No-Carb Meringue Cookies

That's right, you heard me, NO CARB!

These little guys are just about amazing, and a great

snack to curb that sweet tooth.

Ingredients:

4 egg whites

1 pk. sugar free jello

vanilla extract

Prep: Preheat oven to 225 and line 2

baking sheets with aluminum foil and spray them

with non-stick butter (we use Kroger brand :) 

Add the vanilla (as much as you want, i usually

pour from the bottle and count "1 one thousand"

to your bowl of egg whites.

mix until bubbly.

Then gradually pour in the jello mix while

mixing. Continue on until you have stiff peaks

in your meringue.

Now the fun part!

If you have an icing bag set you can certainly use that;

however if you don't just fill up some sandwich baggies

and cut the tip off one corner of the bag.

(that's how i roll!)

you will need about 5 baggies.

its easier to get new ones, than re-fill a used one.

squeeze out the meringue in little Hershey kiss

like drops onto your baking sheets.

you can make them larger if you like.

 Place one sheet on the bottom/middle rack and

the other on the top/middle rack in the oven and

cook for about 45 min. cook for 1 hour if you

make them thicker and fatter.

and TA DA!! you have some no carb yummy cookies!!

My fave. jello flavor to use is Raspberry.

This recipe makes about 200 bite size cookies,

but believe me, they will not last long.

We have yet to make them last more than 24 hrs!

Happy Low-Carb Eating everyone!

Progression

can i just say that i am really kicking ass on this one?!

HA! it is moving right along. my goal for

tomorrow is to begin piecing the top.

"dun dun dun" that is the 2nd scariest part.

quilting is the most scary.

oh, and not to brag, but i went to a quilt

shop today with friends, and didn't buy a thing!

i know, right?! not one thing.

i am so proud of myself. :) 

i need to bounce back from all that

holiday spending. don't we all!?

hows it going out there yall?

TMI & a snow day!

here is some personal (and pathetic) info on me...

"My name is magoo and i <3 stuffed animals."

yes, i am pushing 30.... what is ur point?!

so valentines crap as taken over the world already,

and i saw this little guy at wally world last week

and the hub got it for me! (or rather i pouted and 

he got it for me)! i guess i really am 7! lol.

turns out i'm not the only "woman" i know....

there are 2 at work and one of the guys wife! and

they are all older than me, so there!

"there are dozens of us!" <- quote from Tobias

from arrested development. best. show. ever.

so enough stupid crap! :)

on to the snow day!!!!  YAY!!!

(this really isn't helping me to convince you that i am not 7)

i have been working like mad on my new project.

i actually spent the whole day Sat. (like 8 am to 8 pm)

sewing! now thats what i call a saturday!

as you can tell, it is snowing here :)

we shut down work early so i get to play 

for the rest of the day. woot woot!

Have a great snow day!

I'm Back , Baby!

(look at that, an "inside" picture :)

so ya know how i was starting a new project

every 5 min. there for a while, and then i just

quit due to lack of motivation?

Those days are behind us now!

after i finished the place mats i had such

a need to jump into something else.

So while i am working on 2 designs that i

have created i will also be working on a quilt from

Baker's Dozen. can you guess which?

i wanted to start it a while back out of my

misc. batiks that i have collected but i didn't

have enough.... mom got me a wally world

gift card and i cashed it in for a batik "jelly roll".

well, i went from not having enough to having just

enough in just the jelly roll! so i still have

batik that just gets to sit and be pretty :)

and i am ok with that!

I wanted to say HEY! and welcome my new

friends Bizzy and Donna! thanks so much

for stopping by and joining in the madness :)

anyone else starting anything new?

(yall know my questions aren't rhetorical, right?

i'd love to hear about your quilty adventures!)

"phone-ing it in"

yep, i'm calling it done!

i was planing on doing crochet around the edges,

but because the place mats were a different size

from the crochet instruction i had it didn't work out

quite right. but they are just as pretty without :)

if i could take a decent picture inside my house,

you could see how cute my table is with the 

<3 candle holder and red/white/pink candle.

no matter how bright it is, the flash always

goes off and bleaches out everything.

(especially since my table is white)

i like natural light.

it shows the true beauty of things.

and i did in fact make 4 of them!

i just couldn't fit them all on the

coop "window". :) promise!

hope yall are stayn' warm and

having a gr8 weekend!

