DIY cute handwarmers

These little hand warmers are so cute & such a great little gift idea & or stocking stuffer! I have been making these a lot lately because I think they are just too cute not to give for gifts. I hope you enjoy my tutorial, If you have any questions feel free to ask in a comment or you can also email me at kaylascreationsblog@yahoo.com Sorry for the length of this post it's actually 2 tutorials! one for owl hand warmers & one for Football hand warmers. For Both of these you will need to print out patterns and then trace & cut out You will need 2 of each thing for the owls except the noses per 1 hand warmer, use whatever fabric you like just make sure it is cotton along with your thread because these are going in the microwave and we dont want anything catching on fire! Here is the Owl Pattern I used. ( I just left out the feet and wings) & here is the FOOTBALL pattern I used. You need 2 footballs cut out for each 1 hand warmer....

Supplies
- Cotton fabric
- Cotton thread
- Sewing machine
- Needle
- Patterns (shown above)

         Once you have your fabric cut out ( sorry forgot to take a picture of everything cut out)
            You will want to start sewing on the face of your owl onto the body of your fabric.

                                             Here is the face all sewn on...

                               Then turn your 2 body pieces (one with face & one without) so they are
                          facing each other and sew leaving just a little gap to turn out like shown above.

Then turn right side out like shown above, fill with rice & hand sew the opening shut!

 

                            Wa la your done! These owl handwarmers aren't shown with the others I made
                        because I gifted them to my wonderful friend Heather over at Heatherly Loves
                        go check out her blog if you haven't already she has a great blog & is hosting
                         an awesome giveaway right now! :)

             OK so just a quick little tutorial for the football hand warmers, these are seriously SO
              easy just cut out your footballs from whatever fabric you like Oh & make sure to turn
              your football over & owl too! when tracing your 2nd piece for your hand warmer so they
                                                     fit right sides together when you sew them!

                      Place right sides together and sew leaving a gap to turn out.

                             Turn out and fill with rice, then hand sew your opening shut.

         Place your cute new hand warmers in the microwave for 30 seconds and stick in your coat
                 pocket to help keep your hand warms for about 30 minutes out in the cold!

I hope you all enjoyed these quick little tutorials, sorry for picture overload! Have a great rest of the week!


-Kayla :)

Making waffle cones into Christmas trees :)

So first off I apologize for my long absence from my blog. I have just been busy doing so many other things that my blog fell to the way side for a bit. I am however very anxious to get back into sharing all the things I make with you all with Christmas coming up. It is my favorite holiday & I just love this time of year! I have a few things that I've made that I plan on sharing with you all I just have to figure out where all my pictures went to. So for now I figured I would just share a fun little activity that my husband & I did with our little one Colten. It turned into him eating lots of sugar, but a little sugar once and a while never hurt anyone right? lol. We made Christmas trees from waffle cones, I'm sure you all have probably seen this before, I found this idea on pinterest and I'm glad we did it, we all had fun and it got pretty messy but that's just a sign of having fun right? :) Alright on to the pictures..

I hope you all enjoyed this post & are having a wonderful week! I will see you all soon with another post PROMISE! :)


-Kayla :)

Acorn Coasters

These little coasters are SO cute that I wish I would have thought of them all on my own, but all credit goes to Leslie over at The Seasoned Homemaker because she is the one that thought of them. She has a wonderful tutorial on these & even gives you a free pattern to print out so you can make these! They are just so cute & I love how mine turned out so I thought I'd share..

I hope you all are having a wonderful week!,

-Kayla :)

Snow Icecream!

Have any of you ever made or even heard of snow ice cream before? I had never heard of it until one day when I was looking around pinterest, if you want to follow me here is my link (which I probably do much to often :) & I saw a few pins for snow ice cream. I was intrigued, so when we woke up to snow this morning I knew I had to try it! It's been snowing all day here we've got 10 + inches already pretty crazy considering it was 70 yesterday! Here is the recipe hope you enjoy :) ..

Snow Ice Cream

8 cups of snow (avoid the yellow snow :)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract


Pour your milk & vanilla over your fresh snow, make sure you've got soft snow and not big chunks of ice & then mix well. Grab a spoon & enjoy! :)

                       While I was making the ice cream my bogs were working on an airplane :)

     If you look close you can see that our neighbors made a HUGE snow man! :)


                                            I hope you all are having a great Friday!! :)

-Kayla :)

