Its been a while since I posted.. --like a week :) -- I've just been so happy that Jake is home :) From his Canadian Adventure!! Bringing home two BIG bears! He's home and safe and with me again!! <3
Since then, I have been up to making good dinners! whoo! Lately I have been craving a baked potato and I've never really known exactly how long to cook them in the microwave or oven, and sure I could easily just look it up, but neither way has ever worked very well for me. So I had been looking at a blog (sorry I don't remember which one) but she had made baked potatoes in her crock pot! We got a very cute new one for our wedding so I decided to bust that out; went and bought some potatoes and started cooking.
It's so simple and easy!!! Wash 'em, wrap them in foil, and throw them in the crock pot on high for 6 hours! They were super delicious and the softest baked potato I've ever had! The best part is Jake saw what I had put on mine and made me make his just like mine! Silly kid!
Today is a new crock pot adventure!!! Ranch Chicken!! Okay so this lady here: Living Laughing & Loving [I found this recipe on Pintrest] she made this with pork chops. I didn't feel like making pork chops, don't ask why.. just wasn't feeling it! haha. So I just switched it out with some chicken thighs that I had! And HOLY COW!! It's smelling so good!!
Ranch Chicken-
-Chicken Thighs (or breast)
-One 10oz. can of Cream of chicken
- one can of water
- Ranch powder packet
Throw it all in the crock pot, stir, Leave to cook on low for 4-6 hours!! YUMMY!!
While that was cooking I started on my new.. Wreath?? haha. You'll see. I went to JoAnns today and was picking up some things for one project, and saw everything to make this project!
So I painted the chalk board bright green and the H yellow, also so it would match the ribbon.
I attached the H with Elmers spray glue and also some hot glue. It's windy here and I don't want it to fall off.
Next, I felt like this needed something else to it. So I got some left over fabric I had from my quilt I made a while ago and made a fabric flower for the corner. Here are some pictures if you're not sure how to make them.
Cut a long strip of fabric. The Longer and thicker the bigger the flower. |
Tie a knot in the end of the fabric. |
Start wrapping the fabric around the knot and glue with hot glue gun. |
Keep going around, twist the fabric, and glue where you feel it needs to. |
when you get to the end... |
tada!!! |
Fold the tail under and glue on bottom. |
I hot glued that into the corner as well..
next I measured out the ribbon and glued it to the back of the board. After I had done this I hung it on the door to see how the length would work out.. It was too long so I cut the ribbon at the top and tied it in a knot! and wala!! Its done :)
I will come back a little later, tell you how my chicken is and put some pictures too :)
AH! April! remember when we made those fabric flowers at Kylee's Grandma's! And we burned our fingers 6000 times??! you mastered it! (P.S. I quite enjoy that you've turned your blog into a crafting blog, go ARCH!)
ReplyDeleteSo Cute! You are so creative!
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