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19 February 2012

Cherry Pie Day

Is February 20th!

What a fun idea. Cherry Pies are pretty stinkin' charming and cute!

I have NEVER made a cherry pie, and as much as I would like to, I seriously doubt I will get to it, unless I maybe do a couple mini ones with my mini pie maker!

But I am usually a make ahead kind of person, so maybe I will try these instead

Found HERE

Recipe

Cherry Pie Pecan Bars
Adapted from Lucky Leaf recipe

2 cups all purpose flour
2 cups uncooked quick cooking oats
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
13 tablespoons butter
7 tablespoons apple butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 tsp baking soda
1 21 oz can cherry pie filling
1 cup miniature marshmallows

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients except pie filling and marshmallows in a large mixing bowl. Beat at low speed, scraping bowl often until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

2. Reserve 1 1/2 cups of the crumb mixture for the topping. Press remaining mixture into ungreased 13x9 inch baking pan. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Gently spoon pie filling over hot crust. Sprinkle with marshmallows then sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture.

3. Continue baking for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely on a rack.

Happy Cherry Pie Day!!

21 January 2012

Peanut Butter Day!!

Is January 24th, just a few days away. Luckily pb isn't too hard to incorporate into our day. I'm sure we will have PBnJ's for lunch and maybe I will make some PB cookies!

Or maybe some PB fudge!

But other than that I am not planning too much!
If I have to stop at the grocery store I might let the kids make a small container of the DIY peanut butter, they would probably like that!
Are y'all planning anything for National Peanut Butter Day?

20 January 2012

January 23rd is National PIE Day!

YUM! Not only are pies tasty but they are so charming and simple, considering most aren't too many ingredients. They are cute and always make me feel giggly. I think anything with a pie on it is special!

The American Pie Council had this on their site, I thought it was cute!

"Why is National Pie Day celebrated on Jan. 23 or 1/23?

Because celebrating the wholesome goodness of pie is as easy as 1-2-3."

And here is some suggestions they have for celebrating

Other ways to celebration National Pie Day:

Share the ultimate "comfort food" by giving the gift of pie to a local "hometown hero". Stop by your local police or fire department and let these local heros know that you appreciate all they do for your community.
If pie making is not in your schedule, stop by your favorite pie shop or grocery store and bring home a gift of love and joy for the whole family. The coldest of January days will be warmed by a special pie dessert.
Indulge your co-workers with a gift of pie.
Reach out to new neighbors that you might not have met yet - it says you're thoughtful. Stay awhile to get to know each other and fill them in about the neighborhood.
Say thank you with a pie. Has someone done a special favor for you? Acknowledge the favor with the gift of pie.
Spend time with you children and make a pie together. You'll make great memories and your children will be so proud to serve the pie for dessert.

All of those sound like great ideas! Here are some things we are thinking of doing.

I made a hair clippy for my little miss a couple years ago.

Smoosh will for sure be wearing it that day!

seriously one of my faves!

And pie is so easy! You could do a breakfast pie, lunch pie, dinner pie and snack and dessert pies if you reallllly wanted to celebrate the entire day!

For breakfast, I think we will do a variation of these

But instead of little pockets I think I will use the mini pie maker! These look amazing!

You could also do mini quiche, those count as pie right?!

I will probably try some version of chicken pot pie but in the mini pie maker, cause it is SO easy to use and the kids will eat anything that comes out of it! But these look really good too!

I will probably do Shepard's pie for dinner but if not these will be a good snack!

And dessert options!

Cupcakes

Pie

Shoofly Pie

Or mini

And really isn't a PIZZA a pie?! So maybe I won't do ALL of these and I'll take the easy route for one of them!

And don't forget pie pops!

cute counting project!

And this is SUPER cute, kinda overkill for JUST pie day but it is adorable!

16 January 2012

National Popcorn Day

is January 19th!

Fun and simple and inexpensive! There are so many versions of popcorn you can make~

Kettle

Ourbestbites.com

Chocolate

Colored

Caramel

Popcorn Balls

and the list goes on of course!

I think we will string some popcorn up for the birds!

If you need a dessert or treat for that day, check out these adorable cupcakes!

Or these seriously cute popcorn cake pops! (These might have to make an appearance at a Baseball party coming up!)

cakecentral.com

What are y'all doing for National Popcorn Day?

