Here is my latest craft. I have been wanting to cover a bulletin board for years, but just never got around to it. I saw a picture the other day and it inspired me. So I went to my parents, found some left over fabric and ribbon and voila!

Our New Apartment

Finally some pictures of our new place! I took these before we moved everything in so it looks pretty empty. We do have furniture! Once I get everything organized and cleaned up, I'll take some more pictures and post them on here. Sorry, these are all kinda out of order!

This is the hallway leading from the kitchen to the bedrooms and bathroom.

The nice big closet in our bedroom!
A look at our bedroom from the doorway.
The second bedroom, which is our library/TV room.
The lovely, small bathroom.
Our wonderful, huge living room (huge to me!).
Part of the kitchen.
China Cupboard, which is more like a pantry.
The Kitchen and we have a dishwasher! I am really excited about that.
The breakfast bar in between the living room and kitchen.
The view from the living room porch. Beautiful!
And we have a fireplace in the living room.
View of the living room from the entryway.

Roasted Potatoes with Rosemary

Man, it seems like forever since I've been on here! Moving sure takes up a lot of time. :) Thankfully it went extremely well. Our "20 -30 Something Year Old" Community Group helped us move out one night and it sure was a blessing! Almost everything got moved that night and we celebrated by eating pizza and some yummy cookies. Now I am finding out that the hard part is reorganizing and deciding where to store everything...... still working on that. But I have had time to try out some new recipes and they have all turned out pretty well. Except for the Yogurt Baked Chicken, sounds weird but I thought it would be good and it didn't taste as good as I had hoped. :( Tonight I made Roasted Potatoes with Rosemary. My mom had a bunch of Better Homes & Gardens magazines that she wanted to get rid of, so I went through them and cut out pictures of decorations, food, and house ideas (which I love doing!). I found this recipe in there and thought it looked delicious! And it turned out very yummy and very easy! So here is the recipe, in case you want a taste. :)

Roasted Potatoes with Rosemary

Makes 4 Servings

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cooking Time: 35 minutes

3 Tablespoons Olive Oil

1 Tablespoon Chopped Fresh Rosemary

1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Powder

Salt & Pepper, to taste

2 Potatoes, cut in half or fourths

(red skin, Yukon Gold, fingerling)

Heat oven to 425 degrees F. Coat 15x10 inch baking sheet with no-stick spray. Stir together oil (I used Vegetable Oil, cause I didn't have any Olive Oil), rosemary (again, I used dried, because I didn't have any fresh), garlic powder, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Add potatoes. (now I used small red potatoes because that is what I have right now. I believe I used about 4-5, enough to fill in the pan.) Toss well until coated. Spread evenly in prepared pan. Bake 30-35 minutes, stirring occasionally until potatoes are fork-tender and golden brown.

I found this picture on their website so that you could see how yummy and mouth watering this recipe is! If you make it, I hope you enjoy it!

Moving!

Yes, it's true.... we're moving! Sure it's only ten minutes away, but I am super excited. It'll be hard to leave our cute little cottage, but our new place will be just as comfortable when we get all moved in. Here's what we are leaving behind, hopefully to another deserving couple.

Creamy Chicken Casserole

I got this delicious recipe from a friend, Cheri, at a recipe swap. I finally made it last night and we enjoyed it a lot! It is a little rich, but still very yummy. So here's the recipe and how I made it.

6 chicken breast

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 8oz package cream cheese

1 Tbls poppy seeds (optional, I didn't have any so I didn't add those)

1 1/2 cups crushed round buttery crackers (I used Ritz Crackers)

1/4 cup melted butter.

First, I defrosted the chicken, cut it in to bite size pieces and then cooked it in a pan over the stovetop. While the chicken was cooking, I melted the cream cheese and mixed it with the cream of chicken soup (here is where you would add the poppy seeds). After the chicken was done, I added it to the cream cheese/cream of chicken soup mixture and mixed it all up. Next I spooned it into a lightly greased 9x13 pan. I then crumbled up about half a bag of Ritz Crackers into a measuring cup, added the melted butter, mixed it all up and then sprinkled it up over chicken. I baked it at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. It came out all bubbly and smelling delicious! And here's how it looked when it was done!

Valentine's Day

Eli gave me these beautiful roses for Valentine's Day!
These are called Blush Roses and are absolutely gorgeous!
After working all week, it was wonderful to come home and find these flowers, a box of chocolates and rose petals all over awaiting me. My husband is so romantic! We then went to dinner with some friends and had a wonderful time. A nice relaxing ending to a hard week. :)

P.S. I am drying the rose petals and am going to make potpourri out of them. I'll post the recipe if it turns out well.

Dried Flower Wreaths

Here are some wreaths I made at work. After funerals we offer to dry flowers from the arrangements and then put them into wreaths for the desceased's family. We had a big funeral a few months back and we just finally finished them up and here's how two of them came out!

First Wreath: Blue Hydrangea, White Roses, Purple Carnations, White Carnations, Purple Limonium (sp), White Japanese Asters, White Status, Purple Status and Silvery/Black ribbon on a Natural Wood Wreath.

Second Wreath: Blue Hydrangea, White Roses, Purple Status,

and Purple Ageratum on a Natural Wood Wreath