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Just a quick "Hello" today before I make lunch for my husband.....I wanted to show you my daughter's pancake art. She was inspired to make her own Valentine's Pancake Candy Box after eating the one I made previously
HERE. So, so, cute! I love the additional pancake layers she made for her candy!
A close friend of mine bought me another griddle for my house so that I can have two griddles going at the same time for my kids-pretty cool huh?! It seemed to work pretty similarly to my Presto griddle so it will come in handy around here :)
Gotta go make lunch....thanks for stopping by!
Jenni
Exciting news! I just received my copy of
Yum Food & Fun For Kids magazine......
and guess what??? My bunny pancakes were featured in it! Too cool!!
So, I was excited all day over this magazine feature and I could hardly wait to show it to my kids when they got home from school. Since art pancakes are something that we do together, it was neat to share this moment with them :)
This is seriously the cutest magazine for super fun food ideas and you've just got to see it....
Here's the feature in the magazine!
My daughter was holding the plate of bunny pancakes in this photo so that was pretty neat for her....she just might tell her friends at school that a photo of her hand was in a magazine-HeHe!
This is an awesome magazine and even my daughter wanted to look at it.....such cute ideas in it!
Blessings,
Jenni
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| Window decals: A gift for my kids from their grandparents |
I think I'm in denial or something because Christmas has just snuck up on me this year and it's getting closer and closer and I'm not ready for it yet!! If only we could slow down the clock in December!!!
I had about a heart attack when I walked into Walmart yesterday and saw that they had a digital "Countdown to Christmas" conveniently placed next to the door. I know that's on purpose of course because it evokes panic (which is probably what they want!).
Anyhow, last night I got out my Advent Christmas book that I've had since I was a child and started reading it to my kids. Of course we are like 10 days late in starting it, but it was good to get it out. The illustrations could be better so if you know of a cute advent Christmas book, please let me know! So with all the craziness of this season.....
How do you celebrate Christ's birth and
keep the focus on him during this holiday season?
Hello blog friends! It's been awhile.....BUT, I'm back! Yeah! But I'm back on a different blog.
Want to say "Hi?"
I hope so! :)
I'm just a little hop, skip and small jump over
HERE
Blessings,
Jenni
Over Thanksgiving my family and I visited several of the Disney hotels and Wow, they really know how to decorate for Christmas! During that time we saw this awesome life sized Gingerbread house at the Grand Floridian hotel and there were people inside selling goodies. Pretty cool huh?!
Anyhow, I noticed that Disney's gingerbread recipe can be found online and I'm so curious to try it! You can find it
HERE.
I looked up close at one of their Christmas trees and noticed that the ornaments were wrapped tightly around the branches with what looked like wire to secure it. Very smart with all the children and visitors that come along. I guess I was interested in looking up close because they used breakable looking ornaments and as a Mom, I was surprised since I know that I put all the breakable ornaments at the TOP of our tree.
This hotel, the Dolphin, smelled just like the gingerbread house that was in the Grand Floridian hotel. I asked the front desk about it and they told me that they put a Gingerbread smell into the air. Interesting!
Blessings,
Jenni
Every year the grocery stores carry holiday seasonal ice cream and I often don't buy any (maybe because there are already tons of goodies going around) but wish I would have. Not this year! I bought Peppermint ice cream and it tastes just like a candy cane, seriously! I love it! Anyhow, it tastes great coupled with those Sugar Almond cookies I made and wrote about before Thanksgiving
HERE.
If you make the cookies and freeze them like I did, you can save them and the ice cream for after the holidays when all the Christmas goodies have dissapeared....I might buy a few cartons of this ice cream before it too dissapears after Christmas.
Last year I bought from Sam's Club three huge containers of seasonal gingerbread biscotti after Christmas (on Sale-yes!). It seemed like a great idea at the time but then by summer, they were tasting more like dog biscuits and less like gingerbread cookies. So that was a lesson learned!
