My mom gave us these frames last Christmas 
How cute are they?!
Archive for January, 2009
Taco Bake
Julie made an awesome taco bake using this recipe from allrecipes.com. This was the first one that we made, but we have since made a few changes. We use marble cheese and instead of using the diced tomatoes and chillies, we mix refried beans with chillies in with the ground beef mix. We also use green olives instead of black olives (if we use them at all). We also put sour cream on the side instead of mixing it in with the beef. Yum yum! Give it a try!
Neat Thrift Store Find
Check out this James Dean picture that Jules and I found at a local thrift store (St. Vincent De Paul in Westboro- if you’re in Ottawa, check it out!)
It’s actually pretty big, about 16×20 and wood mounted. And it was only $2.00!!
We were really excited because it fits right in with our Marilyn Monroe wood mounted pictures 
The Best Cup in the WORLD!
Maybe this is silly, but I have this plastic cup that I absolutely love!
This is MY designated cup and everyone knows not to use it. I drink everything out of this special cup EXCEPT for milk (that must be in a GLASS glass lol.)
I just love everything about this cup. It holds exactly the right amount of drink, it’s a nice shape (round, slightly tapered) and has a super cute design on it. All in all I love my cup
Bucket Skirt and Matching Collar for Gracie
Here is a fun little project I did a few months ago.
I took a reversable bucket hat (that I had in my closet for many years!) and made it into a skirt for Gracie!
I separated the two sides and made them into the floral layer and solid pink layer shown. I frayed the edges on the solid pink layer and added a cute polka dot band around the waist (made from a super cute shoelace!) It’s fastened with Velcro I also used a shoelace from the same package to cover one of her old collars to match with the skirt!
The skirt is slipping down a little in this picture, I altered it a bit afterwards so that it was a little tighter for her
Fun with salt dough!
I was looking for something to do and stumbled on this salt dough recipe on craftbits.com. Soooo simple! And the creative possibilities are endless! I made some basic shapes, picked up some unfinished wood shadow boxes from the dollar store and then pained everything with with acrylic paint. Annndddd Voila!!
The salt dough shapes after coming out of the oven:
Unpainted shadow box from the Dollarama! ONE DOLLA ONLY! lol!
In the middle of the painting process:
Finished Products:
Gordon
Gracie
Gordon and Gracie with the sweetest Boston poem I found on the Woof board!
Gracie and Gordon again
The finished products on the wall in our hallway!
(The water pictures will be replaced as they don’t really match lol!!)
Wicked Dog Show Find!
Jules and I went to a dog show in Richmond in the summer and found this little treasure of a painting hidden behind a bunch of stuff in one of the merch tents. Isn’t it awesome?!
Pizza Bagel Bites!
I tried out this yummy idea from Amanda’s site a while back. Look how delicious they turned out!! And so easy to make!
I made a few little changes including using one large piece of pepperoni instead of several little ones, marble cheese instead of mozzarella, ‘everything’ bagels instead of plain, and no ham, just big pieces of extra crispy bacon
Cute Boston Terrier Card
Look at this adorable BT card from my friend Mark!!!
I love the little bow tie he’s wearing lol!!
