brown sugar

2 large eggs

2 cups all purpose flour

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips

6 squares of semi sweet baking chocolate

Melt butter in microwave in 30 second increments.  Stir in brown sugar until blended. Stir in eggs until blended. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl. Then add vanilla extract. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into greased 13x9 inch pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. If using glass pan, bake at 325 degrees to prevent burning. Cool completely. Follow directions for melting chocolate in the microwave on the box. When melted, spread in a thin layer over brownies. Allow chocolate to harden before cutting. 

More of Paula's recipes can be found at her website and at Food Network.

I already have plans for next week. What am I doing? Head on over to the Elsie Marley blog for details on her Kid's Clothes Week Challenge starting September 20. For those of you who know me, you know this will be pretty easy for me to do. Got several things to sew for Katie and a cardi planned for Caleb. Let's fire up the sewing machine and get those needles in position and ready to go!

Lace

The majority of my knitting time is usually spent knitting socks designed by the likes of Cookie A, Wendy Johnson, and Nancy Bush. Lately, though, I have been obsessed with lace... shawls mostly but it seems to be sneaking it's way into my sock pattern choices too.

Traveling Woman Shawl designed by Liz Abinante and knit in Knit Picks Imagination Sock yarn in Seven Dwarfs 

Woodland Shawl designed by The Thrifty Knitter and knit in Knit Picks Gloss Sock yarn in Kenai

 Haruni Shawl designed by Emily Ross and available from Knit Picks knit in Knit Picks Stroll Tonal Gypsy and Risata Sock Spicy (discontinued)

 And, as you can see, it's sneaking into my sock knitting. Rosebud Socks by Wendy Johnson in her book Toe Up Socks for Every Body. Yarn is Knit Picks Stroll in Firecracker Heather. (I love love love Knit Picks. Can't you tell?)

Girly Stuff

It's been over a month since my last post. We have been so busy with summer stuff and are now happy to be back into our Mothers Day Out routine. Katie is still going on Wednesdays and Fridays and Caleb is old enough to go too! He is only going on Wednesdays, however, he is the calm and easy baby so it's nice to have time just us. Meanwhile, here are some pics of a few things I have just finished up for custom order.

These pants were made using the Boutique Bottoms pattern from Sew Sensible. The t-shirt is just a plain white shirt from Target and the bird applique template is from Precious Patterns. Both are available on You Can Make This. Fabric is available from Down Shadow Lane.

Close up of the t-shirt

Knot dress and Ruffle pants made out of Amy Butler's Midwest Modern fabric. I also used Sew Sensible's  Boutique Bottoms fabric, and the dress is from Little Lizard King available on Etsy.

 Knot Dress close-up

 I love giant ric-rac!

If you are interested in custom ordering any of these items, please contact me on facebook.

Little Lizzie dress

Whipped up this little dress and pinafore yesterday. To me, it looks like something my favorite heroine, Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, would have worn when she was a little girl. The dress is made with a white swiss dot cotton using "Portrait Peasant Tops and Dresses" from the Scientific Seamstress and the pinafore is made from a printed eyelet found on clearance at Hancocks. I used Jack and Jill Designs' "Apron Jumper" pattern.

2 Days, 2 Dresses and a Cute Little Outfit

I've been sewing like crazy over the last couple of days. I guess I'm finally getting caught up after being laid up for a couple of weeks. Here's some pics of what I've been working on.

This pink dress was made from a Gap shirt found at the thrift store and loosely based on Disney's tutorial from Ruffles and Stuff

This little skirt and top are made from Amy Butler's Daisy Chain fabric. For the top I used "Portrait Peasant Tops and Dresses" pattern from the Scientific Seamstress. The skirt is my own design.

I love this jumper. It's reversible and I'm all about reversible clothes. I used fabric found at Hobby Lobby and the "A-line Tops and Dresses" pattern from the Scientific Seamstress.