Tiny Cream Cheese Biscuits

Joanna at This Southern Girl's Nest is hosting a recipe sharing series, What's For Dinner Thursdays. I wanted to share this recipe with y'all. These little cream cheese biscuits are so good and only require 3 ingredients!! Woohoo!!

Tiny Cream Cheese Biscuits

1{8-ounce} package cream cheese, softened

1 stick butter, softened

1 cup self-rising flour

Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed of an electric mixer 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add flour, beating at low speed just until blended.

Spoon dough into ungreased mini muffin pans, filling full. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 to 17 minutes or until golden. Serve hot.

I love to serve these little biscuits with pear or strawberry perserves. Yum!!

Recipe from Southern Living Easy Weeknight Favorites.

Tweet Mail to Jen: Part Two

This is part two of my birdie/nesty/Spring swap for Jen. Yeah, I take a long time. I hope it was worth the wait for her. Here are the goods...a ribboned journal, a metal G, a nest stamp, a birdcage charm, some speckled eggs, and a framed nest print. You can find the print at The Vintage Moth. They have lots of images you can save and print.

My photos are horrible!! You can see better pics at Jen's. I had to get the stamp for Jenny, cause they don't have Hobby Lobby in California.

Jen collects G's and I knew when I saw this one I had to get it.

Hope she loves it all!!

Springtime Brown...

I love getting inspiration from other bloggers. Clarice, of Storybook Woods, has been doing a Spring color series and I love the idea!! So, I share my Springtime Brown. I got the itchin' to redo my mantle last night and this is what I came up with. Its a little sparse, but I love it!!
I kept the window from my Easter mantlescape and just added a cocoa brown pot with shamrocks, a framed crocheted R, books, and a plate.

I got this frame from a thrift shop. It was originally brass, but a little antique white spray paint took care of that. That idea was inspired by Cherry of Cherry's Jubilee. I am telling y'all, there is nothing that lady cannot do!! I am lovin' Michael's new paper line!! I wish I could find some fabric like that brown floral. Oh, love...

Me and my boys...Cory got that Willow Tree for me for Christmas. I love it!!

The plate on a stack of books. I thought I had died and gone to Heaven when I found those plates at Goodwill. I love the brown floral going on!! I have seen other sets which I snatch up quickly. The bird was a $1.50 find from Old Time Pottery. The thing is heavy!!

Thank you for checking out my Springtime Brown mantle!! Happy Tuesday!!

Kitchen Progress...

We are in the midst of painting the kitchen and I am sooo excited!! There's only so much "builder's beige" this girl can take...Here is the mini hall between the kitchen and dining room. The double doors you see are the pantry doors and right across from them is the laundry room.

Here is another shot. This is part of the breakfast area. Almost...

I love this green!! It is so fresh and pretty!!

The Motherload!!

I hesitated showing y'all all of this, lest y'all think I'm a shopaholic!! Jen told me about Wendy at The Shabby Nest and her Frugal Fridays and urged me to post my goods. So here they are!! Amy called me this morning to tell me about her neighborhood yard sale. Her neighborhood is HUGE!! I was originally going for a pew that she saw. I didn't care for the pew, but did find lots of other goodies!! The enamel topped table came from a local antique shop and was only $15!! I love it and it is going to be my new computer table. My current computer table will go to the craft/school room for my sewing machine.

Looking ahead to Fall...these scarecrows were only 75 cents apiece!!

Oh, my gosh!! I fell in love with this chandelier and it was only $3!! I am either going to use it as is in my kitchen or put it in Lilly's room. The only problem I foresee is that it plugs into an electrical outlet. Have y'all ever converted something like this??

This one house was a vintage wonderland. The couple that lived there were older than my parents and her aunt had made these Christmas decorations above. My photo doesn't capture just how special these items are, but trust me the handiwork is great.

On to the tabletop. Love this lantern!! The frames were a great deal as well. The doilies came from the vintage wonderland and I plan to frame them along with some others I already have. A metal embroidery hoop...be still my heart!! I love the milkglass planter!! The little chair is just precious too, and I can see it in the Fall holding a pumpkin.

This game was only $1 and I thought it would be great for family game time and for social studies!! Fun and learning in one fell swoop!! Woohoo!!

Thank you for taking the time to look at all my goodies!!

Opinion's needed!!

For the record, this is NOT my home!! It belongs to my friend, Amy. I show it to you cause this is the color I am planning to paint my kitchen.
You can also go to Amy's blog to see it better.


I got this chandelier a while ago for Lilly's bedroom. But then I was thinking how desperately bad I need, I mean, want, a new chandie for the kitchen/breakfast area and this would be so cute in there. Don't you think?? I need something totally different than the one in my actual kitchen so it doesn't compete or look like I was trying to make them the same but failed. You can see it here. Don't know if you can see it good or not, but if the milkglass globes are off you can see a little ruffle action going on on the candle cup. Also at the top. So cute. I really feel bad about not using this one in Lilly's room...I just love the vintage feel for her.

Here the chandelier is in all its glory. I may or may not use the globes. Depends on which way the wind is blowing that day. ;)

Okay, so here is the color of the paint I am wanting to do. Do I go for the green, which is called Seaweed and not at all hunter green looking in person, or the sunny yellow?? I love the green so much, but I am afraid it will not go with the wall color. I don't want to paint the chandie black because the other one in the kitchen is black. I am open to other color options, too. You can click here and here to get a better feel for the room. Sorry the photos are stinky.

So, what do you think?? Thank you in advance!!

JoyFULL Mail

When Lori hosted the birdie swap, she had Joy of Joyfullness as one of her partners. Joy made her a super cute little "tweet" that I just fell in love with. I commented to Joy that she needed to make those, cause I had to have one. Well, would you know, Sweet Joy, asked for my address because she was sending me one of my very own. Oh happy day!! My little tweet arrived yesterday. Love, love, love her!! I was telling my mom how sweet my blog friends were and she said, "Its easy to be friends when you're just typing." Oh yeah? I am telling y'all, my blog friends, most of whom I've never met, are the kindest, most giving people I know. I appreciate all of y'all that come to visit here and wish I could meet you in real life.

Thank you so much again, Joy, I love my little tweety girl!!