Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Cutest Halloween Costume Ever

Here's the Halloween costume I finally finished for my little girl. I made the cowprint vest, denim skirt, and the stick horse. The hat is from gymboree (it started the whole idea) and the boots are from target. I think it turned out pretty cute!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Photo Book Deal!

I ran across a great deal and would like to give you the opportunity to get a discounted photo book! It's a website I found called artscow.com and they are just another online photo website. Anyways, they have 30 page photo books for $11.99 where other sites run around $30 for an equivalent book. Great deal if you get the chance. I posted the coupon codes below for anyone to use. They can only be used once so if one doesn't work, use another.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

I created a cutie :)

My Country

My blog is centered upon creating and I can't think of a better thing to talk about than our country. It was created for our freedom. With election day coming up I strongly encourage all of us to research the candidates, congressmen, governors, anyone that's running and VOTE. Be knowledgeable; don't just vote from what you've heard on TV or the radio. My mom sent me a very inspirational clip that the catholic church put on. I thought it was very moving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61wj4tJICcc

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Zoey's Blanket



I was bored one day and decided to make Zoey a blanket. Most of her stuff is very girly (pink, purple, etc.) so this blanket is more fun. It was super easy and though it is far from perfect, I liked how it turned out. --sorry the pictures are bad; I took it with my phone's camera so I could text it to my mom.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Wacky Wallet Wipes


I am selling these wet wipe covers at my etsy store and soon on my own website (cortscouture.com coming soon!) They are so fun to make and pick out colors for.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Wheat Dough

There's a really amazing team of women who go around Utah Valley teaching sisters how to make bread/anything with dough. Their business is called "Pantry Secrets". I learned about them when I attended one of their classes at my mother-in-laws enrichment night. They taught us how to make a really simple and quick recipe for bread dough. With this dough they made pizza, cinnamon twists, bread, breadsticks, raspberry cream cheese braids, and probably more just in that night. Their secret ingredient is called Soy Lethicin which takes place of the oil. Because of this the recipe is also food storage friendly. This was really exciting for me because I really don't know how to use the wheat in my food storage. Now I do! That night they taught us they used bread flour because it has more gluten but they said wheat works good too. I bought a years supply of soy lethicin (it stores forever she says) which only cost me $28! It was really enlightening fore me. Since then my mother in law and I have made a few batches of bread dough both white and wheat and everything has turned out pretty good! We've made pizza's the most and for conference I made cinnamon rolls.

Anyways, I posted some pictures of some pizza I made the other night with wheat dough. The difference this time was that I ground my own wheat (well Andrew did most of it) with a hand grinder and mixed it by hand (Andrew really did help a lot :). So, now I know how to make pizza using my food storage and no electricity! I'll post the recipe and I'll try to describe how to do it but if you want there's a DVD these ladies made you can buy from their site. pantrysecrets.net

Recipe:
10 1/2 cups bread flour or wheat flour
1 T salt
3 heaping Tablespoons of yeast
1/2 cup honey (or you can use sugar)
3 T Soy lethicin (it's too sticky for normal Tablespoons so she just squeezes 3 quarter size blogs into the dough)
3 cups very hot tap water

First you get all your dry ingredients (flour, salt, and yeast)-kitchen aid I've heard can only handle half a batch at a time. A bosch works the best or you can do it by hand like me :)
Then add the soy lethicin and honey and then 3 cups of hot water. Once the 3 cups is mixed in if it looks too dry add more water. The dough consistancy should be pretty soft and easy to work with (softer than normal dough you would make). After all the waters in let it knead (in the bosch or by hand) for five minutes with bread flour and ten with wheat flour. Then the dough is done and ready for whatever you want to make. But I really suggest getting the DVD because it tells you how to make rolls, pizza, desserts, buns, and so much more. It's great. Plus they explain much better how to make the dough.



They had this great idea of making stuffed crust with string cheese! So easy. They just rolled the dough past the edge of the pan and lined it with halves of string cheese and then folded the dough over it. So clever!