A Spice Sauce to Spice up Chicken for Dinner

This is one of my favorite recipes because in is all in just the sauce you make to pour over the chicken to bake in the oven.
Here is what you will need:

• A whole chicken cut up
• large baking pan
• 15 oz. can of tomato sauce
• fresh pineapple slices or canned pineapple
• 1 1/2 cup of vinegar
• large onion cut up
• 2 cups of brown sugar
• Optional Chili pepper

Place the cut up chicken in a well greased baking pan and set aside. In a bowl add the tomato sauce, pineapple vinegar, onion and brown sugar. If you like it hot then add a dash of the chili pepper. Mix well using a large spoon or whisk. Then pour it over the chicken and bake at 400 degrees until the chicken is done.

Serve this with a green salad and hot corn on the cob and you will have a spicy but good dinner for all

The Finished 18 inch aged HeirLoom rag cloth doll

This is how the larger 18 inch aged Heirloom rag cloth doll has come out; as I have stated I stained the body several times first staining the fabric and baking in my over along with the clothing also at 200 degrees. Then I kept some of the staining separate and a paint brush which I used later to drop the stain on the clothing and the doll it's self and just let it air dry. I love how she came out in the end and now I am working on the smaller doll which will measure 12 inches long and will go along with this doll as a complete set. When I have finished her I will post the entire set together and add them to my Esty store.

Step Two on what I am working on, a Set of rag cloth dolls

This is the second step to making my rag cloth dolls; I have baked the first stage of the staining in and have darkened the fabric.

Now I took what stain I had left over and used a small paint brush to drip the stain onto the rag cloth doll and and let it dry naturally so that I get the more aged look to the doll, you can see the staining by looking at where the botches are located on the doll.
Now the third step will to begin sewing each of the dolls up and filling them with fiber fill. I want to mention when I drop the extra stain onto the dolls I just let them dry over night really well.

In the next picture I have cute the dresses and bonnets; the clothing as also been stained using the coffee and brown acyclic paint. Once I have the clothing sewn up I will sand it lightly with a light weight sand paper and then rub the cinnamon into the clothing and I will show this in the next stage.

What I am working for Jan 21, 2011 Rag cloth dolls

I got busy this afternoon, I found an old rag doll pattern and decided to use it but I will be making some serious changes to to the dolls as I create them. The pattern is an old McCall's pattern that I am altering somewhat; I just love using a pattern piece from all different patterns just to see how dolls will come out.

I am using a heavy duty fabric for the dolls, and right now I am in the process of staining the fabric, the body fabric is Onsburg but it is heavier and lighter. I will let this set for an hour and then bake the body pieces in my oven at 200 degrees. The stain is a mixture of brown acrylic paint and a some instant coffee about a table spoonful. Once the dolls are dry I will rub cinnamon into the fabric for more aging. I will be taking more photos and posting showing how the dolls are coming along and what/how they will turn out. So I hope you tag along and see how the dolls and cloths come out all this coming week.

Talking about a Wall Hanging Quilt Called Colors of Winter

A big hello to all! I am back at working on my blogs once again. Christmas and the new year were very busy for me this year and so my blogs did not get the attention they needed but here I am again and off to a new year and a new start on the blog.

I call this wall hanging quilt colors of winter because I was thinking of a winter that one might spend in a log cabin looking out their bedroom window and guess what; this is what this quilt is about.

The backing is quilting batting and a plaid flannel that was used, all the other fabrics are just cotton fabrics with lots of color. I thought the tie dye cotton just fitted the mood of winter so it became the back round or the skyline for the setting of this quilt.

The idea of the story is you are looking out a big picture window in a log cabin bedroom there is the bed with a warm plaid flannel blanket and by the bed is a small chest with a lit candle flickering away. As you look out the window you see horses racing away from some black bears and a bunch of trees that have grown tired of the cold winter that has befallen them. It also would not be winter with lots of snow on the ground, of various shades.

I began first by using some muslin and then whacking out each portion of the winter scene and just using some un-knotted embroidery floss, I just did a few stitches to hold the scene in place before the final sewing was done. Another thing I did while sewing this quilt was to use some wild stitches with my sewing machine around the trees most using a bright mixed colored embroidery floss around the trees to give the effect that moss is growing on them.

The quilt took about 2 weeks to make and is original in that I used not a single pattern but just my imagination to make the winter scene.

What I am Working on for Tuesday Dec 7

Well I just finished up this primitive winter scene on a chalk board all I have to do now is add the cording for hanging. I have a ton of fun painting with acrylic paints on the chalkboards you can find in any craft store. I start by sanding down the wooden framing on the chalkboard so that it will hold the paints and stains. In this case I just started painting free hand what I wanted and things that came to mind for a cute winter scene. I also used some glitter paints in the picture and when the scene was completely dried I added an oil base stain and took a cloth and did some wiping off the stain. I just really like the affect I got with the stain and paints in which I also did a bit of wiping off on the wooden frame to give it aged withered look just a tiny bit.

A New Cookie Recipe; Snow Melted Mud puddles

Hey to all!

I have an unusual cookie recipe for you, I just happened one day to make these by mistake and they are quite ugly looking but, oh yum!

Most of all they are easy to make... here is what you will need:

• One box of chocolate cake mix
• 1 cup of small marsh mellows
• 2 cups of chocolate Rice Crispies

about one to 2 cups of butter softened

Add your cake mix and rice crispies; add the butter,add one cup first and mix with spoon, until crumbly, and if holds it together pretty well; such as you can roll a ball then don't add the second cup, sometimes it just depends on the type of cake mix you are using, if its too crumbly then begin a bit the the second cup of softened butter and add until you can form a round ball and it all holds together is the best way I can explain this...

Now add your marsh mellows and mix again by spoon until it's all well mixed up; now to form the round balls again, they don't have to be perfectly rounded balls kind of throw together making sure the marsh mellows stay in the mix. These balls are about the size of an ice cream scoop or just a tiny bit smaller. Add the balls to a well greased cookie sheet and bake 12-14 minutes at 350; actually check on them about 10 minutes and see how they are looking they should come out like the pictures above, looking like a pile of mud with a little bit of snow in them! You want the marsh mellows to melt! so that it looks like mud and snow mixed together. You will get 24 cookies because they are so large

Let them cool good and be careful about removing them, take a spatula all the way around the outside edge to loosen as to keep them from falling apart.

The uglier they are the better! I have found they make a great gift idea for your neighbors, friends, family, they look ugly but taste good.