Hello friends.  I hope you are all enjoying the week.  I can't believe that it's already the end of May!  I am so happy to have the weather finally starting to warm up and it feels great.

Child Crochet Scarf

While some of you are thinking about spring and summer, and I do too, I really enjoy knitting and crocheting different items throughout the year that I donate to our church fair.

Well, my mother had this colorful yarn stored in her large yarn stash.  I was so excited that I decided to use it to make a crocheted children's scarf.  I love these cheerful colors of white, green, pink, and orange.

The yarn is thick and soft and there was only one skein of yarn to work with.  I decided a scarf for a child would work best.

Loops & Threads Cuddly Fashion Yarn

The yarn is from Loops & Threads Cuddly Fashion yarn.  The color of the yarn is 04701 Tickled Pink.  I used a large crochet hook US size J.

I started out by chaining 14 stitches.  I crocheted the half double crochet until the end of the row.  I then turned the hook and chained two and continued crocheting each row until I was near the end of the yarn.  I then ended off and weaved in both ends of the yarn.



I really had fun crocheting this scarf at my once a week meetup at my church with the ladies in my group.

I am currently crocheting a granny square baby blanket in the colors white and grey.  Some of you might have seen my photo of it on Instagram .  Have you crocheted or knitted anything lately?

**  I also wanted to let you know that since last Friday, May 25, 2018, when Google updated their GDPR, the comment email notifications I used to receive have been turned off.  I am not receiving any emails notifications when you comment on my blog and therefore I can't comment back to you unless I do on my blog.  Hopefully, this issue will be fixed fast.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your day and weekend.

I thought that with the holiday fast approaching I would share with you some really easy recipes to make for this holday.
I posted back in June of 2013, this super easy recipe to make egg salad with no mayonnaise.  This is the perfect salad for a BBQ or get together.  To see this recipe you can click here.

Summer Egg Salad Recipe

I love bean salads and I posted back in January of 2017 this super easy recipe to make Three Bean Salad.  It's tastes so delicious and if you like beans than you are going to love this salad.  For the recipe, you can click here.

Three Bean Salad Recipe

Who doesn't love brownies.  I made these brownies back in May of 2016 and they were a HUGE hit.  These brownies are so delicious because they consist of chocolate chip cookie dough, oreo cookies, and brownie mix.  You can see the recipe to make these brownies here.

Slutty Brownie Recipe

I hope I have inspired you to make some of these easy to make recipes.  The salads taste so delicious and have no mayonnaise in them so they are great for yard parties and BBQ's.  The brownies are super easy to make and they taste so delicious.

Enjoy!

Wishing you all a nice end of the week and I hope you all have a Happy Memorial Day Weekend.

Jess and I will see you all on Monday for our Cooking and Crafting with J & J Link Up.




Click HERE to see the great parties I will be linking up to!


Julie

Hello friends and Happy Friday!  I hope you've had a good week.  :)

Instant Pot White Rice

Hi everyone.  I have another very simple Instant Pot recipe to share with you.  It's how to make white rice that comes out perfect every time.

White Rice Made in Instant Pot

In our house we LOVE rice and I make it at least once a week.  We love it as a side dish to a lot of our meals.  We usually have rice with our chicken and fish meals for dinner.  My daughter likes to mix rice with guacamole and sometimes mixed in with eggs.

This tastes so good cooked this way and it always comes out light and fluffy.  You can even eat this by itself or add it to soups.

Rice Finished Cooking

If you have an Instant Pot I'm sure you will love this easy and delicious way to make white rice.











I found this recipe when searching for an Instant White Rice recipe HERE.  I changed around the recipe a little bit.  I added butter instead of the oil and added a little bit more water so that the rice will not stick to the bottom of the pot.

NOTE:  To make brown rice, use same directions as above, but adjust time to 23 minutes and natural release and let sit for 10 minutes.  Remove pressure and lid.


Thanks for stopping by and hope you all enjoy the week and weekend.


Click HERE to see the great parties I will be linking up to!


Julie

Hello, friends and Happy May!  I can't believe it's already the beginning of May.  The weather is finally starting to warm up here.  Yay!  I hope it is in your neck of the woods.



Unfortunately, with it being such a cold spring here, I have not been able to do any spring planting of flowers or vegetables yet.

I am hoping to be able to do some planting of flowers by Mother's Day.  I love going to the garden center and picking out a variety of flowers, herbs, and vegetables to plant in containers in my yard.

Every day I get out to walk my dog and on one of our walks, I managed to take photos of these daffodils growing wild on the sides of the street.



In my front yard, I have a cherry blossom tree that I enjoy looking at when it blooms.  Right now it looks like it has snowed with all of the blossoms laying on the ground.



On one of my visits walking through our neighborhood, I happened to pass a florist that had a huge variety of spring flowers outside its shop.



I love hydrangea plants and they are one of my favorite flowers.  I like all the different shades of the flower blooms but my favorite are the ones that come in the pink.



I happened to be passing by this pretty planter with colorful pink and purple flowers surrounding a small tree.


I am not sure what these white flowers are but they look so pretty in the gold plant stand.



The yellow daffodils in this planter look so cheerful and brighten everything up after the bad winter and cold spring we've had.




I can't wait to do my spring gardening soon.  I hope you all enjoyed looking at these spring flowers in my neighborhood.



I will be sharing at this garden link party.  This is a monthly garden link party that will take place on all five blogs.  It is to be hosted the last Friday of every month until Fall.


Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day and the weekend!