Its A Cowgirl Thing: 4/1/11

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Easter Weekend

Me and Mom had entered the Newpaper peeps diorama contest and we didn't win but it was a TON OF FUN (check it here)

You can see what the Newspaper had to say about us....

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/04/20/3015666/mallow-out-with-the-winners-of.html#tvg

Easter Weekend was wonderful!! Of course I decorated eggs...

We did SPARKLE eggs - were super fun!!

But we get SUPER caught up in the Easter bunnies and such and we forget about the real

meaning of Easter and the precious time spent with family.

AND I MUST SAY I LOOOOVE MY FAMILY!!

the shirt were from Tiffany Easter bunny because of the peeps contest we were in seen HERE.

But days like these make me miss the

family members we have lost. So a good trip

to the Gene Autry Museum brought back some great memories.

(If you don't know who Gene Autry is... Shame on YOU!!!)

thanks for reading *hugs*

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Easter Peanut Butter Cupcakes

I have a ~~slight~~ major addiction to peanut butter. And so I decided to try my hand at peanut butter

cupcakes and peanut butter frosting with an EASTER twist.

recipe

6 tablespoons butter- room temp

1 cup smooth peanut butter

1 1/3 firmly packed brown sugar

3 large eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 3/4 cups flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cup milk

Preheat oven to 350deg F.

Mix butter, peanut butter, and brown sugar with electric mixer on medium until fluffy (4 min).

Add eggs, beat well, mix in vanilla.

In separate bowl mix flour, baking powder, and salt.

Add dry ingredients to mixer and alternate with Milk, mix well!

Fill cupcakes 3/4 full and bake for 16 min or until tooth pick is inserted and removed clean.

Cool cupcakes.

Cool and now time to FROST

Frosting:

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

4 1/2 cup confectioners sugar

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

10 tbsp milk

cream peanut butter till fluffy (2 min)

beat in confectioners sugar and vanilla

add milk to desired consistency

I add my frosting to a bag to frost its less mess and oh so pretty as seen here.

Now time to decorate and ENJOY.

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White Garage Sale Chair ReDo

So a few weeks ago I purchased this chair as seen here for $3.

I decided to reuse my oops paint from my magazine rack and got to working.

step 1- sand down chair (I sanded it by hand)

step 2- apply 2 coats of white paint

step 3- apply antiquing glaze (put it on heavy then wipe it off with a wet towel_

step 4- sand down areas for added damage!

Tada! Love it :) so country!!

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

warrior dash costume, the CRAZIEST day of your life (and oh ya the mud)

So warrior dash is a little longer than a 5K then you add in 12 crazy obstacles and you have the craziest day of your life! So of course I had to make a crazy costume!

((NOTE: when I started training I couldn't even run a 1/4 mile without dying, and now I'm up to 4 1/2 miles!
Let this be INSPIRATION)

So I picked up table cloth material, made a pattern and cut them out to the estimated the amount I would need for a skirt.