I was visiting with a neighbor of mine the other day and playing with her adorable little puppies. During our conversation, she told me that she has a Food Dehydrator, and purchases roasts and chicken when they are on sale, and then slices them up and puts them in the food dehydrator to make jerky treats for her little babies. I thought that was genius so had to share!

So much healthier, not to mention cheaper than store bought doggie treats!

So if you have a food dehydrator, and a dog, you might to try this. If you don’t have a food dehydrator, get one. The link to the one above is only $35 at amazon.com, and will pay for itself in no time at all.

The Color and Draw Halloween Coloring Book is fun for all. If you have a little one around you at any time this month, whip out this app and they will be entertained for a few minutes. And you will too. Go ahead, color! It’s fun! I still love to color.

From the developer:

It’s Halloween Time! Your little ones can start getting in the mood with this special Halloween edition of Color & Draw.

√ 20 beautiful coloring pages
√ 10 custom halloween stickers
√ multiple drawing tools and a professional grade drawing engine (yet easy enough for kids!)

 

3 apps in 1
1. A drawing and sketching app with white and black canvas backgrounds
2. A coloring book app with 20 exquisite drawings
3. A photo decorator where kids can draw over your own imported photos and decorate them with stickers. Kids can email their creations when they are done!

It has the same drawing engine as Color & Draw for kids, Winner of Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award and featured by Apple.

Tipitap pushes the limits of traditional coloring apps harnessing the possibilities of the touch screen environments. Color & Draw boasts beautifully crafted, specially designed drawings, a lovely color palette, many strokes and erasers, and multiple ‘undos’ !

APP FEATURES

• Save drawings to the in-app Art Gallery, your device photo album or share them via email with friends
• Import images to draw over
• Real finger painting. Not the classic “the-machine-fills-it-for-you” app engine! Kids develop and improve their fine motor skills and creativity.
• Limited curated color palette. Enough colors choices for a full spectrum of artistic expression yet restricted so kids are not overwhelmed by too many options.
• Eraser and undo options
• Zoom mode for finer details

Okay, it’s officially a series. Here is the third installment of candy corn recipes. Although I will admit it’s only a garnish. Still cute candy corn colors!

Candy Corn Bars (from Pillsbury)

Bars:

3/4 cup butter or margarine, melted, cooled slightly

1 3/4 cups granulated sugar

1 tablespoon grated orange peel

4 eggs

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

4 drops yellow food color

3 drops red food color

Frosting

1/2 cup butter, softened (do not use margarine)

1 3/4 cups powdered sugar

1 to 2 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/8 teaspoon salt

Decorate

1/3 cup candy corn (32 candies)

Heat oven to 325°F. Line bottom and sides of 9-inch square pan with foil, extending foil 2 inches on 2 opposite sides of pan; spray foil with cooking spray.

In medium bowl, beat melted 3/4 cup butter, the granulated sugar and orange peel with wooden spoon until blended. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in flour and baking powder just until mixed. Stir in yellow food color until well mixed. Spread 1 1/2 cups yellow batter in pan. Place pan in freezer about 15 minutes or until batter is slightly firm to the touch.

Meanwhile, add red food color to remaining cake batter in bowl until well mixed. Spread over chilled yellow batter.

Bake 47 to 53 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 45 minutes.

In medium bowl, beat 1/2 cup softened butter with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Beat in powdered sugar until well blended. Beat in milk, vanilla and salt until smooth and spreadable. Spread frosting over bars. To serve, remove bars from pan, using foil to lift. Remove foil. Cut into 4 rows by 4 rows; cut each square diagonally in half. Top each triangle with 1 candy corn.

If you are as obsessed with making your heels soft like me, you probably will enjoy today’s review. I usually go to bed with some sort of cream on my footsies and a pair of socks. Between that, the night creams, the hand creams, my husband just loves me! He really does, despite all that!

I have blogged before about my nightly treatment of Vaseline Deep Moisture Creamy Formula.

I also have blogged about Kerasal Foot Ointment, which I use when my heels are really dry and cracked. This happens a lot in the summertime when I go barefoot or in flip flops.

The Kerasal is pretty pricey at about $10 a tube, so I recently thought I would try O’Keeffe’s cream, because it was about half the price of Kerasal, and I assumed it would be more for the really dry cracked heels. WRONG. It is not even as good as the Vaseline Deep Moisture Creamy Formula, and it runs about twice what the Vaseline is, so I will not be repurchasing.

So, my advice, if you care, is to stick with the Vaseline and Kerasal, and have the softest heels around.

There, I feel better.