It has been a busy week in the Wilson house. On Monday night I am pooped but happy! Friday night I made corn bread for the first time ever! I was way nervous because my husband has told me all of these great stories about his mom's and his grandma's cornbread, but I was up for the challange. Last week my daddy gave me a lesson on how to make cornbread the right way, so I set out to copy his recipe. My husband loved it and I was relieved! Daddy's go to recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens 1980something was a hit! I was a little impressed with myself !

Recipe: 1 cup flour (all purpose)

             1 cup corn meal

             2 tbsp Sugar

             1 tsp baking powder

             1/2 Tsp salt

             2 eggs

             1 cup milk- I use 1/2 sweet milk and 1/2 butter milk

             1/4 cup crisco melted.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees and pour melted crisco in a cast iron skillet. Put in the oven to heat. Mix dry ingredients first, then add in eggs one at a time. Pour in the milk and pour the hot grease from the pan into the cornbread batter. Mix well adn bake for 20 minutes and Thats All!



For my sweet friend Heather's baby shower I made two hats for her baby that is due in Feburary. I was able to view the patterns for free so I will post them here to share... later when I find the website again!

And finally Saturday night we threw my mother-in-law a birthday party at out house. It was a small gathering of family and some good food but she said it was the best party she had in a while! Before the baby shower Saturday morning I made her gift as well! I had picked up a cute rectangle frame from goodwill Friday while my mom and I were shopping. I got home to take it apart to make her gift and the painting had real butterflies pressed under the glass. I was totally grossed out! I threw all of the nastyness away and made her a chicken wire earing holder like all of those cute ones I have seen on pinterest. It was a busy weekend, but I'm greatful for all of the people I get to share my life with.

Before

After

Happy Birthday!

-Enjoy 

Its only the 7th day of November and I can already tell this month is going to be non-stop. I was just able to replace my Halloween door decor with something a little more generic! I was sad to see all of my Halloween decorations go, but I'm excited that Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I am hosting my first ever Thanksgiving at our house! Yippie! My new front door decor is nothing fancy and it sure didn't take any time, not that I would have had any to devote to the project anyway! I looked around my craft room and found an old frame that I wasn't using for anything and decided that would be what I used.

I nailed a picture hanger on the back, but I lost one nail... no worries a thumb tack did the trick!

Next I found some ribbon in my ribbon box and ran it up under the picture holder so that I would be able to attach my W I bought at Hobby Lobby a while back for like 4$

I looped the ribbon around my W, tied a knot in the end and took it out to hang on the front door. Its pretty plain, but it beats having a naked door!

- Enjoy.