Women and their dishes

guess who got new dishes?!

our old dishes are square

(like the shape, as well as uncool!)

and hub has an awful h8red for them

and i am in "house update" mode

so i made up my mind to get new dishes.

i got these beauties at Marshal's.

i <3 Marshal's & TJ Max. 

they clothe me and keep my house 

looking awesome.

so they hub is all "but i still have all my old dishes"

to which i responded "but they're not pretty"

and he is puzzled by the fact that i must have

pretty dishes when we have perfectly

fine dishes that will do the job.

yall feel me don't you ladies?!

i mean, look at how cute this is?!

don't you just want to fill one of these

up with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup?

man i can't w8 till summer time and

adkins time to take a break so i can

break these in properly!

anyone coming over for ice cream in a few month!?

oh, and ps, don't think i will have much time

to work on those placemats today.

i put a foundation stitch on one, now just

need to get back in the crochet mode.

So far So good

believe it or not (which i don't even believe it)

i have finished all the place mats! well, in theory.

in one day i had all the pieces cut, sewn, and pinned 

up with backing and batting, and even ironed

all the binding strips! Then on Sunday i

quilted them and binded them.

they call me speedy!

so while a normal person would mark this

project off as complete, i have one more trick up

my sleeve that i wanna add. i kinda started that

last night. i have Wed. off so maybe i'll get one

100% complete.

I am excited to be ahead of schedule, but

i best not count my chickens!

oh, and p.s., this is my 101 post!

my goal way back when was to

have lots of followers and have 

a give-away for my 100 post.....

here to a new goal in 2011!

anyone have any secrets for getting followers?

perhaps i could aim for my 150th post.....

hows yalls week been so far?

I lied

So i did finish my sample block for my Dream On Project,

but this came to me in a dream...well actually

the time between waking up and actually

forcing yourself to get up :)

making some <3 decor for the hizou.

come next year, i will officially have quilty 

decor for each holiday/season for the house.

I already have spring covered thanks to a 

beautiful table runner from my gurl Delia

from a swap we did last year.

She sent me some of the left over fabric, so

i will have to get busy on placemats

to match . anyhow, i am having some

old friends over for game nite in a few weeks

so i wanna have my table ready!

i'm actually gonna make 4!, count them, 4!

place mats just for their company!

yall should know by now that i am a

lazy ass and only do 2 mats.

we never have people over and only 1 set

of friends so why bother?! :)

Here's to another eventful week of sewing and

keeping a clean house.

(a cleaner house at all times is my resolution,

boy, do i have my work cut out for me!)

New Obsession

yeah, i'm a little behind the times.

i got some old quilt mags from a friend and saw

this ad and about passed out! unfortunately the mag

was from 2008, but there is still some of this out there!

ebay, how i love you. so my new fave is Tanya Whelan.

check her out. i love every single thing she's done.

i wish she would move over to moda so that i can

get layer cakes and download all her swatches

for EQ. but i will have to drool from afar.

i found a few sweet deals on etsy..... i just

may have to splurge today ;)

days off and Internet at home are bad juju.

I have gotten tons accomplished today, tho!

Fixed a bunch of gnarly screw holes in the walls,

put up new curtains, cleaned a butt load

(not that you can actually tell it!)

and finally put up these little guys:

a guy that the hub works with gave him these 2

chicken hanger things. i painted them white, of course.

really gives the kitchen some umph.

that's right, my kitchen is lime green.

did you expect something else?!

when i moved in 6 years ago, that was the very

first thing i did. went out the next day and got

me some lime green paint for the kitchen!

i had been planing on that before i even ordered

the house! (its a modular)

so how is every one's new year turning out so far?

oh! p.s. this is my next project:

 

i am cranking out the math for my pattern.

lol, who are we kidding here?

yall know i make my hub do the math!

and does anyone know why Moda didn't have

swatch files, or even list Dream On on their site?

it makes me sad cuz this collection is AWESOME!

If your out there Urban Chicks, This is one of my

favorite collections right now! Keep up the good work :)

Crafty Face Lift

 

can you believe that this is my craft room?

or at least was! This mess forced me and my machine out

into the living room...and this became the catch-all.

i couldn't take it anymore so after Christmas i re-arranged.

this is the same shot after. all my things VW. i am running out of room.

is it wrong that i wanna box all this up and spread my craft

wall to the whole room? I am growing up. :(

"Craft wall" Before.

"Craft wall" after! <3

mmmmmm..... moda

i love this so much!

chickens are an important part of the creation process.

that on the bottom there, are original feed sacks from my mom.

i love them so much, i just can't bring myself to make them

part of a project.

I can't w8 to create something in here! i love

the nice clean feeling.

even the hub keeps telling me how nice it looks, and

that its just like a store. :) of course he did help

with the shelf hanging. that crap was heavy.

i have had the flu this past week, so i haven't

had any energy to create, but i will soon!

i am on the mend! all thats left is the cough.

Hope yall are well and got those flu shots! :)

hows those resolutions coming along?