Thankful Thursday # 6

Sorry for being away from my blog & the wonderful blogging world for so long. There has been a lot going on in my personal life & my head has just not been into my blog. I'm still cooking a lot & crafting here & there but I just haven't been putting the effort forth to take pictures and edit and make posts out of everything I have been doing. The biggest reason is because Chris (my husband) received a job offer that would require us to move to another state far from where we live now & we thought we were going to be moving so I was cleaning things out and trying to get things in order for that but it ended up that unfortunately the cons out weighed the pros this time so we are staying in Utah. The biggest pro was that it would have brought us from a 40 hour drive to family to a 4 hour drive, so I'm a little sad & disappointed but I'm fine we've lived in Utah for 3 years now which I can hardly believe but it's become our home & as much as I want to live back on the east coast with my family it would be a little hard to leave here too, it's our first home & I'm so thankful for it. So this Thursday I am very thankful for our home, dogs, & our little family that we have started out here. I'm also thankful for heat as it's freezing cold outside and this weekend calls for snow! I hope you all are having an amazing weekend!,

-Kayla :)

Yummy Beef Stew Recipe

Sorry The quality of the picture isn't very good, I took this with my phone because I didn't have my
camera handy at the time. This recipe turned out so good I had to share, this was actually made from leftovers so I will be sharing my Pot Roast recipe as well, both so simple & delicious! I hope you all enjoy :)..


Pot Roast Recipe

1/2 to 1 Roast depending on size (my favorite cut is the boneless bottom round rump roast)
1 pkg. beefy onion soup mix
2 cups of water
Sea salt & freshly ground pepper
Carrots
celery
small potatoes

I used a 1/2 a roast and still had lots of left over to use for the stew because mine was a beast of a roast :). But if yours is smaller or your feeding more people you may want to use a whole one. Place your roast in the crockpot  & sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. Then add in your carrots and celery (wash first & chop if you like) along with your potatoes, I like to add small ones in whole. Then mix your beefy onion soup mix and 2 cups of water together & pour over everything. Cover & cook on high until tender. Then enjoy your roast!

Beef Stew recipe

Leftovers from potroast (this includes everything veggies & all)
1 pkg beefy onion soup mix
2 cups of water
1 32 ounce container of beef broth
sea salt & pepper to taste (if needed)
Carrots
Celery
1/2 cup of Egg noodles (optional)


Mix together your beefy onion soup mix and water in a large pot then add in your beef broth. Add in your noodles and let come to a boil while you cut up your leftovers and throw into your pot, then I also added in extra carrots and celery because we ate most of the veggies up, Colten REALLY enjoyed the cooked carrots :). You could also add a can of corn, I would have had I thought of it before this soup got devoured everyone loved it including Colten :). Let your soup simmer until noodles are tender and your happy with your flavor, you may or may not want to add salt and pepper, just take a little taste and see! Then your ready to eat! Enjoy!

Hope you all are having a wonderful week!

-Kayla :)

The Best Surprise ever :) ..

I've been MIA from my blog because my family was here for a couple of weeks & Chris was gone on a work trip, but is now back. We have also been keeping busy since he got back, we painted our bedroom and cleaned out our closets which is a much bigger task then I had originally thought it would be. I thought I'd share a few photos with you all of the time spent with my wonderful family. We had the best surprise ever one morning as I was getting ready to clean & Colten was watching veggie tales with grandpa as we got a knock at the door &  my brother and his beautiful wife Andrea were standing at the door! This was a HUGE surprise because they live in Omaha while I live in Utah & no one had any idea they were planning a trip out here! It was a wonderful surprise & I can't thank them enough for it. Andrea has a wonderful blog & posted about this trip please go check out her blog HERE I'm sure you will just Love it! :) I have Andrea to thank for most of these photos!..
 Oh yeah & we got our first snowfall! I'm enjoying watching it come down with a cup of chai tea while I listen to Christmas music :)..
 

I will end this with a cute little video of Colten trying to spin his little wrench like his grandpa <3 p="p">
Hope you enjoyed this little update post & are all having a wonderful day!

-Kayla :)

Apple Pie Bites

I have missed posting regularly on my blog so much, but I will slowly be starting to get back into the swing of things. & I thought this recipe would be a good one to kick off the week with! I shared this recipe over at A Rosie Sweet Home earlier this month & just thought I'd share for any of you that missed it! Hope you all are having a great week & enjoy this recipe!.. This recipe is simple & delicious. I created this recipe after my husband told me of his love for apple pie. I don't know how I missed that he loved apple pie after being married for 3 years but non the less it made me start brain storming ideas on how I was going to make apple pie for him. I had made 1 when we first got married, maybe it wasn't very good & that's why he never said it was a favorite of his lol. But as I thought about it & actually while he was putting our new floor in it came to me, mini apple pies! I could make that! So I went searching for recipes & came up empty handed, oh well time to get my creative juices flowing! & so mini apple pie bites was born :).. I hope you enjoy!

