Tastefully Simple Spring Summer 2010

The new Catalog for Tastefully Simple is coming out in a couple of weeks. There are some great new products that I cannot wait to try!! If you would like to look at a new book or have a open house or silent party. Let me know!! Here are the new items, or go to my website to view the items and order. I will let you know that it is cheaper if you order through me instead of online!

HERE THEY ARE.........

Spring-Summer Products
Backyard BBQ™ Dip Mix
Bacon Ranch Dip Mix
Blue Ribbon Blueberry™ Bar Mix
Bold & Bossy™ Honey Mustard Sauce
Cake Batter Chiller Drink Mix
Creamy Southwest Chipotle™ Pasta Salad Mix
Garlic Pepper Seasoning
Juicy Watermelon™ Margarita Mix
Juicy Watermelon™ Margarita Mix Mini-Bucket
Lovin' Lemon Slush™ Drink Mix
Mmm ... Mojito™ Drink Mix Mini-Bucket
Roasted Garlic Infused Oil
Simple Salad™ Dressing Mix
Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler Mix
Sun-Dried Tomato Veggie Dip Mix
Sunny Orange™ Pancake & Waffle Mix
Sunny Strawberry™ Syrup
Sweet Pineapple Chipotle Salsa
Sweet Strawberry Cheese Ball Mix
Tasty Rye™ Bread Mix
Toasted Garlic & Parmesan Cheese Ball Mix
Zesty Cracked Peppercorn Sauce

CANDY

June will be here before you know it. I have started looking for candy for the candy buffet. I still can't decide if I want to do all pink, black, silver and white candy or if I should do mulit colored candy. So far I have pink and silver wrapped hershey kisses, pixie stix, dove pink wrapped candy, pink fruit punch tootsie rolls, pink suckers, black licorice bites.........Im debating to add multi color to it!?!?! If I go with mulit color I will just put a cute pink and black ribbon around the vase..... Renae and I are going to daisy lane this week and decorating the cupcake stand and the card tower box that I made. Im going to have the cupcake stand on the candy buffet as well with cute pink, and black decorated cupcakes!! Here is a picture of what i am wanting the candy buffet to be like, not exactly like this, but similar. It will be the serpentine tables and then a circle table in the middle with the chocolate fountain. We are going with milk chocolate, to dip we are having pretzels, pink wafers, oreos, angel food cake, and fruit kabobs!

Oreo Balls

I made these for Christmas. They were a big hit! Here is the recipe. Enjoy!!

1 package 18-ounce, Oreos, Finely Ground
½ cups Confectioner's Sugar
8 Ounces Cream Cheese, softened
1 package Chocolate Bark ( I USED WHITE CHOLOATE BARK)
Preparation Instructions
In a food processor or blender, process Oreos until finely ground.

In a large bowl mix Oreo crumbs, Confectioners sugar, and cream cheese using an electric mixer, until well blended.

Roll into walnut-sized balls, place on cookie sheet, and refrigerate for one hour.

Bring water to a boil in a double boiler. Remove from heat and melt 3-4 chopped up chunks of the chocolate bark at a time in the double-boiler, stirring constantly. Make sure there are no lumps. Repeat process when you need more chocolate for coating.

Stick a toothpick into an Oreo ball and dip it into the melted bark. Let the excess drip off.

Place the dipped Oreo balls onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet and let harden (about 10-15 minutes).

Laser Tag

Kayden turns six in two weeks! Since his birthday is in the winter there is not a whole lot of stuff for boys to do, besides bowling really.......Sooooo (Im probably nuts for this) BUT Derek and I are taking 6 boys over to Terre Haute to XTreme laser tag. They get to play for two hours, and have pizza and cake. Kayden is SUPER excited about this. This is his first time really having other kids besides his cousins go and do something. So he cannot wait! I will def. post pictures of the party! It should be fun!!

Wine Covers

We are starting to get some of the small piddly stuff out of the way for the wedding. Ashley designed these wine covers for me for the wine buffet! Arent they cute!! She is awesome! She is going to put these on silver cardstock paper! Love it!!!!

Day before Thanksgiving

I know most of you have heard about the Turkey story! BUT for those of you who havent. I had a horrible day Wednesday! Let's See! To start off I got up an hour early to start the brining process for the first turkey ive EVER made. Everything went very smooth. It was time to leave so I put the big dutch oven of the brining solution into the fridge to cool and then Derek was going to go tehre and pour it onto the turkey. Everything was great! Kayden and I left the house at 7. At 8:15 I get a call from Derek going "BALLISTIC" that he spilled all of the brining solution everywhere it was a mess blah blah blah.....so needless to say the floor got brined that morning! SO! I was so upset. I ordered the brining from a special store followed the pioneer womans steps and so now all day Wednesday I had to find a brining recipe. Needless to say my 14.00 brining episode turned into 40.00 becasue I had to buy all of the seasonings seperate! UGH! It was crazy busy at work I was by myself that day! THEN on the way home I get pulled over and get TWO warnings! Yes 2! I was in huge path of cars and THEY ALL were speeding and i was in the middle! He pulls me over and said I stuck out like a soar thumb because i had a head light out! FINALLY I got home, started the brining process all over again. This was my first time making a turkey. I shoved apples, cinnamon sticks, rosemary, sage, all kinds of crap in that turkey. Taking it out of the roaster it looked like it puked a christmas tree up haha, with the rosemary sprigs and everything! Needless to say everyone loved the turkey! and they all gave Derek alot of crap about not touching anything in the kitchen that day! haha! The turkey turned out! NEXT YEAR ILL TRY THE PIONEER WOMANS BRINING RECIPE!

Christmas "Extravaganza"

BRING A FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!


T-Town’s 1st Annual

Christmas “Extravaganza”

Sunday, December 6th
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Free Admission
Teutopolis American Legion
(106 N. Plum St. Teutopolis, IL 62467)



Christmas Shopping Made Easy!
There will be a little of everything for everyone!

Enjoy a day out and find great Christmas gifts from local vendors!
*Cash N’Carry, Samples, Door Prizes, Massages, and Much More!*

Participating Vendors
Tastefully Simple, Celebrating Home, Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Walnut Street Weddings, Miche Bags
Cookie Lee Jewelry, Party Lite, Mary Kay, Premier Designs
Double Blessing’s Candles, Lia Sophia, Hotsy Totsy Bows, Thirty-One Gifts, Silpada, Scentsy, Modern Girl, Stampin’ Up, Usborne Books, Stella and Dot, Longaberger,
Creative Memories, & Serenity Therapeutic Massage