Homemaking Mondays: Homemade cream cheese and violets

Hello!  

Do you like making cheese?  I do.

I had used up the cream cheese I'd bought and then realized that I needed 

some to make my daughter's birthday cake. Ooops!  

I'm so glad that the Lord Jesus has given me an interest in making things from scratch. 

I didn't have to make a special trip to town for it.  

I pulled out a gallon of milk, heated it up, and added some lemon juice.  

After it gave up the curds, I strained it for about 15 minutes. 

Then I took the cheese and put in in my food processor until it was smooth. 

It was so nice! Oh, I also added a pinch of salt to the cheese while it was processing. 

 I also had a lot of whey left and it goes so well in biscuits and pancakes. 

I love the yellow colour. 

I had lots of nice cheese to make her chocolate mint swirl cheesecake. 

It was so delicious! 

I will definitely be making this again!

I used the rest of the cream cheese in enchiladas...

that I had made for the first time. 

My family enjoyed them so much that I'll be making them again. 

I'll leave you with a pretty picture of my violets that are blooming 

so amazingly on my desk right now.

Thanks so much for dropping by! 

Love and Prayers,
Jennifer

A Lovely Daughter

 Hello! Yesterday one of my daughter's turned 13.  The Lord has greatly blessed and she is such a lovely young woman who loves the Lord and is growing in the grace and knowledge of Him.
I made the above card for her from odds and ends of paper that I found in my craft room.  I found some lace and crocheted some small flowers to match.  The sweet girl image is from Anna Stillwell -Cuttlebug Cuties coloured up with Spectrum Noir markers.  I inked the edges of the papers to add a softer tone, and the sentiment was a freebie I found online a long time ago.

Below is the cake I made my daughter and it tasted pretty good to. :)

Sharing with Word Art Wednesday.

Anyone For Cake?

 Do love cake? We do and it's fun to be able to dress it up for special occasions.  This is my husband's birthday cake from this week.  Too many candles would have been a danger (hehehe) so we put a lighthouse on it with a tea light inside.  Plus he loves lighthouses.  I made two different colours of blue icing and then the other colours were left over from my son's birthday.  It was a homemade orange cake and it's was so delicious! Next time though I'll add just a tad more orange juice than called for.
In my family, we love cake at any time and often just make cake for fun.  My husband found a cake decorating toolbox at a garage sale once and I just love it!  The kids have fun with it to. My grandmother was a cake decorator and even though I won't be amazing like her, I do love the art of it!  Plus it's edible! LOL
This is the card that I made for him as well.  It has a wonderful image from Shoregirl Creations and the writing is hard to read, but it's And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.   And the inside is a scripture from Word Art by Karen.  My husband is an amazing godly man who leads our family in the Word of God every day!
Sharing this card with Word Art Wednesday.

Thanks for dropping by! Have a beautiful day and eat some cake! :)