I am happy to be joining Amy from Love Made My Home for her Five on Friday Series.
I'm taking five minutes of my day to share five things:
Today I'm sharing some things that I love about the summer!
1) I love refreshing drinks during the summer such as the ice tea at Panera Bread. It's one of my favorite ways to cool off when it's hot outside.
2) I'm so grateful for our summer vacation I just had with my family to sunny California. We just got back yesterday and once I'm all settled in I will be sharing with you photos and more about the vacation.
Here are two photos that I'm sharing with you from our trip. If you follow me on INSTAGRAM then you will recognize these photos. I hope you will join me on Instagram to follow along!
I just love California and the sunny warm weather!
3) I love summer and grilling food and BBQ's and not having to use the oven as much when cooking dinner or entertaining friends and family. I made grilled corn and the recipe to make it was so easy. I will share this with you soon.
4) I am enjoying my container gardening and growing tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, mint, basil, lavender, and edamame (they are beans in a pod) and it's my first time growing edamame beans. I love having a small garden to tend too.
5) My family and I are looking forward to visiting and spending time at my mothers beautiful home and beach for the summer.
I'm taking five minutes of my day to share five things:
Today I'm sharing some things that I love about the summer!
1) I love refreshing drinks during the summer such as the ice tea at Panera Bread. It's one of my favorite ways to cool off when it's hot outside.
2) I'm so grateful for our summer vacation I just had with my family to sunny California. We just got back yesterday and once I'm all settled in I will be sharing with you photos and more about the vacation.
Here are two photos that I'm sharing with you from our trip. If you follow me on INSTAGRAM then you will recognize these photos. I hope you will join me on Instagram to follow along!
I just love California and the sunny warm weather!
3) I love summer and grilling food and BBQ's and not having to use the oven as much when cooking dinner or entertaining friends and family. I made grilled corn and the recipe to make it was so easy. I will share this with you soon.
4) I am enjoying my container gardening and growing tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, mint, basil, lavender, and edamame (they are beans in a pod) and it's my first time growing edamame beans. I love having a small garden to tend too.
5) My family and I are looking forward to visiting and spending time at my mothers beautiful home and beach for the summer.
Have a nice Friday and weekend and have fun doing whatever makes you happy!
I will be sharing this with Amy from Love Made My Home for her Five on Friday link party that she is hosting.
Julie
I love cooking vegetables as a side dish for our family for dinner. Today I'd love to share with you this easy recipe for Roasted Cauliflower.
ROASTED CAULIFLOWER
Ingredients:
1 head of cauliflower
4 tablespoons olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly spray with cooking spray (PAM) a large roasting pan. Cut cauliflower into small florets and place in a bowl. Add to the bowl olive oil, salt, pepper and mix everything together. Spread florets out onto the roasting pan and place in oven. Roast for 35 to 40 minutes until lightly browned. Use a fork to test when done.
Done!
This makes a great vegetable side dish for chicken, fish, steak or any pork dish. I hope I have inspired you to make this easy vegetable recipe.
Thanks everyone and Enjoy!
Julie
Hello friends! I recently finished crocheting this cream colored scarf that I made to donate to our Christmas crochet sale we will have this fall. I really enjoyed making this scarf and here are a few photos I'd love to share with you.
The pattern can be found HERE. I decided to change the pattern a little and not make the scarf as wide as the pattern. This scarf can be made in multiples of three and instead of chaining 26, I made a chain of 21. I also changed it by not making all 3DC in the scarf but making a combination of 2DC 3DC 2DC.
Note: 2DC stands for two double crochet
3DC stands for three double crochet
The yarn: Red Heart - Super Saver Economy in the color Aran Fleck ID#E3004313.
Crochet hook: US size H or I
US Terminology
I enjoyed changing this pattern around and it's the same combination that I am using to make the rose colored scarf that I'm currently working on. To see that post it can be found HERE.
Click HERE to see the great parties I will be linking up to!
Thanks everyone and Enjoy!
Julie
Hi friends, I love summer and making food on the grill. It's so easy and you don't have to use the oven. When I saw this recipe for grilled potatoes that Jess from Plucky's Second Thought made, I knew that I wanted to make them too.
The grilled potatoes tasted amazing and I grilled the potatoes for a half hour. Make sure to spray the tin foil with PAM or cooking spray so the potatoes do not stick to the foil.
GRILLED POTATOES
INGREDIENTS:
- potatoes - thinly sliced
- sliced onions
- olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- garlic powder to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Slice potatoes and onions into small pieces. Spray foil packet with cooking spray. Place potatoes and onions in sprayed foil packet with olive oil and spices. Grill for 25-30 minutes.
Julie
Hi friends. Last week I shared an American Flag Coaster that I made and to see the details on how to make one you can click here. I had so much fun making it that I decided to make them in red, white, and blue yarn. I used the same pattern that I used to make the flag coaster for each coaster. I did not do any color change and made the rectangles a solid color using red, white and blue cotton yarn.
These are so much fun to make and they work up fast. I hope I have inspired you to crochet or craft something fun and patriotic.
Click HERE to see the great parties I will be linking up to!
Thanks everyone and Enjoy!
Julie
I am happy to be joining Amy from Love Made My Home for her Five on Friday Series.
I'm taking five minutes of my day to share five things:
These are some photos I took during the month of May.
I'm taking five minutes of my day to share five things:
These are some photos I took during the month of May.
1) May was a month of celebrations. We celebrated a birthday and Mother's Day.
2) My dog Bosco sat patiently and let me photograph him with stuffed animals and on our stoop while I drank coffee.
3) I took some photos while I was in the city.
4) I enjoy making different salads as a side dish when we have BBQ's during the summer months. I made Ranch Salad Dressing Salad and you can make this salad if you click here.
5) I made some crocheted squares for charity and to read about that post you can click here.
Have a great weekend and have fun doing whatever makes you happy!
I will be sharing this with Amy from Love Made My Home for her Five on Friday link party that she is hosting.
P. S. Some of these photos that you see here I also share on Instagram. If you would like to follow along with me on Instagram you can click HERE.
Hello friends! I was in the mood to make something patriotic with my cotton yarn and I decided to crochet this American Flag coaster.
I searched on Pinterest for a pattern and it can be found here. This pattern calls for a lot of color change when crocheting.
The red, white, and blue yarn I used to make this is Lion Brand Yarn Kitchen Cotton. You can use any cotton yarn in those colors that you like. The crochet hook is a US size I.
I tried my best with the color change but it's not too easy as you can see in some of the blue area on the coaster. It may not be perfect but I sure had fun making it!
Are you working on any fun projects right now?
Julie
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