Hi Everybody

Hi friends, I truly missed you all. How's everything going with ya'll? I hope you all are doing o.k. I've had some speed bumps going on in my life, but things are getting back on track gradually. I'll be back to tell you all of my adventures of my daily life daily living moments. So good to be back. Shouts out to all of my good friends. Love you L, Fawn, Aubrey and if there is anyone I miss forgive me. Shouts out to you, you all are the best, and your a great bunch of friends. O.k. Let's get to the serious stuff at hand. What reality shows have you all been keeping up with and the series that are your favorites. These are the shows and reality show I've been keeping up with: 1. Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump 2. Americas Next Top Model with Tyra Banks 3. The Housewives of New York City. 4.Series: "Lost" That's my fave. 5. Of course the Martha Stewart Show. 6. Oh yeah, The Chopping Block, and... 7. Hell's Kitchen 8. Last but not least-I can't help it, "Survivors" I'll let ya'll know if there are any add ons. Have a great day everybody. Peace & Love, Treasure Ann

Life is...

Life is full of adventures. Life can be fun, sad, silly, dramatic, and it can be the best of what you make it. Life is freedom to make decisions that will benefit ourselves and others around us. O.K. Reflect on that for a few minutes. Life is care free to me. It is living in the moment and enjoying everyday of it. What is life to you all? Until later, Peace & Love

Bountiful Treasures New Items

These are my new items I have up for grabs to sell. They are crochet hand-made purses. You can check it out on my business blog at www.treasuresandgifts.blogspot.com. Or to order them, ou can contact me at my e-mail address at bountifultreasuresgifts@yahoo.com.

These purses make great for carrying light items and just even going out to a luncheon with the girls.
This purse is super cute with white in the front and the color dusty pink rose color in the back. It's a girly, girly purse when your having tea with your friends.

This is a "let's go mall shopping" purse. With all the shopping bags of your nice purchased items. You don't need a heavy purse to weigh you down. With this purse all you need is a small wallet and great for holding your keys. Easy to get to without all the hassle of running through a bunch of stuff before you can retrieve it.

These purses are great for helping you limit a lot of knick knacks that will weigh your shoulder down. You can look at it as help purse to control all the clutter you would want to pack inside. It works for me because, I'm like that. These purses help me to control "the purse clutter syndrome." Enjoy your day and I'll chat with you all later.

Peace & Love

Treasure Ann

Food Networks Recipe For Success Top 5

Hi everybody. I've been gone a few days, because I wasn't feeling well. It's good to be back. During my recovery time I watched quite a bit of t.v. One of my favorite network is the Food Network. I love watching recipe for success. In fact, that's how I found one of my blog buddies and I now consider my friend. Big Shout Out To You L. Here are my favorite episodes on "Recipe For Success", which by the way I have collected on video tape. What can I say, they are all an inspiration to me.

Here are the top 5 great shows.5. Ace of Cakes www.charmcitycakes.com

4. Cake Love www.cakelove.com

3. Beautiful Sweets www.beautifulsweets.com

2. Loving Sullivan Cakes www.cakepower.com

1. A Dozen Eggs www.adozeneggs.com

Those are my top 5 favorite Recipe For Success episodes. They have truly been an inspiration to me. To see the owners presevere and never give up, even when it looked difficult, they pulled through. Now these people have successful businesses. I'm trying to work on that, it's a challenge, but I'm not giving up until it becomes successful.

How about you, what are your favorite Food Network t.v. shows? Chat with you all later.

Peace & Love

Treasure Ann

Recipe For White Texas Sheet Cake

This post is for Andrea from My Chihuahua Bites at www.andrearhouse.blogspot.com. She left a comment that she wanted the recipe and I'm glad to post it for you. Hope you enjoy it Andrea. Let me know how it turned out.

Peace & Love,
Treasure Ann


This cake gets better the longer it sits, so I try to make it a day ahead. My mother-in-law introduced this deliciously rich cake to me. With its creamy frosting and light almond flavor, no one can stop at just one piece!

SERVINGS: 20

METHOD: Baked

TIME: Prep: 15 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling

Ingredients:
1 cup butter, cubed
1 cup water
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
FROSTING:
1/2 cup butter, cubed
1/4 cup milk
4-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup chopped walnuts
Directions:
In a large saucepan, bring butter and water just to a boil. Immediately remove from the heat; stir in the flour, sugar, eggs, sour cream, salt, baking powder, extract and baking soda until smooth.
Pour into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake at 375° for 18-22 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
For frosting, in a large saucepan, bring butter and milk just to a boil. Immediately remove from the heat; stir in confectioners' sugar and extract. Stir in walnuts; spread over warm cake. Cool completely. Yield: 20 servings.

