Chocolate covered peanut butter rounds

 Ingredients

Ritz or Georgia crackers

Peanut butter

Almond Bark

Supplies

Bowl

Fork

Butter knife

Wax paper

Storage container

Directions

Spread peanut butter onto 
crackers,

add cracker tops, set aside.

  

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Break six of the almond bark squares into a glass bowl. 

Microwave for 1 minute on high. Do not overcook. When you take the bark from the microwave, it may appear to still be chunky, but do not put it back in the microwave. First begin to vigorously stir. The hot bark should finish melting the rest. 

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Drop each peanut butter cracker sandwich into melted bark.

 Bring out with fork and lightly tap off excess chocolate bark.

  Put on wax paper to set up until chocolate is firm. 

If you have a little bark left, and no more peanut butter crackers to drop in, you can add any nuts you may have on hand for some chocolate covered nuts or clusters. I did some almonds, and a few peanut clusters.

My chocolate was beginning to harden a bit, so I put it back in the microwave for 15 seconds, stirred in the almonds, and quickly dropped them onto the wax paper. 

 Half the package of dark almond bark (6 squares) made what you see below.

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Storing

I layer these in an air tight container using wax paper between each layer so they don't stick to together. Although it doesn't happen at my house, these will keep for about two weeks. In 75 degrees or less, there is no need to refrigerate.

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Until next time!

May your blessings be many and your troubles be few!

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You can check out our chocolate covered pretzels here!

The Rhythm of Woven Dreams by Michelle LaDuke

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I have lived. 

I have lived and I have watched others live, which has given me the opportunity to take the photographs held within a little girl's mind, heart, and soul; and draw into the pages of my writing - a panoramic view of her life!

Told in first person narrative, this story interposes and intertwines the realities of a little girl's nightmares with her daydreams and fantasies of hope. Janie wades through the ocean of life's highs and lows searching for her self worth; her place in this world. 

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May your blessings be many and your troubles be few!

Chocolate covered pretzel Rods

I am blessed to have a couple of my grandbabies visiting for part of their summer, and our little Jaley Bean has her third birthday coming up. She put in a request for chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles. So we had some fun making them for her!

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 Ingredients:

White Almond Bark

Pretzel sticks of choice

Sprinkles - optional

Supplies:

Glass bowl

Fork

Butter knife

Wax paper

Also optional: cute little 3 year old who needs to see and smell every little thing along the way!

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Break almond bark into squares. If using half the package (6 squares) microwave on high for 1 minute. If using all 12 squares, microwave on high for 2 minutes. Some of the bark might still seem hard, but once you begin to stir, it will all melt together.

Stir until creamy.

Pour melted bark into tall glass or jar for dipping the pretzels.

I let my Jaley Bean dip the first one. 

We poured our sprinkles into a glass as well thinking we could dip the pretzel into the sprinkles. This didn't work out so well. 

(we kept it anyway because the kids and hubby don't mind how it looks!)

We tried putting the sprinkles in a plate and rolling the pretzel, but that didn't work either, so we sprinkled the sprinkles onto the pretzels before the bark set up.

So Jaley Bean got her chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles!

Store in airtight container.

 Until next time!

May your blessings be many and your troubles be few!

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Manila folder lapbook WWII school project

My hubby and I are starting a new chapter in our lives soon, and one of the necessary steps is to down size two homes into one modest sized storage unit. We will be traveling for a while; visiting loved ones, seeing the sites, promoting my book... I am over the moon excited for this next chapter! Downsizing has it's emotional moments, especially when I'm sorting and purging, and come across so much amazing memorabilia. Our children and grandchildren will be receiving boxes and totes full of photos, art work I've saved through the years, school projects I just couldn't throw out...

One of the things I came across that distracted me from my sorting mission is this lapbook project. This was our youngest son's project from history class. If my memory serves me correctly, this was a tenth grade project. The subject was WWII; he was allowed to choose from a list of sub topics, and he chose the Weapons of World War II. The basic lapbook was created at school. I remember when he came home and asked me if I had any extra supplies in my scrapbooking and crafting room. I went like a frenzied momma bear in an attempt to give this boy his supplies! I provided the supplies and he did the work.  He did a massive amount of research, using the internet, old magazines, and pamphlets for the pictures, as well as some old encyclopedias we'd had for years. (The encyclopedias had seen their better days so I was excited to see them get some good use!) 

Jerod has always done very well with his school projects. He sometimes cut it short with time management, but he always had great content, and took pride in what he turned in. He made an A+ on this one, and I decided it deserved to be shared! 

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All parts of manila folder were covered with scrapbook paper. 

He used a letter stencil on construction paper for the letters. Good job of cutting those out son!

There were lots of flaps to unfold.

He had to include a pop-up.

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Summer Outdoor Wedding

Christina and Brendin's Wedding

In July my dearest friend Lisa asked me to style her daughter's wedding which of course I had a blast doing because not only did I get to do what I love doing; I got to do it with Lisa and Christina.

Christina chose "Shades of Blue" as the theme for her wedding. It was an outdoor backyard wedding and the bride and groom wanted to juxtapose semi-formality with backyard/lakeside comfort. Due to budget we went with silk flowers here.

Altogether, the cost for this entire wedding was under $1000.00 (minus the food)

Here are a few of the photos from Christina and Brendin's wedding.