Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Peanut butter Trifle

OH my word, You will make so much of this your eyes will pop... So basically I found the recipe over on Taste of home and tweeked it a bit to match what I wanted.. so here goes... Instead of Peanut butter cups you could always add chocolate chip cookies.

1 pack Fudge brownie mix
1 package of peanut butter chips
1 package of mini peanut butter cups
4 cups cold milk ( chocolate milk option )
2 packages instant vanilla pudding.. ( i hate instant pudding to me worth the wait to use cook pudding)
1 cup creamy peanut butter... ( how about hazel nut spread next time?)
4 Teaspoons vanilla
2 cartons of frozen whipped topping, thawed..


prepare brownie batter, according to package, cut down on calories, instead of oil use plain yogart or apple sauce bake in 13 in x 9 in pan at 350 for 20-25 mins

cool. cut into pieces


cut peanut butter cups in half, and then half again. set aside some for garnish. In LARGE bowl whisk milk and pudding ( or prepare according to package, and set aside to cool) ADD peanut butter and vanilla, mix well, fold in 1  1/2 carton of whipped topping.

Place 1/3 of brownies in glass bowl ( trifle bowl or large punch bowl) we used a punch bowl. Spoon a third of pudding mix over top of that and repeat. Cover with remaining topping, drizzle with chocolate sauce.... and Garnish. SEVER refrigerated.

this is NOT low cal about 700 calories are in 1 cup of it. I use skim milk so mine probably only has 450 calories. But it is not intended for you to eat a lot of because it is VERY Sweet.

ENJOY

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Half Marathon finish!!

 jersey pug goes WILD:)

 Here is my photo before.
3 days after my half marathon, and feeling GOOD:) I had allot of fun. I will try to do it again next year. www.huntersvillehalfmarathon.com it was a chilly morning. My son who is 11 came with me and waited the whole 2:29 minutes until I finished..

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

a little bit of this and that, and training.

 Hey ya'll Im sorry I try real hard to update here. I have been training for my fourth half marathon, coming up this weekend... yikes going to be chilly here.. but I also have been sewing quite a bit of new items, Ipad carriers, SWEET laptop bags, and TWO QUILTS! OH MY GOSH.. how on earth did I take on such a task? Im not sure what motivated me, maybe it was all my time reading my friend Sandi's blog, and envy of all her adorable quilts. ( Im pretty sure that it was...)




www.legacyofstitches.blogspot.com
pop over and say hi to her.. and enjoy my new items..














alright, Ill check back in with you all when I have completed my half marathon.. until then keep crafty sewing, blogging and smiling.www.legacyofstitches.blogspot.com

Sunday, November 6, 2011

my new labels are in... I will be creating quite different items from the Madi sweet and sassy line. 
 As you can see from Pugsley's incognito outfit.. he just LOVES them:)
but in his usual fashion he is helping me create some beautiful Yoga Mat Carriers, (click on my ETSY store or my FB page for a promo, of these. Just use the special coupon code) 


my new labels are in and I just love them.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Some times in life you hit a speed bump and you just have to .... keep going. ! so lets keep sewing! Im working on some special orders today of my lovely aprons, however IM OUT OF LABELS so I can not ship them out until they arrive. 

so These are some purses I have completed recently.. and used as gifts for people, and also as product Im selling in etsy. ENJOY








the first bag USC is a little gift bag I stitched up for a gift, and the yellow one is my favorite design it is one of a kind, all my design and the clemson and USC bags at the bottom are as well. I just love designing and figuring out new things! hope you have a nice day!

Friday, October 21, 2011





you want just a peek a boo at the fine things Im putting in a FANTASTIC SHOP IN FLAT ROCK NC??? INQUIRE WITHIN. check them out! here is some fine photos... Ive been sewing, running and more running with more sewing.. now to figure out how to run and sew at the same time...... http://www.inquirewithinorganics.com/


check them out on FB as well the link is on my FB page.. and Btw.. little pugsley says HELLO and thanks for stopping by!!

FABULOUS FRIDAY with ADORNit … GIVEAWAY!

FABULOUS FRIDAY with ADORNit … GIVEAWAY!

Friday, April 22, 2011

SLACKER PUG

Ok, Im a slacker I haven't posted here for some time..

But You will forgive me as I have been transforming!

