Board & Batten Beautification

Started the Board & Batten project on Sunday. Took a break from it yesterday to celebrate my son Austin's 15th birthday! As you can see it goes up pretty fast and is very easy to do! I posted pics of what I have gotten done so far and will post more throughout the project. Today is MY birthday and I am going to stop here and celebrate with my family! Post soon! (The pics are out of order)

Vintage Locker Redo

I was out looking around the Charleston area and found out we have a Habitat for Humanity store! They had all sorts of goodies in there! Old doors and windows, furniture, lighting, kitchen cabinets, sinks etc. The first thing I noticed was an old vintage hospital locker sitting up against the wall, all by its self, that had 8 compartments (Lots of storage options for all those skateboards!). It was gray and dirty
And it was missing some locks. Nothing that couldn't be fixed! I checked the price and they wanted $50 for it. If you have ever looked at the prices for old or new lockers you would know that was a steal!! I took it home, cleaned it up, primed it and spray painted the vintage locker and gave it a pop of color for my son's skateboard room. He has gray walls and a brick graffiti wall that has some orange in it so I went with a bright orange spray paint. I am waiting on the replacement handles and locker number plates. I will post new pics when they come in and I get them installed. We also found some DC skateboard stickers we used on the locker from our Milton Flea Market (love that place!) Here is a photo!

"Epic Meal Time" Party!

The "Epic Meal Time" party food went over Very Well with all of David's birthday party guests! I made the Fast Food Lasagna from their YouTube video (but a little different!) and couldn't find a dessert lasagna, from them, so I made up my own. Here is what I did for the lasagna:

8 McDonald's double hamburgers (no toppings)
Two pounds of bacon, cooked and drained
8 Wendy's double cheeseburgers (no toppings)
1 Medium McDonalds cup filled with Big Mac sauce ($3.00)
1 1/2 pounds of shredded cheddar cheese
4 orders of Burger King Onion Rings
Meat Sauce (recipe below)

Layer 8 McDonald's hamburgers in bottom of a pam sprayed deep casserole dish ( I used my pampered chef deep dish baker lid) press them down. layer with all of the cooked bacon. Top with half the meat sauce and half the cheese. Pour all of the Big Mac sauce over the cheese. Layer with the Wendy's 8 hamburgers and press down again. Top with all of the onion rings and the rest of the cheese. I covered it with foil and put it in a 350 degree oven until hot and cheese is melted.

Meat sauce:
1 pound ground pork sausage
1 pound ground beef
1 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce. (I used bullseye BBQ sauce with a little teriyaki sauce)
Cook the pork and beef until done. Drain and add BBQ sauce. Heat until BBQ sauce is hot.


McDonald's Apple Pie Lasagna:

15 McDonald's Apple Pies
Cream Cheese Filling (recipe below)
8oz Cool Whip
Melissa's dessert sauce-White Chocolate
Melissa's dessert sauce-Raspberry

Layer half the McDonald's pies in an 11x7 casserole dish. Spread cream cheese filling over pies. Layer the other half of pies on top. Spread all of the cool whip over the pies. Drizzle with the raspberry and white chocolate sauces. Serve!
(I had asked my husband to get Carmel sauce but the local grocery store was out of it. It originally was going to be: 1/2 pies,cream cheese filling, caramel sauce, 1/2 pies, cool whip, Carmel sauce, white chocolate sauce)

Cream cheese filling:
6oz room temp cream cheese
2 Tablespoons room temp butter
1 teas vanilla extract
2 cups powdered sugar

Beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth. Mix in powdered sugar until blended.

(Picture is of one of David's friends at his party with the Fast food Lasagna)

"Epic Meal Time" Birthday Invitations!

It's Lil' David's 16th Birthday Party! He chose to have an "Epic Meal Time" themed party. We are going to be making "our" version of the fast food lasagna and apple pie lasagna (on a slightly smaller scale!) ;) Epic Meal Time is a Canadian YouTube cooking show known for creating extremely high-calorie meals, generally out of meat products (with particular emphasis on bacon!).
They make the world’s most obscene rendition of lasagna…the "Fast Food Lasagna". Made from bacon, 15 Big Macs from McDonald’s, 1 litre of Big Mac Sauce, 15 Wendy’s Baconators, 15 Teen Burgers from A&W, Onion Rings, Cheese and Jack Daniel’s Meat Sauce, this entire meal has 5,463 grams of fat! Of course, ours will be much, much lighter & smaller than that!!!

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Give Thanks Card

Loved a thanksgiving card made by Faith Hofrichter on Splitcoast stampers. Her color combination was so pretty. Made these for my family for Thanksgiving.

