Pizza Rolls

There is nothing I love more than the smell of bread baking in the oven. Okay, maybe cookies baking in the oven...but bread is a close 2nd!! If you want to make your house smell oh so yummy and warm and inviting, please make these. Pizza rolls.


These are pretty easy to make and very versatile. You can stuff them with whatever filling or pizza toppings you like. Here is what you will need.

1 batch pizza dough (make your own OR buy pizza dough at the store)
mozarella cheese (grated or cubed)
pizza toppings (pepperoni, sausage, pineapple, peppers, mushrooms...whatever is your fav)

I used a 9 inch round cake pan to bake these. Slightly grease the pan. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

Divide the dough into about 20-24 pieces. Take one piece and roll it out a little bit on a floured surface. Add some cheese and your favorite toppings to the middle. Form the dough around the toppings then pinch the whole ball closed. Place the ball in the pan, pinched seam DOWN. Continue until the whole pan is full.

Brush a combination of melted butter, garlic, oregano and basil on the top of the rolls. You can also brush with a bit of olive oil and your favorite pizza seasonings. Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden brown.


Serve warm with a warmed up bowl of marinara sauce for dipping. I swear, my whole house smelled delicious when these were in the oven. Who needs candles when I can use my oven to make the house smell good?


These are great because you can put whatever you want inside. Have a bunch of meat eaters coming over? Fill with sausage and pepperoni. Do you have vegetarian friends? Make a pan full of veggie bites. Either way would be yummy. And if you are afraid of yeast and dough, the store bought pizza dough would work just as well.

Thanks for stopping by today, Friends!!

Digital Stamps and Coloring

Hi Everyone!! This month over at the Crop Suey Challenge blog, the March prize is sponsored by DigiStampCharacters. I have to admit, I have never used a digital image before. I'm not that great at coloring images but thought I would just dive right in. The great thing about digital images is if you mess it up, it's easy to get another one!

This card was a tester. I wanted to make something with the image before creating my sample for the Crop Suey March challenge. I used some Echo Park Life Is Good paper and pulled out my watercolor pencils.


Isn't she cute!!! I love her little feet and the cute bird on the mailbox. And I also had fun going through my bling bag for a little something extra for the card. Do you have random embellishment bags? When I start losing the packaging and using up only half the pack of bling, I tend to throw it all into a big bag. It's fun going through it to see what I have to use. I found this blingy pink flower to add.


It was fun doing all that coloring. I don't know if I want to dive into the world of Copic markers. It's very overwhelming thinking about it and I have no idea what colors I would even start with. Anybody with Copic experience? Do you like them? Use them alot? Think they are not worth the money? I would love any opinions!!

Thanks for stopping by, friends!

Marathon Monday...Just Keep Swimming

Happy Monday everyone! Guess where I will be spending the next couple of weeks???


Yes, right here in the local pool. My doctor diagnosed me with a strained/sprained ligament in my ankle. I am doing physical therapy and everything bothers it, even riding the stationary bike. Today my physical therapist found a tiny bone spur on my ankle on the x-ray which she said is greatly aggravating the swelling in my ligament. SO...nothing that involves impact at all right now. But she did say swimming was okay. So I bit the bullet and joined the local gym, which has these pools.

It was coooooold this morning when I left for the gym! I scraped ice off the windshield to be able to drive. Okay, maybe not such a big deal in other parts of the country but in Southern California, that's cold! This is my super excited to be awake at 5am face...


As i'm taking this self portrait in the gym locker room I panic for a moment thinking...what if somebody walks in right now and sees me taking a photos of myself in my suit and cap and goggles in the mirror??? Super embarassing. But, since there was nobody else crazy enough to be getting into the pool when it's 35 degrees out, not to worry. Super embarassing might be the fact that it looks like I only have 1 ear in that photo.

So...that's where it's at. I will be swimming quite a bit for the new few weeks and doing PT 2-3 times a week. My therapist is pretty nice and understands (I think) my need to get back running again. Without swimming and Reese's peanut butter cups, I might go insane with no exercise. The price of the gym is well worth it.

I hope you all had a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by today!

A few more notecards

Happy Saturday!! It's gorgeous here today with lots of fluffy white clouds and blue skies. It poured rain all night but today it's the calm after the storm. We are headed outside in a little bit but I have a few more notecard sets to share that I made for the PSA Essentials showing on the Home Shopping Network.

I used the Frenchie peel and stick stamps for these and some Jillibean Soup papers...



I left them sentiment-free, but any sentiment would work with these cards. Thinking of You...Call Me...Just a Hello. Very versatile stamps!


Cupcakes!!!! This little cupcake stamp is one of my favorites. So cute and the sentiment is oh so true...


And I had some Sassafrass Lass scraps to use up so I made this last set. Simple and to the point. The stamps are from the Cupcake peel and stick pack. They are small 3x3 cards, perfect for slipping in a gift bag.


Notecards on Saturday!! I hope you are having a great weekend. We are off to enjoy the blue sky while it lasts, thanks for stopping by today!

Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Everybody loves chocolate chip cookies. They are a classic cookie, a fun treat, and an occasional breakfast. See...don't they look good?


But bite into these bad boys and you get a little more than you bargained for!


No, really. That's an OREO inside!!! See?? Oreo INSIDE the cookie!


I saw these at the Picky Palate food blog and knew I had to make them. Jenny from Picky Palate has been showing lots of fun stuffed chocolate chip cookie recipes lately, her latest one is S'mores stuffed cookies! Want to see it again?


These cookies are giant. I just took my favorite chocolate chip cookie dough recipe and sandwiched an oreo between two big scoops of dough. I formed the dough around the cookie and baked at 350 degrees. Pretty easy for a big impact!! Not an everyday indulgence, but a fun occasional treat. And maybe a breakfast...

Happy Thursday Friends!!

Echo Park goodness

Hi Everyone! I feel like i've been on a scrapping drought lately. I haven't made too many new layouts lately. But this sketch from Back Porch Memories got my mojo flowing...


I used some Echo Park papers for this one, from the Life Is Good collection.


I love these photos of my sister giving a bath to her sweet baby Molly. I have so many fun photos from my trip to Maine last summer, these are some of the first ones to get scrapped!! I also tried my hand making those spiral rolled flowers.


They actually turned out easier than I thought! I don't typically use green that much on layouts, so this was a fun departure for me. And it felt good to get scrappy again!!

Hope you are having a great week so far. Happy Wednesday!! Thanks for stopping by...

CSN Stores Winner!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!! I have a quick post today to announce the winner of my CSN Stores Giveaway...here is the random number generator...

The winner is JONI!!!!! Congrats Joni on winning a $40 giftcard to CSN Stores!! Joni is having her kitchen demolished right now and is getting a brand new kitchen this spring. So i'm sure the giftcard will come in handy. Joni, I will email you with your giftcard code.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered the giveaway!! I so appreciate all your great comments on my blog! I will have some scrappy goodness tomorrow...so I will see you all then!!