Chocolate Strawberry KitKat Bar Cake

 Here we go. Bake a chocolate cake.

 Make an easy fresh and light topping with Jell-O instant pudding, half the amount of milk *1 cup, and cool whip. I added cocoa too.

 Layer the cake, and cut strawberries and more cake. Only enough to the height of the kitkat bar.

 Top the cake and outsides of the cake with the Jell-O and cool whip topping.

 Push the kitkat bars all broken apart and indivual onto the cake outside.

 Stack cleaned strawberries on top.

 Slice and admire how pretty this is! YUM right? It tastes great too! :)

A sweet light treat for the weekend. Happy Weekend everyone! <3>

 I thought that I would share some views of our front and back yard and side to show how the flowers are coming in. The clematis are beautiful, above and more bloom later. And the lupine, below, the longer taller red and purple flowers are so fun. A friend from work, Julie, turned me on to Lupines. They are a showy flower and I love them!

 Coral bells of all sorts are hearty and so pretty in different colors.

 Some creeping phlox and ground covers to add color and a low lush cover.

 Spider wart is fun, lime green and put up little stalks with a purple flower on them! :)

 A small area of chicks and hens and cabbage plants among a rock garden!

 Hostas and mini irises around our curved driveway.

 Lupines.......gorgeous!

 Front yard and see Rufio checking out the yard and flowers.  Among the Lupine are some Lambs Ear and more Coral Bells.

 My repurposed dresser planter full of annuals for display.

 I do love flowers of all sorts. They add beautiful colors, height and happiness!

Disney Tattoo Jon Reiter Solid State Tattoo

I am sharing this wonderful tattoo by talented artist Jon Reiter from Solid State Tattoo in Bay View. He is the owner and I was privileged to have him do two tattoos for me recently. The Rapunzel and Maleficent and just yesterday, the fabulous Bambi and Thumper with the beautiful background and negative space butterflies. Glorious! He tied the upper and existing lower tattoo that I had previously. I am just soooooooo happy with it all! Thanks Jon!

Isn't this perfectly pleasant???? :)

IHOP pancakes

1 1/4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. Baking soda
pinch of salt
1 egg, beaten
1 1/4 c. buttermilk
2 Tbsp. melted butter
1/4 c. sugar

Stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder,and salt. Mix the egg with the buttermilk and add to the flour mixture, stirring only until smooth. Add the melted butter and sugar. Fry on a greased griddle. Serves 4.

I made this recipe this morning. I found the link on Pinterest here......
http://cookinupnorth.blogspot.com/2011/11/ihop-pancake-recipe.html
These were light, fluffy and tasted GREAT!
We added pecans and bananas and syrup and that made them super yummy! Happy Weekend Breakfast food! :)

This is a little fabric piece for a banner swap that I did with a sweet friend. I am hoping it brings a smile to her face. This will get strung onto a rope or ribbon and be hung up with other pieces. There is a little piece of fern in the tiny pocket on the left. And there is some burlap folded over and stitched down to make the grass a the fairies feet. :)

 

We put woodchips down yesterday and planted all the planters with little flowers that will hopefully take off and get bigger as summer moves along. We get red chips, they always bring a nice pop to the flower beds.

 

Things are starting to look pretty here in WI! That makes me smile. That makes Rufio "sniffy" for little creatures( chipmunks, squirrels etc.). Heehehehe! We enlarged our front garden and I need to lay down wood chips yet and spruce things up a bit. The exciting part is when colors and new growth kicks in, beautiful right? I will show you as things grow and change. And they will change as new and different things bloom with the seasons. :) Happy Spring!