Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
Hometalk asked me to curate another fun board, yay! Love that site.
After I created a board full of creative bird feeders for them a while ago, they liked my post about using wallpaper and glue dots to update dresser drawers and asked me to curate a board with unexpected uses for wallpaper. [Read more…]
Kelly sent over her new book:The Design Cookbook!
It’s not a cook book.
I’m about as addicted to HGTV as you can be, I think. I watch their shows all the time while I’m working at home, and I learn something new every day.
And I wonder how cool it would be to host one of those DIY or remodeling shows.
Lifestyle and home decorating expert Kelly Edwards has one of those fun jobs: she hosts HGTV’s “Design on a Dime.”
She transforms simple spaces into innovative interiors, and I didn’t know that she also wrote The Design Cookbook: Recipes for a Stylish Home until it arrived on my doorstep.
And it was even signed by Kelly!
A while ago, I picked up three of these frames at Target. They were marked down to $4.48 and I just couldn’t pass them up. I knew they’d come in handy at some point.
If you have a lot of vintage buttons, here is one way to show them off or dress them up to gift them: Vintage Buttons in Vintage Jello Molds.
I scored a lot of vintage buttons at an estate sale the other day and have been busy the last two days to sort through them and package them in a cute way for my store at the Newburgh Vintage Emporium.
I already had a bunch of vintage Jello tin molds that I had been saving to make something crafty with, and now they came in handy: I added buttons to them, put them into cellophane bags, and added a ribbon and a nice tag to every one of them.
It’s really labor-intensive and I hope customers will notice them and want to bring them home. I know from my experience at the Country Living Fair that these are the items I and most people gravitate to — the little affordable, nicely packaged, vintage things — so I hope these will find great homes.
They make a cute gift for someone into crafts or sewing, or a sweet little conversation piece in any home.
It’s already summer, how is that possible? I feel like I missed spring, but I guess that is because our winter was so long.
What better way to beat the heat than with a little fun science project!
I’ve been wanting to try this with my son for a while now: make homemade ice cream! The kind you make with a couple of bags, some milk, sugar, salt, and ice.
Instead of making this ice cream with heavy cream, I was curious if I could make it with Silk® Original Almond Coconut Blend.
It’s much healthier because it’s free of dairy, lactose, gluten, casein, egg, and MSG. Plus it has 50% more calcium than dairy.
So we bought the supplies and tried it.
Ingredients:
5-Minute Ice Cream Instructions:
1. Add the ice and the salt to the gallon bag, close it, mix it, then set aside.
2. Add the milk, sugar, and almond extract to the small bag, close it and mix it.
3. Then put the small bag in the middle of the ice in the large bag, add a little more ice to the top, and close it.
4. Either cover the large bag with a towel or use oven mitts to shake it for 5 minutes.
Wonder why you use salt? It lowers the freezing temperature of the ice and freezes the ice cream mixture.
After a lot of shaking by Landon and me, we made ice cream in minutes!
I added raspberries to my almond milk ice cream, and it was so delicious with the hint of almond flavor.
This is probably not the most practical way to make ice cream since you can only make a little bit at a time, but it’s a fabulous project to do with your kids on a hot summer day.
Plus, by making 5-minute ice cream at home, you get to control the ingredients and make ice cream without additives.
Landon doesn’t drink milk, but he asks for seconds of this.
If you or your kids have to avoid dairy, you can still enjoy this almond milk treat!
Are you in the mood to make your own almond milk ice cream? If you add other things, like fruit, let me know how it turns out!
