Making M&M White Chocolate Bark & Pumpkin Planter

M&M White Chocolate Bark

Hi, I thought I'd pop on here and share what I had been up to.

I whipped these quick projects out yesterday. Friday is my day to get my yard work done and this is also my weekend to work but I wanted to do something special for the kids.

My M&M White Chocolate Bark is the go to if you' only have a pinch of time or you have that last minute bake sale. 

One bag of M&M White Candy Corn

Two bags of white chocolate morsels

One baking sheet covered with wax paper

Melt your morsels in the microwave according to instruction,

then, Stir in your M&M's.

Spread your mixture in a thin layer on you baking sheet.

I put mine in the freezer to harden quicker.

Once the mixture is hardened break it into different shaped pieces.

Pretzels crushed would be a great add in. If you're like me and for got them just put the pretzels in the serving bowl with your bark it look and they'll get ate right along with the barks.
                                                         Sweet & Salty!

It  was sort of Monkey-See-Monkey-Do. 

I'd been seeing all the $1 Jack-o-lanterns turned into planters

and 

I had to make me one too!

I started with one of those $1 pumpkin heads.
I chose a blue one
and 
I really don't know why.

A couple of markdown mums.
I'm going to use one for this project
but 
I want to add my barrel with the 
orange mum. 
I think he needs a friend.

I hung my pumpkin head on a limb at the edge of the yard.
I got busy with the spray paint; first,white.
I so cheated this when I seen some
poison ivy( I hate it) that had turn the most awesome red.
I stuck pieces of the ivy on the face and sort of stuck held it in place with the paint itself.
My next colors was some green, then orange and a bit of silver.
Very lightly!
Don't use a heavy hand.

I was out of burlap so I used a piece of leftover brown clothe that I singed just a bit .
Stuffed the material and my mum in my planter.
Don't forget to pop off that black plastic handle.
An old piece of wire or an old rusty bucket handle could be fixed in it's place.

 Thanks for stopping by.
BE BLESSED
&
Be a Blessing!

My Workplace Accident and Looking for Relief

Hey! How you doing today?

Me? Not so good.

 I'm nursing myself after I had a bit of a fall off  of a ladder at work last night. Nothing was to blame for the accident other than me forgetting I was standing on the ladder and maybe the fact that we were just covered up in work.

Having such an accident leaves me feeling very foolish. I'm not typically a careless person or someone often gets really hurt. I did feel fortunate that no one actually saw me with my feet tangled up in the ladder and my head bouncing of the concrete. 

Once I figured out my neck wasn't broke and I wasn't bleeding anywhere I was able to get back to my machines and worked my shift on through

 but....

you know how those things go. 

After getting home, the egg has popped up on my head, the purple and poned up bruise on my leg almost feels hot, and my neck is so tight I couldn't even really dose off.

I know what you're thinking...enough with the wining. 

My reason for writing this post isn't as much about giving you this elaborate description of my wounds but I thought I'd share with you my go to when I ache.

Absorbine Jr.

 It's really good relief for muscle ache, 

like tight shoulders from raking or calves from running. 

I'm a little surprised when I have recommended it others because a lot of people

have never heard of it.

Absorbine Jr. was one of those things that Mama and Daddy

 always had in the bathroom cabinet, so I do too.

I started by rubbing it on my neck and it gave me that quick cooling feeling 

so...I thought I'm going to rub it on my bruised leg and it felt better 

so..I rubbed it on the knot on my head

 and by the time I'd checked my Email I felt much better.

If you have a nagging ache, you might want to give this product a try.

This is by no means an advertisement.

I just thought it might do somebody some good.

It does have a strong odor but if that bothers you more than your ache

you're probably not hurting that bad anyway.

Be Blessed! 

Haunting Folk Tunes~Monday Moves Me

Welcome...

Monday Music Moves Me!

Last Monday of the month means it's a freebie!

