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Congrats to all the new winners!! I love my MISTI!
Dabbling with some grain/dairy free baking this morning. Made some sandwich bread and cranberry muffins. So far, after a bit of cooling, they taste great! I couldn't wait very long!!
You're going to love your MISTIs! I think there are lots of great possibilities with today's tutorial but I echo the concrrns of one commenter to be careful of copyright rules in copying color pages from books. I think you should be able to find plenty of free printable pages though for the techniques that require printing*Kyra does address this in the video tutorial
Congrats to all the new winners!! I love my MISTI!
Dabbling with some grain/dairy free baking this morning. Made some sandwich bread and cranberry muffins. So far, after a bit of cooling, they taste great! I couldn't wait very long!!
Sounds amazing! How industrious - what did you make the sandwich bread out of?
Sounds amazing! How industrious - what did you make the sandwich bread out of?
It's Against All Grain's recipe...it's eggs, cashew buttur with a bit of coconut flour and several other ingredients. Different, but edible I think! I'm just trying to wrap my mind around less grain and dairy in I our diet! Not that we have to (I don't think..) but I like the idea of reducing inflammation as we age!
Oh my gosh!! I can't believe I won! I never win anything... and for it to be the MISTI!! That's what I wanted more than anything! Thank you so much!! =)
I am grain free. I know the bread recipe you are talking about. I stopped using nut butters for breads because I don't care for the "pound cake" type texture for a sandwich. But! it's great toasted with butter and eggs! Mmmmmm! I started using Almond flour and Arrowroot powder to make my waffles for sandwich bread. I slice one waffle in half thickness wise. There's no way I could bite into two stacked with goodness in the middle too. LOL! For my stuffing this year I made seasoned waffles and totasted them low and slow to make then crunchy, added all my usual stuffing ingredients and OMG it was amazing! My entire family wanted MINE instead of theirs and request me to "please, just make the waffle one every time from now on."
__________________ Shannon
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Nin
Doing the happy dance!!! I just got home for the day and signed in and learned from comments on my card that I won a MISTI!!! WOW!! I'm so excited and in disbelief!! Wow!! A heartfelt thanks to you, Lydia!! I am so pleased!!! OK, I'll shut up!! But I'm so excited!!! Thank you, thank you, Lydia!! Congrats to the other MISTI winners!!
Doing the happy dance!!! I just got home for the day and signed in and learned from comments on my card that I won a MISTI!!! WOW!! I'm so excited and in disbelief!! Wow!! A heartfelt thanks to you, Lydia!! I am so pleased!!! OK, I'll shut up!! But I'm so excited!!! Thank you, thank you, Lydia!! Congrats to the other MISTI winners!!
This is my 6th and final Nugget Cake for this year ( I think). The Christmas Tree topper is Velcro attached and it would be easy peasy to take off the velcro and keep it just as an M and M or skittles dispenser. I wanted to drape mini fake pearls on the layers to resemble garland but the attaching method wasn't working the way I wanted it to so I switched to adding gemstones to represent lights and tied the silver cord around the layers to be sure the candies stay in place.
FYI If you have a source for empty Mrs. Grossman's sticker roll cores....that is what I used for the bottom layer on this cake. They measure 2" in height but a trip to my friend's house and some time with his scroll saw gave me 6 1" rings from 3 original cores. Strong and thick enough to glue on the edges for the "lids".....Have enough stashed now to make a dozen more cakes. OMG did I just say I would be buying more chocolate? Kathy will be knocking on my door.
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
Do you put dp for where you are going to adhere your nuggets? I don't like that you can (upon close inspection) see the cardboard which I use to make my layers.
Should we maybe start a Nugget Cake thread since we keep hijacking this one?
__________________ On a positive note, I'm too old to have a mid-life crisis! ~~anonymous
No, I didn't layer around first. My nuggets fit close together so you don't see the cardboard plus, I tied metallic thread around it to pull it tighter together.
I do cover the rings with DP. Because I used some rings that wouldn't take one more nugget but had too much space to leave bare, and I had to move them a bit more apart to make it look ok. the biggest cake I made used 36 nuggets and the smallest was 32. And I used thread and ribbon to tie mine in tighter as well. and yes we need a nugget thread..... I went to the door Kathy but couldn't find you on the step....
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
I am totally thrilled to be a Misti winner! I wished and hoped and prayed while I was making my cards and projects that I would be a lucky winner, and I am walking on air that my dream came true! Thank you SCS and all the sponsors for the amazing Falliday Fest.
