Chicken Tortilla Soup

Hello all!!!

Here's the deal. I've had several requests for my Chicken Tortilla Soup recipe. So, here it is!! I'd like to mention, that it is NOT spicy at all. I make it to be kid-friendly in the spicy area, so if you like some kick - add some cayenne pepper or hot sauce to your own bowl :-) Enjoy!

Ingredients:
3 frozen chicken breasts, or 7 frozen chicken breast tenders
1 can chopped, peeled tomatoes (juice and all)
1 (10 oz) can mild enchilada sauce
1 small onion, chopped
1 (4 oz) can chopped mild green chile peppers
2 cloves minced garlic
2 cups water
1 (14.5 oz) can chicken broth, or your favorite homemade chicken broth
1 can rinsed black beans
1 can olives, chopped
Use the olive can to fill with frozen corn to equal one can
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp salt
some crushed bay leaf
1 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
chopped FRESH cilantro. As much as you like!! I like a lot, so it's about 2 tablespoons or so that goes in while it cooks.

Mix all ingredients in the crock pot. Then add frozen chicken and push to the bottom. Cook for 6-8 hours on low, or 3-4 hours on high.

To serve:
Serve soup in bowl. Top with shredded cheese, a dollop of sour cream, more fresh chopped cilantro, and crushed yellow corn tortilla chips. ENJOY!!!

-Lindsay

Here's one for the little lads!

Hey all you Moms of Little Lads!! Here's something new I came up with today at the request of a friend:

Dont'cha just LOVE it?!?!?! I can't WAIT til Baby Boy comes to play with it someday :-) I have many fabrics available, such as: Thomas, Lightening McQueen, & Cars. Easily customizable to any fabric I can get my hands on! I'm actually going to make a couple for my little ladies - they saw it and wanted those cars too! SO... they will get one in Tinkerbell and Angelina Ballerina fabric. I also made some crayon roll-ups and those are available in any fabric.

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-Lindsay (Mommy of 3 Little Ladies)

New Ideas and Adventures

I've been really racking my brain lately to come up with some new stuff for this bazaar that I'm hosting a table at. Here's one of them!!! This is what I'd like to call a, "Coloring Traveler." I saw something sort of like this in the past, but I can't remember where or I'd give them credit. There is one thing I'm finding out though, and that's the fact that pretty much anything you think of doing, SOMEone has done something like it before :-) SO... I will just have to put my creative spin on things and see where it takes me!!

Here's what I came up with:

Pretty Schnazzy, huh??? 

Here's a few more angles of it:

I still have a couple kinks to work out, but overall I love it!!! 

Next up: 

1. One for boys that holds Cars, Crayons, AND Coloring Book

2. Smaller version :-) 

3. Whatever I come up with next!!

Lindsay

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Just another Tuesday evening...

Hello All!!! I know, I know. It's been awhile, right?? Well, I don't have a TON of extra time to blog lately.... BUT I do want to share one of the MANY new projects I have been working on!!

The other day on a treasure hunt, I came across this beauty at Goodwill:

Now, it's not the fantabulous gold mirror in the front (that project is coming soon)... but it's the painting hiding behind the mirror that I didn't think was important enough to get a superb photo of. It's got this, um, shall we say - interesting painting in it of a couple on the beach, and they're shirtless... Not sure what made someone think of painting it... Anyway - I was all set to paint over the painting with some chalkboard paint fabulousness, (The Hubster couldn't understand why, since somebody took so much time to paint it... To which I explained to him that it was at Goodwill for crying out loud!)

Instead... I took apart the frame, ripped out the sexy painting, got out the 'ol can of primer, and got to spraying!! Once I started, my spray can was on its last leg and the paint was sputtering out all over the place - barely covering Mr. Gold frame... BUT - this made my project ALL the better!! Once the paint dried, I searched the garage for a single piece of sandpaper (which the Hubster usually has lying all over the place), and Vintage-a-fied Mr. Gold-no-more frame. Now, he was turning into a beauty!! 

This is about the point where I should've started taking pictures, but I just got SO into my project that I forgot to take a SINGLE picture until the end. 

Next, I took the sexy-ish painting board, and covered it with some quilt batting I had laying around. Then I added some spare fabric and got out my Fabri-Tac glue, and handy-dandy utility stapler (which I LOVE!) This is about the point where I should've taken another picture. Imagine picture here: 

Next, came the ribbon. Of course, with my indecisive thinker brain, I took longer to decide which ribbon to use than the whole project ;-) I stretched it across the board and secured with fabric glue and my trusty stapler. Then I covered the back with another piece of fabric so that it didn't look so yucky.

OK... This was the HARD part. Normally, I would've thought far enough ahead to realize that the board was going to be thicker, and may not fit into Mr. Gold-no-more frame after... Well, I guess this wasn't a normal evening! I tried SO hard to get that stinkin' board back into Mr. Gold-no-more frame without using unnecessary force, but he was being difficult. I had to get out the HAMMER (and a few other tools). You can use your imagination from there :-) 

This is about the point (now that Mr. Fabulous frame is finished), that I realized I should be taking pictures... So I did!! BUT... After the first so-so picture, my schnazzy camera's battery died. Oh well!! Here's the ONE picture I got: 

Trust me. This picture doesn't do it justice! It's fabulous :-) This is a new Bow-Board to display all the fabulous bows I will be selling at a Craft Fair coming up!! AND of course, the bow-board will be for sale (probably... maybe I want to keep it??)

-Lindsay

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