Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop

Hi Everyone.

We are not having a party this week.  We are so sorry to let you down, but we were helping one of our kids move and waiting impatiently for Charly to have her baby.  She is do today, but so far no baby.  

The party will resume next week and we will have the featured bloggers from last weeks party next week

Have a great week and see you next Tuesday night.

Debi and Charly

Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 61

We want to thank everyone who shared with Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 60.  We love seeing all of your posts.

Sorry that the party is up late, but my neck is bad this week.  I am moving very slowly.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 61.

Now for this weeks featured bloggers.

Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 60

1.  DIY Car Emergency Kit from Blue Eyed Beauty Blog

2.  Baked Potato Casserole from Blue Eyed Beauty Blog

3.  Almond Joy Poke Cake at Diana Rambles from Love Bakes Good Cakes

4.  Peach and Blackberry Slab Pie from Twigg Studios

5.  Popsicles for Dogs, DIY from Feather in the Woods

6.  Wooden Bed Makeover from Sew Paint It

7.  Dying Girl Injected with HIV cells from 1-Minute Bible Love Notes








8.  Guac Burgers Without Buns from Lia Sophia Tomgirl

9.  Chicken Fajita Quesadillas from Life With The Crust Cut Off

So on to this weeks party.

We hope you have fun at this week's party.  We always love hearing from you, so leave your comments.

Now let's party

Have a great week.

Find us at these Great Parties!!!

Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop 60

We want to thank everyone who shared with Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 58 and 59.  We love seeing all of your posts.

Sorry that the party is up late, but my neck is bad this week.  I am moving very slowly.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 60.

Now for this weeks featured bloggers.

Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 58

1.  Sewing Machine Feet: Button Hole Food from Seasoned Homemaker

2.  Colorado Vacation Recap - I met Debi from Diana Rambles

3.  Blog Calender Printable and Planner Updates from Diana's Vintage Zest

4.  Water and Oil: Judgement and Deliverance from Saved by Grace

5.  Strawberry Pie from The Moonlight Factory

6.  Half Way Done from Treasures Made From Yarn

7.  Hi I'm AnnMarie and I'm a Vintage Junkie from Musings of a Vintage Junkie

8.  Jam Shortbread from A Mother's Shadow






Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 59

1.  Manly-Man Tote Bag from The Seasoned Homemaker

2.  Sugar Cookie Bars from Oh Mrs. Tucker

3. Cheesy Sausage Breakfast Casserole from Plucky's Second Thoughts 

4.  DIY Leather Cleaner and Conditioner from Posed Perfection

5.  Kerosene Heater Table from Artsy VaVa

6.  Adenium - Free Crochet Flower Tutorial from Little Treasures

7.  Crash Hot Potatoes from The Best Blog Recipes

8.  Strawberry and White Chocolate Tartlets from Annie's Noms

So on to this weeks party.

We hope you have fun at this week's party.  We always love hearing from you, so leave your comments.

Now let's party

Have a great week.

Find us at these Great Parties!!!

Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 59

We want to thank everyone who shared with Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 58.  We love seeing all of your posts.  Since it is summer and Charly's baby is due in the next few weeks we will be doing featured posts every other week.  We wanted to have a relaxing summer and hope that all of you do also.  So the parties will go on as usual, but we will do features every other week.
Have a great summer.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 59.

So on to this weeks party.

We hope you have fun at this week's party.  We always love hearing from you, so leave your comments.  We are reading all of your comments, it is just taking us a little time to answer.

Now let's party

Have a great week.

Find us at these Great Parties!!!

Baked Mac n' Cheese

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!  We hope that you have a wonderful day.

Today I am sharing my recipe for Baked 

Mac n'Cheese.  I was looking for something to make for Danny, who is a meat and potatoes kind of guy, and decided to make this Baked Mac n' Cheese for with the hamburgers that I was making the other night.  I made it with egg noodles since I didn't have any elbow noodles on hand, but you could use any kind of a noodle.  Next week we will be posting Vince's recipe for Mac n' Cheese.  He's showing me how to make it this Saturday.  I'm pretty excited, I love cooking with my kids.  I think Danny is going to be making homemade Fish and Chips for a post also in the next week.  So even though Charly is very pregnant and doesn't want to cook a lot right now, her brothers are pitching in with recipes.

Homemade Mac n' Cheese

Ingredients:

1 large bag egg noodles

24 oz velveeta cheese cubed

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup flour

1 1/2 cups cream or milk

1 1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

Directions:

Cook noodles according to the directions on the bag.  Then drain and set aside in the pan.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray nonstick cooking spray in a 9 x 13 casserole dish.

In a large sauce pan melt butter and then stir in flour.

Cook flour over medium heat for about 2 minutes.

Then slowly add the cream, salt, and pepper.

Next, add the cheese and stir constantly until cheese has melted.

Pour the cheese sauce over the noodles and mix well.  

Pour into the prepared casserole dish and bake for 30 to 40 minutes.

Makes 12 to 15 servings.

I hope that you like this recipe for Baked Mac n' Cheese.  Vince's sounds delicious.  He makes it with Chorizo, so it must have a little kick, check back next week for his recipe.  I always love hearing from you.  

