Only one more day....

To vote!!!
On our sidebar is the poll for the Photo Challenge Hannah is hosting!
Vote now!

♥ -Carol-Anne- ♥

Photo challenge!

Hello all!

How are you today?

I am doing a photo challenge that Kelsey from theflipflopfarmgirl.blogspot.com has started.

It is going to be a 30 day thing but she has changed it to every other day.

Here is a copy of the challenges :)

{ Day1- A photo of yourself

Day2- A photo of what you wore today

Day3- A photo from a high angle

Day4- A photo of your favorite place to be

Day5- A photo of whatever you please

Day6- A photo from a low angle

Day7- A silhouette photo

Day8- A photo of something from the distance

Day9- A photo of something close up

Day10-A photo of whatever you please

Day11-A black and white photo

Day12-A photo edit that you like

Day13-A photo experimenting with bokeh

Day14-A photo focusing on eyes

Day15-A photo of whatever you like

Day16-A photo depicting an emotion

Day17-A photo with street lights

Day18-A photo experimenting with car tail light

Day19-A photo of whatever you want

Day20-A photo that involves a landscape

Day21-A photo of a sunset

Day22-A photo of a person you love

Day23-A photo that makes you think of your childhood

Day24-A photo playing with shadows

Day25-A photo of whatever you please

Day26-A photo that has a color scheme

Day27-A photo that incorporates motion

Day28-A photo with clouds

Day29-A photo using sun as your light

Day30-An unedited photo }

 This seems like it will be fun, thanks Kelsey!

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Well shall we get to the actual photos?

Here is day one: A photo of yourself...

And there is my entry!

 Goodbye and goodnight!

-Carol-Anne :)

Heres a very short recapity post and yes I just made up the word recapity

Okie day then I'm sorry for not posting frequently but not nmuch has been going on, well not enough to make a post about.

• Ok, well first off I just got rechargeable batteries for my camera, so I will be taking more pictures! yay! =D
• The other day we got an idea to make sun-brewed tea so we could put fresh fruit in it and such and last night we made it and it is sitting out right now, here are pictures...

Peach and green tea

The dark one I think is mint, it doesn't have fruit in it.

We are hoping that our idea turns out good and if it does I will let you know!~

Here is my cute brother with a cool temporary hair cut and a new magnifying glass of his~

And I will end this post by telling you that I have a secret that I really want to tell you but I don't like posting about stuff that only might happen so I must wait til either its more definent or it happens!
But I can tell you that I'm excited! ;)

ta ta for now
♥~~Carol-Anne~~♥

Cute Aprons...And Gloves!

I  found this website with these CUTE gloves and aprons! Its called Flirtyaprons.com and theyre adorable!

This is the link to thier aprons page

One of my more favorites! I think I might get one!

I'm posting them in order of my favorites lol

I love love this one!

And this one is my favorite! except I like the plain black one as much as this one so I should of switched the two, but oh well =)
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I love these gloves too!

The link to thier Gloves page =D

 I think these two items match =D

               Well I hope you check out thier page and maybe buy some CUTE aprons and/or gloves while theyre having thier sale!

Tey also have cute little girl aprons to match the mommies and big girls!

Also some masculine men aprons! lol

Happily Carol-Anne! =DD

Happy Birthday Noah!

Yay! I know its late, but my brother Noah turned 8 on Wednesday the 2nd!
He's my last brother to turn 8...

Happy birthday Noah!

Do you want to see his cake that I made him?
He wanted a homemade icecream cake, so I just made chocolate cake in a big brownie pan then cut it in half and put cookies and icecream in the middle and homemade whipcream, sprinkles and a little bit of frosting on top, sounds good huh? Well it was!

Well I only got 1 picture of it, Stephen tried to get a picture of it before Noah blew out the candles but once we put in on the table in front of him he just blew them out without even waiting, soooo...well here is the picture of the cake...

This picture I took when I finished it before the whole candle thing.


Happy Happy Birthday To NOAH!!!
Love Carol-Anne

(p.s. If you want any of the recipes I used just comment saying so)

News flash!

You can now comment on all the pages on  this blog....C

I'll try it...

Okay so Adorible photographys challenge this week is Creative or post processed, so I'm going to enter it.

The picture I'm choosing is going to be one of James and Lili that I took last week, they just look so cute.

Here is the link to thier website...

For more 'artsy' pictures check out our Art page.

~~Carol-Anne~~

Fun With Mirrors.

 Elisha was studying...

                                                      Sepia and contrast are my friends. lol

                                                                               Weird

Which ones are your favorites?

