Monday Made It....a lot of grapes had to be tested for this...

I am linkin' up with the wonderful Tara from 4th Grade Frolics 

for her marvelous Monday Made It linky.

I'm also linkin' up with Christy from Teaching Tales Along the 

Yellow Brick Road for her yummy Eating, Drinking and Linking...Oh My!
I also had lots of yummy food this past week that I wrote about here.

I'm pretty sure this will be the last time you 

see me writin' about makin' food this summer.

I am headin' home on Wednesday night from my vacation.

He's probably not gonna like it, but it

will be time for Jerm to take back over the task of 

makin' sure I get fed.

If not...I could always live off this stuff...

This is so easy an Ali can make it.

Taco Dip: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spread one package of cream cheese on the bottom of a glass pie dish.

Pour one cup of salsa on top of the cream cheese.

Sprinkle any type of shredded cheese you like on top of the the salsa 

and cover thoroughly.

I like to use the blended shredded cheeses.

Heat for 15-20 minutes and it's ready to serve.

Spinach Dip: Dump in all the ingredients listed on the back of a

Knorr's vegetable dip packet for Spinach Dip.

1 cup mayo, 1 carton of 8 oz. sour cream, 1 package of frozen

spinach that is thawed and drained, and the Knorr packet.

Mix it up and put it in the fridge overnight.

I made this for Nitty's memorial...read here.

It was one of her favorites.

It's really hard to work on crafts when you are 3,000 miles away

from your crafty stuff, but you know what....you just make small stuff 

with whatever you've got handy...no biggie!

I happened to have scrapbook paper left over from last week's MMI here.

These are goin' to look really cute on my whiteboard at school.

I bought the little cardboard butterflies and stars for $1 each at Beverly's Fabric.

I also bought some stick on magnets for the back.

I used the shapes as a guide to cut out the colorful butterflies and stars

on the left over scrapbook paper.

I used craft glue to glue the paper on top and 

peeled off the magnet and stuck it on the back.

This will match my Rockstar sign.

*Disclaimer: 

A lot of grapes had to be tested for the next three crafts.

BUT, I did not test all of them on my own.

These corks were saved over a long period of time

 for me to use for craftiness.

It's all about the recyclin'...okay?

Just like that time when I made Christmas trees out of corks.

Of course I had to pick out my favorite corks because those bottles at 

one point in time had my dad's grapes in them. 

Now our bellies have those grapes in them.

I took the little screw eyes that I got in the jewelry section of the craft store

and put them in the bottom of the corks.

Then I twisted them on my dad's key ring.

This seriously took less than one minute.

My favorite kind of craft.

See it attached to his keys at the top?

They are restin' on that cool plate I made here.

Wine corks continued...

I used the left over screw eyes for this craft also.

I put a screw eye into the top and bottom of two corks on the end.

The ones in the middle got one screw eye on the bottom only.

I used the hot glue gun and glued the corks to one another.

I threaded a ribbon I had into the top and tied it into a knot because

I don't know how to tie bows.

This was super easy too other than the corks took a little bit

to stick to one another with the hot glue.

The hot glue of course had no problem stickin' to my fingers.

Go figure!

If I were goin' to make this again, I would glue the corks onto

a ruler also to help it stay sturdy.

You'll see what I'm talkin' about on the next cork craft.

I would like to make one to hold necklaces, but I would

use hooks at the bottom instead of the screw eyes.

That's right...the corks are continued again..

I threaded some ribbon into hole on the top of a yard stick.  

I hot glued corks onto the yard stick and this time...not on my fingers.

After it dried...I hung the corky yard stick on the wall 

and pinned some pictures up.

Another quick and easy craft.

Oh...I can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with.

Happy Monday, friends.