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Happy New Year!

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Source Happy New Year!! 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwiches

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Recently we were invited to dinner and I offered to bring a dessert. Well of course I headed over to my Pinterest " Treats " board for some yummy-licious goodies! I found this amazing recipe from the  Picky Palate's Blog  for Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwiches. She got the idea from something similar they serve at Disneyland.  These sandwiches are SO easy to make!! And you only need 3 ingredients. You read that right, THREE! ingredients! Huzzah!  Okay Ready? 3 Cups Chocolate for melting (like chocolate chips, I used Hershey's Chocolate Chips) 12 Graham Crackers Squares 2 Cups of Peanut Butter If you want to thin out the chocolate you can add some shortening or vegetable oil. I used a dash of vegetable oil so the chocolate would be extra smooth & silky. Also have a small cookie sheet ready that is lined with wax or parchment paper. This is essential because this recipe, although DELICIOUS, it is a bit sticky and melty. And you will need to keep these cool, eith

Top 10 Projects of 2011

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2011 Has been a great year at Superfluous! Moving into a new house always brings plenty of projects to work on... and work on... and... And then there was the invention of Pinterest , where I was and continually am inspired to create. So I wanted to highlight the Top 10 Superfluous Projects of 2011. DIY Fabric Lampshade Cover  While working on E's nursery I took a boring ol' lampshade and made a fabric cover. It was a super easy project and I loved how it turned out!  Goodwill Chair Chevron Makeover I found a really ugly chair at the Goodwill.  I spray painted it white and put a chevron cover on the seat.  Amazing transformation!  Word Art Project Canvas, Stencil and Scrapbook paper made a really fun and inspirational word art project. Halloween Wreath Thanks to Pinterest , I got the idea to make a Halloween wreath! Spooky!  Knockoff Anthropologie Mirror I love Anthropologie , but I don't love their prices. I saw a mirror I really liked, but decided to

Final TWD ~ Thumbprint Cookies!

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  Thumbprint cookies (picture is from a previous baking session) What is  TWD  you ask? Those of you have been reading my blog for years and years know that I used to bake alongside other cyber bakers in a weekly baking adventure. We are part of a group called  Tuesdays with Dorie , an online baking club of sorts. For four years bloggers got together on Tuesdays and posted the weekly recipe out of Dorie Greenspan's book,  Baking: From my Home to Yours . It was quite serendipitous that I had found this book at a thrift store and within the week found the  Tuesday with Dorie  baking group. This past year I have not been doing much baking and TWD fell by the wayside... you know with getting married, getting pregnant and a new baby in a 9 month span.   But when I was baking with TWD I truly enjoyed so many things about it! I made so many fun blog friends, where each week we would encourage each other with our successes, mishaps and sometimes total failures.  For myself, I learned

Merry Christmas!

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I hope your days are Merry & Bright! Happy Christmas! 

Shabby Apple Giveaway Winner!

We have a winner for the Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway! I used Random.Org  to generate a random number. The winner of the Azure Coast dress is: #11 SHARDI! Congratulations!! I sent you an email so be on the look out for it! :) Shardi also has a cute blog  The Blushing Bride . I just checked it out today and it's a new favorite!  Thank you to everyone who entered! I am planning on having a lot more giveaways in the future, so check back often.

Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway

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**********Giveaway is now Closed********** It  was so excited when Shabby Apple contacted me to host a giveaway for one of their beautiful dresses. There are so many gorgeous women's dresses to choose from. They also sell Maternity dresses and little girl's dresses . Along with so many beautiful accessories like pretty blingy earrings, necklaces and rings!  This teal dress and earrings are some of my  favorites Sierra Nevada Teal Dress Fiamma Earrings Today's giveaway is for this awesome Azure Coast Dress . Wrap dresses are flattering on anyone and this one would look great dressed up or dressed down with some tights and boots.  Azure Coast Dress To win all you need to do is leave me a comment and tell me what you are looking forward to most this Holiday season? Here are some extra ways to win! (Leave a separate comment for each one.)  Like Shabby Apple on Facebook and then come back here and leave a comment. Visit Shabby Apple and come back and co

Christmas Clothespin Wreath

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So now with Christmas almost upon us, I wanted to take the last few days to make some Christmas Crafts. This weekend I spied this AWESOME clothespin wreath on Pinterest which lead me to  Hambly Screen Prints Blog . Not only is it a fantastic blog with fun projects, it's also an online store full of the coolest scrapbook\crafting supplies. If you haven't been to Hambly Screen Prints...  GO NOW ! The clothespin wreath was so fun and easy to make!  Supplies you need: Wooden clothespins scrapbook papers Washi tape (or decorative tape) You can buy washi tape at Hambly, Amazon.com, etsy, Michaels or most craft stores) Glue Thick cardboard for circle (or Michaels sells pre-made circle forms) Felt to cover cardboard (although I skipped that step) Decorate your clothespin however you like. Mine were a combination of scrapbook paper, decorative tape from Martha Stewart and glitter.  The longest part was cutting all the strips and gluing them on, but once they are done it&