I'm a Little Teapot

Short and stout

here is my handle....

and here is my spout....

and the rest of me.....

I got this teapot 

awhile back at 

Christmas Tree Shop

for $2

Teapot and things

Tea Cup Tues

Hershey's Best Brownies

and my families too!

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING (recipe follows)

Heat oven to 350°F.

Grease 9-inch square baking pan.

Stir together butter, sugar and

vanilla in bowl.

Add eggs; beat well

with spoon.

Stir together flour,

cocoa, baking powder and salt;

gradually add to egg mixture, beating

until well blended.

Spread batter evenly in prepared pan.

Bake 20 to 25 minutes or

until brownies begin to

pull away from sides of pan.

Cool completely in pan

on wire rack. Prepare

CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING

; spread over brownies.

Cut into squares. About 36 brownies.

 

CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING

3 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons HERSHEY'S Cocoa
1 tablespoon light corn syrup or honey
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons milk

Beat butter, cocoa, corn syrup

and vanilla in small bowl

until blended

. Add powdered sugar

and milk;

beat to spreading consistency.

About 1 cup frosting.

Sweets for Sat

Tempt my Tummy

Tues at the Table

Tasty Tues

Foodie Fri

Turn the page....

I've decided to cut down

 the paper clutter

so I have started scanning

 things I want

to save to put on CD

I started with cookbooks/magazines
(these are only a few)

It is amazing how you collecting

 them over the years

Since it's just the 2 of us 

we really don't need all those

casserole/family recipes

Its funny how you save things

 to use in the future 

then one day you realize

 that it doesn't fit 

"you" any more

It is also funny to see what use to be "in"

What were we thinking....

Lets home none of these come back....

So far I have cut down

 more than 1/2 of the magazines

booklets etc

Some will find a home

 with a young family

others will be sold

 to a local used bookstore

Tomorrow I get to go threw
7 years of these:

and 5 years of jewelry magazines

How abt you? Do you have magazine/books
that are no longer you?

16wks/ 4 mo

I can't believe

 Isabella's 4 months old today!

That means she has lived in her forever home for 

1/2 of her life already

She loves to sit and look out the window 

at  birds and squirrels

This is the bestest spot cuz

she can 

sleep next to the 

heat register and look outside

She's lost 4 teeth

2 on the bottom have come in

which looks very odd

She has started sleeping

 most of the night 6-8 hrs

When she gets tired at 9pm

she walks into her kennel 

and lays down 

This picture is sort of sad to me

8 wks                                               16 wks

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These a a little bigger

than the teacups here

But still not really 

enough to wet your whistle

This one is marked

Has very pretty roses on it

This one has no markings and is

rather odd in shape

and I'm not sure the base goes

with the cup

but it came into the thrift shop this way

the cup is light blue

the bas light green

Tea Cup and tea things

Wall Decor Dilemma

I have a dilemma

Before Christmas I had a rectangular

map over the fireplace 

I never was "in love" with it

more just " in like"

So when Christmas came

 and I found

this round Santa

I realized that I would be in love

with something similar

ie round

sooooo

now what is out there

 that is this large

and round?

Since there is a mirror in the fireplace

would that be too much?

or maybe?

I've thought abt a clock but I'm not so 

sure that it will "go" in a 

Victorian cottage

I've thought abt something metal

but I have 2 metal objects in the room

one above the window 

and the other over a door

would it be too much?


or maybe this?

Is there something

 I'm not thinking abt?

Any suggestions?