I've been taking up running, something new for me that requires more time than sitting. About a Year and half ago, I got on the scale and when it said that number .. yes you know the one that makes you think, certainly this bloody thing is broke? Right then and there I said ENOUGH!
I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but I asked my son to ride his bike along with me while I jogged.. ha That boy in all his funny witty ways, decided to bring his newly acquired train whistle. I jogged probably down the drive way to the first mail box where I decidedly thought I was going to die, he blew his whistle at me "said come on old lady your not getting any where with that" Thus began my first jogging experience, I would jog, then walk he would blow the whistle at me. I determined that day the whistle was going to disappear, and he wouldn't be watching any more biggest loser! It took me a good month before I was able to run/jog my first 10 minute mile.. and then I officially thought I was dead or dying.
February of 2010 I ran my first 5k with the help of RUNNING MATE. 31:34. I cried after the first mile. In March I ran my goal a 10k the Cooper River bridge run by this time I was down 14 pounds feeling better having more energy. But running and I were having this whole love hate relationship. But I kept thinking I wanted to wear a bikini for summer so I kept it up 6 miles three times a week, sometimes four. I still didn't have a clue, I would ask everyone I thought was a runner about eating, about clothes. I would ask them about water, about chafing about socks.. shoes.. ( word of caution here.. there are allot of run snobs as I like to call them, people that run 6 minute miles and look at your fat behind, and roll their eyes, as if to say.. your not really a runner..)

There was still allot of issues I hadn't worked out. I still couldn't figure out why people liked this running thing I would look at my race photos, and my friends and think.. REALLY? We look like were miserable, half dead almost! I remember thinking no ones smiling! I was ready to give up and go back to swimming, much easier. The things holding me back from just swimming were...You don't lose as much weight swimming and I didn't readily have a place to swim with out paying a ton of money on a membership, and then I would have to figure out with their schedule when I could go.. With running I could go when I could and when the kids didn't need me. The best part is people would see you running and say" how far did you run today? " I ran 5 miles today or I ran 6 miles today and people would look at me with those raised eyebrows. Almost as if to say.." really with that large behind?" When you swim 2 miles a day, people haven't a clue how long it takes you or what goes into it. Or you get a lot of" don't you get bored?" and the answer to that Is" no creative people are never bored, we tend to laugh a lot at other people.."

I was almost 40 I signed up for a half marathon, and started training, and reading everything I could on running on Women's running in particular. I slacked off running in the summer as it gets up to 100 here hot humid. I still ran in the pool and ran outside two times per week. As the fall came and the kids went back to school I was out running more, and by this time I needed new shoes, the first pair of running shoes had holes wore in the bottom. I had a few issues with my iron at certain times I would feel like I had lead legs like I was dragging them along the road. But I kept running mainly because there was allot of things that I could think about while running and partly because I would look down at my legs and think, wow runners legs look so much better than swimmers legs.


A coach at the school asked me to help coach Girls on Track. Me, someone who really didn't have a clue what I was doing. I felt special to help mentor those girls to teach others to run. My son came along with me on most days. He learned to run. ( I should have thought of the whistle .. but by then that thing was long gone!)
Somehow with new shoes came plantar faciitis. UGH ! I denied thats what I had because mine only hurt at certain times that didn't go with the traditional diagnose, I kept running. After all I was training for my first half marathon, which I was running with two of my best friends. I ran up to 10 miles one day.. and hated it. I cursed that running, everything hurt I wanted to give up. I wasn't losing weight because I was so hungry and I was eating and not drinking enough water! So finally the time came for me to run this 13.1 miles which I thought was going to kill me, but having paid the money already and having a plane ticket in my hand.. I left to join my friends.

The morning of the half marathon I had to get up at 5 am? who does this? Crazy people and some how I was becoming one of them. My heal hurt when I got up it hurt to walk on but I just figured oh well. I ran that morning with two of my best friends, I had a smile on my face in St. Pete it was a beautiful morning but, round mile 8 I was hurting my left leg was cramping up near my pelvis, my right foot aching. I told my friends to go ahead and I stopped to stretch my foot and tried to workout the pain in my left side. I walked a little thinking it would work its way out. No luck I jogged, I walked I stretched, around mile 10 I said thats enough Im going to suck it up and go. We ran through a stadium, and at the time I had no idea which one I was just running. Suddenly in a Women's Half Marathon a rather Large man ran past me he had a shirt on that said I can do ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST who strengthens me. And right there I said alright,I certainly can! I ran the next 3.1 miles I sprinted to the finish with people screaming! My time wasn't great 2:37 but I finished the race! my friends were waiting for me, one of them had gotten hurt too and had walked some of the race! But for me it was finishing the 13.1 with a smile and getting to see my two dear friends I had not seen in over three years.

I came home to my husband and children that day. They had made huge signs for me in the yard. I thought to myself I am NEVER running that distance again! But I didn't say that to them, they were so proud of me and the Medal was pretty big, and I did have a blast. After that I had one more race that year. I was running with the Girls on Track reindeer romp 5k and my son was running with me.

Alright for the rest of the journey.. you will have to wait. .. but here's a teaser.. I've got my first trophy, ran 2 more half marathons and gotten my daughter to run, which is my proudest race ever todate. So cheers and IF I CAN SO CAN YOU! Now get out there and lace up those running shoes and GO! if you need to borrow someone with a whistle and a bike... call me up!