Pumpkin Pie Popsicles! A Guest Post~

Today I'm excited to have my dear friend Damaris visiting us here at The Shabby Nest. Damaris writes a lovely cooking blog...and is beautiful and talented and all around wonderful....and she has come up with a ROCKIN' dessert for Thanksgiving that she's going to share with all of us today. What a great way to start off the week!

Hi, my name is Damaris but you can call me Da. I met Wendy when I was in college. She was married and had two young children at the time. Her home was wonderfully stylish, wonderfully cozy, and wonderfully clean. I loved being over at her house but it wasn't until I had a family of my own that I thought back many times on Wendy's sense of style and wondered "how did she do it all?"

Well, as you can see by her beautiful blog and this wonderful space that she's created that she continues to do it! I feel honored to share a recipe on The Shabby Nest. Thanks Wendy!

Here is the scoop, I blog at Kitchen Corners about cooking for and with my kids. I always encourage my children to try new things and am proud to say that I am NOT a picky eater. There is one thing, though, that I don't love. It's called pumpkin pie. To be honest, I don't even really like it. Basically, I tolerate this traditional Thanksgiving dessert. Maybe it's because I'm Brazilian and didn't grow up with Thanksgiving feasts. I don't know. It baffles me because I love food. Wait, that's an understatement, I adore food. I live for food and pumpkins are king, whip cream is heavenly, and pie crusts are the world's best culinary invention. Still, I don't like pumpkin pie.

So my 4-year-old and I came up with a recipe that has all the goodness of pumpkin pie, only in a different format. I present you the pumpkin pie popsicle. I love the pumpkin pie popsicle and am making it on Thursday for those of us who loves a little variation.

This is an easy recipe to make totally doable with kids.

1cup Libby's Pumpkin Pie mix
1 heavy cream
1/2 cup milk
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1/4 cup crushed graham crackers

1.In a blender mix the heavy cream with sugar and cinnamon in high speed for 30 seconds. Place inside a large gallon sized plastic bag.

2.Mix The cup of Libby's Pumpkin Pie Mix with the milk in a blender in high speed for 30 seconds. Place in a separate gallon sized plastic bag.

3.Cut a small hole on one tip of the plastic bag that has the pumpkin mix. This will help you pour the mixture into your popsicle molds.

4.Pour the pumpkin mixture into the Popsicle molds 3/4 full.

5.When the pumpkin mixture has frozen, add the whip cream mixture by cutting a small hole on the plastic bag and pouring it until the Popsicle mold is completely full.

6.Sprinkle crushed graham crackers on top of the whip cream and freeze.

7.Serve when popsicles are completely frozen.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

When I met Damaris we were both living in Massachusetts, she live in sunny California now...a perfect place for popsicles, but I'll tell you what...even with the snow outside that has been dumping on us here in Utah, my kids would devour Pumpkin Pie Popsicles in a heartbeat! Thanks Damaris!!!

Tomorrow I will be announcing the winner of the EcoNaturals Soap giveaway....so there 's still time to enter if you haven't had a chance!

And for my November thankful thought today: I'm thankful for getting to spend time with my two older kiddos and the Hubby this weekend on our "date" to see Harry Potter. Good times with great kids...oh how I love them!

Have a great day~

Simplicity - A Guest Post by Kasey of Lola B's~

For those of you who have never met my dear friend Kasey, you are in for a treat. She is amazingly stylish with a FABULOUS home. And if you don't know already, you will soon find out that she has a hilarious tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. In fact, since I am not funny at all, you may read this post, visit her blog, and never come back. Please come back. Please.

Hello there. I'm the one in the picture above ....you might know me...you might not....

i am a married mother of three kids...

though sometimes i think they aren't really mine..or better yet...

i will pretend that they are not mine...and wait for someone to raise their hand to claim my

children...

but that's never happened...

so here we are....

and i still have three children. Don't get me wrong though...i desperately love my

wee one's..

but a girl's got to admit...

life in my house is not full of cherries...

you end up with a lot of pits sitting around.

hold on....

wait a minute...

i don't even think i introduced myself properly...

and here i am...

totally opening up my can of worms to you...

and you might not even know who i am.

My name is Allison and i live outside of chicago...

grrr....

you got me....my name isn't really Allison...

it's Kasey.....but the truth is...

my parents almost named me allison...

so i have every right to use that name...

sheesh....

once again i am so off track....

but that's me..

and wendy kindly asked me to pop over here and

do a little guest post.

I hope she approves...

otherwise...

well....

i know the first names of her children...and they are definitely

not called #1, #2, #3, and #4 in her house.




The first thing i thought when wendy asked me to be a guest on her lovely blog..is what the heck am i going to chat about...

because wendy is the all knowing..

the all creative...

and she knows how to sew....

with a needle and thread...

yup...

not me...

i don't have an ounce of creativity in me..

let alone...

do i know how to thread a needle..

but..what i can do, is style my home.

that i know.






So, with the holidays right around the corner...i just thought i would share with you some really simple...

ways to freshen up a room with a minimalistic look.

One thing you won't find in my home are the ever popular

red and greens.

nope.

not here.

I love grey...i love cream...

and i love simple.





I also love the idea of simple ways to give a gift....especially if you are like me..

and on a total budget this season.

no wrapping paper in sight.

Use a simple brown kraft box....some twine...and a hand stamped tag to pull it all together.

I actually got these tags from Etsy....and you can find them {here }.






Right now i'm really into a clean natural look in my home....and a good way to bring

the word natural in...is by really bringing it in.

yes....

what you see is a branch....

and i am using it as a curtain rod...

and it hangs on some crown hooks.

You don't have to worry...

i did let my kids play with the stick first...

and once i made sure there were no

bugs or foreign creepy crawly things on it..

i brought it in and

voila...

a totally free curtain rod....

ahem

it made up for the price i paid for the french curtain.










And here is the twine again....

i used it to tie the curtain back....

so easy and once again...

a bargain.

which is my middle name in case you were wondering....

but don't get it confused with

the town in the south of france called

bargein.








It's been a pleasure chatting with you...and letting you see just a few things i've done.




xo




So didn't I tell you she has fabulous style? Thanks for stopping by today, Kasey!!

Coming up this week: A glittery Christmas project

A Christmas family tree

Have a great day~