Coconut Cream Pie

• Crust:
• 30 gingersnap cookies
• 1/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut
• 5 tablespoons melted butter
• FILLING:
• 3 cups half-and-half
• One 13.5 Fl Oz Can Coconut milk
• Coconut Cream 4 Tabs (optional)
• 4 egg yolks (or 2 choice)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon Coconut extract
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
• TOPPING
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream, cold
• 1/2 cup (58g) powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp coconut extract
• 1/2 cup (37g) sweetened flaked coconut, toasted
• Whipped cream, for topping

Directions

• 1
  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• 2
  Process the gingersnaps in a food processor until fine. Add to a bowl along with the coconut and melted butter; toss until combined. Press firmly to the bottom and up the sides of a deep-dish 9-inch pie pan. Bake 10 minutes and let cool completely.
• 3
  Instructions
• 4
  1. Place the whole can of coconut milk into a large measuring cup. It will measure a little over 1 1/2 cups. Pour the Half and Half into the same measuring cup on top of the coconut milk until you reach the 3 cup measurement. Stir to combine the half and half and coconut milk.
• 5
  2. Place the coconut/half and half mixture into a medium size heavy metal saucepan. Place the 4 beaten egg yolks ,3/4 cup of sugar , salt and the 1/3 cup of corn starch into the pan as well. Whisk to combine. Turn your burner on low. Place the pan on low heat and slowly whisk . Keep whisking, this is the part that needs just a little patience. It can take up to 15 minutes for the ingredients to thicken. DO NOT turn the heat up to speed up the process. As you whisk you will start to feel a slight resistance to the whisk as you make your way around the pot. The pudding is starting to thicken. Don't walk away from the pot, when it starts to thicken it will happen all at once.
• 6
  3. Keep whisking until the pudding starts to boil, it will release thick bubbles that will come to the top like a little volcano. It has to reach this stage for it to set up properly. Once it starts to boil, whisk a little faster for a minute. Take the pudding off the heat and add the vanilla, butter and coconut. Mix to combine.
• 7
  4. Pour the pudding into the pie crust while it's hot. It's going to fill that pie crust to the brim! Place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the pudding, pressing down on the surface of the pudding slightly so the plastic wrap sticks to it to prevent a film from forming on the pudding when it cools. Refrigerate pie for about 4 hours. Top with homemade whipping cream serving.

Transforming Life,

Lori

"When your mindset is hostile to God, you become a hostage in your circumstances because you cannot gladly submit to God's purposes. God is not asking you to kiss your brains good-bye! What He is asking you to do is elevate your thinking to His level." From ENCOURAGING YOURSELF IN GOD

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15 Attractive Kitchen Island's you can DIY {My Curated Board for Hometalk}

Have you heard of Hometalk?

It is a fabulous resource community for all of us that love to DIY!

You can talk about anything home and garden....

you can ask questions as well as get creative ideas from professionals as well as home DIYers

you can find most of all your favorite bloggers here

.................................and you can find me on there as well.

 I was beyond excited when hometalk contacted me and ask me to curate a board on DIY Kitchen Island makeovers, like the post they saw on my hometalk page.

You can find my DIY kitchen island make over here Meet Miss Bon Appetite...Kitchen Island Transformation

So when hometalk contacted me I got busy looking for the best DIY Kitchen Island makeovers on hometalk for your viewing pleasure.

There are some really awesome ideas!!


...............................  here are some ideas that will get your creative juices churning.

Like a  Kitchen Island - Made from re-purposed wash-stand

or a Dated cabinet restyled into a lovely French-country inspired island

Kitchen Island Made From an Old Door

Want some inspiration????

Click on over to my curated board on DIY kitchen islands for a look around the town of hometalk.

 Thank you Hometalk ..................

for allowing me to be a part of your wonderful community asking me to share in the DIY love!