Enjoy!!!

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Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 58

We want to thank everyone who shared with Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 57.  We love seeing all of your posts.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 58.

Now for this weeks featured bloggers.

Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 57

1.  Grey and White Chest from The Dedicated House

2.  The Perfect Summer Breakfast Buffet from Kathe with an E

3.  Finished Sewing Projects: Two Lace Dresses from Vintage Zest

4.  Easy Peasy Homemade Ball Jar Drinking Glasses with Straws from Just Following Jesus

5.  Coke Floats Cupcakes from The Tiptoe Fairy

6.  When He Just Wont Lead from A Proberbs 31 Wife

7.  Decorated Chinese Lamp from Agus Yoinut

8.  A Quilt for Alix from La gang a Nat

So on to this weeks party.

We hope you have fun at this week's party.  We always love hearing from you, so leave your comments.

Now let's party

Have a great week.

Find us at these Great Parties!!!

Mia Grace Baby Blanket and Blog Happenings Update

I have been working on a new pattern for this Mia Grace Baby Blanket.  It's named for Charly's baby girl, who will be here sometime in the next month.  I am trying to get it done, so that they can take it to the hospital with them to wrap my beautiful little granddaughter in.  Once I have finished it, I will post the pattern for all of you.  It's pretty simple and works up quickly.  Mia's nursery is black, white, and pink, which is why I'm using these colors in the blanket.  I will post pictures of the nursery this week.  Charly is just putting the last of the babies things away and finishing putting things together and then I will take pictures to show all of you.  It's adorable.  She and Ryan have done a great job.

I also wanted to post a little update about what is happening on Adorned From Above.  I wrote a post several months ago about blogging and trying to find some kind of a balance in my life with blogging.  I love blogging, but I have found that it seemed to take over everything, so I am taking a little step back.  I will still be posting, but less frequently.  I found that I have really missed some of my hobbies that take a little more time.  So like with this blanket pattern, I will post a little less often, because some of these things take more time to make.  Also, since Charly is having a baby soon, she will be spending more time taking care of Mia and less time on the blog.  We will see how much time she feels she can spend blogging once the baby is here.

We can not tell you how much we appreciate the time you take to come by and visit us.  We hope you will continue.  If you sign up for emails, then when new posts come up they will just show up in your emails rather then you having to check back each day for new posts.  

Have a wonderful week.

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Love - Matthew 5:44

It's easy to love your friends and family, but it's a hard thing is to love your enemies.  That doesn't come naturally to us.  I love these words from Jesus, "Love your enemies".  I don't know about you, but I pray a lot, and this is something that I need to remember.  Pray for my enemies.  Pray for what comes against our country, our cities, our family and friends in our daily lives.  Ask for God's help.  He is listening!!!

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5:44 

Have a blessed day.

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Blog Hop and Giveaway Winner

Hey Everyone.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  There will not be a blog hop this week.  I am spending some wonderful time with my sweet hubby for our anniversary.  We will have the blog hop next week as usual.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

We do have a winner for last weeks $50.00 Visa Gift Card Giveaway.  Congratulations to Joseph S., you have won the $50.00 Visa Gift Card Giveaway.  Send me an email to debrabolocofsky@gmail.com and I will send you your gift card.

Congratulations again Joseph S.

Have a great week everyone!!!

Sincerely,

Debi

Wire Wrapped Jewelry

A few weeks ago I took one of the Craftsy classes for called Wire Wrapped Stones, Crystals, and Clusters.   Below is a link to this class by Aga Kruk.

Wire Wrapped Jewelry Making Class

It was a great class, I totally loved it.  Above is a necklace and earrings that I made.  It was really easy and she did a great job explaining how to do the wire wrapping.  This is one class that I would really recommend taking.  I paid $39.99 for the class, which I didn't think was bad for probably 12 hours of lessons.  You can take them over time, pause, restart, and so on.


I also took the free Craftsy Mini Class called Free Micro Torch Basics Online Jewelry Making Class, and it was so interesting.  I can't wait to buy my first micro torch so that I can start soldering jewelry.  There is this stuff called solder paste now, which looks so much easier then regular solder.  It has been 35 years since I took a jewelry class, it is so great to know that I can do this at home.  I am pretty excited.

Craftsy is one of my sponsors, but I did pay for the Wire Wrapped Jewelry class.  The Micro Torch class is free and so much fun to watch.  I would totally recommend their classes, but if you are unsure, sign up for Craftsy (it's free) and try one of their free mini classes.  It's a win win for you, you have absolutely to loose on the free classes.  I had taken quite a few of the free mini classes before I finally paid for a class.  It was well worth it.  The next class I pay for is going to be the Metalsmithing At Home Class, but I have to buy a micro torch first.

I always love hearing from you.
Debi

You will find another link to Craftsy below and I hope you'll sign up.  They are also offering all of these free patterns listed below for signing up for Craftsy.

• Free Embroidery Patterns at Craftsy!
• Free Knitting Patterns at Craftsy!
• Free Sewing Pattern at Craftsy 
• Free Quilting Patterns at Craftsy
• Free Cake Decorating Recipes at Craftsy!