Ingredients
1 12-oz. can vanilla frosting
12 cupcakes, any flavor
2 cups sweetened flaked coconut, chopped in food processor
1/4 cup pink decorating sugar
12 marshmallows
24 thin pretzel sticks
12 mini marshmallows
24 brown M&M's minis
12 pink heart candies, such as Runts
6 black licorice laces
Preparation
1. Spoon 2 Tbsp. vanilla frosting into a small ziplock bag. Frost cupcakes with remaining vanilla frosting. Roll tops of frosted cupcakes in coconut to cover.
2. Place pink sugar in a small bowl. Using scissors, cut large marshmallows in half crosswise. Press cut side of each marshmallow into pink sugar to make ears. Insert a pretzel stick into 1 short end of a marshmallow ear. Insert pretzel-stick end into cupcake to make ear stand up. Repeat with another pretzel and marshmallow ear; place second marshmallow ear next to first. Repeat with remaining marshmallows and pretzels, placing 2 ears on each cupcake.
3. Snip a small corner from ziplock bag with vanilla frosting. Using scissors, cut mini marshmallows in half crosswise to make cheeks. Pipe small dots of frosting and attach the mini M&M eyes, heart-candy nose and cheeks. Cut licorice into 1 1/2-inch pieces and insert as whiskers. Repeat with remaining cupcakes.
Hello Friends! New scripture bags soon to come!
Wishing you all a beautiful warm day!
If it's not so warm in your area.....here's a cute Mary Engelbreit Scarf to make!
Try your hand at sewing with this cute and cozy fleece scarf. Instructions for a matching hat and mittens and 10 other adorably soft fleece projects are available in the “Be Warm Inside and Out” booklet from Leisure Arts.
Materials
3/8 yd red fleece
1/8 yd blue fleece
1/8 yd yellow fleece
1/4 yd black fleece
1/8 yd white fleece
Scrap of green fleece
Tracing paper
Freezer paper
1/2″ diameter white pom-poms
Red, green, yellow and black embroidery floss (six strands of each)
Fabric glue
Two 10 1/2″ lenths of red pom-pom fringe
Two 11″ lengths each of 3/8″ wide red and black grosgrain ribbon
Here’s How
1. Cut a 10 1/2″ x 56″ strip from red fleece. Cut two 5″ x 10 1/2″ pieces from black fleece and six 1 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ strips from white fleece. Cut two 2 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ strips from blue fleece and two 1 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ strips from yellow fleece.
2. Matching edges, sew a black piece to each end of red strip, then sew a blue strip to each black piece and a yellow strip to each blue strip. Cut slits 1 1/2″ apart across black piece to within 1/16″ of seams. #2#(click here to see a diagram)# Weave white strips through slits in black pieces to make a checkerboard pattern; pin ends of strips to secure.
3. Use this flower pattern to cut two sets of flowers from fleece. For leaf veins, stem stitch down center of each leav with green floss. Blanket stitch a flower set to center of each blue strip with coordinating floss. Blanket stitch along long edges of scarf with black floss. Click here for a stitching guide. (For a quicker substitute, try Mary’s buttons or appliqués.)
4. Glue fringe along short edges of scarf. Folding ends under 1/4″, layer and glue black, then red ribbon over flange of fringe. Glue pom-poms to scarf.
Some Notes on Working with Fleece:
Match right sides and use a 1/4″ seam allowance for all sewing. Yardage amounts listed are based on 60″ wide fleece with an estimated “usable width” of 56″ after trimming selvages. To sew seams, use a narrow zigzag stitch with a medium stitch length (approximately 1/8″) to reduce stretching of the fleece. Trim seam allowances to 1/4″ after sewing.
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Welcome to my Arizona flowers and a beautiful 74 degrees! I love Arizona sunshine! The warmth of sunshine and the beauty of flowers never felt so good! Who wants to do spring cleaning when it is so beautiful outside? Do something FUN!
I am always amazed with the over abundance of creativity that all of you share. It's so inspiring. To all of you-I am inspired daily by your creative talents. I feel creativity is such a big part of our well being, our existance of who we are and what we are.
I find creativity more enjoyable when I am creating something completely by my own thoughts and by my own rules. I say make your own as you go! Feel free! This empowerment does wonders for the soul.
You are CREATIVE! Thank goodness life allows us to improve and grow, to learn, to prosper, to succeed, to fall down and get up. You are creating something right not wrong. You are learning, you are enriching yourself and others around you.
I love this video clip, my favorite! I know many of you have seen it, but it is a wonderful reminder of our abilities to create. You can watch it HERE.
Share your views on this subject. What inspires you to create? We all inspire and lift each other up!
Here are a few comments from a few people you might know who share their views on creativity.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Buckminster Fuller:
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Carl Sagan:
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Edward de Bono:
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Erich Fromm:
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm:
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Have a happy and creative day
Hello! I'm back! I've been happily at sea with my family for the past 10 days on a Disney Cruise! It was an amazing trip! We started our journey from Cape Canaveral, Florida. We visited Key West, Florida, Cozumel-Mexico, Grand Cayman Islands and our last stop Castaway Cay.
We were held up at Castaway Cay for an extra 24 hours due to weather conditions. It was great! One extra day of Disney Fun! We were fortunate to be able to change our flights back home with no extra charges. I know it was a head ache for a lot of people trying to get back home.
Now it's back to catching up on 10 days of laundry and back to the reality of life. We will miss the room service, chocolates on our pillows and so much more! It may take us awhile to get back into the groove! No worries--my etsy orders are going out this week! Me and my sewing machine are back in the groove!
Celebrate a Happy Valentines with these adorable boy and girl Valentines that you can make with your kids! A FREE download is available from: The Celebration Shoppe!
If you are giving a baby shower, you will LOVE their creations!
Happy Valentines, Happy Everything!
Welcome February and more fun creations for your little doll inspired by my little doll! There are seven coordinating fabrics in this little quilt bunting with matching pillow and pillowcase! Stay tuned for a tutorial soon to come!
Special Delivery to a loving Grandma in Garden City, Utah! Happy Birthday to two special little girls!
