Baking and Playing

I spent most of the day playing in the kitchen and my craft room.  A few weeks ago, I found a recipe for English Muffin Bread on Pink Cricut.  We loved it so much, I've made it several times since.  In fact, I used a whole jar of yeast.  I don't think I've ever used a whole jar of yeast before the expiration date before. 

The other day, I made a little change to the recipe.  I added some cinnamon and raisins, which was absolutely divine!  So today I made the whole recipe as raisin bread.

But I wasn't done there.  Yesterday, while playing around on Pinterest, I found a recipe for Jalapeno Cheese Bread from Homemade by Holman.  I decided I just had to try that one too. 

I am soooo happy I did.  It was fabulous (although I only used 1/2 of the jalapenos the recipe called for and used double the red green pepper because I didn't have any green peppers on hand). I'm definitely making this one again.  And my loaf of banana bread is just coming out of the oven.  I used the tried and true Betty Crocker recipe.  We've tried others but it's my favorite by far.

So in my craft room today, I played around with pictures taken from our Friday trip to see the dock that washed ashore following the Japanese tsunami. I used this week's Sketch Inspiration sketch to start and opened a collection pack from Echo Park called Country Drive that I had in my stash.  I just love EP paper!  I decided I needed to copy the flower paper for an embellishment and I just love that I found the cut file in the Silhouette Store.  Yea!  I added a little bling with my Irock, a title, some hidden journaling and a few words and some strips of border from the embellishments in the kit.