The Candyland Perspective

And then I made bread with it.  For a lot of years I was intimidated by the thought of making homemade yeast-risen bread.  I wanted to beat this one though.  And I have!  Hooray!  I've had plenty of failures along the way... like fallen bread, dense funky bread, dry bread, etc.  But I finally made some good loaves, and these loaves are perfect for sandwiches, with dinner, for toast, sacrament bread, french toast... you name it.  And I've done it more with repeated success, so I think I've got it... for now. I got a Kitchen-Aid mixer this past year, and I vowed to use that sucker for bread-making.  I know it's not the real earthy and snobbishly proper way to knead one's dough, but so what?!  I like the one-bowl contained mess of kneading the dough, and I'm more likely to flip a switch than make sure I have an entire counter cleared off for the kneading of dough.  Just sayin'.  Inevitably, I will somehow miss a stuck little chunk of dried flour/dough on th

I made this cute wreath for about $2.  I LOVE CHEAP!  Well, I love inexpensive, that is. So cute!  So easy, too.  A lady in my neighborhood was selling off all her craft items.  Her ENTIRE house was like a store!  I bought the wreath form from her for something ridiculous/cheap.  The Stampin' Up! fabric was a whopping 33 cents.  The felt used was under a dollar too.  Toss in some hot glue and pins, and well, there you have it! I made these cute little reimagined little cheesecakes--wait for it--my strawBEARy cheesecakes--a week or two ago for the mingling after Stake Conference.  As expected, they went over rather well.  I took home an empty platter.  I hulled my strawberries, washed & dried them, and added a bit of Kraft's premade cheesecake filling.  I topped them off with cinnamon Teddy Grahams.  YUM!  An army of cuteness.