My favorite pizza recipe!

Turkey Sausage and Mushroom Pizza

This is one of my family's favorite meals. I don't like to toot my own horn (HONK!), but anytime I've ever made this for a party, I am handing out the recipe!

 You can make many variations, but this is how I usually make it.

You will need:

2-3 Italian turkey sausage links, squeezed out of casing and browned

2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese

sliced mushrooms ( kind & quantity depends on what you like!)

1-2 tbsp capers

2 garlic cloves, pressed

2 tbls olive oil

1 tsp oregano

Premade pizza crust (I prefer "Mama Mary's", but you can use pizza dough or Boboli bread also)

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.  Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and put onto your crust.  Bake for 12 to 15 minutes depending on how crispy you like your crust.

Sometimes I will make this without the meat and mushrooms and put fresh tomato and basil on it.  It's great with sundried tomatoes also!  I hope you enjoy it!

Pizza pan chore board-DIY

My six year old has asked me several times to make her a "chore chart".  I've tried, with just some paper on the computer, but we never seem to keep up with them.  I have seen the CUTE calendars that people have made using cookie sheets and have wanted to try and make one.  Then today, as I thought of merging the two ideas!  This is what I came up with!

I started with a pizza pan that I used to use for something other than pizza.

Then, I covered it with some scrapbook paper and added some chipboard letters and flowers.

Notice, I had some of the pan showing on the top and bottom, so I added some ric rac around the outside.  Then, I just glued strips of paper with things she needs to do each day onto magnets.  I added the two little frames with "to do's" and "done" so that she could move the chore from to do to done herself!  She helped out a little bit and thought that was fun.  You could do this on a cookie sheet too and put more than one child on it!  I just used all stuff I already had around the house, so I didn't have to put out any more money!

Now, I'm gonna put that kid to work.

Does anyone else feel like this?

I sure do!

It's a love tree!

Well since we took down our Christmas decorations, the house has looked so bare!  I've been seeing all these great Valentine decoration ideas on blogs and thought I would get started with some of my own. 

I knew as soon as we took down the tree, I wanted to make some heart ornaments for a "love tree"!  I finally got them done this weekend. 

So, all I did was cut out some felt hearts with my pinking shears in some different sizes.  I tried to glue them together with a little stuffing, but the glue didn't work out.  So I sewed them together on my machine.  (I'm not much for hand work!)

Then my daughter and husband put the rhinestones on some of them!  Daddy was into the whole thing!  He even got out some of the lights from Christmas and put them on the mantle!

So, I got this idea from Jen over at Tatertots and Jello.  (awesome blog, you should check her out.  She even has a giveaway going on right now!)  She did X's and O's, but I will have to rob some frames from elsewhere in the house to add to this.

This is just scrapbook paper with some floral gems! 

Then I just added a big candle with some scrapbook paper and a bow!  I saw this idea on Lemonade Makin' Mama's blog.

So, this is what the table looks like so far!  You can see the lights in the background.  I plan to add a banner to the mantle and I have some cute blocks on the way that I won in a giveaway!  I'll take a pic and let you know where to get your own!

I would have posted sooner, but I have been busy making these...

It's hard to see in the picture, but there are close to 100 little rhinestones on the "h".  I still have some more to make, and I just bought a bunch on tshirts, so I'll be putting them in my shop soon.  I also just got loads of flip flops, so order away!  (I know, I am shameless)

Have a great Tuesday everyone!

And Happy Birthday Alex!

And The Winner Is...

My very first giveaway was a lot of fun!  Thanks for all who entered, I am so happy that more than 2 people decided to play along!  If you didn't win, be sure to check out my esty shop, you can still get some sassy feet for flip flop weather! 

Ok, so the winner is GAY!  from It's a Hodgepodge Life!  I emailed you Gay, so let me know your size and address, because I know it's warm enough for flip flops at your house!

Have a great Saturday!

The flip flop giveaway ends tonight at midnight, so if you would like to enter, go here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Us Texas girls gotta stick together!

I have met a new bloggy friend named Gay. She's from Texas too, only it probably takes 8-10 hours to drive to her house from mine. Maybe someday we'll meet up. For now, we just "follow" each other.

Gay is getting close to her 50th follower! She's holding a giveaway that I am sure you would want to know about.

This cute necklace (that she made herself) is the prize!

So, head on over to It's a Hodgepodge Life and enter the giveaway! 

And if you'd like to enter my giveaway...there's still time!