St. Patrick's Day Sweet Cinnamon Clover Pretzels

Here's a tasty new twist on the traditional St. Patrick's Day Clover -- sweet green pretzels fashioned from canned refrigerated bread stick dough and coated with a sprinkling of colored sugar and cinnamon.
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
Canned refrigerated bread stick dough (we used Pillsbury Original Breadsticks)
Colored sugar
Cinnamon
1. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and lightly coat it with cooking spray.


2. To create the clover shape, mold 3 sections of bread sticks into hearts and press them together as shown. Attach a small stem, decorate, bake according to the package directions, and serve them up.

Flowers

Thanks hon!

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This is why I need a new designer camera bag...

I had opened my camera bag to take a few photo's and Chloe climbed right in. Chloe decided to make herself comfy cozy on top of my $300 lens...ugh!!! Help!!! I really need a SHOOTSAC!!!

I love! love! love! this SHOOTSAC cover patten:

So cool!

Homemade Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe - Great Valentine Treat!

Super Yummy! Great Valentine Treat!!!

Dry ingredients:
1 ¾ cup All Purpose Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt

Wet ingredients:
1 egg
½ cup oil
¾ cup milk
¼ cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
2 tsp pure orange extract

For folding in:
½ cup almonds
½ cup chocolate chips (I used semi-sweet)
1 ½ cups fresh strawberries, chopped

Method:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.

In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix together the wet ingredients.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well till the whole batter comes together. (Too much stirring/mixing will result in muffins that are too dense/heavy.)

Fold in the strawberries, chocolate chips and almonds. Spoon the batter and place in each paper-lined muffin cup till it is two-thirds full.

Bake for 25 minutes or so till the tops are nice and brown or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the muffin comes out clean.

This recipe yields 12 muffins.

Cleaning the sensor on my Canon

Found this video clip showing the proper way to clean the sensor if needed. I actually had noticed a few specs on my own sensor this week, while taking photo's of Mallie, and I was not sure the proper way to clean the camera. These below video tutorials helped a lot.

Also, this is a great tool to purchase: http://www.copperhillimages.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=2