Spring Blog Hop ~ March 22-31

We are super excited to announce our upcoming Spring Blog Hop! Get your oven fired up, and your pantry stocked with baking supplies! Cuz’ we’re gonna be bakin’! Along with 6 of the most amazing bakers in blogsphere, we will bring you enough Easter and Spring treats to fill your basket! Calories removed, of course!… [Continue Reading]

Meals~March 15-21~St. Patrick’s Day Menu

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Welcome to another great week of menu planning! Last week’s menu went pretty well, I got behind and didn’t make the Chicken in a Haystack, so we had leftover Bobby Dean’s Goulash that was in the freezer (gotta love that easy meal). I did make the Stuffed Crust Pizza, it was really good, I’ll be… [Continue Reading]

Shamrock Almond Cookies

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  St. Patrick’s Day is next Wednesday and I’m getting ready. I baked some  Irish Soda Bread, did you know that it wasn’t originated by the Irish, and these yummy little Shamrock Almond Cookies just melt in your mouth. A couple months ago, when I received my wall calendar from Pillsbury, and was flipping through the months,… [Continue Reading]

Irish Soda Bread

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Baking special treats and making Holidays fun, has always been important to me. Irish Soda Bread is a St. Patrick’s Day tradition, (Corned Beef is too, but, sorry I won’t be making it) that I have never made…until now. Wondering why they call it Soda Bread, I used my handy Swagbucks toolbar, and searched around, this is what… [Continue Reading]

St. Patrick’s Day Decorations

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St. Patrick’s Day is one of my favorite holidays. I had fun decorating and sharing our St. Patrick’s Day Mantle. Sometimes I have a struggle with blogging “in real time”, that is, like designers and authors, you have to write and post about upcoming events or holidays quite a bit ahead. I wanted to share… [Continue Reading]

Easter Mantle

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Easter is another really fun holiday to decorate for. There is just something whimsical about bunnies and chicks. I’ve had the best time changing the decorations on my Mantle, the Valentine’s Mantle and St. Patrick’s Day Mantle were the latest two that I shared. Today I’m sharing my most recent, Easter Mantle.   Once again, I’ve done… [Continue Reading]

Cupcake Tuesday ~ St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes

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Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday!   If you are new here, grab a cup of tea or a glass of milk and enjoy a cupcake! Thank you to all who added their great cupcake and muffin creations and comments last week for my Blogoversary! The winner of the Hello Cupcake Book will be announced after 8 p.m.… [Continue Reading]