Easter Bouquet that's Good Enough to Eat

These treats are so easy to make. All you do is melt some white chocolate, color it with food coloring then stick some marshmallows on a straw or lolly pop stick and dip them into the warm chocolate. Then sprinkle them with pretty candies and they look like little flowers (well sort of). Then stick some floral foam into a vase and you're almost done.

If you use straws and not lolly pop sticks, you have to pre-punch holes into the floral foam - which you can do easily with a pencil.

Then stick your chilled marshmallow pops into the pre-punched holes and garnish with some pretty paper grass.

Then wah-lah!!! Pretty Easter bouquet that's good enough to eat.

Tulip Festival - It's a Bloomtiful way to Spend a Day

March 28 to May 4, 2014 is the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival

Daily activities at the Tulip Farm

• Tulip Fields
• Tulip & Daffodil Display area
• 4 Acre Wooden Shoe Event Garden
• Children’s Play Area: Duck races, slides, swings 
• Onsite food Court
• Tram/haywagon: free ride to field
• Gift Shop
• Tulip Market
• Photo Cut-out Boards
• Cow Train: $2 per person (for the young at heart)
• Field Train: $3 per person (elderly friendly)

Weekend activities at the Tulip Farm
same as weekdays plus:

• Crafters Market Place
• Pony Rides ($5 - under 80 lbs)- weather dependant
• Authentic Mexican Food
• Dutch Sausage provided by: Mt. Angel Sausage Company
• Wooden Shoe Making Demonstrations
• Steam tractors- weather dependant
• You-Pick Tulip Area: $.75 per stem or 20+ $.50 per stem
• Wine Tasting: 12 noon- 5pm Located in Field Greenhouse 
• Weather permitting- Activities run by MADJEK- Jump Tents & Events  Jump Tents, Bungie Jumper, Pony Rides, Rock Wall, & Zip Line  ($3-$7)

* New in 2014:
*        New in 2014 Archery Tag: $5.00 per person- 10 minute game of dodge ball with blunted bows and arrows
*       New in 2014 Paint Ball Shoot: $5.00 per person-Climb onto our paint ball shooter and paint the tulips, 50 paintballs included in price.

The Red Door of Doom

Sometimes when I go for a jog, I see a door and I have to stop and sometimes I even need to snap a photo.

This red door made me wonder. . .

Who lives behind that red door...

Is it a sign of something . . .

I don't know. . .

But I thought it was pretty enough to make me stop and snap a photo

Portland Oregon so many Places to See

I love running on Burnside. You can always find beautiful sights to see.

As I approached this entryway, I thought "that's too pretty not to take a picture."

So, I did. . . or maybe a few.

It looked like a little tunnel of trees and bushes...

Sort of like entering a doorway into another world...

Portland in Pictures

My husband and I went for a run on Saturday. This is the view of downtown Portland from the middle of the Burnside Bridge.

Portland is also known as BridgeCity and you can see why...remember, I'm standing on the Burnside Bridge while I'm taking these pictures and you can see a few of the other bridges that line our skyline.

The Cherry Blossoms are so fragrant and beautiful as you enter the city core.

From every inch of the Burnside Bridge you can see beautiful views.

What a way to spend a day...

Eggsactly what you need to celebrate Easter

It's fun and easy to make festive treats especially if you have cereal sitting in the cupboard.

If you want to make an egg shaped treat all you need is a plastic egg form. Fill it with your rice krispie treats and let them settle.

Then you can decorate them with sprinkles and/or chocolate drizzled over the top.

Then they are cute and yummy.

First Day of Spring

Spring Equinox is finally here! One way to celebrate is with a new wreath and if you have a glue gun and a couple boxes of peeps in the cupboard it's easy. All you have to do is glue the peeps and some plastic eggs on the form and wrap it with some feather boas.

All I did was take my St. Paddy's Day Wreath and add a few touches with things I had hanging around the house.

I simply wrapped a pink boa right over the green and white ones and glued on the eggs and peeps and WAH-LAH!!! Spring is here.