Creating With The Stars Competition

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Hey guys! So, have you heard of a little competition called Creating With the Stars (used to be called Crafting With the Stars)? It's now being run by the fabulous girls over at East Coast Creative! I just entered one of my projects... My most visited project on the blog actually. My post about how to turn any tray into a picture frame. It's one of my favorite projects!

Remember that one?! Well, if you have a few seconds, head on over to East Coast Creative, and give my little thumbnail a click. The 12 blog stars and East Coast Creative choose the first 11, and then the link that is the most "popular" will win the 12th spot! I would really love to compete in this competition, so just in case my fabulous little project doesn't make it, maybe all the love that you guys give it will help! THANKS A MILLION!!!

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Project Inspire Contributor

Pin It Hey lovelies! So, I've been contributing for a little while now over at Project Inspire. Which I loooove! Diana is so sweet and I love working with her! The other day she shared a post that talked about all of her contributors. And obviously, we're all fantastic. So go check it out, and pay the other awesome girls a visit!

 

So head on over to Project Inspire to check everyone out and say HI!

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Million Dollar Spaghetti

Pin It Million dollar spaghetti! There isn't really much to say about million dollar spaghetti other than you want to make this one. Trust me. I'll wait while you gather your supplies.

 

 

What You'll Need:

1 lb. of Ground Beef

1 jar of Spaghetti Sauce

8 oz of Cream Cheese

1/4 cup of Sour Cream

1/2 lb. of Cottage Cheese
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
8 oz. of Noodles
2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese



I found this recipe at Being Grown Up. Ok, so first things first, is you want to brown your ground beef. While that is cooking, mix up the sour cream, cottage cheese, and cream cheese. Once the ground beef is cooked, drain it and then pour you whole jar of spaghetti sauce over the meat. Let it simmer for just a minute.

Now you will pour half of the cream mixture on the bottom of your casserole dish, then put half of your noodles. Pour the rest of the cream mixture over the noodles, and then layer the rest of the noodles over the cream mixture. Now pour your beef and sauce mixture over the top of the noodles. It's ready for the oven! Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. Then, sprinkle the cheddar cheese over the top and bake for another 10-15 minutes.

Done! Woot! This is so good. And it makes a lot, so you will have leftovers, which I love. There could be lots of variations to this, so let me know if you try something different with it! I also paired this with some freaking amazing garlic parmesan pull apart bread. Stay tuned for that one!




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Chirstmas Mantle

Pin It Hello my dears! I finally have my post together for my Christmas Mantle! Woot! I've been running around really busy because I really wanted to get as much done as I could, as early as I could. I finished ALL of my shopping AND my wrapping on the 4th. Jealous? It's ok. Go ahead.

Plus, I have my Christmas party to get ready for this coming Friday, so I wanted the house to be all ready to go. I really love to decorate for Christmas, and it's all over my house. But I really strive to make it pretty and inviting, not tacky. Hopefully I got the job done!

 

I think its safe to say at this point, that I love doing banners across my mantel. Love. It. And I found the perfect chevron fabric at Hobby Lobby. Score.

 

I made this printable with one of my hubbys favorite Christmas song sayings. He was super excited to see that it made the mantle.

 

I guess one day I'll have to use something else to decorate my mantle with besides the window frame. But not yet!

 

You may remember my Halloween mantle in which I used these branches and vase filled with Spanish moss, for my crow tree. So for the Christmas mantle, I had this idea to do an ornament tree. I sprayed the branches white, and hung little ball ornaments on it. Then I filled the vase with some Epsom salt to give it a bit of a snow look.

 

I absolutely love this glitter ball garland. Its one of my favorite pieces to decorate with.

 

So, what do you think? How did you decorate your mantle? Traditional colors, bright colors? I would love to see!

