Pumpkin French Toast Casserole

Fall is callin'

What?? 

You don't hear it?

It's calling pumpkin, Pumpkin, PUMPKIN...

We want more...we want more...

So today let's make up some Pumpkin French Toast Casserole.

Ingredients:

• Loaf of bread~I'm using some day old french bread. Use a bread of your choice.
• Dozen eggs
• 1 cup o' milk
• 8 oz. block Cream Cheese
• 1 cup of raisins..or more
• 1 1/2 cup of pumpkin~~I used 1/2 a can of Libby's
• teaspoon of Vanilla
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 
• 2 cups of Brown Sugar
• nuts~I used Fisher crusshed nuts for ice cream topping 
• Maple syrup

Once you've gathered your ingredients place your cream cheese in the freezer.

This will make it much easier to cut into cubes.

1. Cut bread into cubes. Place into casserole dish.

2. Cut your block of cream cheese into cubes. Place on top of cubed bread.

3. Sprinkle raisin over bread and cream cheese.
4. Mix pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon, and brown sugar.
    Mixture will be dark and thick.
5. Lightly beat eggs and milk together.
6. Pour egg mixture over bread. 
    Pour slowly so that the bread will soak it up rather than 
    turning soggy on you.

7. Cover and place in the refrigerator until morning 
     or at least 2 hours.
8. When you are ready to bake your casserole 
     Heat oven at 350 degrees.
9. Bake for 30 minutes covered with foil.
10. Sprinkle nuts and drizzle maple syrup over the top
11. Bake for 30 minutes uncover.

Your casserole should be soft drizzly
                                                                               but..
                                                               if you need more add a few more raisins
                                                                               and
                                                                  drizzle more maple syrup.

Candy Corn Bottle Display

Welcome Autumn!

Welcome autumn with a simple Arrangement of found bottles.

I thought I may as well make something 
out of this mess.

I've cleaned up my bottles and gathered my supplies

&

a bowl of inspiration.

I didn't do any taping when I spray painted my bottles.

First, I painted the middle section orange.

I painted the top of the bottle white.

A light hand when painting and the uneven spray made a more

appealing look.

 Placed on a plate with a candle and a piece of raffia.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my DIY.

BE BLESSED!

&

Be a Blessing! 

Another Pine Bites the Dust~Wordless Wednesday

A Devilish Monday Music Moves Me

Good Monday Morning!

I hope everyone out there in blogland is doing great

and ready to kick start the week with another

Monday Music Moves Me!

Congratulations to this weeks spotlight dancer,

Gillian from A Daft Scots Las.

Gillian has picked Guys & Dolls for this Monday's theme

but I say...the devil may care.

                           

      Oh that Devil Woman....

                             

Hey! What's the devil doing with that blue dress on?

             

but...

Sometimes the Devil drives a coupe de ville down in Brokenheartsville.

                           

We know the devil went down to Georgia 

but what the devil has come over

The Zac Brown Band

                                 

Well...That's all folks!

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!