Sheep Cupcakes

I am still slowly TRANSFERRING all my posts to this new Outside of the blue box blog...  These cupcakes were a hit in my house hold!!! Who doesn't love Sheep?

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Baaah says the Cupcakes

We made cute little sheep cupcakes and then shared with our friends around town...

What you need to make this Sheep cupcakes...

-White frosting

-mini marshmallows (Wool)

-Big Marshmallows (Ears)

-bubble gum or pink marshmallow (Nose)

-m'n'm or chocolate chips (Eyes)

-----Spread your frosting. Cut your big marshmallow in half and then half again. Mini Marshmallows should be cut in half. Put wool and ears on and then eyes and nose. :) CUTE!!!
*Huge Thanks to Hayley Richins she gave me this cute idea to make sheep cupcakes!!!

CrockPot Chicken Nachos

I have been moving things over from My family blog to this Outside Of the Blue Box Blog... This is the ORIGINAL post with the comments ATTACHED. This is one of our favorites we are always making it for partys or just for our own date night. We eat it with a salad or just chips what ever you do its amazing... Enjoy!!!!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2010

Crockpot Chicken Nachos

I love my Crockpot one of the best and used gifts I have ever used. We always have crockpot wednesday where we have too try something new, well this past week we have crockpot chicken nachos. Duncan's Grandma gave me the recipe, I will share it but let me know what you think if you try it.

Super Easy

CrockPot Chicken Nachos

2-3 large chicken breasts

1 small bag of frozen corn

1 can of black beans

1 16oz medium salsa

8oz cream cheese

Put the chicken on the bottom of the crockpot and add the corn, rinse the beans off in cool water and add too the crockpot. Then pour the salsa over the chicken. Let it cook for 4 hrs on low. Pull apart the chicken with a fork then add the cream cheese and let cook for another half and hour to hour on low. Mix together and serve on chips.

We added green onions, olives and bell peppers. Also too make the meal you can sever with sticky rice...

Here is what it looks like in the crockpot. This picture is when it was almost gone.

Diaper clutch

I bought I diaper clutch like this at a store in bear lake when I had my first baby.  I have love loved it and wanted to make one for my wee sissy for her new bundle. I thought it would be simple... it wasn't as easy as I thought....but now that I've done one I think they would be much quicker now.

Things you need:
Yarn
Crochet hook
Hot glue
12 sq. inches of fabric
Elastic
Huggies travel wipe pack

I apologize I didnt take pics of the steps I didnt really have any idea what I was doing and didnt know if it would turn out.

I cut the fabric to fit on top and bottom of the wipes container....I hemmed all the edges and sewed on the elastic bands to the underside of the bottom piece and hot glued the fabric on. I would use spray adhesive if I did it again it would be a much cleaner look.  Then I crocheted a couple really long chains and hot glued them around the border and finished with a crochet flower which I hot glued on.  For the travel changing pad I bought some table cloth fabric...and some " car insulation " is what it was called at the fabric store ....I did the inside-out seam...then put the insulation in and did another seam on top to make it look more finished that part of the project took all of 10 minutes the diaper clutch was the most time consuming. But now that I realize I would cover the borders with the crochet chains I wouldn't take forever pinning and sewing to get the fabric to fit the contour perfectly. Just glue on and border over the edge dur! Lesson learned. 

Creamy Ranch Potatoes

We love crockpot Wednesday. We have a lot of potatoes so I thought i would use them. What a Great choice. i really liked this because we had everything we need in my house that is my favorite way to cook

Creamy Ranch Potatoes
2lb. small red potatoes, quartered (or what ever potatoes you have on hand)
1 8oz pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 can of cream of chicken or mushroom soup
1 1oz env. dry Ranch dressing mix

1.Place potatoes in crockpot
2. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, coup and ranch mix. Stir into potatoes
3. Cover and cook on LOW for 4-6 hours.

Enjoy!

