Happy 4th

Have a Happy 4th of July everyone and Blessed be!

Winter blues

I've always raved about how I love fall and winter and to this day I still do, however being without a heater for the current moment, I have a definite need for a Spring pick me up. Luckily I live in California and even tho it's pretty damn cold here, not as cold as some of you easterners but still colder than we're used to, Plants still grow like mad here, especially after the weird spring and summer we had. So the gas station has 2 lavender bushes, one French and one English and luckily the guy who owns it doesn't seem to care to much that i pick about 5 blossoms every time i go over there which is about once a day. So now i have a nice handful of each type and i'm putting them in the simmer pot for a nice spring touch among the mass amounts of Yule decorations the kids put up yesterday. We were going to wait till today but we had a bit of an accident yesterday pertaining to Miss T smashing her finger in her door. It didn't break thank the gods, but it was awfully swollen, so we wrapped it up and gave her some Chamomile/lavender/valarian root tea and she went down for a nap after decorating to take her mind of her ouchy finger. I have pictures but my camera went AWAL yesterday. I think it's in the kitchen somewhere but in any event i need a new one anyway. Can't even zoom in or out or focus with this ancient thing:P

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!

Happy turkey day everyone and I actually have a recipe for ya'll today:)




So my hubby isnt a fan of peach cobbler but said he loved pineapple cobbler, until this moment i had never even heard of it but i said "hey what the hell might as well try it."


Well yesterday I was gifted a large bottle of Amaretto. I tasted it and it's kinda like and overly sweet almondy spiced rum. Sooooo, I had this brilliant plan to make drunken pineapple cobbler.




Drunken Pineapple Cobbler:


1 1/2 cup self-rising flour or all purpose with a 1/2 tsp baking powder and a 1/2 tsp salt
8 tablespoon (1 stick) butter 
1/2 cup amaretto or spiced rum 
2 cup sugar, divided 
4 cup cubed pineapple 
1 1/2 cup milk
ground cinnamon, optional
vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the pineapple, 1 cup sugar, and alcohol in a saucepan and mix well. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from the heat.

Put the butter in a 3-quart baking dish and place in oven to melt.

Mix remaining 1 cup sugar, flour, vanilla and milk slowly to prevent clumping. 

Pour mixture over melted butter. Do not stir. 

Spoon fruit on top, gently pouring in syrup. Sprinkle top with ground cinnamon, if using. Batter will rise to top during baking. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes.

To serve, scoop onto a plate and serve with your choice of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Brightest Blessings everyone and have an awesome day!

Ugh holidays, throw some magick in there and relax:)

Thanksgiving isnt here even and the kids are buggin me to decorate for yule already. Miss T keeps asking if it's thanksgiving yet and it's not because she cares for turkey or wants a big feast, she knows Yule comes after it:P. So anyway I used to be one of those wierdos (no offense to anyone) that freaked out at holidays were people would be coming to my house. Truth be told I still kinda freak, for some reason im always afraid my house smells odd. I know I have huge issues. I'm constantly spraying air freshener, or having oil burners going.

anyway to relieve stress, grab some incense snag an oil burner, light some candles and just let it go. The holidays are spose to be cheerful and relaxing and beautiful.

Stress relief incense/oil blend

 Equal parts of:

Lavender, orange blossoms or rind and thyme.

First Seasonal craft

I've never really crocheted before. Ive done maybe 2 scarfs my entire life but for some reason I got a wild hair and decided I wanted to make a hat for my son.
Pardon the peanut butter face...

It fits right on his forehead but he has issues with hats so he kept trying to pull it off but come winter too bad lil man you're wearing it!

Now Miss T decided she has to have one, was gonna make her one anyway but yeah she got all upset because she thought she wasn't going to get one.

Next on my list is another hat maybe some scarfs and still trying to figure out wth to do with these snake skins I have from a few months ago. If you've been reading you remember that one:P

Jar-O-Lantern

Okay so I got one of my issues of my many magazine subscriptions today and it had all the fall stuff in it.

One of the first pages was this craft for Jar-O-Lanterns.

These have Tea light candles instead of LED lights
and cute bows made out of w/e that is they use

So here goes:

Several Mason jars different sizes
Paint, one or two coats will do and if the paint is too thick it will impede the light
Black marker
Battery powered LED lights

These were on the Martha Stewart website

Paint the jars with desired color of acrylic paint.
Add ghoulish features with black marker or black paint.
Spray with a clear spray paint and let dry.
Pop in the battery LED light TADA!