OMG- when I saw these fat little chef salt and pepper shakers I was hysterical! They are THE cutest little things :) I used to collect salt and pepper shakers (surprise - surprise- me collect something!) and I could swear I had their likeness in a vintage set. Ok. So anyway. I got this fabulous line "Made From Scratch" from Moxxie and knew I had to adorn a fantabulous recipe with these very papers! I used the entire collection, how could I only chose one PP - the colors rock! Table Service (the chef's), Freshly Picked, Home Cooked, the stickers and the rub-ons.
This is bad, I know, but I can't recall which blog I found this delightfully easy recipe! Maybe Bakerella, perhaps Pioneer Woman... hmmm, was is Our Best Bites????
Seriously... aren't they the cutest?
Here is the inside of my sweet lil' Irish lady card, it contains my favorite Irish blessing! I smile whenever I hear it recited in a true Irish brogue! 
Isn't this little lad adorable? His walking hat and shoes are 3D! 
Once again, my beloved Irish blessing. 
One can never have too many clovers on their St. Patty's card, can they!?!?!
I may have a little surprise up my sleeve for one lucky blog follower.... STAY TUNED :)
XOXOX~
Rachel
Ya'll know I love to cook and bake and scrap... it was like the line of paper was made for little ol' me! My first submission was an altered $.50 tin recipe box I bought at a second hand store. 
It actually had a sweet little tagged all typed up that read DESSERTS, so I thought it befitting to make it a dessert recipe box in it's new life! It even had a vintage recipe stowed away inside! 
As my second project, I thought it best I pay homage to the recipe card and jazz it up for the new recipe box!!!!
Zach looking spiffy in lavender!
Nicky, never looking into the camera, looking dapper in yellow! (Yes, my 3 yr old is wearing SILLY BANDZ! ugh!!!!)
My oldest, Johnny, born to pose and smile for his Mother, looking distinguished in green!
I made this precious little mini album a few years ago for Valentines Day. I used miscellaneous chipboard and cut out the hearts by hand, scraps of PP, stickers, paint and chipboard cutouts (Rusty Pickle).
I thought the journaling called for my very own handwriting!
and ribbon and pom poms - oh my!
TFL!
http://pinestreetjct.blogspot.com/ <--------- This is Jeni's blog. Run. Don't walk over to her blog. There is a link to her Etsy shop. Stop by Jeni's and say HI! Tell her Rachel sent you :)
So now that you know all about Jeni... here is Johnny. Johnny is modeling his Male-Box, his Valentine receptacle. Let's just say .... I, uh, helped! Most Mom's get all flustered and dash out to the store when the kid comes trotting through the door with various projects like this... not me. I am a scrapper. A paper artist. I am a paper hoarder. I am ready for any and all craft projects that come waltzing off the school bus!
And I am pretty puny, too!
I promised to show you something fun with my ten cent tea cups... I used them for the teacher's Valentine gifts from my boys :) I filled some cello bags with Valentine colored M&M's and added a pretty bow, homemade tag and a silk rose and glittery heart pick. I am very pleased with this little trash to treasure idea... hope you find it nifty, too!
Here are a few gifts for the boys gifted and speech teachers. The box/ bag is a set from Dollar Tree (in the wedding favor area) that I adorned with some purdy PP and Cricut hearts! Inside is a feast of Dove Caramels :)
Here is a snippet of the Sweet 16 Birthday Invites I am making for my son's 2nd grade teacher's daughter (you got all that?)! I was given carte blanche but needed to make a prototype for her approval. I was a 16 year old girl many moons ago and would have been happy with Donnie Wahlberg's body shot as my 16 birthday invites... today's girls on the other hand, I have no idea! I hope this flies! My original plan was to use hot pink Bazzill and black velvet ribbon but there was no black velvet ribbon at Michael's and I forgot I needed hot pink and bought light pink instead! My neighbor liked the invites and even ohhed and ahhhed them but my hubby felt it necessary to critique them and said it was hard to read the vellum with the light color! Last time I ask his opinion! Just kidding!
Isn't Toto sweet? I noticed he had an itty bitty piece of his ear chipped off, but I love him just the same! He was only $.10!
I loved the colors for a Spring vignette, it is chipped and a little to grody for me to even think about putting anything consumable in. But I couldn't pass it up for a DIME!
Vintage Christmas picks, ornaments and cupcake decorations- all for $.25!!!
Dainty little sugar jar :) It is also marked Eggshell Georgian Homer Laughlin, Made in the USA (WOW!) It is also numbered, J46N5. I will be Googling this in a little bit!
I actually scored 4 Milk Glass vessels today- I think it was less than $2.50 for all 4!!! The larger ones are marked E.O. Brody, Cleveland Ohio. I have to check them out!!!!
More Milk Glass - $.10 (OMG- I died when I saw it was a dime!)
$.10 each! I already have plans for this little sweetie... stay tuned!
Gorgeous tea cup by Noritake China, made in Japan (that is funny- something that says China NOT made in China!)
Smaller rose platter....
2 rose/ floral chipped platters $.25 each!
Precious milk glass coffee mug :) Man, I just can't wait to sip my Pike's Place out of this sweet little treasure! $.25
Weather-worn hat rack- $.50
Rusty movie reel - $.75
Half a cup of coffee, what a hoot ;) $.10
Old game dice - $.10 for the set of 4
Old Milton Bradley card game, Millie Bornes - $. 25