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Jared's Journey {Bone Marrow Transplant} Update May 12th

Jared's Bone Marrow Transplant Journey

Well things don't always work out as planned

Jared was admitted to the hospital a day early due to some complications when we went to have his catheter flushed.

His original admit date was May 13th

See his Update video here

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Jared's Journey "It's All About Jesus" {Bone Marrow Transplant}

Jared my son brought a timely word on 

"It's All About Jesus". 

Jared ministered this word days before being admitted to the hospital for a 30 day journey for a Bone Marrow Transplant.

During this message miracles broke out and people were being healed.........

A little girl who was deaf in her left ear could hear again; with tears running down her face! 

A woman with Melanoma Cancer was healed that day with proof of the doctors on her very next visit! 

This is all because of Jesus

 Jesus is our healer and Jesus can Heal You too!!! 

Please open your heart to hear this timely message!

It's All About Jesus
1)Finding Jesus in the Trials
2)Falling in love with Jesus
3)Faith in Jesus
4)The Blood of Jesus

Click here to watch this video of 

"It's All About Jesus"

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A Perfect Match {Stem Cell Collection}

In this picture top left hand corner is my son, Jared's stem cells that are being collected from the machine to the right of him. 

After the 7 days of chemo starting on the 14^th of May, this bag of life giving cells will be used to restore, to reboot his whole immune system like back to a new born baby. The old immune system will be wiped out and in turn given the new {immature} blood stem cells. 

The day he gets these blood stem cells transplanted back into his body his immune system will be brand NEW…. it will be like being born again the nurses told us, he will have a new immune system, a new birthday........I chuckled and said, I think we will have a party & celebrate with a birthday cake that 

day!! 

After hearing that statement made by the nurse, I felt Papa God revealing things to me while I sat there with my son Jared watching this collection process unfold. As his mother & the love I have for him, I would take his place; I would give my life for his to take away all the pain, to give him life. 

This made me ponder back to the day when I gave my heart to Jesus. I was born again, reborn in my spirit into God's kingdom. I had a new life, hope and a new chance, a new BIRTHDAY!  Heaven threw a party!

You see a blood donor had been found, a Perfect Match. 

Jesus Christ is his name; 

he was willing to give his blood for me to save my life from the cancer of sin that was going to take my life away. 

I needed a donor and His blood was a rare find, it was spotless, perfect in every way. His DNA had not been tainted with the sin of this world, it was perfect for me, perfect for you.  

However, before Jesus sacrificed & gave his perfect blood for us he did not know if we would accept him as our donor.  Regardless, He loved us so much that he gave his blood, his life for us so we could live & not die from what had corrupted us since our birth.  

Without his sacrifice of blood, exchanging his life for ours there was no hope, for us to live. 

..............................We would die in our sin. 

Jesus calls to us giving us a choice to receive his life giving sacrifice. 

If we choose to accept his life giving blood we are born again.  

We get a transplant, a new heart, new blood, spiritual blood, we take on the DNA of our heavenly Father, his blood restores and reboots our whole life, it wipes away every sin from our past, we become like a baby and we get to grow up and mature in his glorious nature. 

We get the opportunity to LIVE again. 

Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice and for being my blood donor!  

I have received him with open arms, have you?

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Digging Deeper.......{Practicing His Presence}

 Do any of you have worry and anxiety?   

I know I do in this life and our Papa God tells us NOT to worry.



So over the past few years he has really been teaching me not to worry, to TRUST HIM in all things.


                            
                                .......................Easier said than done right?



Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matt 6:34 NIV


Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. Psalm 55:22 NIV

Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.  Philippians 4:6

"We can mature to a place in God where it is impossible to worry. 


                            When we rest in Him completely, we frustrate the enemy. 


The kingdom of darkness cannot find us when we are in our secret place of rest in God.


 In the Psalms, David referred to God as his hiding place, 


                        ......................his fortress, and his strong tower. 



We can access that same place of protection. 



When we are wrapped up in Christ, the enemy’s ability to influence us is seriously diminished.         


