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  • Valentine’s Day Subway Art and Party

    Valentine’s Day Subway Art and Party

    We are wrapping up Valentine’s Week today with some absolutely ADORABLE Valentine’s Day Subway Art Printables and a Party for you to share your ideas too! All this week myself, Gina, Amy, and Kellie have shared our Valentine’s Day ideas with you. In case you missed any of the Valentine’s Week ideas, here’s a little [...]

  • Love Buckets for Valentine’s Day

    Love Buckets for Valentine’s Day

    We have been having so much fun this week, sharing our Valentine’s Day ideas! A yummy dessert, a Valentine Mantel, cute Valentine envelopes and today Amy shared a Valentine mug with a cute chalkboard heart on it. For many years, I have been putting together Love Buckets for our boys. It’s one of those family [...]

  • Valentine’s Day Decorations: Heart Garland

    Valentine’s Day Decorations: Heart Garland

    We continue our Valentine’s Week today! Along with these awesome gals, Gina from The Shabby Creek Cottage, Kellie at Nest of Posies, Amy at The Idea Room, and Charlotte from The Paper Cupcake, each day will be fun filled with Valentine’s Day ideas and a special giveaway each day. To start off the week, I shared a perfect dessert for your [...]

  • Valentine’s Day Cupcakes: Bake a heart in your cupcakes

    Valentine’s Day Cupcakes: Bake a heart in your cupcakes

    Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday! I’m so glad to have you! I have updated the Cupcake Heaven page, there are over 150 designs and recipes! It’s Valentine’s Week! Every day this week myself along with three other amazing bloggers and The Paper Cupcake are sharing ideas for Valentine’s Day. We kicked off the fun filled week yesterday [...]

  • Pink Lemonade Pie for Valentine’s Day

    Pink Lemonade Pie for Valentine’s Day

    I’m super excited to be sharing Valentine’s Week with you all! Along with some pretty amazing gals, Gina from The Shabby Creek Cottage, Kellie at Nest of Posies, Amy at The Idea Room, and Charlotte from The Paper Cupcake, each day will be fun filled with Valentine’s Day ideas and a special giveaway each day. We are kicking it off [...]

Cupcake Tuesday

Valentine’s Day Cupcakes: Bake a heart in your cupcakes
[ 7 ] January 24, 2012

Valentine’s Day Cupcakes: Bake a heart in your cupcakes

Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday! I’m so glad to have you! I have updated the Cupcake Heaven page, there are over 150 designs and recipes! It’s Valentine’s Week! Every day this week myself along with three other amazing bloggers and The Paper Cupcake are sharing ideas for Valentine’s Day. We kicked off the fun filled week yesterday [...]

Valentine’s Cupcake Toppers
[ 26 ] January 20, 2012

Valentine’s Cupcake Toppers

Happy Friday! Just wanted to take a minute to share the Valentine’s Cupcake Toppers that The Paper Cupcake designed for Cupcake Chronicles Newsletter this week! The cupcake wrappers are cut from the Lifestyle Crafts Botanical Die Cut with scrapbook paper. By just changing the paper, the wrappers look different each time. If you are interested [...]

Dragon Cupcakes: Chinese New Year
[ 10 ] January 17, 2012

Dragon Cupcakes: Chinese New Year

Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday! I’m so glad to have you! I have updated the Cupcake Heaven page, there are over 150 designs and recipes! Over the weekend, Doug and I put together a fun Chinese New Year Celebration for you. Most of the week, we will be sharing the recipes, decorating and crafts we made. We [...]

Baking

Pink Lemonade Pie for Valentine’s Day
[ 95 ] January 23, 2012

Pink Lemonade Pie for Valentine’s Day

I’m super excited to be sharing Valentine’s Week with you all! Along with some pretty amazing gals, Gina from The Shabby Creek Cottage, Kellie at Nest of Posies, Amy at The Idea Room, and Charlotte from The Paper Cupcake, each day will be fun filled with Valentine’s Day ideas and a special giveaway each day. We are kicking it off [...]

Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie
[ 10 ] January 9, 2012

Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie

Ah…Peanut Butter and Jelly…just the mention of it takes me back to my childhood. Growing up, I loved Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches, but they couldn’t be just any sandwich, it had to be on white bread with crust cut off, smooth peanut butter and strawberry jelly! Yum! Fast forward…oh 40 or so years…to Christmas [...]

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
[ 2 ] January 5, 2012

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

While doing a little after-Christmas shopping with our youngest son, I had some extra time to browse through my Epicurious app on my new iPhone. I say extra time, because Casey loves {and I mean LOVES} tennis shoes! He received some Christmas cash and couldn’t wait to check out the new shoes out on the [...]

