Muffin Recipe

Glad the feedback on the muffins was positive! Here's the recipe for all those interested. If I do varying amounts in the directions it's because I tweak it here and there. The amounts will be to make a dozen, so if you're making more just use your multiplication! And the tilde sign (~) means about by the way.

1 egg
1 cup mashed up bananas (about 2 decent sized bananas equal a cup, use your old frozen bananas for this!)
~1/3 cups of applesauce (I've used normal applesauce, and then cinnamon applesauce too to compliment the ground cinnamon)
2/3-3/4 cup of packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1-1.5 tsp of salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 cup of oats
box of raisins (just put as many as you want in)
chop up as many little carrot pieces as you want - i went pretty light on mine
can add nuts if you'd like - I used to use walnuts but they are expensive! 

Get a large bowl and combine egg, banana (stir bananas and egg together now in my opinion, the bananas are really chunky if you try to later with everything else in it), brown sugar, applesauce and vanilla. In a different bowl, throw the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together. Then combine the flour mixture and oatmeal into banana mixture. After that you can stir in the raisins, carrots, nuts, etc. Then throw the batter in the muffin tins or the pan! I fill them just about halfway and that usually gives a good size and thorough baking.

Bake @ 350 F for roughly 16-20 minutes

Then, you know, just let 'em cool so you don't burn yourself! And wear oven mitts cause pans are really hot when they come out of the oven...

Share & Voice: Pinterest

Wine Cork Upcycling

Wine Cork Floormat

Pallet Upcycling

Although I briefly touched on the site last week in my Share & Voice post. I thought I would stress the usefulness and educate all of you a little more on Pinterest. Pinterest is a vision-board styled social website where you share ideas, interests, and your creativity with one another. You are allowed to 'like' pictures, similar to the style of Facebook, where you can then go back and reference the posts you have liked. The thing I am most enjoy is creating 'Boards'. You can 'Pin' pictures to your boards and create themes for yourself to follow. Personally, I have boards for things such as DIY projects, Photography Poses, and Rooms that I want in my future house! By simply searching in the search bar, you can find an incredible amount of ideas for recycling, upcycling, junking, and other DIY projects. You can also view people Boards, so when you are searching and find someone with a board titled 'Awesome Upcycling Ideas', chances are there are going to be lots more pictures within that board that aren't even listed in the search results! Let's say for example you have an excessive amount of wine corks laying around your house that you for some reason decided to keep (don't worry, I'm guilty too..). Simply searching 'Wine Cork Upcycling' will give you more results than you can even handle! If you are really into this, you could just look around at all the random things in you're home and start deciding what you could turn them into and soon you'll have a house full of hybrid products than were formerly useless! And you don't have to worry about forgetting what you saw or saving the link address to go back to later, just re-pin it to your Board that you have created! I hope that a lot of you are as interested in this site as me! It has already been a ton of help for me with my photography, and I have found lots of cool DIY ideas that I am looking forward to trying once I obtain the resources for them! You can also 'Follow' people on Pinterest, so if you find someone who has lots of common interests, follow them and you will see all of the posts they like or re-pin. I look forward to seeing lots of you on Pinterest so we can share ideas with each other!