Sweet Tooth Sunday!

For those of you who do not know me yet, I love two things in the morning - Starbucks coffee and a sweet treat!  So, today I am sharing my own semi-homemade recipe for triple chocolate muffins!  When I make these, they barely make it through the morning, as my family loves them too!

Triple Chocolate Muffins:

Ingredients:  Chocolate Muffin Mix, Hershey's Chocolate Syrup and Nestle Mini Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

1. Preheat oven as directed on muffin mix and either spray pan with Pam or use cupcake liners.
2. Grab a box of your favorite chocolate muffin mix.  I use one from Aldi.  Add ingredients as the mix requires.  Then add 1/4C Hershey;s Chocolate Syrup and 1/2 to 3/4 of the package of Nestle Mini Semi-sweet chocolate chips.  Mix together well - by hand.   
3. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full and sprinkle on a few of the reserved chips.
4. Bake according to box directions.  They may take a little longer with the addition of the syrup.
5. Enjoy!  If you want to be "fancy", once they have cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar and present them on a cake pedestal. 

OMG - where has summer gone???

OMG, that is what my daughter and her friends say and text all the time and that is how I feel about this summer.  It has been a whirlwind to say the least.  That excuse aside, I have the promised images of my daughter's new bedroom.  Picking a paint color was probably the most challenging part however, she finally settled on "Butter".  We purchased the paint at Lowe's and though it was an Olympic color, I had Lowe's color match and used their paint and primer in one as the room was RED to start.  It still took 2 coats of paint, but I am very pleased with the result and more importantly, my daughter LOVES it! :)  So here are the before and after images as promised:

BEFORE:

My husband's dark red and sad office.  To be fair, he had already begun to pack it up.  So, it is sadder than usual.

AFTER:

I cannot believe how much better the room looks in "butter".

Here is the bed with some t-shirt sheets I had purchased on clearance at Target - love them!  I have placed the bed on the floor for now as I have not found a bed frame I love that I can afford. 

This "vintage" furniture was my husband's aunt's.  She gave it to my daughter and it looks too perfect in this room.

Here is the desk.

OK, now for the bedding - I had the two black pillows.  The others, along with the bed set, I purchased at a garage sale for $7!!!

I had these three angel wall art boxes from a purchase years ago at one of my favorite shops - MOXIE!  For those of you who are not nearby, please visit her website: www.shopatmoxie.com   The lamp, another clearance item at Target.

The details keep coming.  I have a HUGE shelving unit in my basement that holds all sorts of decorating "props".  I like to cycle things in and out.  I made the framed art work from calendar images, toile gift wrap tissue and some inexpensive frames.

 

Some more goodies to finish the job!  The tissue box holder and metal lantern I purchased at the garage sale too - another $3 for those items.  I put my daughter plug in night light in the lantern and now it adds a lovely lace pattern to the ceiling at nighttime.  The two fashion wall art pieces were in storage and had been purchased at TJ Maxx - love them too!