We made it to February after 100 days of January. After getting through a month long of colds, flus and pink eye we are all finally relatively healthy over here and I finally have energy and time to make things! Between baking, cooking and crafts, here are the things I made or worked on this week!
- Banana Spinach Muffins aka THE MONSTER MUFFINS
With 2 toddlers running around constantly and burning energy, snacks are in HIGH demand over here. This is the second time we made a batch of these delicious green muffins.
Why are these so great??
- Everything is mixed in a blender
- HEALTHY and TASTY – No sugar – honey is the sweetener
- They are just so dang cute when made in mini muffin trays
They are one of the healthiest muffins and also taste SO GOOD. The recipe is from DetoxInsta. She creates delicious and healthy recipes for your home. Go check out her instagram! I used almond butter instead of peanut butter and I did not add any chocolate chips and my kids still loved them.
I also invested in some silicone mini muffin pans and I must say, there is ZERO regret. They bake great, pop out easily and then pop those silicone molds in the dishwasher to clean.
Go get the RECIPE HERE.
2. DIY Bracelets with my Toddlers
Materials
- Bracelet Making Kit
- Scissors
- Tape
My girls are huge into bracelet making, but I only let them use pony beads and pipe cleaners. I felt like we needed to up our bracelet game and so we purchased this Bracelet Making Kit. There was so much fun to do with them and the customization is unlimited with all the colour options.
Laurel, my 4 year old is fully living out her princess era currently and so we created a Rapunzel themed bracelet for her. With my younger girl, Ellie, we went with a classic Valentine’s colour theme. This activity was too challenging for them to do on their own so I made the bracelet for them, but they had fun picking their colours and beads. It was a fun bonding activity with a beautiful outcome.
3. Started a Crochet Cardigan!
My plan was to make a cardigan for both of my daughters for Christmas and that did not come to fruition. Christmas projects and a market I signed up for, took over and I lost all time to make them. I am finally getting to work on my 4 year old’s cardigan and hoping to finish it for her 5th birthday in May.
I chose the 4 colours I am going to use for it and started crocheting the rim. I will hopefully be able to work on this on evenings where my husband and I catch up on our tv shows.
I am making the Riverbed Cardigan by CJ Design. She creates amazing patterns and has a wonderful blog where she posts the patterns for free! I am so excited to see how this comes together. Stay tuned for updates.
4. Valentine’s Printables for Preschool
Valentine’s is coming up this next week and my 4 year old is getting excited for her Valentine’s Preschool Party. I love to make anything homemade I can so I decided to make my own fun Valentine Printables in CANVA. I am really starting to have fun with CANVA lately and really digging into all the templates and printables you can create in it. Stay tuned for more fun printables soon…
You can access my FREE Valentine’s Printables here.
I also decided to purchase some fun Rainbow Scratch Notes for her classmate to go along with the printable. The kit comes with 24, and includes a stencil for every notebook and little baggies to put all the supplies into.
Here is the Rainbow Scratch Notebooks I purchased.
5. Best Supper of the Week – TACO BURRITOS
This was fully inspired by my sister. I am a self proclaimed anti beef taco fan. I just can’t enjoy soft shell tacos or hard shell tacos and my husband has been quite sad about this since he loves beef tacos.
I do however love burritos, and my sister recently told me how she made her tacos in a soft shell, adding rice and beans, and then pressed it in her little electric panini press. I also have a panini press that has been collecting dust in my pantry for the past few years, so I pulled it out and made some taco burritos and it was amazing and SO SIMPLE.
RECIPE : Literally add whatever you would add in a taco, plus rice, beans, avocado and corn. Fold up your burrito, press in your little electric press and bang! Easy, delicious supper. Plus it stays together and doesn’t fall apart all over the place. Next up is to make a breakfast version of this.
**ate this too fast and forgot to take a picture haha
6. Lemon Cookies
So I asked my husband to pick me up a couple of lemons about two weeks ago and he ended up getting a bag of 20! So we have got a lot of lemons in our fridge. I love to use them for homemade sauces and vinaigrettes, but it is still going to tkae me awhile to get through them all. Hence, the lemon cookies. I found this recipe by Lemon Peony and decided to try it out. I definitely left them in the oven too long, as they came out more crisp than chewy unfortunately. But they are a decent tasting sugar cookie!
These were all the fun, new things I made this week! Let me know if you try any and how they turn out!!
The Expert Amateur 