Category: Crafting

Pie crust

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I decided that I might need to share my grandmother’s recipe for pie crust, as many people will choose this for their Quiche and other recipes that I may share in the future.

This is not a Keto recipe, but you can substitute Almond flour for regular flour, and suddenly, you’re keto again.

Recipe for one crust pie:

1/2 cup Butter Flavored Crisco
1-1/3 cup All purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder

Cut the Crisco into the flour, salt, and baking powder until crumbly.

Add about 4 Tbsp cold water and mix until it all comes together in a ball.

Roll out on a smooth surface a bit larger than your pie plate – so a 9” pie plate needs about 15” circle.

Place the crust in your pie plate, and cut off excess around the edges.

Crimp the edges with your fingers.

Now put whatever you want into the pie shell and bake, usually at 350°F.

Keto Banana Nut Bread

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This is true keto, IMO. Zero sugar and very little of anything with a lot of carbohydrates. Your main carb culprit here is the banana. This time, instead of Xanthen gum, I just upped the amount of Baking Powder, and it worked fine (this time).

Recipe:
3 large bananas
2 XL EB eggs
1 cup Lakanto Golden Monk fruit
2-1/2 cups Almond Flour.
1 Tbsp Baking Powder
1 tsp kosher salt
1/3 cup heavy cream
3 Tbsp coconut oil
1/2 cup chopped pecans (or whatever nut you prefer)

Smash the bananas with a fork inside your mixing bowl.
Add the eggs, Monk fruit, oil, and cream and blend well.
Add the dry ingredients, saving the nuts for last.

Pour into a 9×5 loaf pan that has been well greased or sprayed with non-stick coating, and bake 60 minutes at 325°F. Turn the oven off, and allow the bread to cool IN THE OVEN for a couple of hours – this allows it to set, and keeps you from cutting into it too soon, lol!

This should have 12-13 slices, and the carb count per slice would be about 12-13 grams per slice, 164 grams in the entire loaf.

Enjoy!

An Easter Card for 2021

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This is my first Easter Card this year! I really enjoyed making this – started last night, playing around with the daffodil, and then today I got several new sentiment die cuts in the mail, and one of them was the “Happy Easter” you see here. I think part of the reason I love this die cut, is because it almost looks like my actual handwriting! (Weird, huh!?)

So anyway, Heartfelt Creations came out with some new paper called (aptly enough) Delightful Daffodil. I should’ve bought two packs, the paper is that gorgeous! Luckily, I will be able to purchase a second pack when I place my next big order (I love the free shipping you get if you spend over $100).

Anyway, where was I? Ah yes, this collection is designed with no real dimensional flowers, so I had to create my own. This was a couple weeks of frustration, but I have finally come up with the magic, as you can see below.

Here’s the front.
How do you like the dimension on those daffodils? Even the hyacinths are
“off the page”
And here’s the inside.

The inside image is one of their stamps, which I cut out after coloring, to place beside the mini-message.

Easter is a time of Miracles, after all.

Cards Flat Enough for Mailing

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This is not my favorite kind of card to create, simply because you can go buy a flat card even at the dollar store.

However these are very pretty images, and I certainly put some time into the water coloring and die cutting of the images.

This one is a mix of a lot of the flat flowers that HFC has produced, and although it’s not that spectacular, I do feel these 2-D images are great for grading the INside of our cards, where our more personal messages go.

A Friendship Card

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This is a little off my usual, especially as I used flowers from my stash, that I bought, long ago before I learned how to make my own. Anyway, it’s a take off of something I must’ve seen somewhere, using Graphic 45 “Bloom” papers. Beneath the green stripes there is an “inside” as well, for a more personal message.

A Gateway Card with Daffodils and a New Butterfly

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This is a simple card, and basically flat enough for mailing. I used Heartfelt Creations gateway dies as a template for my base, and cut the vibrant blue from the Regal Lattice Gateway die, as well as the bottom part of the butterfly. I have some pale green behind the lattice, to set the flowers off better.

The arch of daffodils and spray in the center were each cut straight from the paper pack (hard to beat perfection!) I added some organza ribbon near the bottom, and silver card stock for the top of the butterfly. Inside I have a sentiment I also die cut out of silver; and I stamped directly onto the card stock the same image, just mirrored. These were colored using my Zig Clear Color brush markers.

Hidden Pocket Cards

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These cards were sort of copied from cards I saw on the Heartfelt Creations Facebook page.

This first one is using their Wild Roses paper, which I think may be my all time favorite of their papers! Also, it is extremely difficult to mess up on making the Wild Rose.

The second card is using their Calla Lily paper…….I just love the swans! I’m not so enamored of Calla Lilies, but the artwork is just beautiful.

Each of these has a hidden little pocket for a gift card, the best part!

I hope you enjoy, and feel inspired to duplicate this on your own!

Steampunk Mini-Album

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It’s been quite a while since I made a Mini-Album, not sure if this was due to some depression from the Pandemic, because I have several Mini-Album already (gathering dust, instead of photographs, lol!) or if it was simply because I hadn’t come across any new paper that just “spoke” to me. This is an album I plan on keeping, and plan on filling with photos of my family demonstrating their “daring do”.

I have a need inside myself, to not be remembered as some old lady who sat in a chair crocheting baby blankets, but rather as a person who took life by the horns, and lived! So this album will be full of those kind of photos, and not just of me, but of my husband and kids, and some of our adventures.

I hope you enjoy this mini-album, and are inspired to make not only your own album, but to have adventures, and experience the joys of this life!

If you click on the link, you’ll be taken to a little walkthrough video: youtu.be/FRKXUa-TEdM