Pungo Roast Coffee and Gifts Webpage Now Active.

Hi all, just wanting to share my webpage for all coffee lovers out there.  Stop by and leave me a comment or to just say hello.  

www.pungoroast.com

Thanks for looking!  Have a great day!

My Newest Obession

It's no secret that I love coffee.  So much so that I have been busy doing a Coffee Roasting Business Startup.  You can find me on Facebook as https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pungo-Roast-Coffee-Gifts/141284596046069?ref=tn_tnmn .  Website will be coming soon.  Also I'll be including other items as well in the near future.  It's a work in progress, so please bare with me. 
I haven't done much on the paper crafting side of things just because I've been so busy.  I cut my work hours back to devote my attention to the coffee, but still plan to do other creative things in the mix of things.  I want to do some Farmer's Markets this year as well.  It will be a long road, but I'm ready to travel it. 
God Bless all of you for following my blog and hope each of your summers are filled with Sunshine and Laughter. 

Bread Making Adventure

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!  I haven't posted in some time and wanted share my recent bread making experience.  I haven't made bread in many years and from what I could remember it seemed like a lot of work.  Well I've been eying bread recipes on Pinterest.  Have you tried Pinterest yet?  I love it.  Pinterest is a great tool for finding new recipes and saving other things too that you may want to buy or try.  This is a bread recipe that was posted, so yesterday I decided to give it a try.  It stated that this bread could be mixed together in under 2 minutes.  I thought, "Is that all, even I should be able to do this!"  Well, I was in at that point.  

http://simplysogood.blogspot.com/2010/03/crusty-bread.html

Her bread is gorgeous.......can you call bread gorgeous?  Mine didn't turn out quite as pretty as hers, but she's an experienced baker and I'm not.  Here's my version. 

I must confess, the first one I made stuck in the pot, was nice but I just couldn't get it out of the darn pot.  Where did I go wrong?   I even put cornmeal in the bottom to help....also I used my stainless steel pot, hum-mm, maybe that is where I went wrong.    My mom had sent me a gift card for Christmas, so off I went and bought an enameled covered cast iron pot.  With this pot the above bread just fell out.  Now I can't wait to try all the different variations with this recipe. 

Do you bake bread?  Have any good recipes?? 

Design, Create, Inspire!: Open House Giveaway!

Design, Create, Inspire!: Open House Giveaway!:     Get inspired this holiday season and attend our annual  Holiday Open House , Saturday November 10th at 5pm-10pm! Enjoy an even...

Happy Halloween

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Spooky Halloween, but mostly I pray that everyone is safe.  I know Sandy has left many without power and many also with water damage.  My heart goes out to you all.  I have been through this experience several times.  I am a Hurricane Camille Survivor as well as a Hurricane Katrina Survivor and during that particular hurricane, my home was severely damaged from all the wind and rain.  I lived in my dining room (the only part that didn't fall in along with the master bath) for many months as my home was being rebuilt. When you go through such things you learn what's most important in life; and it's not the material things.......it's your family. 

Coconut Almond Cupcakes

Pretty In Pink

 Just wanted to share my favorite cupcake recipe with all of you.  Makes about 32 Cupcakes.  Plenty to Share!!  Hope you all enjoy and  Thanks for stopping by.!

http://scrapndaze.ning.com/page/coconut-almond-cupcakes?xg_source=activity

Chillingworth Manor Mini Album

I just completed a new mini using Echo Park's Chillingsworth Manor Paper Line.  It was so much fun to make and I always seem to gravitate toward Halloween paper.  It is such a fun paper line with all it's spookiness.  I love how they reference Marie Leveau, Edgar Allen Poe, and that old movie from way back when called "Something Wicked This Way Comes".  Of course, I'm always loving the colors too!  This mini I'm going to gift to my friend Linda, who lives in Mississippi.  I worked with Linda many years when I lived down in that area, and we became close friends and keep in touch to this day.  Now she'll have a cute little mini to put her Halloween Party Pics in.
 

Here's the Video to see the inner pages. 

Thanks for stopping by.