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Thanksgiving M&M Turkey Favors

November 17, 2014 by Margaret 6 Comments

Cute, easy craft for your Thanksgiving table. #turkeyfavors

I fell in love with these crazy looking turkeys when I saw them on Pinterest. I had to make them.

Gobble! Gobble!

We took the entire family and Thanksgiving to Great-Grandma’s house last year. My assignment was to create something fun for the table. I picked these Turkey favors. My kids had a blast helping me twist a cute pipe cleaner.

Jenn at Clean and Scentsible has a great tutorial on how to twist your pipe cleaner. She found circle netting for her turkeys. I wasn’t so lucky. I used brown mess netting cut into 12″ squares. I also closed these little beauties with a regular garbage bag twisty tie (I wanted to be able to get at them quickly).

I filled my little gobblers with regular M&M’s, Peanut M&M’s, and Peanut Butter M&M’s, because that’s what I like, but really any candy would work.

My original plan was to fill them with Fall colored M&M’s, but I couldn’t find any the week of Thanksgiving. So, if you ever plan on making these stock up on Fall colored M&M’s at Halloween.

Enjoy!

Margaret

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Fall At Our Etsy Shop

September 5, 2014 by Margaret 26 Comments

It is getting to be that time of year when I can get out my fall decor and redecorate. I love the colors, smells and the crisp evenings and mornings of Autumn.

We have a few new things in our “Etsy Shop”, just small things that can help spruce up your house for the different fall holidays.

Things for Halloween, just fall-ish or Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We have hopes that there is more to come.

This time not patterns but finished products.

Come for a Visit.

Mary Ellen

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Easy French Rolls

May 7, 2014 by Mary Ellen Stringham 6 Comments

Our family likes to eat a great variety of foods. There is always something at the dinner table that one person might not like, but the one weakness we all have is bread. Hot rolls for dinner are the best.

Since variety is the spice of life, this is our spice for this week.

“EASY FRENCH ROLLS”

are made from a variation of this great old recipe of Winnifred Jardine,

a past Food Editor for the Deseret News.

I don’t really know if you can botch this recipe.

Ingredients

2 tbsp SAF yeast

2 1/2 cups hot water

3 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp salt

5 tbsp vegetable oil

6 cups flour

1 egg white

In mixer bowl, mix 4 cups flour, sugar, salt and yeast. Add hot water (I get it as hot as my tap will get) and oil. Mix until smooth. Scrape sides. Stir in remaining flour and mix well.

Leave in mixing bowl, let rest 10 minutes. Turn mixer on to stir down dough, about 30 seconds. Let rest again for 10 minutes, repeat 3 more times. Turn out dough onto floured board. Knead once or twice until lightly coated with flour. Divide dough in half and from each half, cut into 12 equal pieces.

Form each piece into a ball and place on grease baking sheet. Let raise 30 minutes.

Brush with beaten egg white and gash across top with sharp knife.

It can also be formed into 2 loaves and cut 3 gashes diagonally.

Bake in 400 degree oven for 8-12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot with butter and your favorite home made jam. Ours is raspberry.

This recipe can also be made even if you don’t have a mixer. Just stir vigorously with a large

spoon leaving the spoon in the dough during rest and stir vigorously to stir down dough.

For fun variations after brushing with egg white sprinkle with sesame seeds or poppy seeds.

ENJOY!

Mary Ellen

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Thanksgiving Centerpiece

November 25, 2013 by Margaret Leave a Comment

I love Thanksgiving. It gives me that warm feeling inside to start the holiday season.

I love to gather with family and think about great memories and the things that I’m grateful for.

I also love to quilt and make something beautiful out of fabric scraps. I learned this love from my mother who at 82 years of age still pieces together small scraps of fabric to make something beautiful.

She lives in another state and it is hard for her to come to us. This Thanksgiving we are taking Thanksgiving to her.

A couple of months ago I visited her and brought some of her fall colored fabrics home to make a fall quilt and ended up making a table runner instead. She always wants to know what I am sewing so I decided to take the works, not just dinner but decor as well.

We are going to have about 18 for dinner and it is a very long table, thus a very long runner. It is about 110″ long. It was fun to go through and match the beautiful fall colors. It will make our table festive for the season.

I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Mary Ellen

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