A Little Taste of Fall

Pumpkin Bread

2 tsp rainsins

1 cup pumpkin puree
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp honey
1/2 cup buttermilk/ milk
1 egg
1-1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pumpkin spice
1/8 tsp fresh ground nutmeg
1-1/4 tsp baking soda

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat the inside of a loaf pan with cooking spray.
2. Add the raisins, and the chopped prunes, dates, and figs to your food processor, along with the pumpkin, vanilla extract, honey, buttermilk, and egg and blend until smooth. Pour into a medium size bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together the wheat flour, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin spice, nutmeg, and baking soda.
4. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet, and fold together. Mix only until it is incorporated, so that you don’t over mix.
5. Transfer the mixture to your bread pan and bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the middle of the loaf.
6. Cool on a baking rack and store covered (in the frig).

The Chocolate Muffin Tree: Egg Shaped Lanterns

The Chocolate Muffin Tree: Egg Shaped Lanterns: Ever since we did our Tissue Paper Mache Eggs from a previous post I've been toying with this idea and have finally completed it.  I real...

Oil Sun Catcher

Missing warmth and summer today... so why not.

What You Need:

• Construction paper in various colors
• Medium bowl
• Marker
• Scissors
• Baby oil
• Water
• Small plastic container
• Cotton swabs

What You Do:

1. Get started by using a marker to trace around the medium bowl on a sheet of construction paper to create a circle. Have them cut out the circle (boost those fine motor skills!).
1. Before constructing the sun catcher, let them experiment making lines and designs on a sheet of white paper with crayons. Don't forget to encourage them with lots of positive praise.
2. Trade the paper and crayons for the construction paper circle. Explain to them that he won't be drawing with crayons—they'll use a cotton swab instead!
3. Pour a small amount of baby oil into the plastic container. Have them dip the cotton swab in the baby oil and draw lots of lines and scribbles on the construction paper circle. 
4. Watch as the oil changes the construction paper! 
5. When done painting, hang the finished sun catcher in a window and watch at it glows in the sunlight.

Fall Cookies

Delicious Autumn Cookies

With my little helper, Yolanda.

Today, is a true fall day. Leaves are crunching underneath your feet, the blue sky, contrasting against the yellow leaves high in the sky. 

So we decided to whip out the sugar cookie recipe and deck them out with F A L L.

MATERIALS

• Food colouring
• Sugar cookie dough
• cookie cutters of your choice
• cookie pans
• rolling pin
• flour ( optional)
• 
  

To start, make sugar dough! This is the recipe we used ; http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/sugar-cookies-4477

After you have made the sugar cookie dough, divide it into 5 equal balls and choose your food coloring! 

Colour the dough balls, we tried to choose oranges, reds, yellows and greens... some worked, others didnt.

 Smooch the coloured balls together and roll out into one large piece of dough. 

Place the cookies onto a baking sheet and bake them!

Ta-Da! Delicious fall cookies. <3

Zucchini Pizza's

An alternative to regular pizza, try ZUCCHINI PIZZA!

Serves 4

Ingrediants-

• 4 zucchini slices
• Tomatoe slices, or any other vegetables
• Pasta sauce/ salsa/ pesto or any other sauces of your choice
• Parmesan 

1) Arrange the zucchini slices on a pan, with the oven preheated to 375 degrees

2) Lay vegetables on the slices and spread the sauce of your choice over the zuchinni. 

3) top off with parmesan and put them in the oven for aprox. 15 minutes or until the Zucchini is tender.

4) Enjoy!

Bottle Cap-a-Rama

Once a Bottle Cap, Now a Magnet

Take thirty minutes. Time well wasted.

:)

What you need:

• Scissors
• Paint (Acrylic)
• Magnets
• Bottle Caps
• Pictures cut to fit a quarter
• Pliers
• Glue gun
• Hammer
• Chai (Optional) :)

Step one..

Use the pliers to bend the bottle cap sides off as shown in the picture.

Then use the hammer to flatten it. 

Time to paint!

After you let the caps dry, start to glue your pictures inside of them.

 Use the glue gun to glue the photos to the bottle cap.

Make sure to smooth it out with your finger.

After glueing the pictures, move to the back of the cap and glue on some sort of magnet.

Just make sure that the magnet can withstand the weight of the bottle cap.

Now enjoy, you're finished! Post them to your fridge or just keep them on a desk.

Cute keepsake for a person or memory. 

:) Hannah & Nadja

Someones junk... another persons treasure.

Vintage Bottles

<3 <3 <3