Pretty 'n Pink

I love pink. Especially when it is vintage. Here are some recent pinks I fell in love with on Pinterest.

One of my favorite recipes.

I have a favorite meal that I thought I would share with you. I washed and baked four potatoes. You can do as many as you want depending on how many people you are feeding. This was for me and hubby. I baked them unwrapped in a round pan at 450 degrees for one hour. I like my potatoes good and fluffy.

I cut them open and let them cool just enough to handle them. 

While they were baking I fried up some bacon to use in the dish.

Once they cooled enough that I could pick them up, I scooped all the potato out of the skins.  

I added button and some salt. I like mine with lots of butter, but use your own preference.

I smashed up the potato and butter and crumbled the bacon into the mixture. If the potatoes are too cold for the butter to melt, simply pop them in the microwave long enough to warm them up and soften the butter so you smash them up good. 

Then I mixed it all together. (It looks a lot more yellow than what it was. Don't know what happened to the picture.)

Spread it out in a baking dish. Size you need depends on how thick you want your layer and how many potatoes you baked. Just use your own judgment.

Cover it with your favorite cheese. I alternated between American slices and Velveeta Shredded. But American was all I had on Sunday. 

Place it back in the oven at 350 degrees until cheese melts and it gets warm again. Usually 10-20 minutes depending on how cool the potatoes got. If your potato mixture is cold, you can also just warm it and then add the cheese the last 10 minutes. My potatoes were still warm from the microwave so I just did mine for 10 minutes this day. While it was in the oven, I got everything out to make some scrambled eggs to go with it. It is also a good side dish for chicken tenders. 

This is how everything turned out. 

I always save me a few pieces of bacon to have as meat with the meal. This is one of my favorite meals. Just looking at it this morning makes we wish I had leftovers. 

Top 10 Tuesday

Today's Top 10 title is TULIPS.

Here are 10 items I have seen on E-bay and Etsy that have tulips on them that I just love.

10. This pan is just too cute with the little tulips and the birds. 

9. I love floral on anything and since this has tulips and daffodils, two flowers I love, it stands to reason that I am going to love the tray. Plus I like the rustic look of it.

8. These dessert plates are really cute. 

7. I love the bunny flower sack dishtowels.

6. But this one was my favorite one I saw. 

5. Of course, you know if there is a tulip Pyrex pattern I am going to have it in my top 10 list. 

4. And I couldn't resist adding another Pyrex tulip pattern. 

3. I just saw this pattern for the first time. It is Corelle from 1972 and is called April Tulips. I am in love with this little cream pitcher. I am on a mission to get one of these. 

2. I love this style of Fire King cup and saucer. I have a set of the Blue Bonnie pattern, but have never seen the tulip one. There is a local antique store that carries the Fire King so I need to go check it out. 

1. And my all time favorite tulip item that is on my wish list, the Black Tulip Pyrex pattern.

Weekend wrap up

Saturday started out with thunder and heavy rains. But I had a trip to A.C. Moore planned and nothing gets in the way of that, so I headed out armed with a 40% off  one item coupon, a 50% off one item coupon and a sale paper full of good deals. I got all of this below for $7.00. Considering the yarn is normally $3.00, $7 wasn't a bad price for everything. You just need to make sure you tell them which item you want your 40% and 50% off on or they will give you the discount on the cheapest item. I got enough stuff here for 5 projects I am working on. 

Some of the projects are for me and some are for Sunday School class. These items were for our kindergarten class at Sunday School yesterday. 

They made these little snowmen cups. His smile is a little crooked but he turned out cute. We filled him full of popcorn at snack time.

I headed from there over to Bed, Bath and Beyond just to start getting ideas for spring. I love my bedroom decor, but it is very wintery with deep brick reds, blues and creams. I am toying with the idea of sprucing it up come spring with a new coat of paint and some lighter colors. I didn't have a clue what color I wanted until I saw this pillow. I fell in love with it.

Here is the quilted bedspread that goes with it. I would love to have this with my walls just painted a clean white.

I change tablecloths with the seasons. I am tired of my spring tablecloth because I have used it for 3 or 4 years. I decided to just take a look to see what they might have and get ideas of what to do for my tablecloth in spring. I want to incorporate these colors to go with my new Pyrex Shenandoah bowls. I love this green and soft buttery yellow. 

