Make your own baby food

My little man has been test-driving some of my new creations and he hasn't found one yet that he won't devour. These are super easy, fast and tasty homemade baby foods to try with your wee one. Enjoy!

**The key is to use a mini food processor or a mini chopper (like the Bullet).

Blueberry-Carrot Delight

1/4 to 1/2 cup fresh blueberries, washed
10-12 baby carrots
a pinch of brown sugar

Boil carrots in a saucepan with just enough water to cover bottom of pan, for about 5 minutes. Place blueberries and carrots in food processor with about 3 or tablespoons of water. Add a pinch of brown sugar and puree. (It is good like this, or you can add a bit of baby oatmeal and mix). Be sure to let this cool before feeding to baby!



Sweet Potato Yum-Yum (*Cohen's Current favorite!)

1/2 sweet potato
4-5 mandarin orange slices
3-4 tbsp juice from mandarin oranges
dash of cinnamon

Bake or boil sweet potato. Remove skin and add to food processor, along with oranges, juice and cinnamon. Puree and be sure it has cooled. Done!



Carrot Mix-up

10 baby carrots
about 1/2 of a large Gala apple
(optional..add 1/2 banana)

Boil carrots as described above, this time adding diced, peeled apple. Puree...cool...feed to drooling baby:)

You can take these and run with them! You can always mix it up and add new flavors...this week I will be making creations with peaches and green beans, too!

Burlap Wreath

I apologize profusely for my lack of blogging lately! It seem that between the end-of-the-year holidays, selling our house, moving into a rental and purchasing a new home, my crafti-ness has taken a backseat! Hopefully I will be back on the horse as soon as we get moved in to the new casa and I can locate my hot glue gun!

In the meantime, I will put this on my to make list:

http://undermypolkadotumbrella.blogspot.com/2011/01/burlap-wreath-tutorial-giveaway.html

A great addition to any front door! Thanks, Melinda at Under My Polkadot Umbrella!

Need a personalized gift?

Coasters
Custom painted knobs

Canvases (to match bedding)

scripture art

shirts (Fall design, will also have Christmas)

I am in the process of creating one-of-a kind gifts for the upcoming holidays...if you are interested in anything, let me know! I will post a few of my recent creations and I can customize anything to your liking....just getting started so bear with me as I post!

Yummy Feta Chicken Salad

So it was one of those busy "stay at home mom" days where you realize it is 2:00 and your children have long since had lunch, but that rumbling in your tummy suggests that you forgot to feed yourself! I raided the fridge for a quick lunch and found a cooked chicken breast left over from a casserole that I only needed part of the chicken breasts for and several containers of feta cheese...(.67 cents each with last week's coupons!). What to make? Voila! This new "greek" chicken salad was born!

You will need: cubed, cooked chicken
mayo
feta cheese
celery seed
salt and pepper
fresh tomato, diced


**Combine all ingredients, using each item to your taste (I like alot of chicken and Feta, medium amount of mayo, sparingly on the celery seed and tomato and just a pich of salt and pepper!) Serve on toasted bread or with crackers! Yum! Next time I may add olives......

Pearl the Owl

I have been revam-ping Rylie's room and her new bedspread has cute little owls on it, so it inspired me to make this cutie. I drew up a pattern on printer paper and stitched away! Here is the finished project. Rylie calls her Pearl:)

Lamp Makeover

We did a little mini-makeover in Rylie's room and this lamp was one of the projects. I had pink and green fringe around the bottom and I removed it and needed to make it purple.

First, I randomly placed round stickers I had left over from a garage sale on the lamp shade.

After some brain storming and a quick trip to Hobby Lobby, I gathered these supplies: purple and white paint, and some purple feathers along with paint brushes and of course my trusty hot glue gun.

I painted over the label stickers......

....removed the stickers and voila! A purple polka dotted lamp. This method is not without imperfections, so I used the white paint to quickly go over the dots....

After applying the purple feather boa with the hot glue gun and trimming to fit, here is the finished product! Rylie loves it and it matches her new bedspread. I still have a few finishing touches before posting before and afters of her room...

The next thing I want to make...tank top dresses for girls!

This is one of the cutest things I have stumbled across lately....looks really easy, and so stinkin' cute! I am eventually going to get around to this one! Here is the link for those of you who may beat me to it:)

www.tearosehome.blogspot.com/2010/04/tutorial-little-girls-tunic-with-tank.html