Decorating Your Home

1. Buy marked down flowers and display in vase. Many supermarkets mark down flowers as they age. I have even ran into flowers being sold at Aldi's for $1 a bouquet. Use on the center of a kitchen island, dining room table or even a dresser in your master bedroom for extra ambiance.

2. Decorate with fruit. There are so many colors and shapes to choose from. I have a wrought iron fruit stand in my kitchen, a fruit bowl on my dining room table and this Southern Living compote I keep on the center of my island.

3. Keep it clean. Any home will look instantly better with minimal clutter, sparkling sinks, and clean floors.

Diet Cake

Diet Cake, sounds like an oxymoron.

But it is so good!

This is an old Weight Watchers recipe.

Any flavor of boxed cake mix

Any flavor of diet pop (can)

Mix together (cake mix straight from the box, don't add eggs or oil) and bake at 350 in a greased 9x13 pan supposedly per baking instructions on boxed mix, but it seems like my cake was done way before that.

The variations are endless

Diet Moutain Dew + yellow cake mix

Diet root beer + chocolate cake mix

I made chocolate cake mix + diet cherry Pepsi

and topped it off with fat free whip cream and sugar free Hershey's chocolate syrup

can be seen at http://prairiestory.blogspot.com/

Thrifting Adventures

The table made up with the vintage tablecloth .50 cents, $1 Milk Glass Fruit bowl, and I paid $3 for 8 place settings of milk glass snack plates and cups.












Anchor Hocking Fire King piece fo $1.50 (small chip on side)






Large white platter (small chip) $1.50






Okay, so we went to the Goodwill. They have better clothes than the rest of the thrift shops and my tween girl wanted to check it out. I saw 3 home decor items I would have LOVED to have. Two of them would have been perfect for my dining room redo...but it was just too darn expensive ($7 bucks a piece!). Is that bad that the Goodwill is too expensive for me? Should I get help? A 12 step program maybe?

But the Salvation Army thrift store was great. Half off wednesdays! The prices were great.



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Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie

I use to never make pies, but lately I have been on a pie kick. Especially easy pies like this one.

1 Cup of Sugar

1/3 Cup Baking Cocoa

1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour

Pinch of salt

2 1/4 Cups of Water

1 Tablespoon of Butter

1 Teaspoon of Vanilla Extract

1 Pastry Shell, Baked

Whipped Cream and Chocolate Sprinkles

In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cocoa, flour and salt; gradually add water. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to boil. Cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened.

Remove from the heat; stir in butter and vanilla. Pour into pastry shell. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours before slicing. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.

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