Easy Chocolate Truffles

MMMMMM..... Yummy!

I found this recipe at work the other day and I love them!

you need:

2- 8 oz pkg of bakers chocolate

1- Pkg of cream cheese

1- Pkg of OREOS

* Crush Oreos finely and mix 3 cups of them with the cream cheese until dark brown and creamy (you can see above I used Christmas Red Oreos:) I think that mint Oreos would be super tasty).

Roll into bite size balls, and dip into melted chocolate, the recipe called for the full two pkgs but you really only need about 1 1/2, (it is always easier to melt more). Sprinkle remaining Oreos on top and let chill in refrigerator for one hour and enjoy!

Fabric Head Band with flower

 I saw these head bands at a local farmers market and decided I could

I could make them my self instead of spending the money on them and it was

super easy!

Step #1 fold fabric in half, for this I used and 18" long piece

you want it to be 3" in the middle and taper to 1" at the base.

Step #2 Sew a stay stitch at 1/4" I use a #4 stitch on my sewing machine

which is the longest I can make my stitch.

Step #3 Do the same with a smaller piece of contrasting fabric.

Truthfully I just measured the smaller piece until I liked the look of it.

Pin on and repeat step #2.

Step #4 I cut down fabric and sewed along just so it would stay together.

I then just rolled it up and put a dot of hot glue every few inches.

Step #5 I attached ribbon to the bottom to come underneath my hair and tie,

again I just measured until I had the size I wanted. I then just glued on my flower.

This project cost me nothing because it all came out of scrap fabric!

Fall Light Up Pumpkin!

Quick post, I have been wanting a light up fall pumpkin since last year! I found one at Hobby Lobby for 35$ back in October, but was I willing to fork out that kind of cash, I think not. So I waited patiently, and a few weeks before Halloween all the fall grapevine pumpkins were on sale for 50% off I found the perfect one size and all and only paid 10$. I was also lucky enough to wander over the the Christmas lights section where I bought a box of 20 twinkle lights for 1.20$. The goal is to tape over the lights and spray paint the cord brown but that wont be happening until next year. So for now I just stuffed my small strand of lights into the pumpkin plugged it in a walla I now have a light up pumpkin for $11.20, Huge Savings! It is not actually sitting on this chair in my house it is on a shelf, but it was very rainy when I took this and I could not get any decent lighting for my cheapo camera.

We don't put up Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving at our house, so we get a bonus few weeks of fall before I take this down!

Missing in Action and End Tables

Hello all out there in the blogging world. We the Winegar Girls would like to appoligize for the lack of love given to this blog. Rachel Had a Healthy Baby girl on August the 25th. This is really no excuse for me to have been missing but it seems that working 2 jobs and going to school leaves little time for our lonley little blog. Rachel on the other hand now has no internet and a new baby so she Has and excuse. Ok on to bigger and better things I have taken up a love for the thrift store and found this little end table at the local Deseret Industries, I paid 15$ yes you heard right 15$. I brought it home and my husbands response was do we really need another endtable, as he is staring at the pile of crap, that I guess only I could see the beauty in. So I got to work this is a first for me I have never refinished anything.

1st It required a lot of sanding as you can see it had a very poor paint job done on it before the knots were coming through the paint in some areas and in others it was so thick I thought the sanding process would never end.

2nd I moved onto wood filler, I purchased this small tube for next to nothing at the hardware store and got to work, my all knowing father explained to me that the surface needed to be completly smooth or you would see every mistake on the table and they would stick out like a sore thumb. so I filled in all of the knicks and dings in the table. Let the filler dry completely and sanded it smooth.

Last but not least I painted it. The picture makes it look black but it is actually a deep chocolate brown. The best part was the paint was FREE! Thats right folks I raided my parents garage and guess who had and entire quart of paint sitting there just waiting to poor some love onto some old furniture thats right Ma and PA Winegar did (not sure they appreciate being called that on the blog :)). After painting two coats and letting it completely dry this step is important dont get impatient you dont want to ruin your hard work. I went to Hobby Lobby and purchased some drawer pulls that I love for 3 dollars a peice bringing my new table total for 21$.

The table is now sitting next to our bed and has inspired a total bedroom redo, so be prepared for things to come. The table also holds a hiddious lamp which I hate and will be getting rid of during the redo! Keep watching I am currently working on another table that is taking a little more tlc and motivation to finish!

Baby Shower Part 3 the final chapter!

Well we had the baby shower last week and it went off without a hitch it was great! Rach was so concerned that nobody would show up, and she had a huge turn out! Here are some pics of the food we did mini cupcakes and fruit pizzas, we also did vegitable and fruit trays. The mini fruit pizzas were my fav, we loved the idea of fruit pizza but it is such a hassle and a mess we wanted things easy! We just baught cookie dough from the store and baked them off so they were already the perfect size, we then used our fav cream cheese frosting recipe and layed on the fruit super easy we put these together in no time at all!

Sorry the pic is blury but it is all I have.


We also kept the decorations simple because it was in the backyard, we just paid a visit to party land and our trusty Maceys to get some supplies!


We used the diaper cake as a center piece for the gift table we loved how it all turned out!

Baby Shower Part 2

Ok here we go Part 2 of Rachels Shower. I have seen these diaper cakes in all the baby stores along with all over the web. My mom and I searched the web and found tons of ideas and this is all of our favorites mixed together. The recipie for this particular cake included 50 size one diapers, 10 size newborn diapers, 60 small rubber bands, 5 Large rubber bands and 1 huge rubber band, 3 rolls of the ribbon of your choice,2 baby bottles I large and 1 small, 1 bag of candy, glue dots, 1 bag of paper confetti, and tons of baby goodies! Started out by filling the baby bottles with candy, then surrounding the bottles with diapers securing them with rubber bands, sorry I was at my mothers during all this and did not have my camera. the larger bottle goes on the bottom and you build two layers with this. We then just cut the ribbon to size and attached it, then we just decorated to what we liked, and I have to say I love how this turned out!

Baby Shower Part 1

As some of you out there might know, the other author of this blog Rachel C. is going to be having a baby girl here in a few months, she is coming home to visit soon before she is not allowed to travel anymore, as her loving older sister, I along with my mother and sister-in-law are throwing her a shower, I have been out of crafting mojo lately but this has gotten me back in the groove. Below is the invite to her shower. I found the cutest invitations that were made to look like a diaper the only problem was they cost like $2.00 a piece, which would not be bad but there are like 35 people on the guest list and that gets pricey, so I scoured the web and found ideas on how to make them, and then a few weeks ago I received and invite to a friend of mines shower, and low and behold, her mother-in-law had splurged for the expensive invites, and I had my template yay! I printed the inside of the invite first, I don't have a pic of that because my computer is not letting me blur out the info and I don't really want all of the personal information all over the web sorry folks! The other problem I ran into is that I could not find cute baby paper so I added the white trim to make it cute I was thrilled the way these turned out, they were time consuming but that is ok, I had a Gilmore Girls marathon and went to town. The best part is that including stamps envelopes and paper to make 35 invites instead of the 65+ it would have cost for the others I made them all for 15$+change.