Creative Juices Decor

I guess when I make a dessert three times in one week it becomes "Blog Worthy". The fact that it is sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, and uses the crock pot automatically puts it on the top of my "LIKE" list.  I got this recipe off a wonderful, well known blog Simply Sugar and Gluten Free .  I love Amy, she is so genuine and has such a gift with making healthy food taste fabulous!  Pumpkin Pie Custard 1 3/4 cups pumpkin puree 12 ounces (1 1/2 c) coconut milk (or evaporated milk) 2 Tbsp  agave nectar 2 large eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil (or butter) 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon liquid stevia (adjust for your own taste) 1/2 cup coconut flour blend  (or regular flour if not going GF) 2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon allspice dash of salt Prepare the crock of a 4 -6 quart CrockPot with cooking spray. Whisk together pumpkin puree, milk, agave, ...

Remember my post about spray paint and how I told you I had a plan for a very sad and homely looking box?  Well I was very inspired by a wonderful blogger with this post below so I can't take credit for this project myself.      Sticks and Stones Home Decor  has made old breadboxes look good again!  Here is what she did:   I got this idea from a crafty friend and I have made several of them. The bread boxes are easy to find at thrift stores and the DI.  They usually run between $3.00 and $5.00.  How to: 1.  I bring them home and wash the cobwebs out of them.  2.   Prime them and paint them.  I use spray paint. Walmart  has primer and paint for a dollar a can. Yahooy! 3. Sometimes I distress them with a little sandpaper around the edges.  4.  I sometimes stain or glaze over them.  (I just use what ever I have on hand.  J...

I have recently realized that EVERYTHING has potential.  A bright green vase for instance, a shiny gold plate holder, a peach lamp or maybe even an odd box.  It's this blogging that did me in.  I just can't pass up an opportunity to turn something ugly into beauty! I'll show you how I easily got from this: To that! It's called the Power of Spray Paint........ One of my favorite colors is at Lowes called Oil Rubbed Bronze by Rustolum.  I just sprayed it on.  Simple as that.  I bought the "grass" from Walmart for 3.00.  Total cost for project was $5.00 Heavy green vase: $2.00 Grass: $3.00 Spray paint: had on hand How about this tacky gold plate holder.  Not bad covered in the Oil Rubbed Bronze....... Total cost plate holder:  .50 cents Spray paint had on hand What about lamps!  The thrift stores are FULL of gorgeous lamps....that is if you can picture espresso brown instead of pale peach! OK I haven't pain...

Every day I drive 20 minutes downtown to drop my kids off at their new school.   Every day I see the gorgeous fall leaves turning color, and every day I tell myself I need to stop and take some pictures. Today was that day :-) Seize The Day I stand before this glorious morn As the sunrise harkens the day Shining its promising light on me “It’s your day”, it seems to say My mind still fogged with sleep hazed thoughts Last night’s dreams forgotten now I dare to question the new day’s promise Yet know I’ll make it happen somehow For laid before me, the fare of the day Everything from bread to gold My plans, my hopes, opportunities Don’t let them pass me by, take hold For each of us, with each new morn Begins a life renewed some way Another chance to get it right Take charge and seize the day By Dee Garner And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.  ~Abraham Lincoln ...

Is there anyone that can pass up on extra storage? Not me.  If I ever see anything, a large basket, an organizer, or anything that can be used as storage I won't pass it up. Best case scenario is when I can find those kind of pieces from the thrift store for a few bucks or other second hand avenues.  I got this wicker chest for 10.00 (off Craigslist). It was originally from Pier One (he said 150 bucks?) maybe it was because the thing was quite heavy duty.  Of course this couple stored it outside so it had seen better days.  But with a little help from Walmart (cheap spray paint!!!)  I fixed it right up to become my new favorite.                             You need an up close because this thing was pretty ugly Now you can see the weathered condition!  But no worries, next I spray painted grey primer on ...

G luten F ree, G ood F or you, G o F igure, G uilt F ree, cookies! Coconut Banana Cookie Bites :-) Coconut Banana Cookie Bites :   (found in a NuNaturals Stevia recipe book, although I modified it to fit my taste) 1 ripe banana (the riper the better - I usually peel and freeze all my over ripe bananas and pull out when I make banana bread or this recipe) 1 cup almond flour (I use my magic bullet or food processor to finely grind up my almonds into a flour - of course you can always use regular flour but if you are really going for UBER healthy using the almonds is the best.......at least in my opinion!)  1 cup coconut flakes (I use unsweetened)  3 tablespoons coconut oil (heated on LOW just to liquify) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon (can add ginger, nutmeg, or cloves too) Stevia to taste Here is the "fu...

Now this was a fun project!  I'm happy to be able to show all of you a step by step tutorial on how to apply American Clay.   It wasn't my typical clay wall because one of it's purposes was to be used as a photography backdrop instead of having to put up canvases in this professional photographers family room.  I had to view this project as more of an art piece than "just doing a wall"  Thank goodness I have a fine arts background or I would have been terrified!  Believe it or not the hardest part for me is the "getting ready" part.  Mixing up all the clay (80 lb bag of clay!) and getting all the pigments right with the binder is always time consuming. Shop the tools!  Large bucket Mixing drill Hawk and trowel Water Sprayer Drop cloths Gardz Primer (mix w sand) American Clay products Getting the clay ready is a lot like baking :-)  You just dump in some water (generally a gallon is fine to start out) pour in the cla...