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Mother’s Day Cards – Flowers Made With Vegetables!

Make Your Own Flower Cards Using Vegetables! blossomsandposies.com

You might be surprised by the pretty cards you can make with, of all things, vegetables! When you cut veggies such as celery, lettuce or okra in the right way, they can be used as stamps. Just pat the cut end dry, dip your vegetable stamp into paint or ink, then press it onto card stock or paper! These are perfect for Mother’s Day. You can stamp with fruit as well, but we thought we’d see how many kinds of veggies we could find that could be used in their natural form as stamps. In addition to using vegetables as-is, you […] Read more »

Daisy Mini Cupcakes

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Tutorial for decorating miniature daisy cupcakes

Abbie has used this simple technique to decorate mini cupcakes three times in the past few weeks – for a church function, a birthday party and for Easter dinner. Each time she has delighted the guests. Wait until you see how easy they are! We got the original idea from the book What’s New Cupcake (a book filled with crazy adorable ideas for cupcakes) and modified it to make our Daisy Mini Cupcakes. Daisy Mini Cupcakes Ingredients frosted mini cupcakes miniature marshmallows colored sugar skittles Directions 1. Cut marshmallows in half diagonally. Each marshmallow will make two petals. 2. Dip […] Read more »

Ultimate Homemaking Bundle – win a cupcake decorating book!

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Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links We have a great resource to share with you today, and a bonus offer just from us here at Blossoms and Posies (scroll all the way down so you don’t miss it!) The folks at Ultimate Bundles have compiled a HUGE selection of homemaking resources. In the bundle are 80+ ebooks, printables and other resources that cover food, the home, DIY, family, faith and more for just $29.97! This is a pretty amazing deal, and is only available until Monday April 28. Some of the books that caught our eyes include… Sewing School 101: […] Read more »

Ham ‘n’ Egg Cupcakes

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This post is by Mrs. Brown, aka Patti, who is also Abbie’s mama (one of my favorite jobs!) This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click a link and buy something, we might get a little bit, at no cost to you. Thank you! It probably goes without saying that Abbie and I love to cook. Even on days when we are all in a hurry, a good hour gets spent in the kitchen, making food and cleaning up. We mostly eat at home and we like to eat well. We both love to concoct our own […] Read more »

Irish Soda Muffins

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When my oldest was a toddler, I came across a recipe for Irish Soda Muffins. In those busy and tiring days of early motherhood I was thrilled to find a recipe that was so easy to pull together but that still felt celebratory. For years the only special food I cooked for St. Patrick’s Day was these muffins. We still enjoy them! They make a great breakfast with eggs on the side. – Mrs. Brown These muffins are really good. They are unusual in that their texture and taste are not exactly the same as a normal muffin. They are […] Read more »

Pi Day – pie ideas!

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It’s March 14, which as everyone knows (right?) is Pi Day! Why pi? Because pi is 3.14 of course! For the past few years we have had a lot of fun with Pi Day and since we love to spend time in the kitchen, our pi-like celebrations pretty much mean eating pie. Not a whole lot of math, admittedly. But it is fun to have a reason to eat pie! Wait, here is an equation: Pi Day + The Browns = Eat pie! There ya go. We’re so math-y. Here are a few suggestions for pies we’ve shared that you […] Read more »

Origami Poinsettia Gift Topper

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disclosure: affiliate links present Can you imagine the excitement when a copy of How to Make 100 Paper Flowers arrived in our mailbox? We were given the opportunity to review this book, and oh my were there two happy girls when we opened it! Yes, those bookmarks are all projects Abbie must urgently try. This is an easy book for us to review – we love it! Abbie is still swooning over the beautiful flowers: “Some of them are SO realistic!” I (Mrs. Brown) am swooning over the gorgeous photos, and delighted that Abbie is going to fill up our […] Read more »