Here is my recipe:2 1/2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of applesauce, 4 eggs, and lastly 4 cups of cut up peaches (no skins) Just mix it all together and scoop into muffin papers about 1/2 to 1/3 full....
then...like it isn't going to be sweet enough...
I added on top a crumb topping! here is how you make that: 1 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 half a cup of flour, 4 tablespoons of cold butter and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon. Mix it all together into a crumbly mixture and just place a handful on top of each muffin. Trust me, its worth putting on top of these peachy muffins!! (I added some nuts on a few of the muffins) It is sooooooooo good! Anywho, you bake the muffins at 375 for about 20-25 minutes. Sooooooooo darn good!! I am wanting to enter a baked good in the local fair this year, this may be it. Any suggestions for what I should call it?
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I used a plastic bag for the pattern and made an enviromentally friendly bag. It has a pocket on one side that the whole thing folds into to make a little "pillow" (excuse the wrinkles, but I had it folded up!) Upon finishing that up...I went outside and spray painted two matching small bulletin boards I just picked up for $1.50 each~ *I know, what an oxymoron...lol... lets save the environment/spray painting LOL * Anywho, I used the same Pottery barn fabric to cover the bulletin boards. I then shabbied up the frames a tad by rubbing a black ink pad along the edges :-) I LOVE matchy-matchy! these two bulletin boards are going in my studio... I am still wanting to put ribbon cris-crossed over the two bulletin boards, but I'm needing the right color of ribbon to finish it off. Hmmmm I guess I'll just have to go shopping! .jpg)
I had some long bits left over... so I made some flowers as well!.jpg)
Anything to get out of cleaning~
Well, I've been goofing around trying hard not to "clean" my studio like I've been wanting to.... so with the "clean & cute it up" attitude, it was all I could do to cover this little box thingy which houses some of my scissors. I'm going to show only 3 sides as the 4th doesn't look all that cute :-P ohhhhhhhhhh and I did paint my lazy susan pink~ I love it now!!! I've still got to cute-up my two spinny thingies that house my paint brushes & other supplies~ All of which sit on the lazy susan on my work table. Anywho-- here is my scissor container in all its glory :-) Here is Pete...
The fourth side needs some work :-P
Well, it turns out it was a zucchini plant and upon checking on it (for the first time since I planted it) it already has 4 huge zucchini on it LOL I am going to shred the zucchini and make some pineapple-zucchini bread!
Here are some peaches on one of two peach trees that are destined for pies! They smell so good standing underneath this tree taking this photo :-)
Lastly, my tomatoes. I purchased some retaining blocks and stacked them 3 high into a small circle which I then filled with dirt to hold my tomatoe plants. I have this sitting on cement-- and it seems to be working just fine~
It sits atop another "find" that I picked up for $20 bucks-- which just needed to be painted white and then I added new knobs to match my kitchen. The two pieces married together sit in my sitting area next to my dining area. The hutch holds part of my milk glass collection and the bottom part holds flat baskets I use as serving trays for cookies & pies~
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All dolled up with a new red collar & bell~.jpg)
I held up some paper to the sides of my machine to get a good idea of how big to make a pattern, then I just pinned those pieces to some fabric to go over the top & sides-- and just started cutting & pinning & cutting some more until it was a good fit-- sewed a little bit and taaaaaaa daaaaaaa it was made "lickety-split" :-) In the original photo of this sleeping cat cover-- it had a collar... I'm going to do this as well, plus add a little bell! I'll post an updated photo when I've finished that ;-)