Blessings,
Jenni
I took the kids outside for a Fall photo shoot and they had fun in our un-raked yard! There just doesn't seem much point to rake them until they all fall off. So there is a large abundance of leaves and those leaves became like toys, some of the best kind of toys.....free ones!
Here my little guy made something like a leaf bouquet
These leaves were stirred in a pot...sorta like a leaf stew!
And now it's officially time to celebrate Thanksgiving because we have put up our Thanksgiving flag!
So my friends, I'm signing off of my blog early for the holiday. Enjoy your time with your loved ones as we thank the Lord for all our abundant blessings!
Psalm 118:24
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Happy Thanksgiving!
It was such a cold day here and raining that it felt like a perfect day to break open my brand new box of hot chocolate for the holiday season.
Yep, that's one of our small Christmas trees in the background....I took it out when I was gong through some of my Christmas decor for a pancake tutorial photo shoot (coming up soon!) and we are enjoying it too much to take it down. So, it really feels like Christmas!
My son claimed that his hot chocolate was too spicy and wouldn't drink it (seriously??). Yes, seriously! Well, he is my picky eater....but he does love art pancakes!
Blessings,
Jenni
I have two good things to recommend today for kids and the first one is paper mache ornaments. I bought mine for about $1each at Hobby Lobby and gave my kids the whole bag of them along with paint and later after the paint dried, they added embellishments with Sharpie markers. I was so surprised that they ended up painting the entire bag and it kept them happily creating art for quite awhile!
One thing I want my kids to feel is to be free to express their own creativity. I'm always telling them, "This is YOUR art, make it the way YOU want it." After all, God made us special in our own individual way and art is an expression of who we are.
The second good find that I bought is this illustrated Bible. I noticed lately that my daughter was starting to get a little too old for her beginner's children's Bible and I wanted to find something more advanced. So I went on a mission to find her one that had illustrations that were fun and whimsical and this one mostly fit what I was looking for.
Such pretty illustrations!
The great thing about this illustrated Bible is how much my daughter LOVES it! She's been reading it and reading it.....she even got up Saturday morning and read it before coming out for breakfast. Now that makes me happy! I bought this at a Christian bookstore locally but I noticed that you can also find it on Amazon
HEREHave a Happy Weekend!
Jenni
Let's have some guessing fun again!
My pancake pieces are all set out ready to be put together onto my muffin tin.
What do you think this will be?
My pancake pieces are laying flat all jumbled together...
ready and waiting to be assembled...
It's time for some guessing fun! So the question is...what do you think these pancake pieces will make when I put them together?
Santa is a little bit confused....he left trains hanging on our Christmas stocking hangers from the fireplace mantle. It's summer still right?
Okay, this was just waaaay too cute not to post. My son very enthusiastically pretended to be Santa (with the voice and everything), and hung these on our mantle. He was so excited to tell me about it. Ahhh...so cute!
Have yourself a "think outside the box" kind of day!
Blessings,
Jenni
Great news! My blogging friend Christina over at
The Olive Tree is giving away this adorable headband for girls. Isn't it adorable?!! I always love the colors she uses in her accessories and this is is perfect for fall....I'm off to go enter and if I win, I'll have a hard time "sharing" it with my daughter! Ha! Ha!
Blessings,
Jenni
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| Summertime brings tons of beautiful Queen Anne's Lace flowers in the field behind our house. They are so dainty and pretty! |
Now that the fourth of July is over, it's seems like I'm seeing more and more back-to-school things. Summer is just flying by so fast! I got up early this morning to have some quiet time to paint and it went something like this...
5am Roll out of bed and wonder why in the world I'm making myself get up? You'll be glad you did (I tell myself)
5:30amI've had some coffee but my eyes are still blurry, the sun is coming up and I'm still wondering why I got up?
