Pickled veggies

I picked up this mason jar at HomeGoods to make some

pickled veggies to have on hand in the frig.

 

Start with a brine on the stove in a stock pot

This recipe is an easy fridge pickled recipe which

makes your veggies, crunchy, zesty snack.

Prepare the brine as follows and bring to a boil before cutting up your veggies.

Brine:

1 cup of white vinegar or apple cider vinegar

1 cup of water

2 garlic cloves 

1 teaspoon of sea salt

1 T of sugar (to balance acidity)

or use a alternative sweetener and adjust to taste.

1 teaspoon of oregano 

This quick and easy recipe does not require any complicated

canning process, making it perfect for anyone seeking fresh

and healthy veggies for your meals. 

Take a look in your frig and see what veggies you have to pickle.

You can do this weekly when you have an over surplus of veggies that

need to be used up. 

I chopped up cukes, red peppers, celery, red onion, cauliflower and green olives. 

Chop them all to the size of your liking and put them into your jar. 

Now that your brine has boiled, pour the warm brine over your veggies in the jar/

Allow the jar to cool to room temperature, then put into your frig to chill.

After a couple of hours, your quick fridge are ready to enjoy! 

Sweeter than you.....

In the dead of January I have been going through cupboards and drawers cleaning up

and purging as many of you most likely have.

I found many "extra" pieces laying around from past paper pumpkins deciding

I should take the time to use them to create some cards with them. 

These strawberry pieces are from the "sweeter than you" paper

pumpkin kit.  I only had left over strawberries and a few little flowers. 

Out of season, but cute as ever.... 

I found some striped paper and other extra pieces I had in my stash to create these

cards. I added a little bit of glitter to the strawberries to make it look like

sugared strawberries. 

Take a peek in your stash and see what you can create with your leftover pieces.

Valentine Candy boxes

While at Ross dress for less the other day I found these packages of 

cello bags with heart tags and baker's twine in them (25) for $3.99

What a steal! 

They are so nicely made and the tag paper is very thick.

I pulled out this stamp set to find just he right wording 

for the tags. 

These cutie ceramic heart boxes can be found at the Dollar Tree

for you guessed it... $1.25

I made a quick trip to See's candies to pick up some valentine

chocolate for the boxes. These are the raspberry truffles...

I bagged them up in the cello bag and added some baker's twine and stamped

the wording. 

I chose "be mine" and

"He care for you always"

Simple cute and inexpensive little valentine. 

Paper Pumpkin Special Delivery january 2026

This months paper pumpkin, so sweet and cute.

As always these kits come with everything you need

to create what included. 

Here's all three cards together.

I sometimes like to change up the card design which 

I did slightly with this kit. 

All the cards have a vintage postcards. 

By far my most favorite of the three, and easy to put together too!

 

Vintage Valentine's

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Happy sunday!

From my last post. I had made up these vintage valentine's for

 galentines day.

 

I started by googling vintage valentine's and searching for

ones that I liked. 

This one came up and I knew immediately it was the one 

I was looking for. 

I printed them out and layered them up on pretty in pink cardstock,

never hurts to add a little bit of glitter to them and a stamp

that reads "be mine"

So very cute!

This is the tag I added to the galntine gifts I made.

Have fun crafting! 

Valentine gift

Happy friday!

We made it to the weekend!

Anyone else out there feel like January just goes on and on?

Longest month of the year!

While out shopping at HomeGoods I found these generous sized

heart shaped bowls.  

Check out the size of these heart bowls, they cost $5.99 each!

Get out and grab some, they also come in a medium size and small. 

I decided to make some Galentine's gifts with the bowls.

I added some pink and gold filler (also found at HomeGoods)

The little makeup removing wipes and heart post it notes were found at Ross.

Add some candy and you've got a sweet gift to give. 

Wrap up the bowl with some cellophane and add a ribbon

and cute little vintage valentine. 

Diy Valentine idea

Happy wednesday!

Back with a cute valentine idea for you.

I found these little heart tins at Hobby Lobby, they were on sale

for $2.24 for 10.  Such a deal!

They are a good size and you can also bake in them instead of putting

candies in them.  

I filled min with traditional conversation hearts and some See's truffles. 

This is how I decorated them, both equally cute, just different. 

I used a heart punch for the hearts and stamped 'be mine" in black. 

These also would be cute if you were to bake brownies in them 

and package them up. 

Which is your fav?