                                       
                      ..................The secret place is where we overcome —

•  firstly ourselves; 

• secondly our circumstances and 

• finally, any opponent that is against us"    Graham Cooke's ~ Prophetic Wisdom

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Sweet Dreams~~~~ A New Pallet Headboard

It all started 

 my son, his Dream, 4 Pallets and a piece of plywood........

Oh Happy Day!



My son and daughter-in-law just moved into their new home, expecting their first baby boy July 6th!



With that said you know there is much to do and little time.............



When my son sets his mind on doing something their is no waiting........


                   he jumps all in, excited with anticipation  

He decided he wanted to make a pallet headboard for the master bedroom in the new home.



I know you have seen them.......



Pallets are all the rage!




He knew mom ( that's me) had all the tools he needed to make this job happen quickly and efficiently.

Plus he knows I love a DIY project and




             ..................I have a love for Pallets

So he brought over 4 new pallets (not aged) to make this beaut!

When I saw the new pallet's 

            ..............I knew we had to put our creative hats on to make these look aged

First order was to take all the pallets apart

He originally tried to pry these apart

he quickly found out that was just too much work

...........Ain't nobody got time for that..........

he was in a hurry

..........I mean he has got a baby on the way........

so he came over to mom and dads to put to use a power tool 

...........A sawzall........

                               This is a remarkable tool {a reciprocating saw}.........

If my son were writing this post he would tell you.........

tell you that "it is his best friend" :)      OH HAPPY DAY!

...............tell you "how much precious time this power tool saved him".........

he would tell you that "you should never ever do a pallet project without a sawzall"

SERIOUSLY!!

lastly he would SAY" every DIY'er should own a sawzall"

Once you use it you will be so happy

 so happy you bought one, I mean you can do so much with them.

Within 30 minutes he all all the boards cut off the pallets ready to sand and stain.

After that a light sanding to knock down the roughness of the wood

NO SPLINTER"S ...........right!

now the fun part, we laid on the stain............


the stain colors we used were...............

• Special Walnut
• Dark Walnut
• English Walnut
• Ebony

I know your wondering how we got those new boards to look so weathered.


Well I got this idea............



with the use of some watered down paint



I lightly gave the new board {before stain}



..................................a light washing with paint



then over the top of that we applied the stain.

the different paint colors we used were a blue, cream, mustard, grey, red



we got some beautiful manmade weathered looking boards


                                       ...............I was in creative heaven............



I mean you should have seen the three of us, I mean the four, me, my son his wife and little baby in the oven,Trenton Samuel

we were doing a project as a family and having a blast being creative



                                                          "TOGETHER"



I mean that's what life is all about, making memories with those you cherish and love,

While watching a beautiful piece of art emerge.....



                                   After all the boards were stained




Brad, my son took a piece of 4x8 plywood and had it cut to 4x7, stained it with ebony stain



then we proceeded to place all the boards on the plywood like a puzzle

He did not want the boards seams to line up in each row


 so he put them in a lovely mismatched order, like hardwood floors


I & his wifey helped decide where the different color boards went within this beautiful work of Art

I could see the look of satisfaction on his face from building his very first project,


the satisfaction like when he was a little boy


                          and caught his first fish


                                   ................like when he hit his first home-run :)


ah, those precious memories.



With determination we pressed on, he was determined to get this project headboard up on his wall the same day!

I mean he is so much like his momma!



                      excited & can't wait to see the end reveal in it's new home




We all three, I mean four finished off the headboard by sealing it with a satin Polyurethane.



Step-dad took it over in his truck and then proceeded to helped him put it up on the wall.



Once it was on the wall with some heafty screw making sure it was in the studs,


We all stood back and looked in awe..........


                                         at how beautiful this looked with it all put together.



Brad still had one thing to do before this was marked



                                                             .........COMPLETE


 he made a trip to Ikea.......



                             He wanted to shed a little light on the subject 

Do the lights not look beautiful against the wood!!


