Clean mama!

I know I haven't been on to post due to life getting hectic and I'm beginning to focus more on my new baby who's now 1 years old! Yay! She's a very happy and intelligent baby and has me with my hands super full. 

But the reason why I decided to blog is because I found a wonderful Facebook and Instagram called clean mama. 

Her Instagram daily posts of what needs to be done daily to keep your house in order and not overwhelm you. I had done my own schedule and I will be truthfully honest hers is way better! I really like how easy she breaks down cleaning to make it easier and she even has a printable on her facebook that she posts in the beginning of the month so you won't lose track which is amazing! 

So if you're a hectic mama and those goes nuts cleaning the whole house in one day STOP! Go to clean mama on your facebook or Instagram and so what she posts and you will see how easier life will be. 

Stay tuned because I will post more on here about sites, makeup. Baby things and life in general with a now toddler. 

I have my stay sight up and running and will continue to pray that God makes it flourish into a popular store and can help me financially especially during the holidays. 

God blessed, Vanessa 

Repurposed Baby Formula Can To a Wipe Container

My latest quick baby project is super cute and easy that just anyone can do it!
I save my daughters formula cans because you just never know when you might need em.
Low and behold I needed a wipes container since the box of pampers wipes that came in the mail weren't resealable and having them in a ziplock bag wasn't making me happy at all!

I put my thinking cap on and was like OMG I can use the formula can to place the wipes in em!
Mind you I did this without the help of PINTEREST. Ha, I feel real proud right now. And I hope other mommies that have this trouble can find my solution and redo what I did.

Below are the photos with some details. ENJOY!

Empty Formula Can.

Wipes.

Used cardstock paper to wrap the can. Some ribbon for decoration. Vinyl for the sign.

Cut an X slit on the top enough for the wipes to pull threw and NOT dry out.

Finished Product!

Note:Only half of the wipes fit in the can so place the other half in a ziplock air tight bag so you can refill this can once you are running low.

Kay's baby station. Doesn't it look great and pretty next to her bins of CLOTH DIAPERS!?

Hope everyone enjoyed this post.

recipe- polvorones & vegan chocolate cake

It's a snow day over here so I decided to make some yummy treats for the kiddies.
First up some delicious spanish POLVORONES. It is basically like a sugar cookie that is super popular in the spanish culture. I used to have em a lot in Puerto Rico and so I searched online and boom found this recipe. Enjoy!

1 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
1/8 tsp of salt
1 egg
1 tbs of butter
3 cups of flour

mix the shortening and eggs until creamy. add the egg, butter and salt and mix. sift the 3 cups of flour while mixing with your mixer. roll em up into balls and bake at 350 for 15/20 minutes.

Mixed the shortening and sugar 

Here's the vegan cake recipe
Enjoy!

1 and 1/4 cup of all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup of cocoa powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 cup warm water


mix all ingredients together and make 2 cakes or a dozen cupcakes whichever you prefer.

I staked the cakes and put NUTELLA in the middle with butter cream frosting.

xo, vanessa

The mommy milk lactation cookie recipe

I'm a breast feeding mom. I wanted something that will help keep my milk supply up plus be healthy for me so my milk can be even more healthier for baby. If you're a breast fed dint mommy I highly recommend you to make this cookie. There's tons of other recipes and ways you can do it. This is the version I enjoyed best for myself. Make a batch freeze half and bake the other half. Try to eat two cookies a day :) enjoy the recipe xo

The ultimate mommy milk cookie recipe 

1 1/2 cup flour (whole wheat or regular)

1 3/4 cup of oats (not the instant one)

1 tsp baking soda 

1tsp salt

1 cup flax seed

3/4 cups of peanut butter

3 tablespoons of yeast (brewers)

1/3 cup of water

1 tsp cinnamon 

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar (I used light brown)

2 tsp vanilla (you can even use almond)

2 large eggs (I used organic)

2 cups of chocolate chips

And 1 cup nuts of your choice but I didn't add that to mine

Pre heat oven to 350

Combine flour, baking soda, sienna on and salt in one bowl

In another larger bowl beat peanut butter, butter, sugar (both of em) vanilla and yeast, flax seed and water till creamy 

Mix in eggs.

Gradually beat in flour mixture from the first bowl 

Mix in chocolate chips and nuts if you opted to use nuts as well

Add oats slowly 

Make em into balls 

(We had to mix it with our hands cuz the batter was a but too tough for a whisk and I don't have a mixer)

Place balls onto baking sheet and press down a bit with a fork. 

Bake for 12 mins. 

I baked enough for a few days cuz I'll be eating two a day. And froze the other batch I didn't use for when I run out. 

Let me know if you tried it. God bless xo

That's what they will look like ;) 

Holiday wreath making at my church

Paster Tim prayers before crafting.

My church held a wonderful craft even to make a holiday wreath. I was super excited to be around other crafters and even learn! I was able to learn 2 different flower felt techniques that I can later use on my girls bows yay! I been had in mind to make one but this one I will def put in my window and wait till you see the end results of my winter holiday display (photos later down the line). I really enjoyed myself and even the kids made their own lil Christmas crafts enjoy the photos. Xo

All assembled. :)

God bless and stay tuned for more holiday blogs cuz it's that time of year! 

