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Craft Room Tip

Here’s a little craft room tip I thought I’d share.  My husband had bought about 5 of these magnetic strips from Ikea a long time ago.  He was planning on using them in the garage (they’re really intended for storing chef’s knives).  I snagged one for my sewing room. 
Not sure about anyone else with kids, but needles and scissors and lots of small doodads don’t really mix with well with my girls.  I was always trying to find a good place to hide them and keep them secure, but also keep them close at hand.  So here’s what I came up with!  They’re super cheap at Ikea, so if you have one near you swing by and pick one up in the kitchen department.  I put my bobbins, scissors, some needles, safety pins and even my zipper foot all nicely stored up and out of the way, yipee!
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First Birthday

Yep, Emily turned 1 in August.  We had her party at a local park.  My brother was able to get some really great shots with his dSLR (I’m so jealous!).  Anyway.  I embellished her shirt with a cupcake and had sewn her a Market Skirt from made, check out the tutorial here.  I love it!

Love you!
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Attack of the jumbo muffins!

Our big project for yesterday – jumbo rasberry blackcap muffins! Yummy. I’ve used all different berries (raspberry, blackcap, blueberry) for these and the sour cream makes them really great. For those of you who don’t know, blackcaps are a lot like blackberries, just smaller and a little less juicy and they grow in the woods around here. And lucky for us we have rasberries in our backyard. Free raspberries, how much better can it get? I like to add a little powdered sugar/milk drizzle after they’re cooled off, it makes them so pretty. I also freeze the berries before I put them in the mix, they stay together much better. Here’s the recipe:

2 c. flour
1 t. salt
1 T. Baking powder
2/3 c. sugar

1 egg
1/2 c. milk
1 t. vanilla
1/3 c. melted butter
1/2 c. sour cream
2 c. raspberries

topping:
1/4 c. sugar
2 T. butter (soft)
3 T. flour

mix together the dry ingredients and then the wet and add them all together, don’t overmix! Divide into muffin pan and sprinkle with topping. Bake at 350 for approx. 20 minutes (my jumbo muffins take about 30 minutes)