 

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Baby Its Cold Outside {Free} Printable

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It's Printable Friday! YAY! Once a week, on Friday's, I contribute a downloadable printable post over at Project Inspire (also known as the Girl. Creative). So, here is the first of many Christmas/Winter printables that I will be doing. I love this sweet little saying from the song, and I have seen it turned into many different printalbes all over blogland. I hope you like my little version of it! (Yes, I know it's Mondy and am just now publishing this. Woopsie!)

 

 

 

Go to The Girl Creative to download

 

This printable is sized to fit in an 8x10 frame.

 

Do you have a Christmas or Holiday saying that you would like to see turned into a printable?

 

And Don't forget, if you have an idea or suggestion for a printable, you can send me an email at katiedidit77 @ yahoo dot com, or leave it in the comments. You never know if your idea will be turned into a printable! Hope you all have a great weekend! And don't forget to stop over and say hi at Katie{Did}It!

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Stuffed Pancake Bites

Pin It Is breakfast a big deal in your house? I know my hubster wishes I would make a bigger deal about breakfast in our house... But I just don't except occasionally. It's not that I don't like breakfast. I do. But I would usually prefer to just eat a light breakfast and then wait for lunch. But these little guys have saved the day. Easy and quick. About the only way I can do breakfast.

 

Original recipe found here

 



What You'll Need:
2 Shake and Pour Bisquick
1/2 lb. sausage

I saw this idea here, but didn't see the recipe. I made this as quick and easy as possible. I used the Bisquick pancake mix that you just add water to and shake it up. Then I browned the sausage in a pan. Once it was done, I added a little sausage to each muffin cup, and then poured some pancake mix into each cup. Just enough to cover the sausage. I baked them at 350 for about 5 minutes or so. It just depends on your oven, but it wont take long for them to cook. Once they are golden brown around the edges, and have a golden center, they're done.

Done! You can eat these plain or have a little syrup on the side for dipping. Enjoy!




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My Thanksgiving Mantle

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Hey Ya'll! I know I've been slacking on putting up new posts lately. But, I hope you enjoyed the taco cups recipe, and the tutorial on how to make your own lost socks sign!

Today I wanted to share my Thanksgiving mantle with you, and a few inexpensive and last minute crafts you can do to spruce up your mantle for the holiday.

 

Whatchya think?! I love LOVE that yellow fabric, and the little mason jars turned out so cute. I filled the brown wire urn with some vase filler and some mini corn that I found at my grocery store. You may remember it from my fall mantle. I also kept the antique cheese graters and little gourds up there as well. 

Tehe. I really don't know what it is about that yellow fabric that I like so much, but it is just ca-ute! I had a bunch of that fabric left over from my Fall Wreath where I made some rosettes out of it. And don't we all love antique window frames? Swoon.

This little banner was super simple to make. I just cut out some triangles, printed out GIVE in the font that I wanted, and then was able to put the paper under the fabric and trace over the letter with a paint pen.Worked like a charm. Then I cut some twine and hot glued the triangles to the twine. The whole thing took me about 15 minutes. Perfect decoration to throw up there for last minute decor.

 

 When I saw these bottles at Tater Tots and Jello, I thought they were awesome, so I wanted to make my own version. Enter spray painted mason jars. I already had a bunch of mason jars handy, as well as some Krylons Ivory spray paint, and the stickers I needed. You know a craft is meant to be when you happen to have ALL the supplies on hand to make it.

So I just put the stickers on the jars, gave them a very light coat of spray paint since I wanted them to look a little worn and faded, and then peeled the stickers off when they were dry! Easy peasy! And since I wanted them to look even more worn, I got out a very fine grit sand paper and gave them a little light rub all over. Done!

And that's my Thanksgiving Mantle. See what I mean? Done and done. The banner and jars cost me nothing since I had all the supplies on hand, and everything else on the mantle was already there from my previous fall mantle. So this mantle cost me a whopping 0 dollars to make!

So look around your house, dig through your craft stash, and see what you can put together. You will probably surprise yourself, and your guests will have something pretty to look at while they're chowing down on turkey. Yay!

What are YOUR Thanksgiving plans? Have you decorated for it, or do you put up Christmas decorations instead?



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