Yarn Swap & Tasting Party

So today I planned a Yarn Tasting Party with some family & friends. I'm setting up now, and these are a few pictures of what I've done so far. At this special event, we'll be swaping some yarns with each other. Each participant must bring at least 3 yarn that they don't want and swap with someone else. Who knows someone may swap for a color that they couldn't find in some craft stores. Say hello to cotton, she wants to participate in the Yarn Swap & Trading party. She's actually the first guest to arrive. Check out her name (cotton), she'll fit in great. Hehehe, I actually have some cotton yarn that I'm going to swap today.

These are some of the yarn (above picture) that I will be contributing for the yarn tasting. The yarn tasting is sort of like a wine tasting. Trying different flavors of wine. I'm not an expert on wine tasting events, but yarn tasting is sort of like that. To use as an example. We don't eat yarn at a tasting. What we do is try different fibers, and weights of yarn with different kinds of crochet hooks or needles if you will. They are different kinds of sizes of needles and yarns or fibers which is the correct terminology. To learn more about crocheting and what's involve of the life of a crocheter, go to Crochet Guild of America at www.crochet.org.

These are some of the yarn that we will be trying out.Some goodies I'm working on to give to some of the guests.

I had left over goodies for Valentines, so I thought it would make a good party favor to give. Since it's still February, this favor will fit right in.

Here is one of the many things that I've been working on. I call this Crochet Art, and I named this piece "Childhood Memories". This piece was inspired when I was growing up. My mom would have milk & cookies ready for us when we came home from school. Those were the days, when there were no worries and everything was as is.

Well I gotta go, my guests will be arriving soon and there are more things that I need to work on before we get started.

Have any of you host a yarn tasting or any kind of tasting party or any party for that matter? Were any of you ever invited to a themed party recently? How much fun it is isn't it?

Take care everybody. Chat with you later.

Peace & Love,

Treasure Ann

My Valentine's Swap Package Has Arrived

When I heard the horn blew outside, I knew it must be the mail lady. I looked outside my door and yep, it was the mail. Talk about excited when I went out to meet her. She had a nice big package for me. It was my Valentine's Day Swap package. I could hardly wait to open it. This was my first swap that I did and I really enjoyed it. Thank you to Andrea at "My Chichuahua Bites" www.andrearhouse.blogspot.com for hosting it. She paired me with a sweet lady, Aubrey from "The Fam Five" www.thefamfive.blogspot.com who sent me these lovely gifts.

She had it so nicely wrapped and pretty. I think it's nice to get lovely packages in the mail besides those dreaded bills. Isn't it pretty, very Valentinian. :)
She got all of my favorites. Like my readers say, "it's just like Christmas."

I've been trying my hand at scrapbboking and I love it. I'm pretty crafty fanatic, so I love my scrapbooking paper. I can't wait to get creative with these.

I love anything with nuts in them. It can be peanuts, walnuts, pecan, cashews, etc. Any kind. I love them, and Aubrey hit the nail on the head when she got me "M & M's peanuts. Looovvvve it. OMG, thank you Aubrey!!

Oh, I can't tell you how much I love yarn. Whoo hoo, yay! I have a big stash and I love buying it. I'm always constantly crocheting something. Be it an afghan (blanket), a scarf, hat, pocket books, and lap throws. Crochet is my first love of arts & crafts. So I was very excited about getting these pretties.

By the way, I didn't specify what color I like and yarn to Aubrey, and she actually got the colors that I really favor. In the crochet/knit world we call it varigated yarn. This is a technical term that really says, it's a multi-color yarn. Those colored yarns of that type are my favorites. (I just had to put a little crochet lesson in there girls. :) I guess you can tell how much I love this craft.)

Here is my beautiful card that Aubrey sent me. I have to tell you the title, because it is so sweet. The front of the card says, You're all kinds of sweet! Then it has 3 tiers of a tray with lots of goodies on it. How sweet is that. It fits me, because I like to bake different kinds of sweeties. She sent me a journal, which I love, because I'm a writer and I constantly love to write things and jot things down. I'm going to make this journal, my "aspirations and dreams journal." When I get my dreams accomplished, they'll be a page where I would write down that I completed that particular goal. I think I'll also put in there how I'll go about making my dreams come true. That way I can look back at it and see how I did it. Last but not least, she got me some jewelry beads. I like to make jewelry, so I'll be using those right away.

Thank you so much Aubrey!! I really appreciate my things and I love everyone of them. Thanks for being a great swap partner. Happy Valentines Day!

Who's going out for dinner? Who's having a Valentine's party?

Whatever you do, I'd like to wish my blog friends, visitors, lurkers a Happy Valentine's Day to all of you. Make sure you do some thing fun this weekend and live care free, enjoy life and I want you all to have...

Peace & Love,

Treasure Ann