A Chirper Recipe

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For the Chirper Challenge we are joining forces with a new challenge blog, Creative Cookbooking. Creative Cookbooking is the brain child of Debbie Sherman.

Here’s what she has to say. “Creative cookbooking is scrapbooking your recipies! It's about sharing and creating your own personal cookbook. The best part about doing this is, every recipe in your book has been tried and tested by you! The next best thing is you love every recipe in this cookbook!!!

Our Chirper / Creative Cookbooking challenge is to create a recipe page (any size you wish-mine is 8x8) featuring your favorite pumpkin treat. Please include a picture of the dish and the recipe on your page as well as a Cricut cut. The Creative Cookbooking challenge is to include any die cut, not specifically Cricut. So those who aren’t lucky enough to own a Cricut, you can play along too!

I shouldn’t have done this, but I tried a new recipe for my pumpkin treat. It turned out OK but not the best I’ve had.

Do you remember the day that I spent at the pumpkin patch with “the Aunt’s”? This is why I wanted to go. I wanted to personalize this page with a picture of them “hunting” for pumpkins!

I cut the title using the Lyrical Letters cartrudge. I used the George cartridge to cutout 5 ovals, about 6 “ each for the pumpkin. I chalked in red around the ovals and aranged them to look like a pumpkin. I’d seen this done but hadn’t tried it. I think it worked out great.

When you pull on the pumpkins green ribbon stem . . .

. . . the recipe comes out.

I made picks for the cupcakes using the pumpkin and spider cuts from the Doodlecharms cartridge. I tied a little yellow ribbon (that reminds me of a song-hehe) around each one for extra decoration.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my project. I love the Creative Cookbooking challenge and definately plan to participate again. However, I have to catch up on a few challenges – favorite soup and bread, favorite main dish and favorite Halloween dessert or cookie. I think I’ll just combine the favorite Halloween dessert with the favorite pumpkin treat challenge. It works for me anyway!!!

If you would like to participate in the Chirper Challenge, you can go to the challenge blog and see all of the DT projects before you get started!

Blessings,

Christine

Hemmingway’s Chirper

We are back after a short break with the Chirper challenge.

The photo didn’t turn out very well but you get the idea. Last fall I took a drive through the mountains to Sun Valley. Just out of Sun Valley is a monument to Ernest Hemmingway. The spot is beautiful and I love just sitting there deep in thought and listening to the stream. While I was there, a nice couple came buy and I offered to take their picture next to the monument and then they took mine. I don’t very often get into my own pictures!!!

The monument reads:

Best of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout streams
And above the hills the high blue windless sky
….Now he will be a part of them forever.
Ernest Hemmingway - Idaho - 1939

I used miscellaneous cardstock from my stash. The tree and leaves are cut from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. I tore and inked the paper for the ground. Inked the tree to make it look it a little wood grained and chalked the leaves. The title is cut from the Lyrical Letters cartridge and I doodled on them for an effect.

Please go check out my fellow DT’s beautiful creations on the Chirper Challenge blog.

Thanks for stopping by to see me.

Blessings,

Christine

Box Accordian Album

I made this little box for my Mom when she had to put her doggie to sleep. One of the seams in the accordion album came loose so I brought it home to fix it and thought I would take some picts and show it off. I made this before I started blogging.

That's my Mom shaking hands with her dog Tuffy.


The top picture is my Dad and Mom with their Tuffy and, of course, the bottom one is also Tuffy.

Both of these are Tuffy, of course.

The top one is my Dad and Tuffy. You may think the bottom one is Tuffy, but nooooo. It's their previous dog, Rusty. How can I tell, you might ask? Rusty's ears stand up and Tuffy's lay down.

This is a family picture from Christmas in 1993. We have 5 of the 6 siblings here (plus in-laws and kids). Not bad, huh? It's hard to get all 6 of us in one place at the same time. If you're wondering, I'm 2nd from the left in the back. A family friend was there so we were able to get everyone in the picture. You can click on any of the pictures if you want to see them bigger

The bottom picture is the Cockatiel, Kale that I game my Dad for is birthday. My neice named him when she was 4 and, no, he isn't name after the vegetable.

That's Rusty again and the bottom picture is my brother-in-law, Dell; my sis, Rose (Dell's her husband); my Mom; my sister, Alice; my Dad (I think, it's really hard to tell with his hat on); and our dog, Boots. The picture was taken at Payette Lake in McCall in the 1970s.

The top picture is my cat, Tuxie and my previous dog, Annabelle. I miss her so much. It took me hours to take that picture because every time I got the viewfinder set, Tuxie would run away. Cats are just that way. The bottom picture is my Mom on Mother's Day 2007 with my dog, Chloe. They next picture is my sis Rose's dog, Bear.

And last but certainly not least, this is my sis, Alice's dog, Star and her previous dog, Matt. He was so named by the nieces and nephews because when she adopted him from the Humane Society, his fur was all matted. I used to call him Matthew Mark Luke.

I hope you enjoyed the little peek into my family.

Blessings to all.