Make-Over Monday... "Back to School" Snack Mix

         Fall is in the air and today is the last big summer type holiday here at the beach. Having been a Teacher for many years and now finding myself with a lot of spare time on the computer I have discovered that I want to munch more, therefore I gain weight fast. So, I thought for today to kickoff our new Annie's Pantry format, we would start out with a fun, new, healthy, "Back to School" snack that is great for all ages. I love this snack both from a teacher and a snacker's point of view. It is very low-cal and totally nut free, its a great snack for the whole family and can be safely taken into the classroom.

Quick & Easy Snack Mix
 Makes:16 (1/2-cup) servings

4 cups air popped popcorn
1 cup raisin bran
2 cups TEDDY GRAHAMS Graham Snacks, any flavor

1 cup diced dried fruit mix (We like the tropical mix)     

MIX all ingredients in large bowl. 

                                                          Store in airtight container or ziplock bag. 

Please feel free to share your Family's favorite "Back to school snack". And to add a little fun for the day...I

challenge you to find inspiration in the colors of your snack and create a "Labor Day" Card to share. When I think of Labor day I think about all the hard working people in the world around me. Today, I was challenged to use an animal in my Labor Day card, so I choose the Elephant!

Just A Pinch of Salt...

At Splitcoast Stampers we started a new Challenge thread entitled "It All Happened In... JUNE!"

Each month this challenge will change, based on the month, to inspire us to celebrate the Month we're in by getting out those pictures for that month, this month it is June....whether we use current, last year or some years ago photos, our goal is to get the month of Scrapped.

This month I choose to have fun on National Donut Day. We celebrated the day with homemade Salted Caramel Donuts.

The second page of the recipe on my layout reads...  

•  Lightly spray pan.And set aside. In bowl shift flour, cocoa , baking soda, and baking powder. Mix in sugar and salt, add in butter using your fingers to blend everything together. In a small bowl, mix egg, buttermilk and vanilla. Then add to flour mix and fold together.
•  Pour batter in donut pan so that it's 1/2 full and bake for 8-10 mins.
•  Once bake take out and cool. After it has cool, drizzle caramel sauce over donuts and sprinkle sea salt and crumbled bacon over the top.

Double Chocolate Fun

Our recipe today was Dori's Double Chocolate Cookies found on page 329 in the "Baking with Julia". Today we decided it would be fun to combine a little crafting and kitchen time together, so for this challenge I made my own Tag Boxes and Tags to go along with the cookies. These are fun little cookie boxes that I made to share with my Stamp Camp Ladies and a few friends from my church to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Love these cookies... simple and sweet goodness that works both as a drop cookie and a rolled freezer cookie. They make great gift or sack lunch cookies because the hold there shape very well and yet stay soft and chewy. We love to dunk them is milk!

Keywords: CCREW1113CF CreativeCrew SUO SUM

Stamps: Turkey Talk

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry,Green Garden, Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: crimper, markers, jute twine, cookies,

Techniques: Tag Box, Gift Box, Tags

"From the Pantry" Challenges..... Nov. 2009

I can't believe it has been a year since we had a "From the Pantry" Crop. I was thinking that this weekend would be a great time to have another round.

SO for Our Challenges today we are going to be saying....

Good-bye to Fall!

To start off with we are going to have a color combo challenge...  Challenge #1- post 178
Next my challenge to you is a Technique Challenge..................... Challenge #2 - post 185
Third is a "Ways to Use It" Challenge involving TAGS................ Challenge #3 - post 189
Fourth Challenge is an Inspirational trip with crafty Terry............. Challenge #4 - post 194
For #5, we "sketched" our way into a Fall Fantasy ..................... Challenge #5 - post 201
Traditional Pantry Format with Recipe included ......................... Challenge #6 - post 204

Keywords are FTPNOV09, 


You can find the gallery at this link.... FTPNOV09

You can find my examples here:
Page LO #1 ...... January Daily 5&6
Page LO #2 ..... Autumn Splendor
Page LO #3 ..... Pumpkins 2009
Page LO #4 ..... Mr. P's Pumkins
Page LO #5 ..... Thanksgiving Dinner 2009
Page LO #6 ..... January Daily 3&4

Card  #1.................. Stamped Fall
Card #2 .................. Smashed Thanks!
Card #3 .................. FTP - Tags
Card #4 .................. Tagged Fall
Card #5 .................. Falling for U
Card #6 .................. Snowy Friends

Prizes will be given in each category!