After a day of fun filled project Pallet headboard,


at sunset, we all sat down to a grilled steak dinner in their new home, with a new DIY pallet headboard installed and a look of accomplishment on my sweet little boys face.



"SWEET MOMENTS"


have you done a pallet headboard?


   If so please share.




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Digging Deeper.......{Practicing His Presence}

The mind set on the flesh (natural world) is death;


it leaves faith undeveloped and contributes to our lack of encounter and experience.


....................A mind set on the Spirit is life and peace...............


It has purpose. 


Graham Cooke

Beauty & The Beast " A Stained Art Sideboard Transformation"

So it begins,


A tale of Beauty & The Beast.


                         This once called the BEAST.............


Because it was a monster of a piece of furniture


It weighs Im guessing over 300lbs.....


A dear friend of mine saw it at a goodwill store and bought it for me to refinish.


She said this thing is big and ugly but I feel sure you can transform it.

     
      so I put on my thinking cap.............

Ugly it was and this is how she looked when I started stripping off the top layer of varnish.


She sat in my shop for a while while I decided what in the world to do with it.


I remembered seeing a creative blogger do some sort of stained art


.................................so I went on my search to find the picture to get some inspiration


Bingo The Inspired Room is where I had seen it.

                     I was in Awwwww

I was truly inspired, a great name for her blog.....Thank you Inspired Room!!!!



                        I am no artist, to say the least I was intimidated.


Could I do it?


Would I be able to make a beauty from this beast?


                I had to give it a try...................



determination burned within me like a runner trying to win a race



                  ..................blood, sweat and tears..............


I jumped in............ sink or swim.

After CitraStrip stripper worked it's magic this is what the top looked like

A beautiful piece of hardwood unveiled ..................


The whole piece is wood that is why it is so heavy

Since I am no artist, I began the transformation of the top by printing out a petal design with my cameo silhouette.

Then it took hours to draw out each petal of different sizes into the perfect place.

Excuse the ucky phone pics

I was too focused to run back to the house to get my real camera so I would shoot and move on

This was challenging to say the least, however I was determined so I push on with the staining

Sisters, I had absolutely NO CLUE what I was doing

But.............  I had a vision

So I started with dark stain and in the center of each petal and let it sit for a few mins

                                      .................OK, OK maybe seconds

and tried my best to make a gradient transformation from darker to light

                                  

I was so excited to watch each petal grow into a beautiful flower covering the top of the beast

                    Each day she transformed into this beautiful masterpiece.


After I completed all the gradient petal staining I went back with an artist brush with darker stain and a soft cloth

                     
                                 

                        Yeah I know Im no artist but I had to try,  I had a vision remember


I would dip the brush in some stain and draw some lines and then diffuse it with my cloth


I was in love with the look.


Once all the petals were as good as it was gonna get,


            I lightly stained over the rest of the top and added a low sheen poly to protect her petal glory


The top was finished.......

And boy did that take a long time

...........cuz I am picky, picky picky

I can say it was not perfect, it was a learning curve

the more petals I did the better they looked ..........I felt a little sorry for the first ones I did ...snicker

However that is the beauty of life nothing is perfect so I accepted her imperfectly beautiful imperfections and moved on.

Next up was the body of the beast now transforming into a beauty

She was boring and plain and heavy.....what to do

I painted it with a creamy off white and lightly layer a color wash over it called cappuccino 

Her doors were boring and plain so I went to hobby lobby and picked up some oh so cute

cast iron door pulls and added them for easy access.

                         
               Along with some molding from Lowe's to trim out the fronts of the doors for a designer look

Lastly I had to add feet to this piece and get her up off the floor.

So another trip to Lowes for some pretty bun feet and she is a PRIZE

   

so beast here

To Beauty 

So do tell me what you think?


Have you tried your hand at stained art?  if so Im dying to hear from you and see pics



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You're the best and thanks for visiting............


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My 1929 Charmer

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