Treat Thursday: Old Glory Cookies

This fun recipe comes from the fine folks at Good Housekeeping and they look great as decorations as well as being a tasty treat. You need two star shaped cookie cutters, one large and one small.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 C flour

1/8 t baking soda

1/8 t salt

1 stick butter, softened

1/3 C granulated sugar

1 lg egg yolk

1/2 t vanilla

1 1/4 oz hard red candies, crushed

1 1/4 oz hard blue candies, crushed

In one bowl mix together all dry ingredients except candies. In second bowl cream butter and sugar, then add egg and vanilla. Mix dry ingredients into wet a little at a time until the dough comes together. Press dough into disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate 30 mins.

Preheat oven to 350. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment. Roll out dough between two sheets of parchment paper until 1/4 inch thick. Use large cookie cutter to cut out and then use small cutter to take out the centers.

Fill cookie sheet with large stars and bake 7 mins. Remove cookies from oven and fill centers with crushed candies. Replace in oven and bake 5 - 8 more minutes until edges are brown. Remove to wire rack to cool.

Fill cookie sheet with small stars and cook 10 - 12 mins or until golden brown. Remove and cool on racks.

Whatever Wednesday: What a Wreck

Here is one of my most favorite sites to check out whenever I need a pick me up.

It's Cake Wrecks and it's totally hilarious! You laugh yourself out of your chair or gasp in horror as you see all the wreck-tastic cakes that stores have made and thought - yeah that looks good - before they priced and try to sell these things. Unbelievable!!!!!

Check it out, you won't be sorry :)

Tuesday Tip: Essential Social Media

In case you're not up on the latest when it comes to social media, here's an article that can help you understand a little of what they can do for you as you promote your business or yourself.

Granted they don't all work for everyone, but experiment and try them out. You should be able to get a feel for those that are the best and then you can focus on a few, instead of spending all your time trying to do them all.

Some of the highlights include: 5 unique ways to use twitter for business, 8 strategies to engage multicultural consumers, why retention should be a priority in social marketing, and HowTo: add Blogger Outreach to your PR plan.

Check it out and see if there's something that can help you get more traffic to your shop, blog or whatever you're trying to do online.

New Deal

Ok, here's the scoop. Starting in June you can look forward to more regular updates with cool new features. Here's what's on deck:

Monday Make: A fun project you can do at home. Whether it be a new technique or a DIY start to finish, these will be great projects for upcoming holidays or seasons.

Tuesday Tip: These will be posts on tips for your home business, social media tools, or tips to make your life easier and save money.

Whatever Wednesday: You can look forward to spotlights on strange news articles, wacky blogs or stuff that is just plain fun. Anything goes :)

Treat Thursday: Great recipes for the current season that we know are great for entertaining groups or just feeding your own family.

So check back a couple of times a week and tell your friends, there'll be lots more great things ahead on Made For Cache!

Whatever Wednesday

Make your own paper toys!

I stumbled across this sweet site today. Cubeecraft.com provides free templates that you can make paper toys with. Just print, cut, fold, and play! Now when your son (or husband) says he wants a new XBox, you can just make him one and hand it to him with a big grin on your face.

But seriously, this is a cheap and easy way to keep someone's hands busy.

Here's Carl Fredricksen from the movie "Up". You could even strap balloons to him! Hehe.

April Meeting Time Changed

FYI - we're meeting at 7:30 tonight. I had a little hiccup in my schedule, but it shouldn't throw us off too much.

See ya'll later!!!!

April Meeting

I know it's been a while since we've met, but it's been a crazy month+ for me on multiple levels :) I hope you've all been well and can come to our April meeting, which will be held Thursday April 22 at my home at 7pm. If you need the address, send a note to madeforcache@gmail.com and i'll get it to you.

The agenda will focus on 2 things: First upcoming spring/summer event schedule. I've gotten letters from cache and box elder counties asking if we want to repeat those fairs and we can also discuss Brigham City Peach Days and some other upcoming shows. The second item is the blog. If you've looked at it lately, it hasn't changed much. I have a plan, but we need to address that as a team.

If you want to bring something for show and tell, i have decided - just now- the theme will be Earth Day. So earth colors, sustainable or recycled items, things that are round, whatever you can think of that might fit.

One last thing, to keep meetings from going all night :) I'm planning on a more structured meeting setup. Here's how the schedule will be for all future meetings so we can get things done and keep on task. Please try to be on time, but still come even if you're going to be late :)

7 - 7:15 Intro of new members/ show and tell
7:20 - 7:50 Meeting Focus, aka: what we came to learn about
7:55 - 8:10 Plans for Next meeting - location, meeting focus
8:15 - I kick you out :) Mingling/ chatting

So i hope to see you there and we can get caught up!