Father's Day Fun

I saw this idea on Pinterest (as usual). Robbie and I had a great time creating it.

We made a long list of different candies we wanted to get. I gave him the list and he picked them all out. We ended up going to three different stores to get everything we needed. It was a lot of fun.

Very excited to give this card!

Here is the written text of what we made, in case you cannot read it from the picture.

Dad, We were going to give you a Whopping bunch of Gold Coins to go on a shopping Spree for Father's Day, but the money slipped through our Butterfinger's. We didn't have an Extra Whatchamicallit to sell, and it wasn't Payday. We didn't think a pet KitKat, a trip to New York, or an Orbit around the Milky Way would be appropriate. We do with you Mounds of Almond Joy as you eat this card. We hope it doesn't make you Rolover and get sick. If it does, we promise not to Snicker or Look.
Have a Good & Plenty Father's Day!
Love, your favorite Air Heads..... 

Enjoy your Father's Day!

Summer is here!

Summer is here! Well, not officially summer. But summer vacation is here. I like to try new things and my goal this summer is to try at least one new, completely different recipe each week.  One of my most favorite summer flavors is coconut. It reminds me of suntan lotion and Maui. Let's all pause and have our own personal Maui moment.......

Okay, now that we're all relaxed and in the mood for a little tropical flavor, let's make Coconut Macaroons. I have never made them before. But, they don't look that difficult and I have everything here at home. So, here we go.

Coconut Macaroons

What you will need:

4 egg whites (room temperature)
2/3 cup of sugar (I used the sugar substitute, Splenda)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/ 4 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut


Preheat oven to 325.  Lightly grease baking pan.

Beat the egg whites at medium speed until slight peaks form. Slowly add sugar, vanilla and salt. Once fully incorporated, beat at high speed until firm peaks form. Gently fold in the coconut.

Spoon about a tablespoon amount onto baking pan.

Bake for 15 minutes.  Let cool on baking pan for a few minutes to firm up, then transfer to a cooling rack.

Oh yes, I am sure my husband will be pleased. I ate two. Really. Only two. I promise. They are light as a cloud. I mean really amazingly light. And the flavor is great. I hope you enjoy them as much as we will.

Oh, you're supposed to actually do the pin's.....

Finally, I finally actually did a pinterest craft. I am really good at pinning. Really good. And, I'm pretty good at trying the recipes that I pin. Not so good at actually doing the hands on crafts though.So, I finally tried one. Of course, in usual Sunny fashion, I changed it a bit.

Here is the link to the original pin Easy Confetti Tumblers.  The blogger did a great job on her tumblers. They are really pretty. She did so well and made it look so easy that I had to try it for myself.

I had everything I needed already. (Which may explain why this is the only craft I have ever done from pinterest.)

Here's what I used:

• Two wine glasses (Who doesn't have a ton of extra wine glasses in the house... really?)
• Acrylic paints (In this case, regular old Crayola paints taken from Robbie's art box in his room.. shhhhh....)
• Top coat nail polish (Yes, it's Opi. But, it's all I had. Next time I will buy a cheap brand instead of wasting my Opi)

The original blogger did these really pretty little dots on hers. I tried that. It didn't work so well for me. The glory of this project is that if you don't like what you did, you can just wash it off. I ended up doing a nice little "swiping" motion with my paint brush.

I started with the lighter color, overlapping some of the brush strokes. Then I added the darker color. More as an accent.

I love green colors. And I think it will look good with a nice chardonnay in the glass.
The other glass I made was orange and red. It will look great with a red wine. Some of you will say, "But Sunny, you used two white wine glasses. Shouldn't you have used a red wine glass too?" Well, yes I should have. And I even have some plain red wine glasses, but, honestly, I didn't think about it until after I had painted. So, there you go. I will do some red wine glasses though.  Because I really like it.

 Once the paint dries, go over your painted area with the nail polish. Only polish over the painted area. You don't want to use the acrylic paints or the nail polish up close to the rim of your glass. Not good at all.  

Let it all dry and then enjoy. This will look great on tumblers or stemless wine glasses. Oooohhhh and on martini glasses and margarita glasses too. I may have to return Robbie's paints and get my own if I keep this up.

Enjoy my friends, enjoy.