So Very Blessed Thanksgiving card

Halloween 2012

You've Been Turkey'ed

I've used the "You've Been Boo'ed" poem for Halloween in recent years and I needed one for Thanksgiving. When searching the net, I've found some poems for "You've Been Turkey'ed", "You've Been Gobbled" and "You've Been Thanked", but didn't
really like any of them. So, I wrote my own using the "You've Been Boo'ed"
as a guide. (Going to be posting pictures of the project when I'm finished with it)

Here is my version:

"You've Been Turkey'ed!"

Since this is the season for Thankfullness and Kindness

Yummy food, Great friends and an abundance of niceness:)

Warm family memories and traditions too!

These are the things I wish for YOU!
🍁🍃🍂🍃🍂🍃🍁

May this Lil' Turkey you chance to meet

Bring the spirit of Love and warm friends sweet

May this Lil' turkey that comes your way

Pass on the joy of giving him away!
🍁🍃🍂🍃🍂🍃🍁

SO,
Quickly pick a friend on your street

And give them an early Thanksgiving Day treat

The day is approaching quickly so, HURRY!

Leave a treat on their doorstep and FLEE in a FLURRY!!!

Now these are the things you need to do:
1) Post a Turkey from the basket on or near your front door.
2) Take your treats out of the basket. Enjoy!
3) Then take the basket and fill with YOUR homemade or bought treats and deliver it to a special friend that doesn't have a Turkey on their door!

You've Been Spooked!

I made this in 2006. I don't think I ever posted it to my blog. I used the bronze embossing powder and gold embossing powder on the can, rubbed the can with pumpkin pie ink and crystal effects.

The saying is:

You’ve been SPOOKED!

Since this is the time for goblins and bats Halloween spirits and ghosts and cats Weird happenings and witches brew
These are the things I wish for you
May the only spirit you chance to meet Be the spirit of love and warm friends sweet
May the only goblin that comes your way
Be the phantom you’ll want to give away
So quickly pick one friend so sweet And give her a yummy Halloween treat The day is fast approaching, so hurry!! LEAVE THE TREAT ON THE DOORSTEP AND FLEE IN A FLURRY!
Now these are the things you need to do:
1. Post a PHANTOM from the bucket
on your door until Halloween.
This will ward off the phantom ghost
from returning to haunt you again.
2. Then take your bucket filled with your treat
and deliver it to a special friend
that doesn’t have a PHANTOM on their door.

‘TIS BETTER GIVING THAN RECEIVING.
WE ALL KNOW THIS IS TRUE
SO SHOW YOUR LOVE TO ALL
YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER
NOW THE PHANTOM IS YOU!


Stamps: HEY GHOUL FRIEND, STARS AND SWIRLS,
Paper: MORE MUSTARD, PUMPKIN PIE, NATURALS IVORY, CHIP BOARD TAGS,
Ink: VANILLA CRAFT, PUMPKIN PIE, MORE MUSTARD
Accessories: BLACK GINGHAM RIBBON, MORE MUSTARD RIBBON, ONLY ORANGE RIBBON, TWINE,CURLZ FONT,BRONZE EMBOSSING POWDER, CRYSTAL EFFECTS, GOLD EMBOSSING POWDER,

Fright Night!

Ghost Crossing!

Stamps: Hey, ghoul friend, Autumn Apparitions

Papers: black and lovely lilac card stock, Spellbound pattern paper, acetate,

Inks: black stays on

Tools: cuttle bug,

Embellishments: ghost crossing tag, white emboss powder, versamarker, Dimensionals,

Gone Haunting!

I have a great new stamping room now so you will be seeing a lot more from me! Blowing off all the dust that has accumulated on my stamps since the last time I used them!

Stamps: Hey, ghoul friend, Autumn Apparitions, studio G alphabet stamp set
Paper: All wraped up textured paper, perfect plum and black card stock

Ink: Vanilla craft stampin' pad

Accessories: black emboss powder, versamarker, white gel pen, old olive stampin' write marker, clear accetate, ribbbon, perfect plum jewel brad, frightful collection Haunting tag, dimensionals,
Chipboard sticker letter,

Spellbound Halloween!

Haven't Stamped in a long time! Feels good! For some reason the hat and the background do not match in this pic. The "h" chipboard sticker letter is cute! They have flocked spiderwebs on them. You can see them here:
http://www.mylyb.com/frightful
My card measures 4"x4"

Stamps: Best Fiends, Autumn Apparitions

Paper: "Spellbound" by making memories, black and lovely lilac card stock.

Accessories: VersaMarker, black embossing powder, black spiderweb chipboard letters from little yellow bicycle, the rub on "happy" is Stampin'up!, Spellbound ribbon, Stampin'Up! Black and white checked ribbon, silver cording, staples, dimensionals, Stampin'Up! Markers in
Orange, lovely lilac and certainly celery, stamp-a-ma-jig, diamond stickles, and dsst.

Ticket Gift Card