Looking boldly into October with all the spookiness that it ushers in I thought I'd share a stranger side of bluegrass; those folk ballads that make the hair upon your arm stand on up and the chills run down your neck.

I'm no sure if it's the simplicity in the music or the fact that so many of these songs are just true stories put to music.

I'm starting my musical mix with Bringing Home Mary. 

I heard this one Saturday morning. I listen to bluegrass most Sunday mornings as I'm cooking breakfast and when this one came on I thought what an eerie song to go with eggs and grits.

                                  

This next song isn't a bluegrass version but it surely is eerie

Ballad of the Harp Weaver

                                  

This next song proves itself to be haunting and morbid  

Poor Ellen Smith

                                 

No one voice musters up that chilling feeling like Ralph Stanley.

Many of you will recognize this song from Old Brother Where Art Thou

but this is a older version a little more simple,Oh, Death.

                               

Tom Dooley is one of those bluegrass songs

 that most everyone has heard of so many toes are tapped too 

but I find it to be another sad ballad.

                              

The Lawson Family Murder is a haunting story 

that actually happened just a few miles down the road

and oddly enough is a regional favorite.

                              

The next song is not so murderous but is quite a ghostly tale as people claim today 

to see those Brown Mountain Lights.

                                

Lefty Frizzell sings about the woman in the Long Black Veil.

                               

Down In the Willow Garden performed by The Lonesome River Band

                              

If you're still here and can't take anymore of these gruesome song

maybe..

you'd like to hear some old-time Ghost Tellin'

                            

Thank for Dropping by.

That's Important to Me

Putting on the Fall Decor with Hydrangeas and Denim

It was time for an update on my wreathes around the house 

along with some floral pick-me-up around inside, too.

By now if you have been stopping by for a visit with me and my decorating style you have found out that I am anything but conventional. 

My philosophy is 

Do the best you can with watcha' got!

This was actually a wreathe I had made a quite a few months ago. It had browned and aged out to a wonderful golden color and had also became a home for a little family of wrens but the wrens have flown on and my big white hydrangea at the corner of the yard was showing her signs of the 

autumn season.

 I will tell you as much as I love spring and summer blooms I'm just crazy for flowers and such, as they turn their golden hues of brown, so you'll see alot of that if you ever visit my home. 

I basically broke off  blooms of hydrangea with enough stem to stick or weave into my existing wreath. 

When I was satisfied with the size and look, I took a pair of discarded blue jeans and cut about 4  strips about  2" wide and as long as the leg on the pants,

Tied the ends of the denim into a square not and wrapped my wreathe.

I also remade the smaller ones 

on the side and back doors.

LOL...this ones a little more

 whopped  and lopsided.

If you're careful you can work your 

knots to the front. I think it gives it 

a neat look.

I didn't put the denim on this on.

The boys were getting hungry 

so 

a pizza run it is.

Yes, that is a Christmas tree hanger.

I have other hangers I just like 

these.

You know...Christmas is never really 

out of style.

My Mama would most always cut some of her beauties to place on the kitchen table

and

my Grandma Dorothy always kept a

 tablecloth (always plastic) on her kitchen table

so...

a hybrid I am.

My eye always want to see flowers and a tablecloth

atop my table.

Of course, not a vinyl or plastic one.

I bought this one on clearance several years ago

and you can see it was too large but some 

knots on the corners and it's a fit.

When I start and arrangement, I put my scissors in my pocket and

 I just build my bouquet in my hand.

I bring them inside snip my  off the ends at an angle,

place them in a container with water and sugar.

I like to add things that ramble a little like this morning glory.

Some height in the middle is always looks good.

I used some low hanging branches for the dogwood;

you can see a berry has fallen off. 

I sort of like that...a few petals sometimes look nice.

a little something for the coffee table

My favorite arrangement came when two country boys took time out from their

Bowie knife, bow and arrow, and rabbit trap making.

Just to bring me a hand full of blooms.

Am I blessed today?

Very!

Thank you for stopping by!

Be Blessed!