Emma with her Great Grandparents Shumate, Chase (my son) and Daniel!
Chase and Daniel grew up together like brothers, 
Ingredients:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 X 13 inch baking dish and set aside. In as saucepan, cook macaroni according to package directions, drain. Return macaroni to saucepan or other bowl.
While macaroni is hot, add the Cheddar Cheese and the Velvetta Cheese to the bowl; stir well. Spread the macaroni mixture in the prepared baking dish.
In a bowl whisk together the milk, sour cream, eggs, butter, and salt.
If you drop a little salt as I did........... add a little more!!!!!
Pour the milk mixture over the macaroni. Add the cut up American Cheese on top. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown and bubbling. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
Makes 8 servings or at my house 4 servings!!!!! MEN
I don't know what it is about curio cabinets... but, I love them.... New, old, stained, painted, traditional, vintage and ones barely hanging on..... as long as it will hold my "stuff" I love them! And excuses... I can make excuses to my husband to purchase another for the wildest reasons.... Oh, I need this one for a project that I am thinking of doing in 2012 and Whitney (our daughter who is still in college) needs this beauty for her house, and this one is for Santa Claus and all of his glitter dust! Well... you get the idea! I LOVE A GOOD cabinet! I hang them everywhere .... and my favorite spot, over our toilets! I always had a hard time decorating over the toilets until I started putting up my little cabinets. Perfect for storage, especially if they have doors, AND they can really add a tremendous amount of punch to a small space! Cheap cabinets can be found everywhere. I actually found this one at a yard sale for $19.00 and I know at the stores you have to pay at least $79.00 or more for this size. Sometimes a little muscle grease has to go into cleaning them, but it is well worth it!
COFFEE FILTERS:
Aunt Olie's famous Strawberry Cake recipe
Recipe card from my mother (My favorite cookie)
This recipe was given to me by my
Did you know that Bounce dryer sheets will….
It was time for a change for the fireplace mantle....
As a fan of the UGA Bulldog's but, mostly Coach Mark Richt, I was going through the video's and found this. I wanted to share this with everyone. I am so proud of the Coach that represents one of our State's teams. He is a great role model to the players and a great role model to all of the other College Coaches in America!
The Richt Family's Life-Long Commitment
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Another Chatter Knob Hanger~
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
This is the Valentine that I gave my Sweetheart last year! It is an Altered Art Trading Card. To make it, I scanned one of my vintage bingo cards and made it into a smaller scale to fit onto my ATC (altered art trading card). I then copied it onto a khaki colored paper, cut and sanded the sides and then I inked the sides to make it look even older. I then took two old pictures of us growing up dressed as sailors which was a perfect fit together (how amazing that we were always a perfect fit together). I ran them through photoshop to scale them to size and clean them up. I then copied them to a matte photo paper and then cut them out just like you would a paper doll. I decided to use Pop dots to make the photos pop up. I then made a ticket that said, "You won my Heart" on my computer using printshop. I attached the ticket and the jewels. Used a little more inking for aging and put an eyelet in the side to add some more bling. Before I added the bling, I decided to coat the card with a coat of beeswax for more aging. I allowed some of the beeswax to bead for effects. For more color I wanted to use red beads, heart and dice to finish off my project! To say the least ~ Reid loved it! But being Reid~ He loves everything I do! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful Valentine!
Kymber at A New Day Dawning also chose to share the Georgia Friends Award with me. Thank you Kymber, I always get so excited when I see your name on my comment list!!! You are the best and so is your blog!!!! Susan at A Southern Daydreamer started this award to bring all of the great Georigia bloggers together. The rules are simple…… NO RULES. Simply pass it along to a few of your blogger friends from Georgia…. and tell them to stop in at http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/ and say hi! She has a great blog and it is so awesome to go there and have a list of your Georgia blogging friends.
This is the first assignment of Week 1~
This award is written in her native Portuguese language and it focuses not on the glory and fanfare of blogging, but in the PROXIMITY to one another through this on-line world.
Here's the definition of the award: "Blogs who receive this award are 'exceedingly charming' say its authors. This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY-nearness in space, time and relationships. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."
Now I will award this to eight very special bloggers who have inspired me to be a better person and blogger.
As many of you know, I love to take art classes over the Internet. This month I decided to take Visual Journalism 101 Workshop with Pam Carriker. Pam is an incredible instructor who gives you a video instruction at the end of each class that makes her classes so easy, even I can do them!
Finally... I have started my Etsy store back up!
Oh how I needed these! In Georgia, we have had so much rain and cloudy days I needed something to really get me going again after the holidays! Well here it is~ Romantic Homes and Somerset Life, my favorite magazines! They both are good, but Somerset Life is one of the best I have ever seen! I highly recommend this issue for anyone who loves art or crafts or even just..... the mention of LOVE! If you need a boost, some inspiration to start creating, run out to Barnes and Noble or JoAnn's and pick up a issue or two (one for a friend who needs some encouragement)! I promise you will be in your art room soon wanting to create something fabulous!
In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 God tells us to Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
This is my verse for the year and what a wonderful verse! I know this such a hard time for so many families, many of us do not understand how God can allow so many to hurt and be in need. I know hard times, I have dealt with health problems for years. At times I felt that my prayers had gone unanswered, only to find out later that God had something so much greater for me.
Friends, all I can tell you now is, this verse is so true ~
Give God the PRAISE THROUGH ALL THINGS,
GOD IS TRULY IN CONTROL OF THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING HIM!
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Chase is in Carlsbad, California visiting his girlfriend Jackie and her wonderful family.
Mr. Blogger turned my picture sideways for some reason??? LOL
$12.87 ~
