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Friday, November 23, 2012

eat THIS: FARMERS BREAKFAST

So I'm home in Texas right now and my family loooovvess eating breakfast for dinner. But, who doesn't? So we made this from one of my mom's cookbooks- Taste of Home Breakfast and Brunch but we altered it a little bit. Now, you may need to do 8 rounds of P90X after you eat this but, it is delicious and simple!

You will need:

6 strips of bacon

2 tbs diced onion

4 medium potatoes, already cooked

7 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Salt and Pepper

Cook the bacon until crisp.

Put the finished bacon on a paper towel.

Chop it up once it has cooled.

Keeping the bacon drippings in the pan, throw in the potatoes and onion until they brown, about 5 minutes.

Pour in the eggs, cook and stir until the eggs are set. Season with salt and pepper.

Sprinkle the bacon and cheese on top..

And cover with a lid to melt the cheese quickly.

Cut and serve! So yummy and only 5 ingredients. Perfect for your "breakfast for dinner" dinner!

Friday, November 9, 2012

the DIY: SUBTLE PATTERN TEE

So we wanted to spice up this plain white tee that Casey got for super cheap at the Gap. We also had been wanting to try to make a watermark tee so that's what we did! It didn't come out exactly like we had hoped but one day we will try again. I have already worn the final product already because I did actually like how it turned out, even though it wasn't exactly what we wanted. See how we made the subtle pattern below! You will need a blank white shirt, blue gel glue and some dye.

Start by soaking your shirt in cold water and ringing it out. Place something in between the layers of the shirt to prevent the glue from leaking through. We used sheet protectors!

You could squeeze the glue right out of the bottle onto the shirt and create designs or you can use a paint brush like we did. The glue wouldn't come out like we wanted straight from the bottle.

Start making any designs or words on the shirt with the glue.

You can see a little here how our designs looked when we were finished. Now you have to let the shirt dry completely.

Mix your dye bath follow the instructions on the box or bottle but, use cold water. The way we did this was we took a very small amount of hot hot water and mixed the dye in it until it dissolved. Then we mixed that mixture with the rest of the water required but, we made sure that water was cold cold cold. We wanted to use two different dye colors and make a sort of ombre effect. We put one end of the shirt in a hot pink dye and one end in a golden yellow color and let it sit as long as it was supposed to.

Rinse the shirt out and let it sit in soapy water for at least 15 minutes. This should remove any glue on the shirt. Then wash and dry the shirt as normal.

As you can see, the glue didn't prevent the dye from going into the shirt as much as it should. Could be the paint brush technique. But now we call this our subtle pattern tee! It works! Just not what we expected.

Monday, November 5, 2012

the DIY: HOLIDAY GIFT TAGS WITH MARTHA STEWART PAINTS

Today we are making holiday gift tags with Martha Stewart Paints. I love making things and decorating for the holidays that aren't just red and green. Don't get me wrong, sometimes red and green is necessary and fun but, I tend to lean towards more natural textures and neutral colors.

For this tutorial we are using Martha Stewart Paints and Stencils, some card stock, some baker's twine and Martha Stewart's sponge daubers. The stencils we are using are adhesive stencils and also the greatest things ever invented. The reason I don't use stencils very often is because they slide around and get all messy. These stencils stick right onto almost anything you want to stencil.