-Carol-Anne 

Fun Fun...And Cheesecake Making...

Ok so I told you in my last post that the next baking project was going to be fondant and cheesecake, Hannah has the fondant pictures so I will post about the cheesecake and maybe get the pictures from Hannah later.

I'm also posting a couple pictures of that night when the Kenny's and Grays came over to celebrate my Moms birthday.

This is a sneak peek on mine and Hannahs first fondant project...

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I made a chocolate cheesecake for my Mommy's birthday.

I don't know where we got the recipe for the cheesecake, but its called 'Fudge Truffle Cheesecake' and trust me, it tastes as good as it sounds!

 Recipe for cheesecake filling

3 8oz packs of cream cheese (it makes it alot easier if you soften it first)

1 14oz can of sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated)

1 12oz package of chocolate chips, melted

4 Eggs

1/4 cup coffee flavored liqueur(this ingredient is optional, I've never made it with it before, but I thought I would try it)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract
 

Recipe for cheesecake crust

1 1/2 cups vanilla wafers, About 45 wafers

6 tablespoons powdered sugar

1/3 cup unsweet cocoa

1/3 cup margerine or butter, melted

 

Prepare cheesecake filling

In large mixing bowl, beat cheese until fluffy.

Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth.

Add remaining ingredients which include eggs,

Vanilla,

Melted chocolate,



and coffee flavored liqueur.
Mix well.

Now the batter should be looking like this!

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Now for the crust.

In medium mixing bowl(I use a blender), mix vanilla wafers,

Powdered sugar,

Cocoa powder and

melted butter or margarine.

Press firmly on bottom and 1/2 inch up side of 9-inch springform pan

Fill prepared pan with cheesecake batter, bake 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Now if you followed all the steps correctly your cheesecake should look like this!

Yes, it does taste better than it looks, lol.


There you go, now you know how to make Fudge Truffle Cheesecake!

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Here are a couple pictures of the night of my Mothers birthday...

Here we have the parents chit-chatting,

Mr Gray brought pizza for dinner...

All the little kids went to my room to play puzzles,
I could not get a decent picture of the little munchkins

Goodbye all you peoples, have a nice rest of your day.

~~Carol-Anne~~


Oh and be sure to check out our Art page, it has alot of cool pictures that Hannah and I took.
We update it alot too.

Berry pie and a resolution...

  As 1 of my resolutions this year,  I've decided to bake ALOT more
                    AND post about all my cooking adventures.

                              I started with a blueberry pie...



The crust was and is always the hard thing.
I have never made a pie-crust before,
just like I have never made a fruit pie before.

I knew I wanted to do a two crust pie, and I was thinking about doing it in this style...

As you see that didn't quite work out! lol..
I put the filling in, and then tried to make the top crust look pretty,
But I had to settle with no pretty designs on the top crust.
I forked the edges of the pie.


Ok, so I got the pie in the oven finally, and at this point I was like
'I hope it just tastes good!'.

Now...

It was time to clean up the MESS!
I must admit that I am not the cleanest cooker around.

Tada! This is the kitchen clean!

Soon the oven told me the pie was done...

So flaky and delicious, too bad it is all gone now...

Ok, so the things I messed up on was that I overly processed the pie crust, so it wasn't that flaky, and then I made the top crust too thick, it was hard to cut through.

The things that were good about it was that it was a pretty good pie in all, it tasted, looked and smelled delicious. =)

~Recipes~

Crust~
(I made a two crust pie, so this is the recipe for a two crust pie)

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup shortening
5 to 6 tablespoons cold water

In bowl mix flour and salt.
With pastry blender or two knives used scissor fashion,
cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs
(This is the part you really have to work, I wish I had a pastry blender).

Sprinkle cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time,into mixture, mixing lightly with a fork after each addition until pastry is just moist enough to hold together(no more no less).

After preparing pastry,  divide pastry into 2 balls, one slightly smaller for the top crust, to line pie plate, roll larger ball into round 2 inches larger than pie plate.
Transfer round to pie plate and ease into plate.
Fill pie.
For top crust all I did was roll it out like the bottom crust, I just made it smaller, which is why it was really thick, but I didn't notice at the time.

Filling~

In large bowl with rubber spatula, toss 2 pints blueberries
(about 5 cups) with 3/4 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel, and 1/8 teaspoon salt.

Next on the list is a chocolate cheesecake for Momma for her birthday, and a pound cake with fondant!


And that is all.
I hope you do have a blessed day all you readers out there!
Whoever you are! Lol.

        C-A   ^_^