 Ingredients

4 Apples of your choice (Most people like to use a tart apple, but I always prefer to use sweet apples such as Gala which is what I used for this recipe, if you choose a tart one you may want more sugar.)
1-2 packages of Crescent rolls (depending on if you want left over filling to eat by itself because it is really yummy by itself or with ice cream :)
Cinnamon & Brown sugar to taste ( I used about 3 TBS. brown sugar & 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, but taste as you go & stop when your happy with it)
Cinnamon Sugar
Caramel sauce

Chop up your apples, I diced mine because I prefer them that way so they fit the little bites better but you can slice them if you'd like. Then throw into boiling water for just a minute or 2 until tender, drain off most of your water but save some water in the bottom and then pour it all into a pan that is on medium heat. Then start adding in Brown sugar & Cinnamon, you could also add a little honey if you like I suggest adding your sugar slowly so you don't make it overly sweet for your taste. Once your filling is cooked up and you have a little sauce with your apples Grease a cupcake pan & start pushing your crescent rolls into the pan, leaving a little extra hanging over the cup then fill with about 1 TBS of your mixture and pinch it all up. Then you can either pour melted butter or use cooking spray to spritz the tops so they get nice & golden, I just used cooking spray & then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar & bake at 350 till golden brown, around 12 minutes. Once they come out of the oven you can hit them with a little more cinnamon sugar & then drizzle caramel sauce over top, even add some vanilla ice cream if you like & enjoy! These are a great snack, dessert, or perfect for bringing to a gathering. I hope you all enjoy if you try them out!

-Kayla

Thankful Thursday # 5 & a coffe mug swap!

I am so thankful this week for being able to have my family out here to visit :). I don't get to see them very often so this is a real treat for me. I won't be doing much on my blog due to spending time with them, but don't worry I will be back soon! Hope you all are having a great week! I participated in the Coffee Mug swap over at Heatherly Loves . I want to say thank you to Heather for hosting this fun swap! I was lucky enough to swap with the very sweet Pam Fields over at The Best Laid Plans. I'm so glad to have been able to find her wonderful blog through this swap, I hope you will go & check it out :). She sent me a beautiful mug, post card with such a sweet note, & some yummy hot chocolate packets! Thank you so much Pam your mug really made my day! & I hope that you will enjoy your mug as well :). 

I hope that you all have a wonderful week!,

-Kayla :)

A wonderful day out with my boys

Today was a busy day for us, we had a lot to do but first came flying :). Chris has been so anxious to fly this airplane that you see in the picture of above for a while now. We actually went out to fly last night but unfortunately Chris forgot his batteries -opps- & it was getting dark so there was no time to get them. Thankfully today was a beautiful day for flying. Colten is so sweet & wanted to fly SO badly! He didn't want to see the airplane without the transmitter in his hands because he knew he needed it to fly the plane. I just love watching him grow & figure things out. There is no doubt in my mind he will be a great RC pilot just like his father some day :). My family is coming on Monday & Chris leaves on Monday :(. So I will probably be a little MIA for the next 2 weeks. I dont get to see my parents very often & I'm anxious to spend time with them. I will miss Chris a lot & so will Colten we wish he didn't have to travel for work but I'm SO thankful to have my parents help! When you live far from family help with your little ones & time to your self is a very uncommon thing to come by. I hope you enjoy the few pictures & the cute little video of him :)

Thankful Thursday # 4

This week I am so thankful for my husband. I feel so blessed to have married such a wonderful man of God. He is always there for me whenever I need him, my best friend & the love of my life. I'm also so grateful to have a little boy that is just like his daddy. My family means so much to me & I am so thankful to God for blessing me with such a wonderful family. The past couple of days & including today have just been so gorgeous out side. I got this picture & added a bible verse to it, I thought I'd share it with you all..

Have a WONDERFUL Thursday! :),


-Kayla :)

Guest Post over at A Rosie Sweet Home

Hey everyone, I'm guest posting over at A Rosie sweet home today! You can find my guest post > HERE. She is such a wonderful blogger & person & I'm honered to be posting over there today.

                                       

    She has a great series going on right now called Autumn celebrations, go check it out I promise                    you won't be let down!

I'm sharing my recipe for Apple Pie Bites =)

Have a wonderful day!,

-Kayla :)

White Chocolate Mocha

I Found This recipe on Mommy's Kitchen through pinterset & am so glad that I did! This recipe is SO yummy!  A perfect treat for those chilly fall mornings :). I have milk chocolate shavings on mine because I used the last of my white chocolate in the syrup but I have also made this with milk chocolate chips & it's delicious as well.. I"m sure mint chocolate chips or adding some peppermint would be GREAT as well! You can change up this recipe in so many ways & they are all so delicious!

Ingredients

2/3 cup of milk
1/2 cup of white chocolate chips (or milk chocolate, mint chocolate, or even add some peppermint :)
1/2 cup of strong coffee
Whipped cream


Fill a pot with a little water & heat on the stove add a bowl on top to place your ingredients in so you have a double broiler to use for melting this all together. This will just ensure that you won't boil your ingredients & it will melt nicer. Combine everything except the whipped cream and stir until nice and smooth. Top with whipped cream & garnish with whatever you like & ENJOY!

I hope you all are having a wonderful Tuesday!,

-Kayla :)