Handprint Lamb Craft

This is a cute and easy handprint craft suitable for preschool and kindergarten children.



What You Need:
-black construction paper
-glue
-white pencil crayon or a silver marker
-cotton balls
-scissors
-wiggly eyes (optional)

Directions:
-Place your child's hand on the black construction paper.
--Fingers should be slightly spread but the thumb should be out as far as possible.
--Fingers are legs and thumb is head.
--Trace your child's handprint.
-Cut out handprint.
-Glue cotton balls all over the handprint but leave the tips of the fingers and thumb cotton free.
-Glue small wiggly eyes onto the head (tip of thumb) or use pencil or crayon to draw eyes.
-Use a white pencil crayon or silver marker to add a smile.

Cupcakes Without Eggs

This reciepe is great for vegans or if you just don't have any eggs on hand.

Things you need:
Box of your favorite cake mix
Oil
Can of Soda

-Choose your soda. Depending upon the color of the cake, you will want to choose the appropriate soda. For a dark cake, a cola works perfectly. For a light cake, try a lemon-lime alternative.
-Mix all ingredients. You will add the measured amount of oil as directed on the box of cake mix. Instead of adding water and eggs, simply add one can of soda. Mix thoroughly.
-Bake as directed plus 5 minutes. (The extra 5 minutes will account for any extra liquid.)
-Enjoy your cake. This cake comes out a little more moist than cakes made by traditional directions. Enjoy with your favorite icing or powdered sugar.

When icing your cupcakes, use a piping bag to prevent the cake from crumbling.

Basic Chicken Salad Reciepe

Sometimes simple is best. When it comes to chicken salad I like to make it basic and allow each person to dress it up as they want.



Ingredients:
-Chicken
--You can use left over chicken (do not used fried chicken) or you can cook chicken.
-Mayo
-Celery
-Salt
-Pepper

Dice chicken into cubes. Dice celery. Combine chicken, mayo*, celery** and season with salt and pepper for taste.

*Amount of mayo is left up to your discretion. I prefer 1 cup chicken to 1/2 cup mayo.
**I prefer 1/4 cup diced celery to 1 cup chicken.

Suggestions:
-You can spread chicken salad on bread and dress as a sandwhich.
-You can place it on a bed of lettuce with tomato, cucumber, onions, black olives, bell pepper, pickles, etc and eat as a salad.
-Have plain with crackers.

Martha Stewart's New Book Release

Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts: Basic Techniques for Sewing, Applique, Embroidery, Quilting, Dyeing, and Printing, plus 150 Inspired Projects from A to Z is released.

The new sewing and fabric crafts book on sale today. 150 projects, 800 photos and templates.



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Easter Treat Holder

The treats will sevrve as nice basket stuffers, table toppers, or can be hid during the egg hunt.

What you need:
-Glue
-Ribbon
-Baby food jars
-Easter grass
-Pompoms
-Craft feathers
-Jelly beans/m&m candies

Directions:
-Glue a piece of ribbon around the lib of baby food jar and tie it into a bow.
-Glue Easter grass onto the top of the lid.
-Glue two pompoms together:
--For a bird: Add felt eyes and a beak, and feathers for wings.
--For a rabbit: Add felt eyes and glue on a pompom tail.
-Let dry.
-Fill with jelly beans or m&m candies.

Easter Basket Treats

A new take on a spring tradition, these mini baskets are fun for kids and they add a bright touch to your table.

What you need:
-Jelly Beans
-Ice cream cones
-Apple licorice

Directions:
-Fill ice cream cones with jelly beans.
-With a small knife, carefully cut two holes into the sides of each cone.
Tuck the ends of an apple licorice stick into the holes.

Provided by Good Housekeeping
Reprinted with permission of Hearst Communications, Inc.

Jelly Bean Easter Carrots

You can make these colorful jelly bean carrots very quickly, but they have such a bright, springtime appeal that you can be sure they will please everyone on your Easter list.

Pile Easter grass inside a shiny metal collander and nestle the jelly bean carrots inside to use as a unique Easter table centerpiece, or hide them (if you can) as unusual finds in your Easter egg hunt.

You could offer one of these jelly bean carrots as a winning prize in an Easter game, or tie a few together as a bunch of carrots to decorate your door or wall instead of a wreath. The same bunch of carrots could then be the focus of a "guess the number of jelly beans" game. Who knew carrots could be such fun?

What You Will Need:
-Cellophane cone shaped bags or clear plastic icing bags (these are usually available at Michaels, or sometimes in the cake decorating aisle of your grocery store)
-Orange and green jelly beans
-Green tissue paper
-Green curling ribbon

Directions:
-Fill the bag about half full with orange jelly beans. Add a layer of green jelly beans. Prop the bag inside a narrow vase or wine glass to hold it up while you work on the next steps.
-Cut a strip of folded green tissue paper that is a little wider than the length now available from the top of the green jelly beans to the edge of the bag. Make sure the double-layered tissue paper strip is long enough to roll easily into a loose circle that will fit nicely inside the top of the bag. A generous overlap when you slide the ends of the circle together is fine and will add a little body to the top of the carrot.
-Roll the tissue paper strip loosely and fit it inside the bag, pushing it down to meet the top layer of green jelly beans.
-Tie one or two strands of curling ribbon around the bag, just above the green jelly beans, so that the ribbon cinches the bag tightly and holds the tissue paper in place.
-Curl the ends of the ribbon.

Other Suggestions:
-Fill the carrot with other orange colored candy, or with cheese puffs, and top with a layer of green easter grass.
-Omit the green jelly beans, if you don't have them, and rely on the green tissue paper to provide the carrot's greenery at the top.

Happy Palm Sunday

On Palm Sunday Christians celebrate the Triumphal Entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, the week before his death and resurrection. For many Christian churches, Palm Sunday, often referred to as "Passion Sunday," marks the beginning of Holy Week, which concludes on Easter Sunday.

This week I will focus on Easter crafts & reciepes will still helping you to become one with your Inner Martha.

Quick & Easy Peanut Butter Cookie in 15 Minutes

Sometimes you don't have alot of time but want to bake homeade goods, my reciepe for 15min quick and easy peanut butter cookies is the sure way to go. This reciepe is so simple anyone could do it.

What you need:
2 cup of peanut butter
2 cup of sugar
2 egg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray cookie sheet with non-stick baking spray.
Combine peanut butter, sugar, and egg until you get a well blended dough.
Drop cookie dough by the tablespoon 1 inch apart.
Bake cookies for 10 minutes.
Let cool.

Yeild 25 to 30 cookies.

Welcome To My World

Welcome to the world of the Black Martha Stewart! Recently I quit my job with a steady income, benefits, & 401k because I wasn't satasified. I am now on a journey of finding myself and doing what I love to do best and thats to let others see my inner "Marhta". Throughout this blog I will teach you to join with your inner Martha and become the best Modern Day Housewife and still look good while doing it. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.