Masquerade Sleepover Party

Easy Sweet Cornbread Recipe

My sister gave me this recipe from her step daughter. Super fast and easy to put together. It's very sweet but so yummy:) you can cut down on the sugar to your liking. I have posted this recipe to Pinterest.

-Sweet Cornbread- 

2 Boxes of Jiffy Cornbread 

1 Stick of Butter (melted) 

2 Eggs 

1 Cup of Sour Cream 

1 Can of Cream Corn 

1 Cup of Sugar  

Pre-heat oven to 350°. Melt Butter. Mix all ingredients together. Pour into a greased 9x13 casserole dish. Bake 30-40 minutes.

Thanksgiving 2014 Menu

-Drinks-

Sparkling Apple Cider

Hot Tea

Coffee

Hot Pumpkin Cider

-Appetizers-

Carmel Apple Cream Cheese Dip

Marinated Cheese

Gorgonzola Artichoke Bites

Variety of Crackers

-Main Course-

Fried Turkey

Giblet Gravy

Cornbread Stuffing

-Salad-

Roquefort Pear Salad

-Side Dishes-

Green Beans and Shallots

Carrots and Bacon

Streusel Sweet Potatoes

Potato Shitake Gratin

Cranberry Orange Relish

-Breads-

Homemade Crescent Rolls

Pumpkin Bread

Creamy Honey Butter

Apple Butter

Pear Butter

-Desserts-

Apple Pear Crumble Pie

Pumpkin Pie

Candy Apple Pie

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pumpkin Rolls

Pumpkin ooey gooey dessert

(We love pumpkin...can you tell?;)

"EAT" pennant framed chalkboard

Getting ready for Thanksgiving

Joanna Gaines inspired chalkboard coffee bar:

I outlined the banner in the chalk marker so it will be semi permenant and the "Thankful" I used regular chalk. I can easily erase the chalk and write in something else. For Christmas I am having a cookie exchange and would like to change it to "Cookies For" and Santa underneath the banner. 

Chalkboard Coffee Bar

I was so inspired by HGTV's Fixer Upper, Joanna Gaines, when she made this coffee bar for a client. 

Episode 2, The Gatecrest Story:

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I LOVE her style and her creative spirit! I am always looking at our AWESOME local Milton Flea Market and our Habitat for Humanity re-store site to find items to fix up, repurpose or just enjoy just the way it is! I was visiting the re-store in Charleston, West Virginia and found a 6' x 4 1/2' whiteboard for $40! I threw it in the back of my truck and brought it home and fixed it up! This is what it looked like:

I sanded it all down and primed it with a spray on primer that adheres to plastic.

I did another light sanding and wiped it down to get ready for the chalkboard paint.

This is what it looked like when I was finished painting:

I hung the very heavy chalkboard with 2 OOK hanging bars from the Home depot. They were around $14.00 a piece. Just one of them holds 200 pounds. I just felt better having 2 to hold it up because of it's length. It made it very stable. I made some floating shelves from barnwood I had bought from Bob our gracious neighbor who was getting rid of it all. 

I attached them to the chalkboard.

The fun part:) I loved the way Joanna did her chalk art so I free handed the art with a chalk marker from Michael's craft store.  The chalk marker gives a much crisper, whiter line. Love it! 

I decided to change her banner though. I just thought for what I want to use it for the banner I'm using would be nice to just change out the words. This is the banner idea I chose from an ornament my BFF showed me she bought for Christmas: 

It will say "Coffee Bar" until December 1st when I will turn it Into a "Hot Cocoa Bar".

More pics will be posted soon:)

I made these to look like hers out of a large branch I had in my yard and some smaller twigs that I hot glued yellow/rust color balls to the ends. I didn't think the green Moss she had used on hers would go with the colors I was using so I went to my garden stash and found some sphagnum moss and it worked great.

Thankful Banner

Halloween 2014