THE LITTLE THINGS

Planting Tulips and Violas & A Little Christmas Table Shopping

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Welcome to the 408th Metamorphosis Monday!
Yesterday I cut and brought in the last of the Limelight Hydrangea blossoms. Can you believe this hydrangea was still producing new blooms! The temps have been dipping toward the freezing point each night, so I knew these last few flowers were about to be gone.
Limelight Hydrangeas truly are amazing, giving blooms throughout summer all the way into fall. Can’t recommend this plant enough, if you find it will grow in your zone.

Little Gobblers

Little Gobblers

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How cute are these tiny turkeys for Thanksgiving? They’re two-bite mini cupcakes dipped in candy coating and a fun treat to decorate for fall.

You can use this recipe to make 48 mini chocolate cupcakes. You’ll need two cupcakes for each little turkey.

To get started decorating, dip a mini cupcake in melted chocolate candy coating. (Note: I lightened the chocolate by adding some white and yellow candy wafers, but you can just leave them dark brown also.)

While the coating is still wet, place an orange candy in position for a beak.


I used these Baby Tear Drop candies and they were a pretty nice size.

Insert a toothpick through the head when dry. Then place it gently on top of a second cupcake dipped in candy coating while still wet. Push toothpick through to secure and let the two cupcakes dry together.

Candy corn… pretty much always a good choice for tail feathers this time of year.

Attach them to the side/back of the cupcakes with melted candy coating. They’re is really only enough room for three on each side unless you attach to the back of the top cupcake. When dry, gently twist and remove the toothpick that was inserted in the head.

Okay, now for the faces.
Use pastel confetti sprinkles for pink cheeks and orange sprinkles to add to the bottom of the beak. Use black confetti sprinkles for eyes and red leaf sprinkles or something similarly sized for the wattle. Attach them with melted candy coating.

Then draw on eyebrows using a toothpick dipped in melted coating. Too cute. Now you can stop here…

…But faces are always cuter when you can dot the eyes with white candy coating. It just brings their little faces to life.
And since I had already used the leaf sprinkles, I thought I’d use them for little feet, too!

Hope these little gobblers bring you a smile.
Hugs and have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

CLAY POT HORSES

Clay Pot Horses The Cutest Collection To Make

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Here's a cute weekend project you'll love. Add some personality to your yard with these adorable Clay Pot Horses. We've included other cute animals for you too so check them all out now! Everyone’s going to love these Clay Pot Horses and they are so easy to recreate that you won’t be able to wait to make your own!  How To Make A Clay Pot Horse -: Wow .. who knew! Now that you’re up to speed, we’ll spare the horsing around! We’ve found you some great info on how you can make your own Clay Pot Horse and pop him in your garden minus the mess! How seriously adorable are these cuties and they are made using terracotta clay pots and of varying sizes. As you can see, some have had plantings added for manes and around the tops of their legs. It’s an incredibly cute idea and they will certainly get the neighbours talking! We found an awesome Tutorial for the above Clay Pot Horses.The photos were apparently sent in by Stephanie Butler, a facebook friend of the Blogger. She is from Illinois and these are her creations. What an incredible job she has done! As you can see from the above Photo the basic frame of the Horse is actually very easy using a combination of Mini and Large Clay Pots. This will depend on the size Horse that you want of course. This is what Stephanie had to say about how she made her Clay Pot Horses -: You will need 16- 4″ legs, 2 – 10″ body , 2- 8″ azalea pots for neck, 1 – 8″ reg pot for face.  ALL pots are glued together with JB Weld. We tried lots of other glues but nothing held especially when watering the plants. For tails I used twine, dyed to the  colour of the horse” Purchase Glue Here This Clay Pot Horse was featured on the Midwest Living Site. This is Francois the Horse  and he has Mexican Feathergrass for his mane!

LadyBug and Candy Cane Wreaths

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LadyBug Cakes 3

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!
We don’t sell any cakes, we just offer ideas how to decorate your own cakes, cupcakes and other desserts. Thank you for your visit!

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LadyBug Cakes 2

LadyBug Cakes

LadyBug Cake Ideas

Here is a collection of adorable ladybug cakes and decorating ideas, so if you are trying to make a similar cake, decorated with fondant, then don’t miss these creative ladybug cakes!

Ladybug Birthday Cake

Ladybug Birthday Cake

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LadyBug Socks Are So Cute!

LadyBug Cookies

Ingredients

1

package (16 oz) Pillsbury™ Ready To Bake!™ refrigerated sugar cookies (24 cookies)

1

container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting

12

Mini Rolls™ Betty Crocker™ Fruit Roll-Ups® Strawberry Craze™ chewy fruit snack (from 6.6-oz box)

24

small round chocolate-covered creamy mints

Small white heart-shaped candy decors

Black string licorice, cut into 48 (1/2-inch) pieces

Large colored heart-shaped candy decors

Steps

• 1 Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on package. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
• 2 Frost each cookie with 1 tablespoon frosting.
• 3 To decorate cookies: Unroll fruit snack rolls. Cut 24 rounds, using 2 to 3-inch cutter; cut each round in half. Place 2 halves, points overlapping slightly, on top of each frosted cookie to look like wings. Using small amount of frosting, decorate each cookie with 1 creamy mint candy for head, small white hearts for eyes, licorice for antennae and large colored hearts for spots on wings. Store loosely covered.  