Found in 365 Days of Slow-Cooking Pg 176

Black Bean Con rSalsa

I wanted something light for dinner so grabbed a can of black beans. I saw this recipe on the back and decided to give it a go. It turned out pretty good :)

 Black Bean Corn Salsa
1 can of black beans, drained and rinsed
1/2 cup sliced green onions
1 cup chopped tomatoes
2 cups corn
1/2 tsp ground cumin
Salt to taste

I used a can of tomatoes and will never do that again I really like the fresh taste.
Also you can use canned corn but I used frozen.


Yes we will make this again and again...

Yard sale dress "dressed" up

MY SWEET LITTLE SISTER GOT THIS ADORABLE COUNTRY DRESS FOR ME AT A YARD SALE. 

I TOOK OFF THE BUTTON AND HAD FUN TATTING SOME LACE FOR IT

THEN HAD MORE FUN TATTING SOME LACE TO PUT ON THE SLEAVES AND AROUND THE WASTE.

SEWED THE BUTTON BACK ON AND DONE!

SHE GREW OUT OF IT IN POINT 5 SECONDS LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. SO NOW IT WILL COLLECT DUST BECAUSE IT TOOK A LOT OF WORK AND I DONT WANT TO GET RID OF IT EVER. MAYBE SHE WILL WANT IT FOR HER DAUGHTER. 

Teaser

Oh my goodness!!!....I have to say it feels very difficult not to blog the fun things I have started making for christmas presents! But I am keeping them safely stored and tutorial pictures will follow. Honestly most so far I have found on Pinterest anyway following someone else's tutorial and sometimes adding my own wierd flare. Keep an eye on us here at Outside the Blue Box after the holiday for some FUN pics and tutorials!!

Fun Sunday

Can and I had to sing on sunday together, so naturally we needed to have some fun hair-do's. I was rushed and didnt do much fancy. But CANDICE now she created the look of the year it is hot hot hot!

She started with a frenchy down the right side , to the middle of the back of her head

Pinned in the back, with a cute little flower clippy from the previous crochet post....

And here is the best, she curled the left side of her hair, and did a little twist in front pinned behind some of the curls. So adorable!!!

Mine was a simple fish braid down the front, not my best but you know still better than my favorite pull it back sloppy bun:)

Now, if you are a stephy follower, you will notice I have out-ed myself on this blog. I'm not so happy about it, but can't really get around it for the purposes of this fun little blog...so we can welcome the 100lb overweight stephy to the internet. You certainly won't find her on facebook or my own personal  blog. I've been very careful LOL. But thanks to a wonderful hubby creating a gym in my garage and some fabulous workout buddies, she shouldn't exist for much longer!

Lil' flowers

I wondered what some of the crochet flowers would look like in a thread instead of yard, to give them a vintage type look. I thought they turned out pretty cute. 

Then I kinda liked them, so I started hotglue-ing them together, 

and then Hot-glueing hair clips on the back ...

and voila, good fun

I also did a couple combined with yard flowers..

This and Tat

Tatting is an OLD form of Lace making. It is truelly a lost art. I can sort of see why LOL. Mainly for me, it is because it is essentially forming tiny knots into the shapes. Unlike crocheting, when you mess up you will be picking out knots and it really is NOT fun! When I crochet after I have been tatting recently, I love to just unravel it and remember why it is so much easier! 

I am obviously way novice to tatting. But here was my first doily. 

Then this one for my mommy in law for christmas. This took me about 32 hours....yup novice. It is pictured here blocked. you have to pin it in place and spray layers of starch on it to help it hold its shape. 

I liked that one and I wanted one for my piano, but that 32 number kept me away. finally a year later I bit the bullet. This time however I was only at 15 so just half the time! I never blocked this one, so it isn't quite as nice looking as the one turned out for my mommy-in-law. but it will do. 

Here I tatted some lace and hand stitched it onto some temple shoes for my own mommy for christmas

I also made her a temple accessory bag which I forgot to take pictures of but I shall soon. 

Hair catch-ups

This is sort of another catch up post, for instructions on these see my "for the hair" board on pinterest. From here on out I will post instructions if it turns out good haha. So here are my hair trials so far from pinterest...