livinginaheartbeat:

omg this must smell amaziiiiing

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allthecrafts:

Stephanie’s Sewn Felt Slippers

“Inspired by moccasins, each of these slip-ons is constructed from a single piece of felt, available in an array of colors.”

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bestdayofmylife:

these pizza rolls were pretty much awesome. i was inspired by this recipe which i couldn’t get google to translate… so i made it up!

you’ll need:

• 1 ready to bake pizza dough (mine was from trader joe’s)
• 2 tbs left over garlic butter (follow this recipe)
• 3 - 4 tbs romano cheese (or parmesan, but i like romano)

how to:

1. roll out your pizza dough on a floured surface - long rather than wide, you’re going to roll it up like cinnamon buns you know.
2. soften or melt the garlic butter and use a pastry brush to coat the dough, leave a strip of un-buttered so you can seal the rolls.
3. sprinkle with romano cheese (next time i will also add some mozzarella cheese to the insides)
4. roll up the dough the long way and cut it into 12 equal pieces.
5. grease a muffin tin (i used the last bits of my garlic butter) and place the rolls into the pan. now you can press some extra mozzarella cheese into the tops of the rolls (i only did half in this batch, but next time i’ll do all of them)
6. bake at 400 degrees until the cheese is as bubbly or crispy as you like it : ) 
7. serve with warmed marinara sauce and enjoy! 

bestdayofmylife:

recently i decided that i like almond flavored cookies - today i decided to try making some! i (mostly) followed this recipe found on pinterest. but made a few changes. i’m calling them almond sandies, they’re really light and airy and have a lovely sweetness and chew. i really, really like them - they will be an excellent holiday cookie <3 

for about 4 dozen cookies:

• 1.75 c white flour
• .5 c whole wheat flour
• .5 tsp baking powder
• .5 tsp cream of tartar
• .5 tsp salt
• 1 stick butter
• .5 c white sugar
• .5 c confectioner’s sugar
• .5 c veggie oil
• 1 egg
• .75 tsp almond extract
• .25 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 c whole almonds chopped in a food processor

1. combine flours, baking powder, cream of tartar, + salt in a medium bowl
2. in the bowl of a stand mixer cream butter and sugars - when well mixed scrape down edges and add egg, oil, and extracts
3. once the wet ingredients are thoroughly combined slowly add the dry ingredients at a low mixing speed - stir in the pecans last
4. put some white sugar into a shallow bowl - roll the dough into 1 - 1.5 inch balls and cover them in sugar. place them on a parchment prepared baking sheet with 2 inches or so between them.
5. use a fork to flatten out the dough balls a little, now they’re probably only about an inch apart! 
6. bake at 350 in the center of your oven until just the edges are lightly browned. 
7. cool + ENJOY! 

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boatsand-hoes:

i know this may be really obnoxious and most of you won’t care so just ignore this if you don’t, but i have had a few anons and non-anons asking how i did my nest-bun hair thing. So i thought it would be easier to do it like this, because hopefully it explains it better. It’s pretty self explanatory really, and really really easy.

1. Put your hair into a high pony-tail, depending on how high you want the bun.
2. Then Backcomb the shenanigans out of the ponytail. Always backcomb from the middle to the roots never from the end to your roots.
3. Wrap your backcomb hair around the hair elastic and hold it where you want it.
4. Use bobby pins to hold your hair in place, i use about 6 until all of my hair stays where i want it.
5. Then Spray the absolute crap out of the bun.
6. And you’re done.
i hope the gifs work at all. 

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thatluciegirl:

Bite-Sized Baked Brie

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