  Ingredients

  1

  package (16 oz) Pillsbury™ Ready To Bake!™ refrigerated sugar cookies (24 cookies)

  1

  container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting

  12

  Mini Rolls™ Betty Crocker™ Fruit Roll-Ups® Strawberry Craze™ chewy fruit snack (from 6.6-oz box)

  24

  small round chocolate-covered creamy mints

  Small white heart-shaped candy decors

  Black string licorice, cut into 48 (1/2-inch) pieces

  Large colored heart-shaped candy decors

  Steps

  • 1 Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on package. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
  • 2 Frost each cookie with 1 tablespoon frosting.
  • 3 To decorate cookies: Unroll fruit snack rolls. Cut 24 rounds, using 2 to 3-inch cutter; cut each round in half. Place 2 halves, points overlapping slightly, on top of each frosted cookie to look like wings. Using small amount of frosting, decorate each cookie with 1 creamy mint candy for head, small white hearts for eyes, licorice for antennae and large colored hearts for spots on wings. Store loosely covered.   https://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ladybug-cookies/baa48707-9cf4-4e4e-8b88-b3ee503374cf#!

Butterfly Garden Flower Bed

For our butterfly garden Flowers that attract hummingbirds. 

Gardening In December Tips

Gardening To Do List - December in the Garden

Regional Gardening Guide for December 
Many of us do more shopping and planning for our gardens during the winter months than actual gardening but that doesn't mean there's nothing to do. In the warmer zones, December is the start of pleasant weather and a chance to enjoy planting cool season vegetables and flowers that don't tolerate your summers. Northern gardeners should use this period without leaves to scout for egg masses and other signs of trouble on trees and shrubs. Here are some more regional gardening tips for the beginning of winter.

In General

• Keep watering your holiday plants and give them plenty of light.
• Check houseplants and any plants you brought indoors for the winter, for insects that may have hitched a ride. With the heat on, they can multiply quickly.
• Also check any bulbs, corms, tubers and bare root plants for dessication or rot.
• Start eating those stored vegetables and think about planting more winter squash next year.

http://gardening.about.com/od/winterinthegarden/a/DecGarden.htm

HAVE A GREAT FUN HAPPY WEEKEND!

Fruit & Vegtable Planning Guide

THANKSGIVING WEATHER FOLKLORE

Thanksgiving Weather Folklore

• If the geese on St. Martin’s Day (November 11) stand on ice, they will walk in mud at Christmas.
• If the first snow sticks to the trees, it foretells a bountiful harvest.
• If sheep feed facing downhill, watch for a snowstorm.
• If on All Saints Day the beech acorn is dry, we will stick behind the stove in winter, but if it is wet and not light the winter will not be dry, but wet.
• Thunder in November indicates a fertile year to come.
• If there be ice in November that will bear a duck, there will be nothing thereafter but sleet and muck.
• As November 21st, so the winter.
• When the winter is early, it will not be late.  
  
  THESE ARE SOMETHING FOR FUN AND NO TAKEN SERIOUS AT ALL.

Bowling Ball LadyBugs

Now these are some cute ideas for LadyBg Art for your gardens. Fun and whimsical.http://thewhoot.com.au/whoot-news/diy

12 Lovely Ladybug Crafts for Kids

12 Lovely Ladybug Crafts for Kids

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REMINDER ~ DON'T FORGET!

Why is There Daylight Saving Time?

Here’s the short history of this phenomenon …
Credit for Daylight Saving Time belongs to Benjamin Franklin, who first suggested the idea in 1784. The idea was revived in 1907, when William Willett, an Englishman, proposed a similar system in the pamphlet The Waste of Daylight.
The Germans were the first to officially adopt the light-extending system in 1915 as a fuel-saving measure during World War I. The British switched one year later, and the United States followed in 1918, when Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which established our time zones. This experiment lasted only until 1920, when the law was repealed due to opposition from dairy farmers (cows don’t pay attention to clocks).
During World War II, Daylight Saving Time was imposed once again (this time year-round) to save fuel. Since then, Daylight Saving Time has been used on and off, with different start and end dates. Currently, Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November.                                                                                                    http://www.almanac.com/content/when-daylight-saving-time-2016?trk_msg=04GCP5LT4NTKLFTRP6MPPIC910&trk_contact=EEBLFVJ2I0VAQT9EM5JFVJAK9O&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=When+is+Daylight+Saving+Time+2016%3f+(read+more)&utm_campaign=Companion+Daily