Saturday, May 15, 2010

Another giveaway that I missed...

Heart and Home is giving away so much fun stuff this week. She started off with a $30store credit from Gussy!! Awesome!! I especially love the adorable laptop bags! So cute!!

Enter for a chance to win!! I did!!

So fun!

My friend Ashleigh is giving away some more fun stuff! This time it's a cool camera strap from SheyB. Check her other items out here!! So cute! I especially love the Couture one! Adorable!!!
Anywho, check out the giveaway at Heart and Home. Fun stuff!!

Friday, May 14, 2010

Another fun Giveaway...

Asleigh is giving away another adorable gift! This time it's from an adorable company called The Pleated Poppy.
She makes to most adorable little flowers to go on anything... headbands, aprons, pins, zippered pouches... Adorable!!!

Check out Heart and Home for more details on how you can win!!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Day 3 of Heart and Home Giveaway

My friend from Cali is doing a Giveaway all week long. Today, she is giving away a special laundry soap, called HopeSuds, from Lora Lynn. There are so many good things about this soap...
1. It's all natural
2. It has a fresh, sweet citrus scent
3. It cleans wonderfully
4. Most importantly, 100% of the proceeds going to raise money for the Lynns who are on the journey to adopting a little one from Uganda. Then, it doesn't stop there... When they are finished raising their funds, they are going to go on to raise money for others wanting to give children loving families.

A lot of you don't know this, but for some time, I have been thinking about adoption. It just breaks my heart to think of children out there, that will never have a family to call their own. Never have a birthday celebration. Never sit around the Christmas tree drinking hot chocolate with their families. When the time is right, when God's timing is right... maybe someday.

Check out Heart and Home to enter her giveaway!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

New Discovery!!!!

One of my friends, Ashleigh, is hosting a giveaway of some seriously gorgeous jewelery from Lisa Leonard. Check out her beautiful work here. Go to Ashleigh's blog and you can have a chance to win a $50 gift certificate from Lisa's line. I hope I win!!!:

Monday, May 10, 2010

Gooey Cinnamon Rolls


For all of you, whose mouths were watering, the other day, here's the recipe for the gooey cinnamon rolls that I make. I have used a standard recipe that I have found here and tweaked it a bit. Here's how...

I kept the bread machine ingredients and recipe the same, but when it came to the filling, I spread a stick of softened butter on my rolled out dough. Then, I sprinkled about a cup of sugar over the dough. Then rolled it up, and sliced.

Now for the gooey part...
In a saucepan, over medium heat mix...
1 cup of brown sugar
1 stick of butter
6 Tablespoons of light corn syrup

Bring just to a boil, and then turn off. Pour into your greased baking dishes BEFORE you lay the cinnamon rolls in. ** This part is important-- Add only about 1/4 inch of goo in the pans, or it will bubble out and you will have a horrible mess!** Then, bake as the recipe says, until light golden brown. I should also add, this recipe works best with glass pie plates. When they have baked the appropriate time, take out, lay a glass dinner plate over the pie plate and VERY CAREFULLY flip and let goo run over the top of the rolls. Be very careful, as the goo is extremely hot!

Let cool and eat! If you are wanting to freeze them-which they hold up well- just wrap the gooey side on wax paper and slide into a gallon freezer bag. Another reason the pie plate is a great size to bake these with!!

Hope you enjoy them!!!

Curriculum

I absolutely love Charlotte Mason and her philosophy on education! The following are just a few on the wonderful tools that will use in our school year, using her methods:

Heart of Dakota: Little Hearts For His Glory
Heart of Dakota: Little Hands To Heaven
A Reason For Handwriting K
Singapore Earlybird Math 2A and 2B
The Reading Lesson
How Great Thou Art
God Made Kindermusic
Alpha Omega Horizons Health