6amIt's pretty light out now, I'm starting to wake up after drinking more coffee, eating a gingerbread biscotti and I'm enjoy painting. It's quiet so I have time to pray while I'm painting. I am feeling a little bit frustrated with my new paint brush which just wont come to a point and its making painting a challenge. So, I switch to my old one for awhile
7amI'm fully awake now, getting in my paint groove and I'm glad that I got up....especially since my kids all decided to sleep in! I've had time to paint, think and pray without interruptions. What a treat! I think I'll do this again tomorrow.
Blessings,
Jenni
Here's a little sketch for a new pancake tutorial that I've been working on. This is the second time I've made rocket ship pancakes. If you didn't see my last one, check it out
HERE.
These pancakes will be much simpler than the last ones I made but they will be just as fun! So that will be coming up soon.
I want to thank these great blogs for featuring my pancakes! Thank you so much...it's meant a lot to me!
http://todayscreativeblog.net/http://www.livinglocurto.com/Blessings,
Jenni
Messes can be.................
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, so..............
Now that your convinced how pretty the messes at my house really are, would you like to be inspired and come help me pick them up??Any offers? Hee! Hee!
Have a happy day my friends!
Jenni
I've been working on all sorts of projects lately and my mind is going in more creative directions than I seem to have time for. But that is a good thing, to feel inspired but I'll have to slow down and chisle away at my lists one baby step at a time. You know what I mean?
I love the whimsical-ness of the Three Little Pigs story although, I would have preferred for all the pigs to have survived and hid out in the brick house. The version I read the other day online had the wolf eating the two pigs from the straw and stick house. So, no, no I don't think I'll retell that version to my kids.
Anyhow, these are a few sketches I'm working on for both pancakes and for more stuffies. I might even make them into painted illustrations, if I don't wear out from the story or get inspired to do something else.
Blessings,
Jenni
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles...
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
We live in Missouri, not far from Joplin and my heart and my prayers are going out to them for all that they have suffered. May the Lord comfort you, bring you hope again and shower you with his love.
If you are looking for a way to help, there's a wonderful faith based, disaster relief ministry called Convoy of Hope that our church supports and they are working hard to help Joplin. Check out their website here:
Blessings,
Jenni
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| A rose and little flowers picked by my son for me |
How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Psalm 84: 1-2
My son is out of school for the summer and my daughter is just about to join him. Every time summer rolls around, I do the same thing. I come up with a "schedule" that I hope to follow but usually don't after the first week. This time, I'm only coming up with a tentative one instead of a minute-by-minute schedule. I'm not a real scheduled person but I always want to be. I think my kids like structure but they certainly don't want to follow a schedule without some resistance.
So last summer part of my schedule included setting my alarm for 5:15am so that I could have some quiet art time to paint. I've never been a morning person and this was a challenge at first...especially because I don't like to go to bed early either. But, with all my kids home, I just found that I never knew if I would have any free time during the day and I was too tired at night to do much of anything. Anyhow, I used to have two rabbits that would come over to my window early in the morning to visit me. I love rabbits and this was such a nice treat!
I snapped this above photo of a new little rabbit that visited our back porch this week and it reminded me of my early morning rabbit friends from last summer.
And....we had a deer that visited us in our back yard field this week. I took this photo while the deer just stood in our burn pile watching me. I think the deer stuck around for several hours because I kept seeing it around here and there all afternoon. Pretty cool!
On a totally different note, one thing that I just LOVE is when people send me links or photos to the pancake art creations they've made. So....I want to start sharing those with you! If you have a link to a blog post of pancake art that you've made, let me know so that I can share it!
Angel Street MomMemories By Anna DawnA Bushel and a Peck Blessings,
Je
Summer is on it's way and I've been busy putting together this Pancake Art gift basket for my son's teacher as a thank you gift for her. This is the second time I've ever put one of these together and the first one was for my daughter's teacher. If you are curious and didn't see my my first one,
you can see it HERE. I visited my son's school this past winter and did a demo for his class on art pancakes and then the kids ate them for snack. I think his teacher enjoyed our visit so I thought that she might like to have some of the supplies to make them too. I hope she likes it!
