Food and Fun ~

Sharing a couple favorite recipes ~

Best Banana Bread ever~

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup shortening

2 eggs

3 bananas

3 tablespoons cream

2 cups flour

1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

pinch salt

chopped nuts {optional}

Cream the sugar and shortening together. Add the eggs and mix well.

Slice your bananas , add them and beat well.

Add all your dry ingredients and stir together.

Stir in nuts if desired and put in a greased loaf

pan and bake in 350 degree oven approx. 1 hour or until

toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

{this came from my grandmother and it is the best I have ever

tasted. Yumm!}

Octoberfest Skillet 16 ounce package Kielbasa, sliced {I used smoked sausage} 2 onions, quartered 2 tart apples, sliced 1 green pepper, sliced 2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed Place sausage in skillet sprayed with non stick vegetable spray. Heat until browned around edges. Add onion, apples and pepper; heat until tender. {don't over cook or it will be mushy} Add butter and brown sugar; stir until mixture coats sausage and vegies. Serve over rice.

Makes 4 servings. We traveled to Indiana yesterday to attend granddaughter Keira's 2nd birthday party. She loves the five little ladybugs book that was part of her gift from us.

The dolly stroller we gave her was also a hit. She pushed it all over the house the whole time we were there. Such a sweetie! We love you Keira!! Blessings~

Dads Birthday Gift ~

I wracked my brain about what to give my dad for his birthday this year. What do you give someone who doesn't really *NEED* anything. He is always thankful for anything, but I wanted to do something special. He got into flying RC airplanes a few years ago and absolutely loves it. Thus followed my hubby, son, brother, nephew...all getting RC Planes and going out to dads house and flying them. It is fun to watch them...except when they crash and moan and groan...LOL This is the outside of the box. I printed "Dad" in Beyond Wonderland font on the computer and cut it out with my scallop cutter ~ Added brown paper shred inside along with a note ~

The gift...drum roll...TA DA...paper airplanes made out of money! It was a big hit and he loved it! Had I thought of this sooner I would have picked up a bunch of one dollar bills and he could have had a whole fleet of airplanes!

I tried folding different styles of paper airplanes, but I always came back to the simplest folded airplane around... Have a blessed day~

Birthdays and Blessings

I love this blessings sign that I have hanging in a guest room . Love the scrolls and the brown and blue tones. Be sure to count your blessings today! I thought I would share a gift that I wrapped for a friend. I used vintage wallpaper, vintage ribbon and a vintage millinery flower as well. I printed the Happy Birthday banner on the computer and attached it. I was very pleased with the way it turned out. So to everyone that has a birthday today...Happy Birthday and many blessings in the coming year!