I was just looking because I have a large table and need the 120" tablecloth for it to hang over enough on the ends to look right. Which means, I usually find the ones I like for over $35. That's why I've used the same one for over 3 years. I was done looking at the tablecloths on the wall and turned around and this one caught my eye. Talk about going good together with my Pyrex. It was $34.99 so I was thinking I would come back and get it before spring. Till I saw a discount sticker for $14.99 and one on top of that one for $8.99. There was no way I was leaving it there when I saw the price. Now I can't wait for spring so I can spruce up my table. 

I have no choice but to wait for spring since hubby is working a puzzle on the other end of the table right now. It's funny but the grain in the lake home in the puzzle is the same grain as my table. Lots of the puzzle pieces that are for the wood on the house blend into the table perfectly. Makes it a little difficult at times to find the right piece. I try to help but my eyes go blurry after awhile. 

After I came home from shopping, I wanted peanut butter cookies but was feeling too lazy to roll them in balls and smoosh them with a fork. So I mixed the cookie dough and put it in a little baking pan and baked them like a cookie bar. The result was a shortbread style peanut butter cookie. They are good and chewy so I may make them like this more often. 

Sunday I went to church and then came home and fried some bacon and baked a few potatoes. Then I put it all together in a baking dish and covered it with cheese. I fixed some scrambled eggs to go with it. It was a great meal for a Sunday afternoon. Then I just vegged out and relaxed for awhile. 

All in all, it was a great weekend.

Sunday Morning Song

I love gospel music, especially those songs that make you just want to get up off your feet and move. Some believe dancing for celebration of God is something that is wrong. The bible says in 2 Samuel 6:14 "David danced before the Lord with all his might." The side notes in my bible says danced in that term means whirled about. I reading one commentary on it that said "David didn't hold back anything in his own expression of worship. He didn't dance out of obligation but out of heartfelt worship." The write of the commentary went on to say 

"This expression of David's heart showed that he had a genuine emotional link to God. We don't think that dancing is strange when the baseball player rounds the bases after the game winning home run. We don't think it is strange when the winning touchdown is scored or when our own child scores a goal. We think nothing at hands raised at a concert or a touchdown. We should not think them strange in worship to God."

I recently saw a video over at Jeremiah-2911 about a song by Mercy Me called Shake. I was reading the blog on my phone and couldn't get the video to come on and I forgot to go back and watch it later. Then my sister calls me out of the blue the other night to ask me if I had seen this very same video. I was intrigued so I went to You Tube. Oh my stars! I am in love with it. Yes, it does make you feel great and yes it does make you want to get up and dance with them. Talk about a song to pick you up when you are feeling down. You have got to watch this video. It is my go to song now when I feel in the dumps. Sorry about the short ad at the beginning, I couldn't find it without the ad.

My mind is racing

It's one of those mornings where my mind is jumping from one thing to another. I have been motivated so far this year to try to complete one item per week that I see on Pinterest. Some weeks may be more, but my goal is to completed a minimum of 52 pins I have seen on Pinterest. Whether it is decorations, recipes, crafts, DIY, clothing or just an idea, I want to follow through instead of just pinning. You can check out my progress on my page 52 Pins on this blog. Feel free to use this badge below and pin your projects on your blog. Leave me a comment if you do because I would love to hop around all year to see what everybody is accomplishing.

Here are a few things that I am planning for the upcoming weeks. Some are for my Sunday School class, but those count because I have to make the sample one for them to see what to do. This may be the one I do tomorrow because we have had so much snow this past week.

I also like this next craft for my Sunday School class. This would be perfect to take home to their Mommy. 

And this is so simple, but I just love it so I think I will make one of these for MY Mommy! I may make a little red and white basket and fill it with some of her favorite candy as well. Ssh! Don't anybody tell her or show her this post. I am going to make mine using fabric and Wonder Under so it will be vintage looking. 

I love this wreath but I do not love the yellow. I would go with another color. I know a couple of young girls who are becoming Yo Yo pros. I need to get my material I want and see if I can sweet talk them into making me a few yo yo's. I already have yarn, buttons and some of those flowers that I

I am going to love having a plan.