Strawberry Bread

If you're anything like me, your salivating already just having read that title!

Yes, folks! There is such a thing as Strawberry Bread, and it's a beautiful thing!! :o)

The very first time I made this recipe (courtesy of My Baking Addiction) , I only made one loaf just to see how it would turn out. I made it one afternoon, and by that evening, DH and I had eaten more than half the loaf!

So I made more!

Don't worry, we're not gonna eat them all at once. I made extras to freeze so we can have yummy Strawberry Bread even when strawberries aren't in season. Yum!

Look at those big beautiful strawberry pieces! Go ahead . . . take a closer look . . .

Yum!!!!!!! :oD

Here's how to make your own!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 oz cream cheese, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsps baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp Kosher salt
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 1/2 cups strawberries, rinse, dried and chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease and flour a 9×5 inch loaf pan.

With electric mixer cream butter, sugar and cream cheese until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Mix in vanilla.

In separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Blend flour mixture with butter mixture just until blended. Add buttermilk and only stir until just combined; do not over mix.

Carefully fold in strawberries. Dough mixture will be thick.

Bake for 50 to 60 minutes

Let cool and enjoy!!



P.S. I like to spread cream cheese on my slice of bread. Delicious! :oD

Framed Jewelry Holder

I was in need of help.

Some serious help.

Some serious organizational help.

I couldn't find my earrings!

Well . . . I could. It just took me an awfully long time.

You see, I (like many women, I'm sure) kept all my earrings tossed together in a little jewelry box that sits on my dresser. That little box kept my earrings corralled pretty effectively, but heaven help me if I tried to find a matching pair! I'd have to dump out the whole box and untangle them all while simultaneously praying that I didn't drop one on the floor or lose one down the drain!

So I decided to follow the other creative minds on the web and turn an old picture frame into a jewelry holder!

I started with a frame I bought at Michael's for cheap a while back. I, of course, had to spray paint it my favorite color :o)

Then, I carefully stapled some chicken wire (my parents say that that's not chicken wire, but I don't know what else to call it) to the back of a frame.

Bam! Instant earring holder!

But why stop there? I have plenty of necklaces that need a home too. So I added some hooks at the bottom of the frame.

Now this little beauty hangs in my closet. She's not only pretty but is also a huge improvement! Now that I can find all my cute earrings, I'm definitely wearing them a lot more. If that doesn't say "Success", I don't know what does! :o)

Help! I'm Being Invaded by DVDs (an Update)

It was more than a year ago when I used this blog to cry out for help and save myself and my house from being over run by DVDs and their unsightly cases.

I am now happy to say that I found a solution for my problem via amazon.com.

I introduce to you, the Bellagio-Italia CD/DVD Binder!

This little baby (and about 11 of it's friends) have turned my living room from this . . .

. . . into this . . .

Soooooooooo much better!!

Now, instead of looking at an array of ugly DVD cases, I get to look at these little guys.

I also finally have a place to show off cute printables that I see all over the blogosphere.

Yay for pretty shelves! :o)