Let Them Eat Corn Bread!

I often cook sweets and treats for the neighborhood children but one little boy never indulge in my goodies.  The other day I made cornbread muffins (my sweet cornbread) and he actually ate not one, not two, but three.  Therefore, I decided this is a recipe I must share.  If, a child will turn down cake, cookies, pie, candy, etc... But eat cornbread... it is a "Keeper" recipe.

Enjoy!

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup Yellow Corn Meal (I prefer to obtain mine from a gristmill)

1 Tbsp. baking powder (make sure it is not expired)

1/2 Tsp. salt

1 Cup Heavy Cream
1/4 Cup Water
2 Large eggs slightly beaten

1/3 Cup Sunflower Oil
5 Tbsp. Butter melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease or spray muffin tin with cooking spray.

Combine Flour, sugar, corn meal, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.

Combine heavy cream and water.  Mix thoroughly

Combine:  Heavy cream and water mixture, eggs, sunflower oil, and butter in small bowl: mix well.

Add liquid mixture to dry ingredients; stir just until blended.  Pour into prepared muffin tin, filling cups 2/3 full.

Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.   Cool in pan on wire racks for 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool slightly.  Serve warm, or in my families case HOT out the pan!

Optional:  Top with butter while hot in pan.  

Sew... Do You Like What You See?

When you look at another person what do you see:  clothing, shoes, smile, or nothing at all.  When I look at another person, I try to see past the entire exterior and look at their inner beauty but who am I fooling, I see what is on the outside.  Like the big scissors on my dress, I wish I could cut that vanity out of my mind and focus on inner beauty... It is in us to first look at a person’s outer appearance then their inner beauty.  Contrary to popular belief, present yourself in a certain way.  Otherwise, your inner beauty may not be able to shine.  For me that means, ALWAYS A LADY!  My mom taught me that principle and I will teach it to my daughter.

Sew... Do you like what you see?

Enjoy!

Outfit Ideas:

Earrings:  ModCloth
Dress:  ModCloth (Heel Athens Lab)
Handbag:  (Disaster Designs) - it's actually a make-up case
Tights:  ModCloth
Shoes:  Zulily

Yes, I was giddy in this dress!

What I am trying say (hehehe, my lips) is I highly recommend both Disaster Design
and Heel Athens Lab Brand... Get them on ModCloth since they are not USA
designers... 

Ring & Pops!

After being in sweats for almost two weeks, it was nice to put on some real clothes.  I wasn't feeling my usual girly self... I wanted something daring, something funky, something sweet and sassy!  My shoes from Iron Fist met the bill.  

I don't have much to say, I will let the pictures tell the tale! 

Rings & Pops!  

Enjoy!

Outfit Ideas:

Earrings:  ModCloth
Necklace:  ModCloth
Shirt:  Kenar
Pants:  BeBe
Shoes:  ModCloth (Swap Group Thanks Alison B.)

Can a Dirty House Be The New Miracle Drug?

It has been a crazy week or two. Everyone in the house was struck with illness, of course I am the only one who is still holding on to it. I usually do not ask help to run my household but I had to ask my sister to take my son to his first school dance. That broke my heart. Moreover, I thought about asking one of the church members to cook food for my family (yes, the thought crossed my mind). For those who personally know me, yes I am on my deathbed... MA'MA where are you!!!!!!

I have taken everything under the sun both herbal and pharmaceutical and nothing.... Still sick. Therefore, you ask how I am blogging. I walked into the different rooms of my house and saw the clothes on the floor, dirty dishes, litter, school papers not checked, floors not swept or mopped, etc... Mommy is cured!

So, after the children finished their testing for The Music Teachers' Association of California Certificate of Merit Program I had them to clean my house (to mommy's specifications of course) and it was back to being sick.

Can a dirty house be the new miracle drug? Probably not, but it did get me up and going for a few minutes.

These are the pieces that my children had to play for their testing. They performed these pieces 2 weeks ago at a nursing home.

For information on their outfits see my blog post "The Yellow Ghost"  http://snoodytots.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-yellow-ghost.html

Enjoy.

Serenity....

Peace, calm, quiet, serenity.... Those words come to mind when I look at this dress.  Pure peace.  Although not my usual attire for church, I donned this cute little number because I get that same feeling when I walk into the house of the Lord.  A certain weight is lifted off my shoulders.  I am taken to a place like the one pictured on this dress... A place where all in peaceful... A place where it is just you and your Heavenly Father sharing a moment of bliss, a moment of praise and worship.  There is no one else around. No one but your serenity.

Enjoy!

Outfit Ideas:

Dress:  ModCloth (Bernie Dexter)
Belt:  ModCloth (Borrowed from another dress)
Earrings:  ModCloth
Handbag:  Maxx New York Handbag (Swap Group Thanks Rebecca C.)
Tights:  Target
Shoes:  Everybody Moda

Want Mustard on Those Dogs?

Oh, how I have lusted after this sweater?  Who doesn't love wiener dogs?  Then two wiener dogs on a mustard colored sweater?  Yeah, gotta get that one.  ModCloth offers this beautiful sweater under their private label Bea & Dot.  It is a label that is named after the owners (or former owners) grandmothers.  How cute!  I love the sweater but it is too thin for the price.  However, for the weather in California just right. 

I wonder if they were thinking wiener dogs and mustard when the paired the two?  Things that make you go hmmm...

Want mustard on your dogs?

Enjoy!

Outfit Ideas:

Sweater:  ModCloth
Skirt:  ModCloth
Tights:  Target
Earrings:  ModCloth
Shoes:  Chelsea Crew
Lipstick:  Mary Kay (Thanks Bridgette Lewis)

The back of this awesome sweater!

Yes, the dog’s tails are forming a heart!  What can be perfect?

The Yellow Ghost...

"Wear me... Please wear me!"  I know I am not hearing things.  I looked in my closet and thought my mind was playing tricks on me, but sure enough, these yellow beauties were speaking to me.  The called to me, beckoned to burst out of the box, the closet, the cardboard shelter that held them hostage for years.

I often tell people my outfits start with the shoes.  I will see a pair of shoes that catch my attention, call out to my very being and I must have them.  Sadly, they will sit in my closet for days, months, sometimes years until just the right outfit presents itself.  On several occasions, I have pulled out this beautiful pair of shoes only to put them back because no dress could match their beauty, until I found this dotted frock.

Therefore, today my yellow ghost I will "Wear You"....

Enjoy!

Outfit Ideas:

Dress:  ModCloth (Emily & Fin)

Earrings:  ModCloth
Necklace:  ModCloth
Tights:  ModCloth
Shoes:  Poetic License
Bag:  Swap Group (Thanks Jessica Y. One of my favorite bags)

Twin Outfit Ideas:

Shirts:  Sears
Ties:  Nautica
Pants:  Lands Ends
Shoes:  Stacy Adams

Daughters Outfit Ideas:

Dress:  Gymboree

Hair Candy:  Gymboree
Tights:  Gymboree
Shoes:  The Children's Place
Earrings:  The Children's Place