Mexican Cornbread

This is a great recipe to make for your family or to take to a "covered dish dinner". The amount listed here is for an 8-inch square glass baking dish, but this recipe is easily doubled for a 9X13 dish (I still use one pound of meat, just double everything else).


The onions & peppers are optional. I always leave them out & it still has plenty of flavor.

If you have leftovers, cover it & put it in the refrigerator. It still tastes great after reheating it in the microwave. Enjoy!

This One's For Me!

I finally made myself a purse. Good advertising wherever I go, right?
Start with a few of these:



My favorite color is purple, but I wanted a bit of variety, too. Here is how I laid it out:

As always, click for more detail & to read what these arrows say!

Here is one side, stitched together:

I used clear thread, tricky, huh?

Here is the side & one end, together:

The other end:

The layout again, but each of the pieces are sewn together:

Figure out how wide your sides are going to be & overlap the pouches for the bottom, to fit:







Inside view of the bottom section:

What do you give a horse with a cold? Cough stirrup!

The assembled product:









Add a handle:



Make it pretty:



Click to read the instructions on this one:

All done!

More Capri Sun Fun

I worked on this post for several HOURS over the course of several DAYS. It was part two of the post below & it showed how the bag was finished. I had some trouble loading the (twenty or thirty-some-odd) pics into the post & even got one of my friends with high speed internet to upload them for me & then I just put the codes in to make them appear. I got them all arranged & all the instructions typed out during one of the Mavs Finals games. It was all very cute, informative, & funny. When I clicked on publish, it took me to a sign in screen. Then it took me to the "create a new post" screen. The post I had just finished was GONE!

I was quite upset, after putting so much time & effort into it, so I gave up on it for a while. I'll put the photos back up here sometime, but I just don't have the patience right now.

If you have a long & photo heavy post drafted up, click over to the HTML side & copy & paste that whole code into notepad or wordpad & save it....lesson learned the hard way!