Chocolate Covered Katie

Welcome To 

Fudge Feature Friday!

Where I feature a place around the web that I totally love, so... you should too!

Today I would like to introduce you to...

Chocolate Covered Katie!
If you haven't found her site already, which... you probably have because she is AWESOME!

I am pretty sure this girl is a genius!  Not only are her recipes healthy but MOST of them feature my favorite food group, CHOCOLATE!  

Katie is vegan so ALL of her recipes reflect this healthy lifestyle.  ALL of them are good, ALL of them are vegan, and ALL of them boast great pictures and simple instructions.  Katie is a full-time, pure magic blogger whose site you will stay at for hours on end.  Just looking through her site gave me tons of ways to substitute with healthy ingredients.

Before you head on over there check out a few of my favorite recipes, grab some paper-towels (for catching your drool), and be sure you have an hour to site and browse  ChocolatecoveredKatie.com!

No Flour Black Bean Brownies

Chocolate Pumpkin Pizookie

Chocolate Strawberry Truffle Pie
Yum. Yum. Yum!  Seriously...  go make this one right now.

Cheesecake Pancakes

Cake Batter Ice Cream

Hot Apple Crumb Bars

Math Playground

Welcome to another

Fudge Featured Friday!

Where I show you a site I found and love so much I just GOTTA share with you!

With school back in session many of you may soon be looking for ways to help your kids with dreaded homework.  Or maybe you are just looking for a fun way to support the concepts they learn during the school day!  Maybe you are homeschooling and need a fun but active learning tool to occupy one kid while you help another.

Enter...

 Math Playground!

I LOVE this site.  Since I am still sorta kinda hoping to put my kids back into public school when we arrive at our new location, I am constantly looking for ways to homeshool that support the Common Core Standards.

This math site has everything!  

Manipulatives

Worksheets

Computation Exercises

Timed Flashcards

Math Videos

AND

They have activities listed by Common Core Standard for each grade!

Some of my kids favorite games so far include:

Spirograph

Snail Bob

Tanagrams

Connect 4

Seriously...  This site has been AMAZING for when I need to work with just one kid at a time.  If I absolutely HAVE to find something to critique about it...  I do wish the site was a little easier to navigate for younger kids.  You kind have to pick and choose and hope that the game your kid selected is one he knows enough math concepts to play.  We have been slowly figuring it out, but... again.  I LOVE it!

The Dainty Squid

Welcome to another Fudge Feature Friday at Sherbert Cafe.

This week I want to introduce you to The Dainty Squid!

Kaylah is seems to have all these things going on I wish I had.  

Examples?  Okay then...  I will show you why I seriously stalk her site everyday!

The bravery to color my enter head with fun colors.  

CHECK She does that.

Her site has several Hair Tips and Tricks posts to help your keep vivid colors in your hair.  Those of you who have known me for the past 5 years at least know that I usually some crazy color in my hair.  Recently my craziness has "dyed" down due to me not visiting my hair dresser sister enough.  While my colors are mainly restricted to two strips just behind my ear, this girl goes all out!  I have seen some amazing hair colors and hers combos always turn out so beautiful to me!  I miss my fun hair and found her site when searching for hair color combos to attempt on my own!  Look out hair.  You are about to change!

Fabulously painted nails everyday. 

CHECK She does that.

She does a Weekly Nail post to show off her obsession with polish.  Again... she has me beat here!  I CAN'T seem to keep polish on my nails!  Toes yes.  They MUST never be naked.  But chasing kids around makes if hard for finger polish to stay on.  Forget painting them everyday!  I WISH!

Amazing vintage/thrifty sense of style.

CHECK!  She does that!

Her What I Wore posts show off her cute sense of style.  Most of her clothes are thrift store finds!  Proving that you don't need a big budget to be fashionable!  Now... if only I could stick her in my pocket and take her shopping with me!

Photography sense and skill.

CHECK She does that!

She even has amazing photographer skills!  Seriously...  Just go to The Dainty Squid and click around. The colors in her hair and nails make it worth it for me alone!

Even her Bicycle Makeover is sweet!  It looks so much like my bicycle it is eerie!!  Now I want to paint my rims teal!

