All Things Fee: 04/01/2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Calling All Crafters: 57th Edition

**Don't forget this Wednesday is Craft Night!

Save any Magazine crafts for Wednesday's link party!**

Welcome to Calling All Crafters!

A place where you can share your craftiness!

This week I am loving...
(Seriously, I almost featured 4 or 5 of you! Keep the great crafts coming!)

Sew Fantastic's
Paint Chip Calendar
(I love dry erase calendars, and paint chips! Perfect!)

AND

Accidently Wonderful's
Baked Buffalo Chicken Dip
(I've been wanting to make! And now the recipe fell into my lap! No more excuses!)

AND

The Creative Paige's
Simple Spring Printable
(Is it not perfect?!?)

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Here are the "rules":

I want YOU to stop on by, and share what you are up to, cooking, cleaning, crafting, you name it!

If your not a follower, please become one, this let's me easily find and visit your blog too!
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(we are so close to 150 likes on Facebook! When we hit 150 there will be a little surprise for all of you!)

Tell your friends!

Come back next week to see if your great idea has been featured!

Friday, April 27, 2012

Lifesavers Series: Dried Out Baby Wipes

Just another tip to save you some time, money and some frustration!

Please tell me I am not the only person who finds open packages of wipes, after they are dried up?

I have a terrible habit of throwing wipes in the car, forgetting they are there, throwing in another package and then I have found two or three in there all dried up. Boo.

Not anymore! I used to just wet them, and they were okay. But this recipe makes them feel just like new!

Or if you are out, it tells you how to make some from paper towels!

2 cups water, 2 tbsp. Baby shampoo, and 1 tbsp baby oil.

(This makes quite a bit, so I just poured a little in each package until they were back to normal)

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Whatcha Making?

I've started my magazine craft for Craft Night!

Have you?

Not sure what I am talking about?

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Back to Banana... Bread.

Last week I asked over on facebook what you all do bananas, other than banana bread.

Julie shared this link, with tons of ideas.

While some looked super yummy, I went for easy.

I baked a loaf or two of banana bread.

But last year I used a recipe (my recipe was similar to this) from a friend.

Here's the recipe from last night's batch!

1 3/4 c flour

2/3 sugar

2 tspns baking powder

1/2 tspn baking soda

1/4 tspn salt

1 c mashed banana

1/3 butter, or margarine, or shortening

2 tblspn milk

2 eggs

Mix dry ingredients, then wet. Mix all together. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.

I've also used this recipe (my recipe was similar to this, not exact) from a friend.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Calling All Crafters: 56th Edition

Welcome to Calling All Crafters!

A place where you can share your craftiness!

This week I am loving...

The Pless Press's
Enchiladas with Sour Cream
(LOVE enchiladas, but I only make them from a box! It may be time to switch it up!)

AND

Lady with the Red Rocker's
Magnetic Necklace Change Up
(I need this! It would cure a lot of castoffs!)

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Lifesavers Series: Homemade Cooking Spray

Just another tip to save you some time, money and frustration!

Am I the last person on earth to learn about this?

To make your own cooking spray, you need a spray bottle, 5 parts water and 1 part oil!

Seriously. That's it.

Just make sure you shake every time you go to use it.

Wow, another item I won't have to purchase!

And just think of the oils you could use. Olive, Canola, Vegetable, Peanut. You name it, you can use it!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

A Mabel's Labels surprise!

Don't you love a good surprise in the mail? Me too!

And that's exactly what I got over the weekend.

Isn't it adorable? Mabel's Labels sent this to me!

I've gotten Labels for Carter, and some business cards too!

The labels are great! I've washed them in the dishwasher on Carter's cups and they haven't peeled or faded! And I love the quality of my business cards too!

Now I just have to order some labels for Wyatt!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I'm co-hosting Craft Night!

I've teamed up with Kari from

and we are hosting a Craft Night!

It's our way to gather up our blog friends and create!

Want to join in on the fun?

It's simple!
Just make something out of magazines, and link up to the link party on May 2nd!
I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Are you in? Want to tell your friends?
Here's a button to show your in!

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

A Garden Map

Last year I planned my garden like this. And while it worked I never really looked back at it. I just picked when it looked like it was time to!

This year I wanted to really work on spacing. I felt like I always left way to much space between my plants and it was a waste. I have a pretty large garden 12ft x 16ft and I don't use it as effectively as I could.

But this year will be different! Especially after I was introduced to Square Foot Gardening (SFG)!

Now, I do not plan on building the boxes like they suggest, but I do plan on making a couple grids (Hopefully I can share soon!) to help plan where to plant and how much!

After reading up on SFG, I measured out how big my garden was and made a map in Excel.

Then I decided what I would grow. With a few requests here and there I had a plan. Here is what it looks like!

To left of my garden, are my plants that are already there. My garlic and rhubarb. So those are a given. But figuring out the rest took a while to figure out. For example my tomatoes, I know that last year they were on the left so this year they should be on the right.

See the three plants that are going to be on an angle? The reason for the funny placement is there is a piece of funny blacktop there that would be so hard to remove so I work around it. I'm hoping this year to add a compost tumbler there! (Hopefully more on that later this spring!)

See the "key" on the right? The numbers are how many plants can fit in one square foot! Isn't that neat? You can fit 16 beets, carrots or radishes in one 12 inch square! Crazy right?

That's my plan for my garden! Have you thought about yours?

I have some seeds started, but not much luck. I try every year with little success and end up buying in the end anyway!