Feburary Drawing giveaway for a Happy Valentines Day

Good morning everyone, here is a Drawing to win that little hand bag that I just finished crocheting. Cast your name and email address into the Valentine and win the little crochet hand bag .

The drawing will be held February the 25 and the winner will be notified February the 27 at that time I will need the winners mailing address so be sure to add your email so I can contact you the winner.

Send you name and email address to stockerpam@gmail.com

Have some fun and toss in your name to win this crochet hand bag. Crochet from 2 types of bulky yarn with a 10 crochet hook. After the winner is chosen I will send the hand bag out priority mail and I will contact the winner to make sure the package arrived.

Meat Loaf Pie

Good morning to everyone;
Yes it is still cold on the Oregon coast but we will warm up a little bit later on today. Anyway last night I came up with this idea on what to do with hamburger and now I thought I would share it with you.
I call this meat loaf pie:
I used 2 pounds of ground round, as I have a teen boy. But you can use more or less
Mix the meat in a large bowl adding chopped onion, 1 small can of tomato soup, small can of mushrooms, seasoning salt, 2 eggs, 2-3 cups of Italian crushed bread crumbs or your choice of either oat meal, crushed crackers, other kinds of seasoned bread crumbs.
Add a little water and mix all together.
Add to to a large frying pan, pie pan if doing a smaller amount, kind of pat and make the meat form all together.
Now for the second part:
boil up some small red potatoes or potatoes that you like, another way can be to use instant potatoes especially the kind of instant potatoes that now come in the individual packets make by Idaho potatoes, those packets come in many varieties.
Make up the potatoes as you would normally and then top on top of the meat in your frying pan or pie pan. Smooth the potatoes all over the top covering the meat completely.
Bake in an oven 350 until done and until the potatoes turn a golden brown and look crispy at the edges. I would like to mention be sure to use a very lean ground beef when doing this as not to have all that grease.
One other thing you could do also is add a bit of your favorite shredded cheese at the last seconds before done and have melted cheese on those potatoes make this even more yummy.

Crazy Old Man Winter is Coming through Again

Well this morning had to be another wild winter day, freezing rain, black ice, snow and now some sunshine. The day started off pretty interesting as it was a very cool 25 at the house and it had rained last night so the deck was extremely dangerous for walking on. The next fun thing was trying to deice the doors on my pickup to take my son to his early morning class. The doors were quite frozen shut do to the cold and rain. Yup the roads had plenty of black ice and my driving was inching like a turtle or so my son called it. Actually the truck did quite well but the fat tires and the 4 wheel drive helped a little.
After I arrived we discovered school had a 2 hour delay so back we headed, when we got home my daughter came rushing to the door and let us know school was out for the entire day! HOORAY....
As we arrived home it began snowing hard and staying cold brr......
So through out the day it snowed, it rained and rained more and my hubby had to come home because roads were to icy for the Mule train log truck and the logging roads were becoming dangerous with 4 inches of snow developing.
So tonight high winds are expected with snow and cold, but at this very second the sun is shining as I write this at 4:30 Pacific time.
So my entire day was a day of getting nothing done the laundry pile stayed the same the dishes are still in the sink and it actually looks like a hurricane went through my home at the end of this day. Now it is time for me to head off to my online class maybe tomorrow I get lots done, but more snow is expected and the cold is still here but I can imagine getting lots done now can't I dream about a nice clean house, so I will dream.

Just Finished this Cute Little Crochet Purse

I just finished crocheting this cute little purse a few days ago. I used my 10 crochet hook and did triple stitches and a few double stitches with the hook. The neat part about this is I took 2 thick bulky yarns and combined them to make this purse.
Then I chain stitched strap just out of the black bulky yarn
You could but lose change or a small wallet in it carry with you when you are out running errands or shopping.





These are some more pictures of the crochet purse, the last picture is a little bury but you can get a better idea of the colors.
I am thinking about having a CONTEST....
Or maybe just a drawing to win this sweet crochet purse
I have also added a photo slide towards the bottom of my blog so you can see what is for sale at my Art Fire or what is selling in my other blog It's Just Krazy Kute Productions
I will have the drawing or contest starting this next Friday so be sure to check for it later this week and find out how to win.