12 January 2012

Strawberry Ice Cream Day

January 15th is National Strawberry Ice Cream Day!

I don't know who decides these but some are kind of funny..

Anyway, to celebrate Strawberry Ice Cream Day

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There is a recipe for FRESH strawberry ice cream HERE. If you have fresh ones. We sure don't.

I'm not even sure I will MAKE ice cream, it's not National MAKE Strawberry Ice Cream Day after all :)

But we don't usually have ice cream here, so I'd have to go get some anyway, unless I just freeze some strawberry Greek yogurt and call it good! But I am feeling a little on the busy side.

If you have some free time and love Strawberry Ice Cream there are lots of cute creations out there!

Strawberry Frappachino Ice Cream sandwiches

Not all are real ice cream!

I think it's likely I will take the super easy road (and less tempting) and pick up a few of these mini cartons that have a cute little spoon in the lid

08 January 2012

Thank You Day

January 11th is National Thank You Day!

If you have some thank you cards that need addressed why not finish them today!
I think we will be making some Thank you cards!

Here are some clever or cute ones!

I think I want to try and make a few (so we have some on hand) I am LOVING how cute these are!

Those just might be my inspiration!

And I think we probably need to make some kind of cookie! It's been a couple weeks since we made cookies and I know just the people we could say thank you to!
These are SOO cute!

05 January 2012

Clean Off Your Desk Day!

is January 8th, for those of you who's desk is at work maybe the 9th?

Anyway, we don't have a REAL desk, well besides this one I use to decorate for Back to School

But I don't think that is what they had in mind. We do have a table in our bedroom that hubby sometimes uses for work when he is working at home, but right now it has clothes on it because I am avoiding doing laundry!

So I will for sure be getting that cleaned up, and maybe I will work on our "office" cupboard I shared HERE.

I can imagine after vacations and holidays everyone's desk is a little messy or at least needing some weeding of papers, I know our area does! And right now is one of the best times to find some cute organizing things out at the stores since so many of us resolve to get/stay organized for the new year.

Everyone likes their area a little different. To motivate me (and hopefully you) I have some cute DIY or inexpensive office pretties for when I finish!

File desks are usually pretty plain and ugly in my opinion, but look at these with a just a little textured paper

And this is adorable!!

And I LOVE this idea because I like eveything to coordinate, could use the same family of papers for the above and these!

And you could add a few magnets to the back of the small ones if you have a magnetic area!

And if you do, you could make these magnets or add them to push pins, charming little things aren't they?!

I'd have to find some mini ones!

So maybe my organizing Friday this week will have to be our "office"!

03 January 2012

National BIRD day AND National Whipped Cream day?!

EEK, I really didn't want to share EVERY National Day. So I had to decide between these 2 for January 5th!

For the Birds!

I think our poor birds are probably starving out there, I have been bad and haven't been keeping up on the feeders. So first we need to make some kind of fun craft that will also feed these poor birds!

You could go all extreme like they did HERE and make one of these!

Or keep it a little bit more simple and do the old PB in a pine cone rolled in birdseed.

Or the in between like these

And I love birds, more so than bird food, there are some SWEET coloring pages

You could make snack time "bird food" with some apples, dried cranberries or raisins, sunflower seed kernels and if your REAL adventurous, you could make these. I don't know if I could, I get kinda nauseous just looking at the Jello Worms from Theidearoom.net!

The kids would love it though! I will probably go a little easier and make these for dinner

these little pasta "nests" are adorable! And they come this way, here is a package of them

I will probably make a meatball "egg" for their little nests!

And if its a day I feel like making a treat these are adorable and a pretty basic shape

Whooo's going to celebrate National Bird Day?

If birds aren't your thing, maybe Angry Birds are?

Or Owls? They're birds too!

01 January 2012

January 3rd, National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day!

Yes, in case you didn't know January 3rd is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day!

What are you doing to celebrate? I had no idea this holiday existed, or honestly, WHY it does. But whatever, I am a big fan of everyday being a celebration, so I am hoping to share some more of these strange but fun National "Holidays" and some fun treats or crafts or both!

So the obvious would be to make some chocolate covered cherries with/for the kids! The image above has the details from here.

But there are also SO many other ways you could celebrate!

Easiest way? These