Cooking

Chinese New Year Celebration: Recipes, Decorations and Gifts
[ 10 ] January 18, 2012

Chinese New Year Celebration: Recipes, Decorations and Gifts

Chinese New Year is on January 23rd. and according to the Chinese Five Element Astrology Calendar, 2012 is the Year of the Water Dragon. So we thought it would be fun to share some recipes, decorations and gift ideas with you all this week. On Monday, we kicked it off with a delicious main dish [...]

Fruit Smoothie Recipe and Giveaway
[ 90 ] January 16, 2012

Fruit Smoothie Recipe and Giveaway

We are kicking our week off with this delicious Fruit Smoothie Recipe. I’ve made lots of smoothies before, but never with freshly squeezed juice. I’ll have to admit, I really don’t eat as good as I should. Most of the time it’s because I’m busy and just don’t take the time. One of my goals [...]

Easy Holiday Entertaining at Walmart
[ 2 ] December 20, 2011

Easy Holiday Entertaining at Walmart

During one of my trips to Walmart headquarters last Summer, they gave the Walmart Moms the royal treatment…Easy Holiday Entertaining and Sampling. My family was so jealous when I told them all about what we tried, so when the boxes starting arriving a couple weeks ago with food to share with them, they were excited! [...]

Decorating

Valentine’s Day Decorations: Heart Garland
[ 2 ] January 25, 2012

Valentine’s Day Decorations: Heart Garland

We continue our Valentine’s Week today! Along with these awesome gals, Gina from The Shabby Creek Cottage, Kellie at Nest of Posies, Amy at The Idea Room, and Charlotte from The Paper Cupcake, each day will be fun filled with Valentine’s Day ideas and a special giveaway each day. To start off the week, I shared a perfect dessert for your [...]

How to make Paper Snowflakes
[ 8 ] January 13, 2012

How to make Paper Snowflakes

Even though my Paper Snowflakes didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted, I still wanted to share with you how to make them. I hope it’s not just me, but making paper snowflakes are not as easy as they look. First, let me show you how to cut the snowflakes, then I will share with [...]

Decorate for Winter: Hoosier Cabinet
[ 8 ] January 11, 2012

Decorate for Winter: Hoosier Cabinet

Many people have asked why my blog name is Hoosier Homemade. Well..mostly because I’m a Hoosier, from Indiana but also because I absolutely ADORE my Hoosier Cabinet! So what is a Hoosier Cabinet? It’s simply a cabinet with three parts, and they were originally founded by the Hoosier Manufacturing Company. But enough of all that, [...]

Featured Posts

Valentine’s Day Subway Art and Party
[ 4 ] January 27, 2012

Valentine’s Day Subway Art and Party

We are wrapping up Valentine’s Week today with some absolutely ADORABLE Valentine’s Day Subway Art Printables and a Party for you to share your ideas too! All this week myself, Gina, Amy, and Kellie have shared our Valentine’s Day ideas with you. In case you missed any of the Valentine’s Week ideas, here’s a little [...]

Love Buckets for Valentine’s Day
[ 3 ] January 26, 2012

Love Buckets for Valentine’s Day

We have been having so much fun this week, sharing our Valentine’s Day ideas! A yummy dessert, a Valentine Mantel, cute Valentine envelopes and today Amy shared a Valentine mug with a cute chalkboard heart on it. For many years, I have been putting together Love Buckets for our boys. It’s one of those family [...]

Inspiration Sunday: Amaryllis Flower
[ 8 ] January 22, 2012

Inspiration Sunday: Amaryllis Flower

It’s Inspiration Sunday! Have you been inspired by something or someone this week? Today I have a tale of being committed. Last week I shared our Word of the Year…Committed. We are committed to making our lives better this year, and this Amaryllis has definitely been committed. Years ago I used to always get an Amaryllis [...]

Reviews & Giveaways

The Paper Cupcake Etsy Shop Giveaway
[ 0 ] January 26, 2012

The Paper Cupcake Etsy Shop Giveaway

All week myself and 4 other amazing gals have been celebrating Valentine’s Day and to kick it off on Monday, I shared Pink Lemonade Pie. Along with the recipe is a giveaway to the AWESOME Paper Cupcake Etsy Shop. Since many of my readers receive the Giveaway Newsletter, I wanted to be sure you didn’t miss [...]

Chinese New Year Recipes and Giveaway
[ 122 ] January 19, 2012

Chinese New Year Recipes and Giveaway

We have been celebrating Chinese New Year all week long. Yesterday we shared the Chinese New Year Celebration we created, complete with recipes like Orange Mango Chicken and Wonton Soup. For our side dishes, we served Fried Rice made with Sun-Bird Seasoning and veggies with a dipping sauce made with World Harbor Island Mango Marinade. [...]

Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Giveaway
[ 467 ] January 12, 2012

Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Giveaway

Looking for a great tasting coffee to get you going in the morning? Did you know that you can now have your favorite Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee without leaving your kitchen? Now you can, available now is Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee at Grocery. You can find your favorite flavors in the coffee aisle of grocery retailers, drug stores [...]


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