What a clever idea! This new line of fabrics and these flip doll kits from Umbrella Prints will soon be available. Love them.
Etsy Finds Friday #3
Clockwise from top left:
4th Avenue Soap Co., green tea garden hemp oil soap, $2.75.
Blue Bell Bazaar vintage salt and pepper shakers, $15.
Dead Bird Finds vintage canister set, $16.
Susy Jack, eco pencil holders, $7 each.
focuslineart, Tree Rings, 6″x6″, acrylic on board. $27.
Jenn Ski alligator print, 4″x6″, $25.
colourspace wool felt baby shoes, $30.
Yael Fran paper doll magnets, $5 each.
Toast horse hoodie, $75.
Cupcake Muffins
Well, these aren’t quite healthy, but better than most. Here is a recipe for some banana muffins with cream cheese frosting. This was a basic banana bread recipe that I modified to include yogurt and oats. Makes 12 muffins. The frosting recipe should be doubled if you want to generously cover them all. The muffins are pretty good on their own.
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 1 cup oats (slow-cooking)
- 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup oil
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix first six ingredients in a bowl. Set aside. Mix flour, baking powder and soda together in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix in the oil. Scoop into greased muffin pan or paper muffin cups, filling 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean and tops are golden brown.
While muffins are baking, make frosting:
- 8oz. package of cream cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons of blueberry juice (for color)
- blueberries for topping
Cut cream cheese into pieces and mix all ingredients together with electric mixer. Allow to chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before icing and make sure to allow muffins to cool completely.
Made with Love by Hannah
I don’t typically wear clothes with a lot of pattern, but I’ve been breaking out of my mold lately. Here’s my new skirt from Made with Love by Hannah. She designs, screen prints and sews these fun Swiss Miss clothes. You might have seen the recent Craft magazine article about her. This skirt has a zipper that zips from the bottom up, which would have made me nervous to wear to school in 8th grade, thinking that some clever person would de-skirt me. Maybe I should now worry about the kids doing this, but it’s good fine motor skill building.
Cupcakes
These aren’t really cupcakes, they’re two-bite brownies with icing. Lemon cream cheese and coffee chocolate icing. And really, these are too sweet. The brownies are so rich they don’t need anything else, but I was reading Bakerella‘s great blog and saw that it is cupcake week on the Martha Stewart show so I was inspired to add some icing. Well, if you look at Martha Stewart’s favorite cupcakes here, you can see what all the cupcake hubbub is about. Pretty and self-contained, cupcakes are delectable little works of art. I think I need to do more research.