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Holiday Casserole

Holiday Casserole

Ingredients

1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1/2 cup butter or margarine
10 slices white bread, cubed
1 pound fully cooked ham, chopped
1/2 pound pasteurized processed cheese spread, cubed
6 eggs
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon ground mustard


Directions:

1. In a skillet, saute green pepper until tender.
2. Combine green pepper, bread, and ham. Place in an ungreased 13 by 9 inch baking dish.
3. Place cheese in skillet. Stir over low heat until melted.
4. Pour over bread mixture.
5. Beat eggs, milk, and mustard. Pour over cheese.
6. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
7. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking.
8. Bake, uncovered, at 300 degrees for 1 hour.
9. Cool slightly. Cut into 20 pieces.

Makes: 20 pieces.

Meal:
Lunch & Dinner

Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com and familyfun.com, 2008.

Our Rose

I love the Silhouette paper pack from Close To My Heart. It is elegant and sophisticated. I added a little bit of Notebook paper from CTMH as well, added the right touch. I added a pocket to put the poem in that was read at her grave site. Adding hidden spaces is fun, try it and see what you can come up with!!

Sorry this is short, I had allergy testing yesterday. I am still feeling a little uncomfortable... everything but 2 places puffed up like big superballs, my skin and eyes are ultra sensitive... Trust me, it wasn't any fun.

No Worries

I love to be using up my scraps, and making cards is the easiest way for me to do so. What else I like to do is donate them to local schools, for they can never have enough paper to work with for varies projects.

I wanted to leave you with a quote, as I know someone who is having a rough week and think this will help cheer her up...
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." ~Leo Buscaglia

Want Summer?

This card was made by one of my club members Jeni. I taught her paper piecing. If you don't know what that is... it's a fun, easy, and yet can be challenging if done with tired eyes that stayed up till 2am. By the way don't you just love that stamp set!! Oh I want it... not sure who its from or whats its called...

This card, I made while Jeni was doing her own. It involved chalk embossing or at least that's what I am calling it, paper piecing, and lots of laughter... :-)


To do the Chalk "Embossing"
Stamp your image using Versamark
Then take your desired chalk colors and using an applicator tool or even a q-tip color in and around your image as desired.
In some cases, I use a clear acrylic spray to help seal it.
But mostly when I mail them I put a photo sleeve over gives it more of a professional look to it.

To do Paper Piecing
It involves stamping your image twice, once on a plain Cardstock, & the other on B&T paper (B&T= Background & Texture)
Using your scissors trim out the piece or pieces you want out of your B&T paper
Then apply them to your plain Cardstock image.

Paper Piecing is time consuming, but is worth all the Oohs & Aahs!!
Feel free to share your paper piecing with me... :-)

Busy, Busy Bee am I...

Oh, My is everyone still stuffed from Turkey Day?? I still have leftovers in my fridge. :-) Saves on our food bill that's for sure.

I hosted a Ladies get together with my sisters in laws and friends (& scrapper in training my niece) over Turkey weekend, and got a lot done!! I am so proud of myself... My picture bin is slowly getting empty, which means I am catching up!! Yippeee!! My niece over this weekend has moments of boredom, but she over came it by taking miscellaneous pictures... Some are blurry as she bounced about, but some are rather interesting in the way she would tilt the camera or get onto the subjects level. Interesting isn't it the eyes of a child... I had to add a snippet of a self photo of her, as she took a lot of photos that are going to come back to haunt us... or should I say everyone else but me... as it was my camera... Heee heee hee... *witchy laugh*

Now these layouts are just a few that I did over the Ladies Weekend... I will post more as I go... didn't want to overwhelm anyone... :-)

My sister & my son... she is his Godmother, so I thought it only fitting to get a layout done about them as well...

Now I am sure that everyone has lots of photos and is trying to catch up like me... Right??? LOL, Well, this was a way to get those miscellaneous photos when you only have one of this or one of that but didn't want to throw it away or even frame it... so I just found a way to incorporate them all into a year in review layout. I really like how it turned out!

Summer Days, Oh I wish for warmth... and its not even a full Minnesotan winter yet... sad huh...

Now, this layout since I just had a few from the weekend these were taken. I wasn't quite sure what to do... I still haven't even came up with a title for it... as you see, its still pretty blank... :-) I think the boys looking out the windows in black in white like this was pretty slick!

Are you ready for Snow?

Snow, Snow, Snow...

Left Layout using Aspen paper, SOTM All decked out, Stampin Up scallop punch, Snowflake stickers (got at Target sorry don't recall the brand) & clear sparkles.

Right Layout using Aspen paper, SOTM All decked out, Stampin Up scallop punch, Snowflake stickers (got at Target sorry don't recall the brand) & clear sparkles.

Stamp set Gloria, Paper pack Everlasting, acetate, acetate markers

Paper pack Aspen, Acetate over the snowflake paper, stamp set is Bundled Up, fun flock

Perfect Day in Wyoming

Wyoming layouts using Perfect Day, sorry photos are blurry as the lighting wasn't that great for taking pictures.



Love this Perfect Day paper pack, have been trying to catch up on our last year's vacation to Wyoming! :-)

Floral layouts aren't only for Girls :-)

Every year my boys and I go to the Renaissance Fair, we love the atmosphere and the food isn't that bad either! It's a day of laughter and fun!! I took lots of pictures and this is just a few of the layouts that I have completed, but it gives a general idea. These papers are retired from CTMH, but they fit into my theme perfectly that I have used absolutely NO embellishments at all, that's right no ribbons, brads, eyelets etc.... I think they turned out beautifully.

Creative Club Display Board

I have been scrapping a lot lately and getting ready for a big crop this weekend my sister in law and I do together. This is the display board for my monthly club that I will be displaying as well as a few things we have done in the past.
2 p Layout, 2 Cards, Calendar, Candle, Clipboard...

Let me know what you think!