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Why I Use My Slow Cooker (An Art of Homemaking Post)

Why are there some days when making dinner seems so hard? Sure there are days when I look forward to making a nice dinner...but then there are other nights...and those nights are a struggle.  But why is it such a struggle?  Here are a few of my reasons: *By the time dinner time rolls around I am already exhausted and the thoughts of preparing something seem overwhelming. *I don't have what I need to make what I want and I don't want to go to the store. *I don't want to make and clean ... View the Post

Cooking

Slow Cooker Spooktacular Beef Stroganoff with Jenny’s Colorful Life

Our Slow Cooker Spooktacular continues today with another fabuous blogger sharing one of her favorite slow cooker recipes! We are happy to have Jenny from Jenny's Colorful Life sharing her Beef Stroganoff recipe!  She says it is easy and delicious....and that sounds like a match made in dinner heaven! Click on over to HER BLOG to get the entire recipe!!!! ... View the Post

Patterns· Quilt· Quilts

A Quilt Kit for When Skies Are Grey

When Elizabeth and I were designing our "When Skies Are Grey" fabric line the ideas came from the song "You Are My Sunshine".  It was a song that our parents and grandparents sang to us when we were children and that we in turn sing to our children. You are my sunshine My only sunshine You make me happy when skies are grey You'll never know dear, how much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away I love that song. And recently it came to mean something else. I have a ... View the Post

Recipe

Slow Cooker Tender Pork Ribs Recipe

I have tried to make ribs many ways (in the oven, straight on the grill) but the most tender, moist and delicious ribs I have ever made were done in the slow cooker. So, it's my new way of making them and they turn out amazing EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. They are messy and you need a million napkins on the table but I promise that this Slow Cooker Tender Pork Ribs recipe will soon become a family favorite. And you can even start them at 1 pm and have super tender meat on the table by 5 pm. It's ... View the Post

Cooking

White Chocolate Halloween Candy Recipe

Today joining us in our Slow Cooker Spooktacular is Lindsay from See Lindsay with her White Chocolate Halloween Candy Recipe and it looks delicious. With white chocolate, nuts and sprinkles this candy will be loved by kids and adults alike. To see the full recipe, head over to Lindsay's blog and then you can make some up this weekend! And don't forget to enter to win a Slow Cooker for yourself HERE!! ... View the Post