HEB apple filler idea

saw this idea of filling a vase with apples at HEB earlier this week and loved it. I usually do cranberries as fillers...but loved the statement this makes on a different scale. 

Fill your vase with as many apples that it can hold. Add water and flowers. They had a very tall vase that was at least 2 feet tall...very cool. Those tall vases would make great centerpieces for those large round tables at weddings or events and a bag of apples put me out about $2.50!

Thing One and Thing 2

Thing One and Thing Two

2 Ingredient muffins...or cupcakes or whatever YOU want to call them. YES...only 2 things you gotta have in your kitchen. A boxed cake mix and a can of pumpkin.  Got this idea off of Pinterest last week and just had to try it out on my poor Book Club gals last night. Thumbs up all around the table.

These actually had 3 ingredients. I added a small bag of mixed chocolate and peanut butter chips to the Devil's Food cake mix and 1 can of Pumpkin. That's it. Stir it all together, put into muffin tins and bake as directed on side of boxed mix for cupcakes. You cOuLD add all KiNds of stuff...like more nuts. But that gets a little more complicated, doesn't it?

You don't taste the pumpkin at all. However, you can mix up the cake mixes for a different flavor, like spice cake or yellow cake mix. I may try to add some cranberries and orange zest to see how those turn out (yum, with either chocolate OR spice cake mix!)

reset button

This year has been especially busy.

                                                   It has all been good. Mostly.  Just different.

            Every once in a while I just need a place to 'run away'. Do you ever feel that way?

                             My favorite run away place happens to be a place in the woods.

with my best friend, of course.

          I needed to get 'reset'...kinda like that alarm was going off in the show, "LOST"....