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The girls from from You've Got Supper are back with a simple party idea for the Superbowl.
Susan and Michell write...
If you’ve already had enough chili during the play-offs, change it up with a selection of “no fuss” paninis for your Super Bowl party. Arrange platters with the ingredients for each panini and let your guests put together their own crispy, grilled sandwiches to watch in front of the game. They may even be inspired to make their own creations. Serve them up with salt and pepper kettle chips, fruit salad, or your favorite side soup.
Mozzarella and Proiscuitto Panini
Cuban Panini
Don’t fumble dessert! For a Halftime Sweet Fix, we recommend keeping the panini press fired up. Put out a platter of white bread, thinly sliced pound cake, and croissants. Let your guests mix and match the fillings. Here are a few of our favorite combinations:
Nutella and bananas
Apples, cinnamon, and sugar
Brie and dark chocolate
Dark chocolate and strawberries
Note from Cindy - I use an indoor grill like this
You might also be interested in You've Got Supper's Superbowl Fiesta Menu, with Saints Rajun Cajun Shrimp Quesadillas and Colts Corn Quesadillas. You can even print off the shopping list! It doesn't get easier than that!
If you need some snacks you might try these Superbowl snacks -- Spicy Buffalo Dip and Honey Mustard Glazed Pretzels.
Bella and I worked on her Valentines yesterday. She will be handing out these ladybug valentines.
We used red and white card-stock along with brads(metal paper fasteners), 4 1/2 " square of black tissue paper, Tootsie Pops and wiggly eyes. Yes, black brads would have been easier, but I couldn't find them anywhere. So we colored ours with a sharpie marker and it worked perfect!
If you want to make some ladybug valentines, here is the download for the body and wings.
We placed a little glue stick around the bottom of the wrapper and wrapped the black tissue paper around the sucker. Next we attached the wings to the body with the brads, then hot glued the ladybug to the sucker.
Finished!
You might be interested in these Valentine ideas.
Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket Valentines
Printable Butterfly Valentines
Whirly Gig Printable Valentines
Printable Lollipop Lily Valentine
Printable Be Mine Garland Valentine
I am excited about this new company, Inkbloom. Inkbloom has everything you need to design and print your own fabric. And if you don't feel like designing your own fabric they have wonderful designs to choose from -- you can even change the colors of the designs.
This adorable little pouch was created with fabric printed on an inkjet printer using Loomtack. The Loomtack sheets allow you to run fabric through your printer and even allows you to print double sided fabric.
You can watch a video at their site for more details.
So many wonderful applications for this product. You can even print on vinyl and use with a digital cutter! The possibilities are endless!
This cute Love Chart will be offered as a free printable PDF for anyone who signs up for InkBloom's mailing list on their website, --once you sign up they will email it to you) AND becomes a fan on their facebook page.
Celebrate Groundhog Day with a felt hiding groundhog puppet.
A few pieces of felt, a 5 oz cup, wiggly eyes, thread (for whiskers), large Popsicle stick and glue is all you need.
I made groundhog finger puppets for my crafting partners. To give the ears dimension, I folded the sides of the ears to the center and place them between the two body pieces and machine sewed around the edge.
Add some facial details and you have a groundhog finger puppet. To use the finger puppet for the hiding groundhog just place it over a large popsicle stick.
My crafting partners also made their own groundhog puppets. To make it simple for them they glued their groundhog pieces directly to the popsicle stick.
Then they added the face.
Cut a hole in the bottom of the cup for the popsickle stick to fit through.
Next they glued felt to the outside of the plastic cup.
Then they cut slits in the felt around the top edge.
Fit the groundhog through the hole. Now you see him.
Now you don't.
Happy Groundhog Day!
Just when you think you have thought of the most clever craft ever, you then find others have thought of it also. I have seen similar groundhog puppets around the web. If you have a similar craft or fun idea to celebrate Groundhog Day please leave a link in the comments so everyone can check it out!
Can you believe this is a groundhog shaped meatloaf? It was made by Sommer, a Skip to my Lou reader.
Sommer said she was surprised at how easy and fun it is to shape meatloaf. She says if you bake your normal meatloaf on a foil covered cookie sheet, you can pretty much shape it into whatever you want. The eyes are olives and the whites of his eyes and teeth are mashed potatoes. Her family calls it the Ground-Groundhog Meatloaf. I think she should be a food sculptor. Sommer has some skills!
I have linked my hiding groundhog puppets to Today's Creative Blog's Get Your Craft On! Go check her out and be inspired. Don't forget link up a project and show her what you've got!
