Fall is in the air!!!

Pumpkin spice latte is back. The tree in my yard is just starting to turn. And the heavens have opened up and begun dumping what the news is calling "rain of biblical proportions" all over my city. 

Here's a baseball field I saw on my way home from PT today, the dugouts were completely underwater. 

Don't worry, we are fine. We are so fine that I'm still having to debate if I have to water my new sod because we haven't gotten enough rain where I'm at. But I digress. 

So it's fallish at least and last night I decided I needed a fall muffin recipe. Several of my friends have been playing around with pumpkin recipes so that's where I started. Pumpkin muffins just wasn't sounding good enough. I know of a recipe that uses a can of pumpkin and a box of white cake mix, so that's where I started. But when I went to the store I found something even better! Spice cake mix!!! So now I present to you Pumpkin Spice Chocolate muffins (BTW these are soooo easy to make).

Ingredients:

1 box spice cake mix

1 can of pumpkin

Some heavy whipping cream

Chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350*. Dump your cake mix into a bowl. 

Dump your can of pumpkin into the bowl. Stir really well to get all the lumps out (super important or you end up with powdery bits in your muffins). At this point I added some heavy whipping cream, I didn't measure it, just added enough to make my batter about the consistency of soft serve ice cream so that I could get it into the muffin papers (realistically it was about 1/4 cup). Then I added chocolate chips. How many you ask? As many as you think is good. Fold those in. 

(Those are the powdery chunks where I didn't stir enough at first)

Spoon your batter into lined muffin tins, about 3/4 full. Bake 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Eat, enjoy!

For me this made 18 muffins and they are amazing! I have had to limit my kids because they keep trying to devour them all! Enjoy!!!!

Jersey Wrap Bracelet

Here's a sneak preview of the new Jersey Wrap Bracelet, in teal, that will be available in the shop in the morning.

What do you think? I'm also thinking about making it available in mustard, brown, and plum. Suggestions?


****Update - this bracelet is now available! Go check it out!

For those that don't know.....

For those of you that don't know, I have an Etsy shop.

You can find it HERE!!!

It's not very big, and there isn't a lot in it, but it's my place to showcase my art.  I have decided that I really want to dedicate myself to expanding my shop and making it more productive. So for the whole month of June you can use the code JUNE15 to take 15% any order in my shop. 




Right now there are mostly baby clothes for sale, but keep checking back in the next few weeks for new additions.  I will be adding coasters, business card holders, summery towel totes, baby blankets, and more!

Here are a few things available in the store!

Argyle Hearts - Baby girl skirt outfit - Size 6 months $25

Purple Bloom Pendant $12

I hope you can stop by soon!

Easter Egg-stravaganza!

How are you going to dye your eggs this Easter??? Are you going to add glitter to them? Are you going to draw on them with crayons first (this is my husband's favorite thing to do) before you put them in your store bought dye? Or are you someone who just puts stickers on some eggs or dips them in some dye and calls it good.  No matter what your normal egg dying method is check out these cute ideas to spice up your hunting this year:

Fabric Wreath Tutorial!!!

I bought this wreath back before Christmas with the intention of making an awesome door hanging from ribbon - didn't happen! Oh well, I thought, I'll just save it until Valentine's Day.... or St. Patrick's Day... or Easter... Well last night I FINALLY did something with it. I made this beautiful fabric wreath for spring/summer!