__________________ Jo AnnMy SCS gallery / my blogThe cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea~Isak Dinesen FS 776
Good morning . I'm up....I'm in my place but no shining face. I haven't imbibed my coffee yet and I'm not fully awake yet. We start with Algebra every morning and it's a rough start to the day sometimes. I guess it's good for this old brain of mine !
I'm thinking about apples already...the last batch of whatever I process...then I will clean my stove well and this year I am putting on new drip covers!
Had the stove for 21 years, time for new ones.
When we home educated we did math for one week-a-month...that was the only subject that week...then the other weeks we divided the other subjects and if there was a 5th week then they got those as vacation days. Worked well for our family.
That's the beauty if home education, having the learning experience work for your children.
__________________ On a positive note, I'm too old to have a mid-life crisis! ~~anonymous
Good morning . I'm up....I'm in my place but no shining face. I haven't imbibed my coffee yet and I'm not fully awake yet. We start with Algebra every morning and it's a rough start to the day sometimes. I guess it's good for this old brain of mine !
My problem with algebra was that I could figure it out with examples and then I'd understand it a while. Then I would walk away and forget how to do it again! LOL.
Morning all! Today includes the final session with the 5th and 6th grade journal makers. they have worked well and though not as neat and perfect as I might like they are completing the tasks as demonstrated. Then home to care for my next to youngest grandson who picked up a bug and can't go to daycare due to fever. He and I will have some cuddle time, a long nap for him and cookie baking for me as I do final prep for the craft fair Saturday. All papercraft items are ready to go ( first time ever I haven't been working to the wire) and just need the food treats to fill SAnta buckets--using pumpkin snickerdoodles--and plastic see through paint cans--caramel corn. Then load it up and hopefully sell it all---LOL! Have camera club meeting tonight and we are going to shoot Christmas lights if weather helps. Tomorrow is up in the air but I am sure it will be a full day.
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
These sound like good plans....cuddling, teaching crafting and cooking are right up my alley! It was an easy algebra day and with coffee on board I'm ready to go. Shower and mom-taxi to the orthodontist with an oil change for the taxi thrown in there followed by our afternoon classes of OT history, world lit (finishing up The Odyssey ) and studying for the Biology test on Friday. I have country ribs for a homey comfort food supper tonight where the meat braises with carrots and celery and is served over cheesy grits, YUMMY! Maybe some crafty time while the kids are swimming since the supper cooks itself once I get it going.
My problem with algebra was that I could figure it out with examples and then I'd understand it a while. Then I would walk away and forget how to do it again! LOL.
I feel you on that one. The challenge is to look at the problem and know which method to apply to the equation. I love this curriculum that allows us to watch each problem. We often look to make sure we're approaching the problem correctly before we start the calculating process! I can't get over what a difference this curriculum has made. My poor older 2 kids really struggled through high school math and I was no help! DS 2 was gifted in math so I just checked to see that he was doing it and he taught himself. I think child #4 was the first to get all the high school math with the new curricula!
Good morning . I'm up....I'm in my place but no shining face. I haven't imbibed my coffee yet and I'm not fully awake yet. We start with Algebra every morning and it's a rough start to the day sometimes. I guess it's good for this old brain of mine !
I'd take algebra over moving today! Have some coffee and a fabulous day!
These sound like good plans....cuddling, teaching crafting and cooking are right up my alley! It was an easy algebra day and with coffee on board I'm ready to go. Shower and mom-taxi to the orthodontist with an oil change for the taxi thrown in there followed by our afternoon classes of OT history, world lit (finishing up The Odyssey ) and studying for the Biology test on Friday. I have country ribs for a homey comfort food supper tonight where the meat braises with carrots and celery and is served over cheesy grits, YUMMY! Maybe some crafty time while the kids are swimming since the supper cooks itself once I get it going.
Orthodontist check, oil change check, dog walk check! Now for afternoon school. The recipe for the cheesy grits with braised ribs is in the recipe box. So good!
Algebra is one of my favorite things I actually was just teaching my husband algebra. He is taking the Massachusetts Plumbers Exam next week and needs to know some basic Algebra to answer some of the questions. I must be a pretty good teacher because the other night he actually said that he wished the whole test was math because then he knew he would ace it. I never thought I would hear those words come out of his mouth. I'm very proud and I think he will ace it next week!
Don't sell them and you'll be fine! 
