Why, yes dear, it is snowing:)

You can probably barely see it but yes the first snow of the year has come to where I live! I am so so happy! I'll prob get sick of it halfway through the winter but I have always loved the first!

And here is Draco he loves the snow:):) as you can see the snow isnt sticking very well lol he doesnt look very happy in the pic but trust me he was running around all happy it was snowing:)

I'm Baaack!

These last two weeks have been really fun! just hanging out with friends and family in my good ol hometown:) More posts to follow soon, but for now here is my dog Draco.

So, I leave you with my backyard...

I'm tired, have a headache, and have watched way too much "Office"... :D I'm off to finish watching some more "Pushing Daisies" as i speak:) Good night world...till tomorrow:)

PS: I just bought a halter for my dog...maybe that will make him easier to walk ha ha

I love Etsy

I love browsing Etsy.com cause you can find so much wonderful handmade stuff! Just thought i would show off these earrings...pretty cute if you ask me! I might just have to get them....:)

Amazing Hoagie Rolls

Ok, so the other day I really wanted some hoagie rolls but didnt want to go to the store. Well, I use Recipezaar.com all the time for recipies because they actually have comments and ratings on the recipies. So, I tried these hoagie rolls I found on Recipezaar and omg EVERYONE loves them! They are so easy to make and taste so good! Anyways, I just wanted to share this recipie with everyone.

Hope you all enjoy!!

P.S. My mother in law gave me those flowers:)

Autumn and Winter Heat Pack

Winter is coming on quick and sometimes its nice to have something warm. Whether its for sore muscles or just for comfort, heatpacks can be very nice to have:) This heatpack that I made, is lightweight and has a removable sleeve so I can wash it if I want to.


The fabric I used for my heatpack is cotton(both the sleeve and heatpack). You dont want to use anything that could melt or spark in your microwave while heating it.


Here is a picture of the heatpack outside of the sleeve. I basically measured out how big I wanted my heatpack, then I measured an inch larger(1/2 inch on all sides) for the sleeve.

Heatpack dimensions: 17" x 6 and 1/2" (unfinished with seam allowances included).

16" x 6" (finished)

Sleeve dimensions: 19" x 7 and 1/2" (unfinshed with seam allowances included).

18" x 7" (finished)

The Sleeve (as you can probably tell) has one end that I turned under so that it would not fray. (The prospect of random threads from the material didnt sound too good haha).

This is a grid of how I did my heatpack. All the black lines are where I sewed between the rice(filler) so that it was lightweight and the rice didnt move all around. The dark red is where I folded the material under and finished it off.

I used Brown Rice as the filler and it works really well, there are many other fillers out there you can use, but i like the smell of rice and it holds the heat really well. If you choose to use rice as your filler in a heatpack DO NOT use white or minute rice as it will possibly start a fire in your microwave....not fun times lol

For more info on heatpacks (where i got all my info haha) please go to: Rice Heat Pack
If you have any questions for me on this post, just let me know and I will try to answer it!

"The Holiday" Country Cottage take 2

Searching for findings...

Right here is a close up of the candle lanterns in Iris' living room. I looked Everywhere for them and found some, after about 5 hours of searching! They are Verdigris Iron Lanterns and are beautiful!

HERE THEY ARE!!! At tracyporter.com, Iron Lamps by Tracy Porter, also, because sometimes items are out of stock, if the lanterns arent there, just let me know and i have plenty more links as to where you can find these lanterns!

(cottage photographs property of http://www.outnow.ch/)

More findings and updates to follow!

"The Holiday" Country Cottage

Ok, so recently I have been obsessed and i mean COMPLETLY obsessed with trying to figure out the look of Kate Winslet's Character's, Rosehill Cottage in "The Holiday." If you haven't seen this movie by Nancy Meyers, you may want to just for the knowledge of what im talking about haha jk but seriously its a good movie and i love it. Anyways, back to the look of the cottage, I WANT IT!

I found the site that has alot of the set pictures for The Holiday on it, in fact all the pictures of the cottage on here are from that site: http://outnow.ch/Movies/2006/Holiday/Bilder/ . I have to say i prefer the cottage over the house in California.
Another blog i found talks about the look of the cottage and how to get it http://silverscreensurroundings.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Holiday .

The Wierdest Things

LOL ok so i was watching a movie on my computer this morning when something out of the corner of my eye caught my attention...

I have no idea why it was so funny to me but this little guy made me laugh so hard. :)

He was just walking along minding his own business and all but he looked so cute, I had to take his picture:)

Muffins are so good.

Ever wanted a really good muffin recipe?
I have been cooking since i was a kid, and during all my years of baking, scrambling, mixing, etc. I have found a really good muffin recipe...not too sweet and not too plain...just right:) Well, I took this recipe and edited it and evolved it and changed it to make it my own so you can have wonderful muffins anytime of the day!

Dracofly Muffins

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Mix together:

1 1/3 C. Flour

3/4 C. Rolled Oats

1/3 C. Sugar

2 tsp. Baking Powder

1/4 tsp. Salt

Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients after you have mixed them together, and add:

1 Tbs. Sour Cream

1 C. Milk

1/4 C. Cooking Oil

Stir all ingredients together till just moistened...the batter will be slightly lumpy. Grease some muffin cups and fill with muffin mixture 3/4 of the way full.

Put in oven and bake for about 20 minutes.

Makes 9-12

Drizzling honey on the muffins when they are done makes them taste scrumptious!

Happiness

Happiness...

Alot of people really don't know what true happiness is. I may not even know what it is, but I do know what I believe it is.

True happiness is the feeling that nothing in the world can stop you. One can take happiness in punching a tomato in mid-air. At the same time someone else may define happiness as having the people they love, around them. (Sorry bout the tomato part...just had to get that out in the open lol). I feel that when one is truly happy, the worries and matters of the world are, for a time, out of one's mind. That the person is in the moment and that all that matters to them at that point in time is what makes them smile.

Just my thought for the day.

Love out*~