A GREAT time at BACKWOODS FEST!!! Picture Overload....

Well it sure was a great weekend and a great time at the Backwoods Festival located in Thornville, Ohio. My mom,hubby's aunt, his cousin, and I all went to the Backwoods Festival. It was soooo much fun!!! All the good food, crafts, music, was all WONDERFUL!! Great demonstrations too-making of wooden spoons, brooms, with your option to buy one too. I saw so many handmade items- ornaments, candles, wood crafts, pictures,so on.......... I bought a few things including the scarecrow you will see in my pictures below. I have to admit I stopped at the candy booth, cookie booth, and sure had some wonderful sweet treats. Not good on the weight area but really good in my belly:) We listen to some great music, including a couple young kids playing their banjos, and a very talented man playing flute type music from handmade instruments he makes. Their was great food too, handmade vegetable soup in fresh made bread bowls( the soup was made over open fire), fried green tomatoes, handmade root beer floats, calzones, fried bologna and eggs and potatoes, cream puffs, fish, you name it I bet the had it:)Ready for next year!!! Well I just wanted to share some pictures with you from the festival.....and thanks for stopping by......

Pictures of the entertainment........and last but not least a picture of me and my mom............

Halloween Party on the CHEAP!!!

Last year for Halloween I allowed my daughter to have a HALLOWEEN party, and with the economy and all last year, I told her we would have one but we would have to have a reasonable limit and stick to it. She really wants to have another one this year, so we will see. I am happy to show you some of the party highlights from last year, alot of the props were purchased at Dollar Zone a Dollar store we had in our area. Also from Dollar General, all paper plate, napkins were from Dollar Tree and we had a cake made with a hand coming out of the ground you gotta see that!!! We made a great lil party, had hot dogs we roasted, and chips, and orange sherbert punch, which was AWESOME!!! All the girls got a pumpkin to decorate which was bought at pumpkin patch for 2 dollars each, can't complain:) Candy and the cutest handmade treat bags made from paper brown bags with some material glued onto the small bags were made and each gal got to fill her bag with candy from our lil candy buffet we had, so each girl took home their pumpkin they painted and their candy bags.We came up with some fun games too. I had a special prize for the best dressed costume too:) We will see about having another party this year, but I have to admit last years sure was FUN!!!!

New Shoe Rack, For All Our Shoes= Happy Mom:)

I was getting so upset with the ever mounting lot of shoes our family has. MOST are my teenage daughters shoes! I got tired of tripping on shoes, the way they just laid around on the floor all scattered. So I began looking for a shoe rack. Something nice and not to Cheap looking, and BUDGET friendly. I looked and looked and they had the wire white ones, the tacky over the door ones, that never seem to hold up I have tried them before, shoe boxes, and white particle looking wood storage racks. Well I came across this one and from the options I had to choose from, I actually liked this one. It is a brown frame with a light brown material, that is easy to assemble and really fits into modern day decor. I like the material and the colors, and it is different than the old same ole same ole type shoe rack. But I needed SOMETHING and on the CHEAP. This was 23.99 I believe and I got it from Wal Mart. Trust me I had seen others I liked in magazines and online but way out of my PRICE range. So I settled for this, and I put my Thirtyone items on top the rack for storage, and its colors match into the colors of the shoe rack. So I am a HAPPY MOM right now, NO more shoes everywhere just in the rack. Thanks for reading my rambling, and as always I love all my followers, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for following along here at my blog:) Happy Day All!!!!!!

Homemade Cheesy Sourcream Potatoes. YUMMY!!!

I wanted to share a recipe for some homemade chessy sourcream potatoes. I made my family this weekend, and they are a big hit at our home, and family get togethers. My family always ask me to make them. I quess thats a good thing:) They are all wanting me to make my Reeses's Peanut Butter fudge too. I got a few hints thrown about making some of that too:) This potatoe recipe is a lil time consuming and Very fattening ...lol... All that cheese and sour cream:) Here is the recipe I like to make a large batch.... 5 lb bag of potatoes 2 cans cream of chicken soup 1 cup milk 2 cups mild cheddar cheese 2 cups sour cream ......First cut and dice your potatoes and boil, boil untill softened not falling apart because I bake them a lil too.... During the boiling process of your potaotes take a medium saucepan and add the 2 cans of cream of chicken soup, 2 cups mild cheddar cheese, and 1 cup milk....Mix all together untill it becomes a cream mixture and then add 1 cup sour cream and mix real well, and them add the second 1 cup of sour cream...Mix untill all blended.... Take and put softened potatoes in large glass pan, spread out... then pour cream mixture over top of poatoes, cook in oven at 350 for like 20 minutes, untill the potatoes are nice and soft, and mixture blends into potaotes...Remove from oven, stir...... Then let cool, and ENJOY:)!!!!

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