Cookies for the Weekend from Cake Mixes

These are so very easy to make and fun because you are playing with a cake mix. I find making cookies with cake mixes is easy but also inexpensive, usually you can find cake mixes on sale and using a mix you can get between 40-30 cookies.
This batch of cookies is call Raspberry yogurt cookies.

What you will need:

1 box of white cake mix
1 egg
Raspberry jam
1/2 tablespoon of raspberry yogurt
1 cup of sugar
water

Mix egg and cake mix and 1/2 table spoon of raspberry yogurt add a little water only to get dough to form together if need, so add gradually. You want the dough to form together so that you can create 1 inch balls to roll in the sugar. Then place 1 inch balls onto lightly greased cookie sheet and use your thumb to make a small indent in center of cookie bake at 350 for 25 min or until cookies are done. Remove from over and add jam to center of cookie before cooled completely. You can get about 30 cookies.

Now using a yellow cake mix you can make chocolate chip cookies
What you will need:

Yellow cake mix
1 egg
walnuts
chocolate chips
Water

Mix egg, cake mix, walnuts and chocolate chips, add a small amount of water gradually make sure dough forms together. Drop about 1 inch drops onto greased cookie sheet bake for 25 min or until cookies are done.
Now to the fun part, I just gave you some simple additions you can put into these cookies but there is a whole lot you can do, add coconut, M and M's, raisins, toffee, almonds and a whole a lot more, it's just about adding what you like or changing this simple recipe anyway you like. You can once again get between 30-40 cookies. If you are like me a mom of a teen boy this is very economical for feeding teen boys and all their friends.

Today was Polar Bears operation, it was a tough morning and a night. The reason being we had to scrub that dog who hates baths and brushing. It must have taken us an hour to chase him around before finally catching him and getting him into the tub. I and my wondrous hubby had to scrub him down and I have to wonder who actually got the bath. Polar bear would make sure he would shake and spray us both quite well.
We also had to take the food away so that meant taking the food away from all the dogs and the cat food sitting in the window. Oh all the human food had to be put away, it sounds like we all are kind of heartless, but Polar has ways of obtaining food you just would not believe; Like eating an entire cookie jar of cookies.
This happened just a week or two ago with cookies I made and had planned on sharing with you all the recipe. I still will share the recipe and I have one picture of some of the cookies that did make it.
I am now sitting here writing this waiting very calmly to hear word on how he is doing. I had to have my son help me this morning, it was really hard because as we were pulling up another car pulled up with a sick kitty. As we were inside Polar decided to lick the kitty as if to tell it ...
it will be alright, he licked the kitty with care it was amazing to watch, then it was our time to say good bye, he put his head on my knee as he does when I am upset and went with the vet assistant quickly.

My Polar Bear needs Surgry

These last few days have not gone as well, as one would expect. Sunday is when I first noticed Polar Bear's ear was not standing up. So I took a closer look and it was all stolen and flopped over, I went to touch it and Polar let out a yelp. I almost hit the floor, fainting for some reason I can't take it when my animals get hurt, don't ask why I just get to sweating and dizzy along with turning green.
So I asked my husband to take a look at it....
He decided that he would use a needle and drain the ear, he made sure to clean and add some antibiotic ointment to the ear. While I was still right... THERE!
Well to say the least I had to leave the room, he did get some of the blood fluid out but it was still infected badly.
This morning I ran Polar Bear to the vet and he has to have surgery on Wend, I did get the talk about him being an old dog and the risks, I really tried not to cry. Because after it is all done his ear will no longer stand up, and hearing the risks just made me cry. I think it might have been a little of the menopause causing some of the problem and I have been doing a lot of crying this week over other strange things like the fact I could not solve this math problem for my class 3/4=1-3x/x+1 I spent an entire hour crying over how I could not solve it. I just hate menopause....
Still I am quite worried over my baby dog Polar Bear we have been through so much together, fire, the accident, kid problems, he just seems to know all my woes and always comes and comforts me no matter what, he is also the only male in my troop of animals so that just makes him a little extra special because he puts up with 2 human females and 4 animal females and yet is a very calm dog with an happy go lucky personality.
Well I goofed this up this morning writing this so I went back through and corrected a few things.