Graduation Gift

I saw this Candy Gram pail idea over here.
It was for a teacher! I tweaked it, to give as a graduation gift!

I got the clear paint can at Michael's for $3.99
minus my 40% coupon, which made it even less!

In case you can't read it in the picture:

LOOK at you, SMARTIE pants!

You SKORed high on tests and reached the PAYDAY of graduation.

Don’t listen to SNICKERS, that you are a DUM DUM or NERD,

cuz you are one HOT TAMALE in this MILKY WAY,

on her way to making a 100 GRAND!

Hope your FAST BREAK of summer is MOUNDS of fun!

Lots of KISSES,

HEATHer and family

Cake Pops

My new obsession is cake pops!
OMGosh...they are so fun to make and turn out so super cute!
They are so easy to make too!

Ingredients:
1 box cake
1 can of frosting
lollipop sticks
bag of chocolate melts
sprinkles

Directions: Bake the cake according to box directions.
Once cooled, crumble entire cake in a bowl.
Add can of frosting, stir thoroughly.
Use a cookie scoop to form your balls.
(This way they will all be the same size.)
Freeze for 30 minutes to harden.
Melt chocolate.
Insert sticks into cake ball.
Dip into chocolate and add sprinkles.
Place on parchment paper.
They dry/harden quickly!

I am already dreaming of all the ones I will be making for 4th of July!

Orange Marmalade

A Mentor Mom in our MOPS group at church has several orange trees in her backyard. Every year she invites us over to pick oranges. We filled two whole bags with over 80 oranges...you couldn't even tell that we made a dent, that's how many there are on her trees!

This year with all the oranges, I was determined to make orange marmalade.
It is one of my mom's favorite jams.

Thanks to my good friend Dyanna over at Just Simply Live,
who taught me how to make jams & jellies and to properly can them!

I found my recipe over at Ball Jars website.
I omitted the Chili peppers out of the recipe.

It was a lot of slicing of oranges, but so worth it.
I guess you're supposed to use a mandolin, to make it easier.

Nine families were blessed with Orange Marmalade! :)

Pottery Barn Style Twine Balls

First of all, I found this mosaic style footed bowl at the Salvation Army. They had a ton of these brand new in the box for $2.50! So I needed something to go inside. I had some styrofoam balls and then found some of the kids large bouncy balls. I bought the twine at a home improvement store for $2.74. I hot glued the twine round & round! It ended up being a really nice Christmas gift for my sister! I was really excited about it!

Craft box

Thanks to my friends at eighteen25 , I learned to make these awesome boxes for my two son's teachers for Christmas. I found out that their favorite colors were green and purple. So I filled them with tacks, Hershey kisses, jolly ranchers, paper clips, magnets, pens, stapler, chunky clips, hand sanitizer, note cards, Chapstick, and Sharpie. The teacher's really loved getting these! They were super fun to make too!!!

Thanks to my cricut I was able to cut out all the letters and already had the silk craft flowers to embellish more!