Dairy Free Chocolate Cupcakes.

Dairy Free Chocolate Cupcakes. What you need: 1 cup cocoa (unsweetened) 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of softened or partially melted coconut oil (refined) 2 cups of sugar 4 large eggs 1 and 1/3 cups rice milk (organic) Step 1: Preheat oven to 350

Happy New Year!

It’s yet another New Year. Yesterday I launched this blog, kind of anticlimactic. After months of work, you simply hit a button and bam, you’re live. This is a work in progress of course. Not sure what this year holds, but none of us ever fully do, except God Himself. However, I think we have more of a choice in

Gulf Coast Vacation, Fort Morgan, AL.

Gulf Coast Vacation, Fort Morgan, AL Ahh… that serene, peaceful feeling I get from being at the beach, I can’t quite explain it.  I’ve always loved water, always.  When I was a kid I thought living on a houseboat or on a stranded island like “Swiss Family Robinson” sounded like the life for me.  Now married and seven kids later,

Made to Create

The earth provides everything we need to live. it’s a perfect habitat for us, uniquely designed to promote life.  Why then do we spend so much time behind closed doors?  Mankind has never been so disconnected from his/her designed home.  Yes, there are a few exceptions, but generally speaking this seems to be true.  We live in a day of

My New DIY Swing Stand

My husband and some of our boys built a long awaited stand for my old swing that has been stored away in the rafters of our garage for years.  It is very sturdy to say the least, we even thought he may have over built it, but that thought quickly left us when we saw all of our boys swinging

Our New DIY Rabbit Hutch

Our New DIY Rabbit Hutch This is Our New DIY Rabbit Hutch. It was designed and built by my husband, with the help of some of our boys. Lumber was scarce and pretty expensive at the time of the build, so some of it was used with scraps that we already had on hand.  Our large rabbit “Faye” seems to

Homemade Dairy Free Yellow Cake (Cupcakes)

 What you need for Homemade   Dairy Free Yellow Cake (Cupcakes):     2 Cups of all-purpose flour    1 teaspoon of salt     2 teaspoons baking powder   ½ cup of refined coconut oil   1 and ¼ sugar   3 large eggs   1 teaspoon vanilla extract   1 cup rice milk        Let’s Bake

Homemade Dairy Free Brownies

Here is my homemade dairy free brownies recipe.  I’ve made these for many years and they are a favorite of many.  Homemade brownies can be deceptively tricky to master, especially if you bake with coconut oil, but it is so worth the effort!  Having sweet treats that everyone in my family can enjoy is important to me.  When I came