True Love = Homemade Pie!

A wise man once said true love = blackberry pie. OK so that is Corom saying. So we have a deal. If he picks the blackberries I will make the pie.

Corom found a helper to go with him. Well I don't know if Malik is the best "helper", he likes more to eat the blackberries then to pick them!!! Note the blackberry juice on face and hands!

I am not a big blackberry pie person so a few years ago (while canning peaches) I thought there has to be a recipe for Blackberry Peach Pie!


Well there was and let me tell you, it is to die for!!!

Here it is....

4 cups blackberries

4 fresh peaches

5 tablespoons cornstarch

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 double crust recipe

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees
2. Mix blackberries, cornstarch, sugar and cinnamon together.
3. Pour 1/2 of mixture onto the bottom crust.
4. Cut and lay peaches down onto of 1/2 of blackberry mixture.
5. Pour remaining blackberries on top.
6. Place top crust .
7. I like to put an egg wash on top with sprinkled sugar on it.
8. Bake at 450 for 15 minutes then turn oven down to 350 for 35 to 40.

Enjoy!

Flower pot card

Here is a fun card that I made. It reminds me of summer!

You pull our the insert to write your message on.

Card swaps

These were my cards that I swapped with my friends this month.

I really love this medallion stamp that Stampin up has come out with. You can make a simple card that looks so great!

This last one I really love! I used these new treat cups that Stampin up has just come out with. They are quite fun to put things in.

Just a close up of the treat cups. I have jelly beans and bats in there.

Thinking of you Mom!

I have a group of friends that get together every month and do craft projects with. Last month we made these cool flowers by following a cool technique that we saw at a stampin up event. (I for the life of me can not remember what the technique was called.)

But here is one of the cards I made with one of the flowers. I made this card for my mom who has always loved peach colored roses. I am really pleased with how well it turned out! Mom I am thinking of you and hope you are doing well in Africa!

Lake Sylvia camping trip

This year Corom and I thought that it would be fun to try out new camping spots. I found a place called Lake Sylvia. It is fairly close to Olympia but over towards the coast and thought that it might be fun. Sure enough it was! We went with some good friends of ares who have kids the same ages.

Here is Malik trying out fly fishing for the first time. Corom was very impressed at how well he was!

Malik and Bennett could not get enough of the rocks!

Zia's first experience with the canoe (before the trip) was not good. But after new life jacket that fit her she was good to go. She would get so mad every time she would see Bennett put her life jacket on!

We were all TOTALLY disappointed when we saw that there were "NO FIRES", but in fine print it said that briquets were OK!

So 32 lbs of briquets later we ended up with a nice "fire". It worked perfect and we didn't brake any laws! He he hee!

On the last day Zia and Bennett had a nice little nap together in the hammock!

Malik had his in the car. Perfect end to our perfect trip!

Got Beef???

I do! I just bought a 1/4 of a cow today! I think I freaked Corom out when I called him and told him the news! I had to decide fast to do it or not so I did it! It is organic and grass feed and it is only $2 lb! Just don't ask how many pounds I got!!!!

Oh and the other great news is Corom is now going to get a generator that I have been wanting for 3 years!!!!! To think all I had to do was buy a cow! ;)