best Best BEST Icing Recipe

I came across this FABULOUS cream cheese frosting recipe in my America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking cookbook and I haven’t made anything else since. It is especially to-die-for on cinnamon rolls and sugar cookies but not so great on chocolate cake for some reason. (I used it for Gus’s caterpillar cupcake cake and it tasted … Read more

Easy Handmade Earrings in 5 Minutes

My new obsession is handmade earrings. I’m no beading genius, but I don’t have to be with these kinds of earrings. The black and silver pair are…wait for it…wait for it…BUTTONS! Or were…I chopped the shanks off (they have to be shank buttons) and hot glued them to some earring posts from Michaels. The green … Read more

Eating More Fruits and Vegetables

I checked out Eat This, Not That! from the library a few weeks ago, and WOWEE I learned some interesting things about the food I’ve been eating. (I think we’ll be having a giveaway of the book soon too!) I considered myself to be a pretty “healthy” eater – I make from scratch almost everything … Read more

GIVEAWAY – 4 Crocheted Hat Patterns from Etsy Seller Adrienne Engar

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And the winners are:

  1. Jeri – “Oh the mouse hat is so adorable! I want to get some cute hats crocheted for the kids.”
  2. Darci – “I really cannot decide between the Chloe Cap and the Bear Earflap, they are both sooooo adorable.”
  3. Rebecca – “Love the Sophie Floppy Hat Pattern. It’s adorable!”
  4. Julie B – “The Chloe Cap is so pretty and looks very versatile. I checked out her website and all the animal earflaps are adorable. Its too hard to choose a favorite.”

Send an email to kelsey[at]vanillajoy[dot]com with the hat pattern you’d like. Congratulations!

THE PRIZE

adrienne engar etsy crochet hat pattern

Etsy seller Adrienne Engar is giving away 4 of her fabulous hat patterns – Trendy Headwrap, Chloe Cap, Bear Earflap, and Monkey Earflap. Four winners will be selected and each will win the pattern of his/her choice.

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Tulip Festival Winner!

The winner of the tickets is #2, Katie! She said, “I love how the barn yard is so cheap, we go there frequently, and we always go to the Scarecrow festival, so that is my favorite, I have wanted to go for years to the tulip festival (it is my FAVORITE flower), but just never … Read more