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Orange Creamsicle Sugar Scrub

This Orange Creamsicle Sugar Scrub recipe uses coconut oil, sugar, and orange oil. It makes your skin so soft and smells good enough to eat! Who doesn’t need a little pampering in their life? Mix up a big batch of this orange creamsicle sugar scrub, put it into small mason jars, and give this gift […]

Whipped Coconut Body Butter

This coconut whipped body butter recipe is a creamy, light moisturizer that smells amazing! Put it into jars and give them as gifts! I love making gifts in a jar and with Mother’s Day on the way, I wanted to make a Mother’s Day gift in a jar. What mom couldn’t use a little pampering […]

Chicken Fajita Southwest Salad

This Chicken Fajita Southwest Salad is a flavorful summer salad recipe that’s perfect for backyard barbecues and cookouts. It can be a dinner side dish or a weekday lunch. I made this Chicken Fajita Southwest Salad when we got together recently to celebrate family birthdays. Although spring weather has not arrived yet, this summer salad […]

Easy Meatball Sub ~ A Subway Meatball Marinara Copycat

Need a quick, easy dinner? How about a meatball sub? Instead of buying Subway, try making this Easy Copycat Subway Meatball Marinara sub. This meatball sub recipe uses premade, frozen meatballs so all you have to do is warm them up! How is your week going? Unfortunately, the flu is making its way through […]

Earth Crayons & Play Dough Recipe

These Earth Day Activities for Earth crayons and this homemade play dough recipe is fun to make with kids. Bonus points if you can reuse old crayons to make new ones! The Earth crayons and blue and green play dough can be given as gifts to classmates or made in elementary school classrooms. These Earth Day […]

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars Recipe

These peanut butter and jelly bars are made with a peanut butter cake mix cookie crust. They are the perfect dessert to make for National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day! Ahhh…what a classic…peanut butter and jelly! Many of us could never count the number of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in their childhood. National Peanut […]

Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bars

Peanut butter cookie bar recipe is topped with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Minis. This is another cake mix recipe that is easy to make and tastes delicious! It’s still National Peanut Month so let the peanut butter love continue, right? I made these bars a couple of weeks ago to bring to a friend’s house. […]

Sausage Pizza Balls Recipe

Sausage pizza balls are a fun way to stuff the goodness of a sausage pizza into a bite-size snack! These quick appetizers are similar to easy pepperoni rolls because they start with a refrigerator biscuit but they have pizza sauce and string cheese in them! How many times do you think my family ate pizza […]

{Easy} Strawberry Smoothies Recipe

Strawberry smoothies are easy to make and my kids love them! This recipe includes strawberries, yogurt, juice and ice. Just blend until smooth and it is ready to drink! Yesterday I told you about our fun weekend and our delicious breakfast. I promised to share my recipe for how to make a strawberry smoothie. My […]

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White Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Chocolate covered strawberries are so easy to make that a recipe really isn’t necessary. I made white chocolate hand dipped strawberries for my sister’s wedding and I am going to share how to make them in time for Valentine’s Day! Since I made these chocolate covered strawberries for a summer wedding, I didn’t have […]

Free Printable Labels For Gifts In Jars

I’ve gotten some requests for additional free printable labels for gifts in jars. Everything In A Jar was first posted on October 2011 and included printable mason jar labels for Pampering In A Jar, Energy In A Jar, and Refreshment In A Jar. The original label file was stored on our external hard drive, which failed, and we lost everything! So, […]

Spa In A Jar

A gift in a jar will not only impress the recipient but it is also fun to make! I am taking the gift jar idea a bit further by combing it with Valentine’s Day ideas. Last week, I shared the Ice Skating Date In A Jar. This week I am showing how to make a […]

Ice Skating Gifts In A Jar

A themed gift in a jar can be anything from a group of similar items like a spa in a jar, to a gathering place for love notes in a jar to a get well soon jar filled with treats. With Valentine’s Day on the way, now is the time to start thinking of DIY […]

Bacon Egg Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour for Mom Central Consulting on behalf of the Grain Foods Foundation. I received a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate. Have you heard that November is National Bread Month and this year marks the 250th anniversary of the sandwich? […]

Veggie Pizza Cups

Veggie pizzas are quick appetizers that are often served at parties. This veggie pizza recipe uses crescent roll dough rather than the biscuit dough used to make pizza balls and taco bites so the pizza cups are light and flaky! I have found that when I make veggie pizza in the flat pizza style, it […]

Sugar Hand Scrub Recipe

This Sugar Hand Scrub is made with 2 ingredients: sugar and liquid soap! Makes your hands feel soft and smooth and it helps remove grime too! Alrighty, are you ready for spa week recipe two? This recipe is for a simple, DIY Sugar Hand Scrub. This hand scrub idea comes from Jill’s Gardner’s Hand Scrub […]

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Our favorite part of carving pumpkins is being able to have roasted pumpkin seeds! There have been years where we bought the pumpkins but never carved them. Instead, we just cut them open for the seeds! We’ve tried many different spices on the seeds and this year we did three kinds: garlic, seasoned salt and […]

Pumpkin Pops

Yesterday was too warm to feel like autumn. My van showed 98°F at 5:30 yesterday evening! Today’s high is supposed to be only 66°F. What a roller coaster ride in various temperatures! With the cooler weather comes more fall projects. In past years, we’ve made lollipop ghosts but this year we put a twist […]

Baked Mozzarella Cheese Sticks Recipe

Easy Baked Mozzarella Cheese Sticks Recipe that is perfect for an after school snack, party appetizer and game day. Super simple to make with string cheese! Each and every member of my family loves cheese! No, we are not from Wisconsin, but we might as well be called cheese heads! One of our favorite ways […]

Classic Fajitas Recipe

This Classic Fajitas recipe with juicy grilled steak and veggies is easy enough for a weeknight dinner but perfect for a simple dinner party as well! Does your family enjoy grilling? I loved grilled food! I am the one that wanted to buy a grill and I do most of the grilling in our family. […]

Minnesota Wild Rice Salad

There is a deli in the Twin Cities that used to make a Minnesota Wild Rice Salad but for some reason they no longer do. I loved that salad and sometimes crave it! So, I made my own version by combining what I remember being in that deli’s salad with a different wild rice salad […]

Patriotic Jello Poke Cupcakes

Patriotic Jello Poke Cupcakes are the classic poke cake recipe in a cupcake form. This Fourth of July dessert recipe includes Jello and Cool Whip. Surprise! The 4th of July is next week! Okay, so maybe it isn’t a surprise for you, but for some reason it sneaks up on me every year. I think […]

60 Second Brownie For One

This 60 Second Brownie is the fastest way to get a warm, delicious brownie for dessert or an afternoon pick-me-up. It only requires a few ingredients! Do you have a certain time of the day when, as a mom, you just need a little pick me up? For me that time comes in the afternoon. […]

Easy Key Lime Pie Recipe

This Easy Key Lime Pie recipe is a perfect summer dessert! Not only is it cool, creamy and refreshing, it is also easy to make! Sponsored by Clever Girls Collective. With Easter just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about Easter dinner with ham and all the trimmings which is always delicious but the highlight […]