Savory Saturday- donut muffins and lasagna rolls recipes

Even despite the gloomy weather I opted off a hearty meal that wasn't in the crockpot. Shockingly I wanted to give the crockpot a break today. So I had some left over ground meat that I had made empanadas  with so I decided why not lasagna rolls? Good choice I might add because it was very quick and easy. 

I out the sauce with three spoonfuls of ricotta and blended it into the meat and warmed it all. My kids are picky with cheese so if they don't see it they don't know it's there. 

Then I had boiled the lasagna pasta and waited until cool so I can roll. I used just a spoon spread on the pasta and some cheddar cheese and rolled which was easy but don't put too much cuz then it will make a mess and leak out. 

Line the bottom of the casserole dish with the sauce and place rolls on top. Put sauce and cheese on top and bake in oven for 15/20 mins at 375

Now we get to what I made for dessert which is the donut muffins. Oh yum these were a big hit! 

Dough:

1/2 cup sugar 

1/4 butter melted

1/4 nutmeg

1/2 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup flour

Mix the sugar, melted butter and nutmeg. 

Then add the rest and mix well. 

Place in a muffin tin which I lined with baking cups.

Oven at 375 for 15 mins. 

Then on top melt butter and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. 

Enjoy xo

Diy shirt scarf kids version

My daughter and son both outgrew a few tees so my lil crafty self saw on Pinterest the adult version and thought why not for her too? So here's my three samples that I created for her and she simply loves em. Remember to pull and stretch and to add a bit of accent to it to make it pop.

That's my favorite one these are the other two I experimented with 

Recipe: Apple Butter Spread

It's fall which means its apple and pumpkin season. I'm super excited to try new things especially with my favorite new little device the crockpot. I am marveled at the things I continue to come across of on what I can make in this fab device. If you don't have one yet I surely recommend you do especially if your a busy mom like me.

I came across a recipe for apple butter and I just had to try it! The two little ones take lunch to school and peanut is not allowed so I had to find a spread for them other than just the regular ham and cheese on the daily. So fishing around PINTEREST I came across it and I just thought wow that would taste amazing!

This is the recipe below and I will love to know who tried it:

One bag of apples (I used red ones)
3 cups of sugar (I didn't use the sugar because the apples were really sweet)
1 cup of brown sugar
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
1/4 tsp of cloves
1/4 cup of water

Peel and core the apples
Cut them in quarters
Combine all into the crockpot
Let it cook for 10 hours on LOW
(your home will smell like fall)

I used a hand mash device because I don't have an electric one so it still worked wonders

Mash the rest of the apples that didn't break down

Place in canning jars or mason jars

Viola! You have your very own apple butter spread.

Mines made 2 cans and a half.

I need to make more already so hopefully by next week.

Enjoy and happy fall.

DIY fall wreath- easy!

I finally created my first wreath. It's a fall inspired wreath that just came to me via one of my many hunts on Pinterest. I have a few pool noodles so being as how it's no more pool weather I trimmed it a bit and just taped the ends together to make a circle. Then I got leaves at the dollar store only 2 packs is needed. I used some different leaves to accent where the ribbon would string from and then used some foam letters on some of the remaining leaves to create the word FALL. I then strung some ribbon and then glued the leaves of the word fall onto the ribbon and voila I was done within 30 minutes on a beautiful wreath to decorate my door. I can't wait to make a Christmas inspired one so stay tuned for that one.

pool noodle I used

Leaves from the dollar store.

Finished product.

On the door

close up of the word fall

another image of the final product.

happy crafting

Super easy and healthy cookie recipe

Found this yummy recipe that I just had to try. Now I'm sharing it with you all. Enjoy 

Recipe: 2 bananas and 1 cup oatmeal mash bananas and oatmeal together until it makes a batter like. Make sure bananas aren't clumpy. Add 1 spoon Nutella spread or peanut butter whichever you would prefer. Heat oven at 350 place them on cookie sheet and let it bake for 15 minutes. Let it cool for about five minutes and enjoy. :) 

Savory Saturday

Every Saturday I will try to post one of my recipes. Either that I found and revamped or something I would like to try. I found on Pinterest a great beef sirloin recipe that we loved a lot. So far this is my second time making it. I made it in my crockpot. Here's my version of the recipe I found 

2 lbs beef sirloin cut into strips

Season with garlic powder and adobo 

3tablespoons of vegetable oils

1 cube beef bouillon

1/4 cup of water

1 tablespoon cornstarch 

1/2 chopped onion 

2 green peppers chopped

1 can stewed tomatoes 

3 tablespoons of soy sauce 

I had precut and put into a freezer bag then beef sirloin with onions and peppers. Let defrost do a bit and put into the crockpot n high and cover. Take the water and beef bouillon and let it break down with the corn starch and stir till dissolved. Put those contents into the crockpot over the beef and add the can of stewed tomatoes and the soy sauce and let it cook for four hours on high or on low for six.

Here's the picture of my finished product. Try it and definitely enjoy on my behalf.