Autumn

I love this time of year! In late August I start saying goodbye to summer and bring out all of my fall goodies!  My latest find is this picture which I think is so cute. You can find it at www.jonesdesigncompany.com So yesterday I went into Hobby Lobby and had it framed. They were having a sale on all their frames.  I had a great salesman and he helped me with my picture. The total cost to have it matted and frames was under 12.00. I hope you love it as much as I do! Goodbye summer hello fall:-)

My new banner

Well I'm so excited to have made this banner today, every time I look up at it, it puts a smile on my face. It just looks so rich to me. So below I will show you a picture and then I will tell you what I did to make it.

So I took good scrapbook paper and cut it 6" long by 5" wide, at the bottom I went and put a mark at 2 1/2" up in the back, and cut from the bottom corner to the 2 1/2 in mark on the other side. Then I just used my cricut to cut my letters😊 When I was finished with that I glued the letters to the front and glued them on to some gold ribbon!  I added ribbon that I tied in knots to the end. There you have it it was so easy!  I hope you enjoy making one for yourself😊🌰🍁🍂🌻🏈

My diet

Last week was very hard for me. I did well the first few days but on Friday I ate like there was no tomorrow. I was so disappointed in myself. So today we are off to a new week and I will try again. I went on the Internet and found another source about the three day diet here is the link. http://3daydiets.net/

I hope this helps for any of you that are following me!

Now on to the things I love!  The other day my daughter and I made butternut squash soup, well actually my daughter did the cooking. It was amazing. Here is how we made it

1 butternut squash roasted in a 400 degree oven for about 45 minutes with olive oil salt and pepper to your liking. Also cut the squash in half scrape the seeds out.

Cook 2 carrots, 2 sticks of celery, 1 yellow onion, in 1 stick of butter, until they are soft. Add the squash no skin,  nutmeg to your liking, salt, and pepper. Then add 6 cups of water flavored with bullion cubes, I used knorr. Let the soup simmer for about fifteen minutes, then blend with an emersion blender or use your blender to make a puree. We did not add anything else because it didn't need it. To serve i added a tsp of sour cream. Courtney and i thought it would be great with goat cheese. This soup was better than boudin bakery.  I have made a lot of soups and this one is one of the best!  Hope you enjoy!

Crafting day

So on Friday January 5, my sister, and her girls, and their children came over to my house for a
crafting day. As usual we did not get as far as we would have liked but we did have fun. We worked on paper houses, that we enjoy doing, but are very time consuming.  We did purchase some of the houses from Hobby Lobby and some we made from scratch.  The photos below show use working on them.

Here is the house I finished that day!

This house is already made at hobby lobby, you just paint and add the embellishments.

Here is a house that I make from scratch a few years ago!

My diet

I have not been able to get on the last few days to tell you how my diet worked out. I lost a total of 5 lbs!  5 pounds is pretty good, of course I wold have liked to have lost more, but that did not happen. I will start back up again next Wednesday. I am determined to stay with this until we finish basketball season, which will be February 8. Yesterday was a horrible eating day, today I will try to do better.

Day 2 of diet

So far so good on the diet.  Today when I woke up I weighted myself and, much to my surprise I was down 5 lbs.  Hurrah!  So I just finished my breakfast which I made the 6 minute soft boiled egg on a piece of sourdough sandwich bread from boudins which is always fabulous, and added salt and pepper.  I had first seen the egg in a Rachel Ray magazine, they called it the perfect egg. If I wasn't dieting I would add 1/2 tbs of extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, Parmesan cheese, the good stuff, or pecorino Romano.  The perfect egg is, add 1 egg to boiling water, put timer on for 6 minutes, have an ice water bath ready for when the timer goes off.  When the egg is done peel and place on your toast it is so good!  I do believe in this picture I used green onions that I sautéed in olive oil, and feta cheese!


This is the perfect egg!

Diet

On  this 3 day diet I get to eat ice cream!  So I decided to make my favorite French vanilla. I have an older Ben and Jerry's ice cream book and I used their recipe.

2 cups whipping cream
1 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs

Beat the eggs until fluffy add sugar slowly add the rest of the ingredients and then put in your ice cream maker. Ts makes really good ice cream. If the raw egg bothers you can use pasteurized eggs.

This is my 1 serving of ice cream I get to have so I'm going to cut up my apple to eat with it. So yummy:-) Something to look forward to after the basketball game:-)

My start to a new diet!

So here it goes the start to my new diet!  I will be trying to do this diet until after we finish basketball season. So for three days every week I will be following the format below to see what happens. On my off days I am going to try and eat a little better than I have through the holidays.  You can find the original post from http://bodyrockerzz.blogspot.com/2012/08/3-day-diet.html?m=1

Ok so I've kind of fallen off the wagon. Since I started losing weight 2 years ago I've been going strong. This is the first time I've really took a step backward and ....I've gain 10lbs 0_0. I need to get back into gear. I've decided to try this 3 day diet I came across on the internet. It's a diet that military men and women have been using for years. I asked my Father, who is a veteran, about it and he said yup he knows exactly what it is and yes it works.
 So this is how it works, you follow a food menu for 3 days, after those 3 days you can lose up to 10 lbs. Then you're suppose to take 4 days off then repeat until you've lost your desired amount of weight. I read some great reviews from other people who have done it, so I'm staying positive and trying it out for myself. Fingers crossed hope it works for me. I'll post each day to tell how its going for me.  Here's  the break down:

3 DAY DIET
DAY 1: BREAKFAST--1/2 GRAPEFRUIT, 1 SLICE TOAST,
2 TBS. PEANUT BUTTER, COFFEE OR TEA

LUNCH--1/2 CUP TUNA, 1 SLICE TOAST, COFFEE OR TEA

DINNER--2 SLICES ANY TYPE OF MEAT (ABOUT 3
OZ), 1 CUP GREEN BEANS, 1/2 BANANA, 1 SMALL
APPLE, 1 CUP VANILLA ICE CREAM

DAY 2: BREAKFAST--1 EGG, 1 SLICE TOAST, 1/2 BANANA

LUNCH--1 CUP COTTAGE CHEESE (OR 1 SLICE
CHEDDAR CHEESE), 1 HARD BOILED EGG, 5
SALTINE CRACKERS

DINNER--2 HOT DOGS, (no buns), 1 CUP BROCCOLI,
1/2 CUP CARROTS, 1/2 BANANA, 1/2 CUP VANILLA ICE CREAM

DAY 3: BREAKFAST--5 SALTINE CRACKERS, 1 SLICE CHEDDAR
CHEESE, 1 SMALL APPLE

LUNCH--1 HARD BOILED EGG, 1 SLICE TOAST

DINNER--1 CUP TUNA, 1/2 BANANA, 1 CUP VANILLA ICE CREAM

This is said to be a proven chemical breakdown. Do not substitute or change any thing. Do not use any seasonings beside salt and pepper, if desired. Do this diet for three days. After, you can have 4 days of normal eating but don't over do it. Good luck :)

Happy New Year!

I just had my niece help me with my blog.  I'm so excited to get started with all the things I love!  I love to cook, do puzzles, crafts, reading, and cheer.  My cheer kids are always the best.  I love my family, all of them, including my dogs:-) Lassie and Bella!