DIY Doily T-Shirt

If you remember, a couple weeks ago I went thrifting and bought the sheet to make my DIY Bedsheet Curtains. Well I also bought this gorgeous doily!

To make this T-Shirt refashion, first get a doily like the one above and a frumpy old T-Shirt you dont care about.

See, super frumpy. So frumpy I had to squint my eyes so I wouldn't see the hideousness!

Lay out your shirt on a flat surface face down.

Position the doily how you want it to look and pin it in place. I pinned mine so that half of the doily would be on the backside of the shirt, but if you wanted more doily you could always do two-thirds of it.

The next step is to sew the edge of the doily onto the backside of the shirt. For this step we will leave the doily whole and just worry about sewing the backside.

Then, flip the shirt inside out and cut out the back of the t-shirt from the collar to the doily edge being careful not to cut your stitches.

Flip your shirt so that the front is facing up and fold the doily over to the front.

Position it how you want it and then pin the doily to the shirt front.

Then sew the doily to the front just like you did on the backside.

Then, cut your doily directly in half across the neck of the shirt.

Then I cut the half circle out of the front of the doily. 

These next few steps really depend on what you want your shirt to look like. I wanted some of the doily to rest on the shirt (as opposed to the backside which I cut out the entire shirt part where the doily was).


At this point I tried on the shirt to determine how much in the front I wanted to cut out. 


I decided to first cut about an inch from the edge of the neckline from one shoulder to the other.


Then I decided I liked the way the doily looked on my bare shoulders so I cut to about a half inch from the edge of the sleeves. 


I also knew I wanted a little dip in the front of the shirt so I went a little deeper directly in the center of the shirt.

And Voilà!  A less frumpy and more fashionable shirt!

My adorable nephew agrees! Happy sewing!

Southwestern Corn

For the 4th of July (and my nephew's 4th birthday) I got to go home to The Desert (my hometown of Bermuda Dune; somewhere in between Palm Springs and Coachella). On the 4th, my family had a BBQ and I offered to make my famous Southwestern Corn. Don't tell anyone its semi-homemade!

Ingredients
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 onion, chopped
2 tsps minced garlic
3 dashes of Hot sauce
2 small bell peppers, chopped (I like to use green and red)
2 cans of whole kernel corn, drained
1 can of diced tomatoes with green chillies, drained (Beware, the green chillies are a bit spicy!)
1 tbsp diced black olives
salt/pepper

Heat some oil in a large skillet. If you have a grill skillet, use that so you can get a nice char on your veggies.

Add the onions, garlic, hot sauce, salt and pepper and sauté until onions are almost tender.

Add the chopped peppers,

and sauté until the onions are translucent.

Scoot the onion, garlic, and pepper mixture to the outsides of the pan making a well in the center.

Add the corn to the well. This will allow the corn to have the most amount of contact with the pan and the heat.

Cook the corn in the well until it has a nice color to it, but not too tender.

Add the tomatoes and cook another couple minutes, stirring all together.

Cook, while stirring, until all the liquid is absorbed.


Lastly add the olives

And thats all there is to it! Serve it hot or cold, with chips or without!

Mini Pizza Cups

So if you remember last week I made Mini Omelet Cups. Well I had a lot of leftover wonton wrappers so I decided to make a spinoff recipe, Mini Pizza Cups!


Ingredients:

For your basic cheese Mini Pizza Cups:
1/2 package of wonton wrappers (round or square)
2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese (I used one 1/2lb package)
1 jar of pizza sauce

You can dress them up with some fancy toppings if you like. I used these adorable mini pepperonis I found at the grocery store and the leftover ham, peppers and onions from the Mini Omelet Cups. (About 1/4 cup of mini pepperonis, 1 slice of ham, 1/2 of a pepper and 1/4 of an onion)


First preheat your oven to 350˚.

Then, just like the Mini Omelet Cups, spray your cupcake tin with cooking spray and line them with the wonton wrappers

Then fill them a table spoon of pizza sauce each.

Then add your toppings!

I did a meat lovers (with ham and pepperoni)

See! I told you they were cute!

And one with peppers & onions.

I sautéed them in a small amount of oil to get a nice char on them.

Before

After!

Top with a sprinkle of cheese and bake for 14 minutes or until the sides of the wontons are crispy!

I made them for my college group and they loved them! Swallowed them whole!