I think art pancake demonstrations is something that I might do more of and I'm considering putting together workshops on them in the future. It's just so much fun!
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| My logo serves as a gift tag |
These gift baskets are super easy to put together and if you have purchased any of my tutorials, you can easily print one off and include it in the basket. This makes for a fun and unique way to say Thank You! Inside my gift basket is:
My Owl Dippers Pancake Tutorial (in my
shop)
My Teddy Bear Picnic Pancake Tutorial (in my
shop)
two bags of mini chocolate chips
food coloring
spatula
pancake mix
three squirt bottles
I made the "Thanks" banner for the basket by printing off the word on cardstock, cutting it out and hot gluing the letters to a white foam sheet. Then I just cut the words out of the foam sheet, punched a hole in it and strung it with ribbon. So simple!
Blessings,
Jenni
I could use some advice today because I'm feeling a little stumped. Originally I was thinking about creating tropical themed pancakes with this little penquin as the main focal point for snack this week but my son told me that he wanted a bee. My son is probably my biggest pancake fan out of my kids because pancakes are one of his favorite foods but my daughter might argue that. I don't know.
Anyhow, yesterday my son grabbed a bee that was sitting on a dandelion and much to his surprise, he was stung! For him this is a really BIG deal! He's been talking about it quite it a bit since then and so that's why he asked for a bee pancake.
So, now I have this penguin sketch that I drew that I would like to combine somehow with the bee idea for a pancake but it's leaving me a little stumped.
Do you have any ideas?
Blessings,
Jenni
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer. I Peter 3:12
Before I became a Mom, I thought that if I had children, they would just play quietly next to me and that they would just entertain themselves. I just don't know where I got this notion but it's pretty funny to think back on now! Children are a lot of work but they are so worth it! One of my many favorite things about motherhood is watching my children discover new things. So, here is a photo of my daughter seeing the very first ladybug of the season.
I love the above verse because as Moms, we are in constant need of the Lord's wisdom in raising our children. Isn't it amazing that the Lord really cares about us and hears our prayers!
Happy Mother's Day my Friends!
Jenni
I'm just stopping in to say a quick "Hello." We've got roofers busy pounding away today taking our shingles off and I can hardly think of anything else. I tried blasting loud music but that didn't drown out the sound much. This is an exciting day for the kids though. They are loving watching the pieces fly off the roof.
Blessings,
Jenni
I'm really excited to be featured today as a guest chef at
Ucreate Foods! I've created a brand new miniature watermelon pancake Tutorial just in time for summer so go check it out! These bite sized pancakes are super fun packed in school lunches as mini sandwiches stuffed with strawberry cream cheese! Summer Time Watermelon Fun!
Blessings,
Jenni
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| Grandma sent these cute little stickers in the mail and they ended up being used as finger nail art on my daughter. It was too cute. I just had to take a photo! |
I thought I would start sharing a few little stories about me. Hopefully they will be interesting enough to skim through! Hee! Hee!
I'll start off with my Television debut! Wow, that actually sounds pretty prestigious but it wasn't really. We live in a somewhat rural area and our neighborhood water well had gone out. It was actually out for 2 weeks and then we had to boil the water until it was declared clean. So all in all, the water issue lasted for about 5 or 6 weeks. Boiling water for baths was a really big challenge for having kids and my husband and I joined the YMCA so that we could use their showers. I filled up water jugs on a regular basis from a friend's house and we just survived as best as we could.
During the water troubles, we had a news reporter knock on our door looking for people who would do an interview. I think they liked the fact that I had children because it made the whole “no water” issue seem more newsworthy. I was super nervous and I remember repeating the same thing over and over which thankfully they carefully edited out! The amazing thing was, a few weeks later, I was shopping at Walmart and someone recognized me from the news! Isn't that so funny! So that's my little story for the day.
Blessings,
Jenni
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Really cute :-)