Eye Candy... er, Cupcakes

If anyone is looking for good ideas for an All Saint's Day Party, I guess posted over at Catholic Cuisine about my St. Lucy eyeball cupcakes! Check out the post here! There are a lot of really cute Catholic food ideas over there, so if you're Catholic, you need to bookmark this site! :-)

You could also follow my directions and just make regular eyeball cupcakes for a Halloween party as well. 

More all Saint's Day party ideas to come ;-) Just out of curiosity, do I have any Catholic readers? 

St. Lucy Cupcakes

Kitchen Inspiration

When I first got married, our kitchen was "diner themed", so everything was red and black. I wanted a change that included a lot of color, and then I found these pictures for inspiration:

So I'm sure you guys all saw the amazing giveaway dishes on The Nester and Southern Hospitality. They made me drool! (aahhddddrgggrhhh)

But they did something more important than making me drool... they made me see how to be able to incorporate all my red and black stuff in my new colorful kitchen! Ta-da! (This is very important because I can't buy all new stuff) Plus, I was already putting bible verses on all my dishes! I sure wish I had won one of those giveaways! Doesn't that bum you out??? Well... it doesn't have to! Know why? Because we can paint on our own dishes, ladies! Check out my "new" water pitcher:


I found this water pitcher at Goodwill last fall for $2.99, and loved it! It already had the colorful stripes, but I got inspired and painted the bible verse on myself! Plus, it's dishwasher and microwave safe! Want to know how I did it? With Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paints. They're awesome. You can get them at your local craft store in paint or paint-marker form. You paint on your own dishes, and then bake them in your regular oven to set it. They turn out looking and feeling very professional. See my post about when I painted the rest of my dishes here.

The bible verse I used on my water pitcher was 1Cor 10, 31:

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

Good Friday Links

I'm going to be traveling on Good Friday, so I was looking for a printable version of the stations of the cross to read in the car. I found so many neat links, I thought I would like to share them with you all!


I found a really neat hands-on Stations of the Cross for children. You make it yourself, and there is one object to represent each station. It's the same concept as Resurrection Eggs. Click here for directions.


I also found Stations of the Cross coloring sheets. Here's the link.

Click here for a printable version of Stations of the Cross.

Click here to find a printable booklet of the Stations of the Cross for children.


I will leave you with a video that goes through all 14 Stations of the Cross in 6 minutes. It's a beautiful version with great music for meditation.