Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Pin It Last night I did a taste testing session with my husband and sister-in-law to try and figure out the best chicken salad sandwich recipe.  This is the recipe we came up with.

- 1/4 Cup Mayo
- 1/2 tsp (or a bit less) Curry Powder
- 1 Tbs or so lemon juice

Whisk together  those ingredients.  Then add:

- 12.5 ounces of canned chicken - break up into small pieces
- halved red grapes
- handful of craisins
- 1 granny smith apple chopped up
- Cashews
- Salt & Pepper to taste

You should try it out and let me know what you think.  Obviously if you used freshly cooked chicken breasts, it'd probably be even better.   Oh and don't forget to have it on a delicious croissant :)

I refrigerated the mayo mixture with the chicken, grapes and craisins so it would get cold and then just before serving I added the apples and cashews so they would stay crunchy.

This makes 3-4 sandwiches.

Shell Bead Bracelet

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Sorry I've been gone for a bit.  My daughter has been sick this past week and I also went and attended a photo workshop on flash.  If you would like to see the pictures I took while at the "Flash Camp" visit my photo blog.
 

I got some shell beads off of ebay for cheep.  The only bummer is they take about a month to get to you since they are coming from China or something and it's free shipping, but hey....I'll take em :)  I added the beads onto elastic jewelry thread.  I learned a trick to keep the elastic thread from coming untied and that is to tie it tight and then put a drop of super glue on the knot.  It's worked wonders!  The package came with 8 beads, but I only needed 7 to fit my wrist....so now I have an extra bead to use - yay!  I'm going to apologize ahead of time for the pictures.  My brother has my good lens and the one that I was using really wasn't good for this purpose.  Hopefully you can get the general idea of what it looks like.

Dress to Skirt

Pin It My younger sister gave me a bunch of clothes that she doesn't wear anymore.  I love "hand-me-ups" especially now that I'm a poor married person without any cute clothes.  One of the dresses she gave me wasn't really something I would wear, but I liked the fabric.  So I decided to make it a skirt instead.  This was honestly SO easy!  Here's what I did:

This is the dress before I cut it up.

 I cut the top part of the dress off and was left with what looked like a skirt.

 I simply folded down the top edge and sewed a few rows with elastic thread to get the finished product.  SO easy!  The bottom was already finished since it was the bottom of the dress so I only had to worry about the top.  Now I have a fun summer skirt! 

Dried Orange Art

Pin It A while ago I mentioned that I had seen a tutorial on how to dry oranges on Delia Creates well I finally used mine!  I put my dried oranges in a few picture frames and hung them above the window in my kitchen.  The two small picture frames could be bigger, but I got them for 10 cents each at Walmart....so I'm not complaining!  The larger frame was also from Walmart and was $3.  Here's the finished product.

To dry your oranges, cut them into the same you want.  Cut them about 1/4" thick.  Lay them on a cookie sheet lined with foil and bake at 250 degrees for about 5-6 hours.  Depending on the thickness of your oranges, it may take longer.  After a couple hours flip over the oranges.  You may want to flip them back over after another few hours.

To make these, I simply cut out some cream paper to fit the frames and then hot glue the dried oranges onto the paper.  Really easy!

My Giveaway Winners

Pin It Thanks to all of those people that helped me in the JarvieDigital's JAG competition.  I won and it's all thanks to you!!!  Here are the winner's of my prizes:


The owl goes to:

 kristinann who said... So I liked his facebook page and added him to our blog list and am following your blog!

The bracelet goes to:

Emilee said... I added Scott's blog to my awesome blog list at http://emilee-reynolds.blogspot.com/

The necklace goes to:

Tamera who said... I also facebooked about your giveaway. :) 

Polymer Clay Shapes for Necklaces

Pin It Remember a few posts ago when I made a faux metal heart necklace?  Well I got more clay and made some other shapes.  I haven't made them into necklaces yet, but here are the pendants/beads.

You should definitely try this out.  It's a ton of fun to sculpt things out of clay.  The one difficult thing I have fun into is trying to not get fingerprints on the shapes.  I've gotten a bit better with it, but I'm still not totally there.

Happy Mother's Day

Pin It Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, etc. and even to the future mothers.  I can honestly say that motherhood is one of the very best things that has ever happened to me.  It has brought so much joy to my life.  Mother's day is a day that I can reflect on how much I love my little girl and how good she has been for me, not the other way around.

I know several people out there haven't yet had the opportunity to be a Mother - some not by their own choice. But know that Heavenly Father has a divine plan for you to be a Mother and that it is a very important role.  Many people in the world try to make motherhood out to be a bad or weak thing, but the Lord thinks otherwise.  Let's celebrate our divine nature and be the best mothers we can!

Happy Mother's Day!