Fabulous Fruit Salad

8 ounce jar maraschino cherries
2 pints frozen strawberries thawed
6 ounce can frozen orange juice thawed
12 ounce lemon-lime soda
16 ounce can pineapple tidbits, reserving juice
2 bananas, sliced
6 ounce can frozen lemonade, thawed

Mix ingredients together and pour into a 13X9 cake pan and freeze. Cut into squares and place on lettuce leaves when serving if desired. Serve immediately.
Serves 12-14

Candy Corn Bark

I have eaten this before and I just ran across the recipe again

16 chocolate sandwich cookies, chopped
1 1/2 cups broken small pretzels
2 cups candy corn
1 1/2 pounds white chocolate broken into squares
brown and orange sprinkles

Spread the cookies, and pretzels onto a lightly greased baking sheet (small). Melt chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water or in microwave. Stirring often. Stir until smooth.
Pour chocolate evenly over the pan. Top with the sprinkles and candy corn. Let it cool. When firm break apart and store in airtight containers.

The time I ate it they also had raisins in it.

Christmas Presents ---Hooded Bath Towel

This is the project that I worked on yesterday. First I was only going to use 1 towel of the same color BUT......

The ones I had seen on blogs they used one towel and then 1/2 of the hand towel sewn in the center and then you sew the hood seams down the center. Towel lengthwise.

OR

They used one towel and the whole hand towel and then sewed it down the middle. Towel lengthwise.

I tried both of these, (the whole hand towel hood was way to big--for my liking) and I wasn't happy with either. Then I thought if I turn the towel it would be longer to wrap up in but I would need more length so I cut one towel in half for the bottom. The hood I used 1/2 a hand towel.

I had gotten enough for 4 but now I have to get 2 more towels to finish 2 up.

They are for my 2 nieces, 1 nephew and a great niece.

CIJ Swap Items

These are the items I sent out in the swap. The quilted ball was my swap item and the other items were just extras for joining. Kleenex holder, checkbook cover, and a snowman lollipop.

A Christmas in July ornament swap I hosted at MHH.

Projects for today

Wonder what I am making!?! I will post the finish items later.

Our dog and flowers

And my DD's dog Shorty

The sunflowers always come up out by the road. Guess they got started by birds.

Ornaments and/or Gift Tags

This ideal comes from Gooseberry Patch

Using cookie cutters and card stock, cut out a shape. Using the metallic floss or string on some small beads of your liking and tack it onto the card stock along the edge. Attach a button, mini decoration or charm. Make a hanger.

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