Banana, Chocolate and Peanut Butter Vegan Ice Cream  

This needs no advertisement...  Just yum right?

Kaylah, I want to be like you when I grow up!

So, if you want to check out my new idle head over to Kaylah's site, THE DAINTY SQUID!

Pick Your Plum

Welcome to another

Fudge Featured Friday

where I feature a blog or site that is as good a chocolate fudge!

Today I would like to introduce you to Pick Your Plum!

I just had to be sure ALL my readers knew about it.  I now set my alarm clock by it...  (Sheepish grin...)

What is Pick Your Plum?

Who better to explain it than them!

Have you ever glued your fingers together trying to put a project together? Stayed up all night just to finish that last project before your kids wake up? Gussied up your home just so the neighbors could gawk over your detail? Borrowed an idea from the store knowing you can make one too?

We have. We know. Join us.

Get it before your neighbor does:

• We have limited supplies on some of the most swank supplies. We have agents out in the field who find killer deals on high quality products.
• We delicately slap prime-o pricing on crafting, clothing, baking supplies, home decor and other fabulous finds.  Stellar pricing.  Cool.
• We sell it 'til it's gone or 'til time is up.
• You leave feeling like you just won Martha in a crafting contest.
• The supplies arrive in 7-8 shipping days and you've just picked your 'plum'! Doesn't it feel good?

Sign up for Instant Alerts so you always know 'The Deal'.  Don't blame us if you overdose. We only sell products we would use ourselves. We enjoy quality.

Their deals vary so keep an open crafting mind while awaiting the deal of the day.  They post once a day starting at 7PM MST.  That would be 8 for me.  It's perfect.  The kids and I are already up, so I usually throw food at them and then rush to the computer to see what my craft brain can do with what they have to offer that day!

  Today it's RUB -ON's at 64% off!  Quick go over and see if there are any left!

 Don't know what you would do with a RUB-ON?  It's cool wait till monday.  They could offer something like this!  

 Or this... seriously kicking myself for NOT getting this one. 

Pretty bags....

They have oodles of crafty supplies.  Sometimes it's stuff that is hard to get too.

I have seen pretty jewelry, custom engraved wooden tags, gaucho pants, fancy bobby pins, headbands w/ precut flowers so you can design yourself!

Seriously...  I can't believe I didn't find these guys sooner!  LOVE THESE LADIES!
So be sure to check PickYourPlum.com EVERY weekday morning!

Desire 2 Create

Welcome to the new Fudge Featured Friday!  
There are so many amazingly crafty people out there and, just like chocolate, I can never seem to get enough.  Lets face it!  Pretty much Everything is better with chocolate.  
So from now on every Friday I will be featuring a new blog, site, or person that I just can't get enough of.  But, unlike chocolate, you won't have to take me down for me to share them with you!

Todays Fudge Feature is a blog I discovered because I met one of the authors!  There are so may bloggers out there it is nice to meet some in person especially one with such and inspired reason to create!

Desire 2 Create " As the name implies, this blog is all about the desire to create. All of us involved love being creative in some form or another. We decided to start this blog to document our projects and maybe inspire others."

Inspired by the talk "Happiness, Your Heritage" by one of the leaders from the LDS church, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Megan, Magen, Keri, and Lindsey decided they needed a way to share and inspire others to create.


 How can you NOT be inspired to be creative with that message!  So the 4 wonderful ladies went to work.  They all have that desire to create and they share it when they can!  With the four of them they have such a wide variety of post to look at, but... here are a few of my personal favorites!

Felt Car Track by Keri
Perfect for my boys...  totally going to do this! 

Baby Shower Gifts by KeriThis is her FAVORITE post of hers!(She is the one I know BTW.  Her daughter and my son are in the same Kindergarten class AND same Sunday school class... which I just happen to teach!  So... they saw each other 6 days out of the week during the school year!)

Faux Bead Board Frame by Magen
This project is right up my alley!  It cost her less than 5 bucks!

Eyeball Frame by Magen
Okay... Not in season right, but SOOO cute!

Chocolate Raspberry Sundae Topper by Lindsey
OMG!  Seriously... where has this been all my life!

Grilled Pizza by Megan
Such a cute site.  GREAT reason to start blogging.Head on over to Desire2Create when you get the chance!