Twenty-One

       Ten more days until I hit 31! How exciting. I've not been the most consistent writer, perhaps, but I do my best. My blog is rather hap-hazard at the moment, but as I post more I am hoping to get it more organized.
       Today was a nice stay-at-home day. I got to dust my room, clean the kitchen, spruce some things up and work in the garden. Oh, and I managed some homemade brownies, as well. Not too shabby, I guess.
       Now, I'm always trying to find ways to make a weeks cleaning easier. As I worked and thought, and took breaks to glance through pinterest, I kept thinking of this. For me, it's best if it stays clean ALL WEEK until I can go back and clean it. It doesn't always work that way though. The counters, for instance, cannot keep themselves decent. For shame, counters, you dirt collectors! So, to make my week easier, I find it better to keep our counters free of junk so we can wipe them down easily. What is one thing you do that makes the week's cleaning go smoother?

       So, growing up we were always the "buy the brownie mix" type of people but I couldn't tell you the last time I bought brownie mix. It just doesn't make sense anymore, the homemade is too good! 

       My homemade brownie recipe: (keep in mind these are delicious-read: horrible for you)

1 cup sugar (I feel guilty just writing that)

1 cup butter 

A pinch of salt (DON'T IGNORE ME, I'm in the recipe for a reason!)

3/4 cup cocoa powder

4 eggs

1 cup flour

       Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl beat together the sugar, salt and butter. Add the cocoa, flour and eggs and combine into butter mixture. Spread in a greased baking dish and bake for 25 minutes or until knife comes out clean.  

       Below are the pictures of the sprucing up I did in our pantry. Our pantry is large, with shelves on one end and storage on the other. We just had these aprons precariously hung on a nail so I used my handy dandy drill-skills to put up some hooks. I found these pictures in our stored decorations and they made the project, fitting perfectly above each apron hook.