{Crock Pot} Italian Beef

My friend Jamie posted a recipe for Italian beef the other day and I thought it sounded yummy! I love Italian beef but think I have only made it once before. She used leftover meat and just heated it with the spices on the stove. I decided to do it all in the crock pot...

Ingredients:

2 lb beef roast

2 cans beef broth

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1 clove finely chopped garlic {I just use my garlic press!}

1 tbsp Italian seasoning

1 tbsp dried oregano

1 tbsp dried basil

1/4 tsp dried red pepper flakes, optional {I left this out}

Directions:

Place beef roast in crock pot. Combine broth and spices in a medium bowl, then pour over roast. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. Shred meat and enjoy!

**This was so easy I will definitely be adding this to my menu favorites!

{dream} banner

You might have noticed this banner when I posted about Little Bit's big girl bed. Since I took the bear quilt down I needed something to fill the empty space above her bed. I love seeing these banners everywhere and they are so fun to create! {see other ones I've done here & here}

I cut 6 inch squares from each sheet of designer paper I wanted to use. Then I made them into triangles by cutting from the center of bottom edge to right top corner and then from bottom center to left top corner...{make sense?}. I cut out letters for the word {dream} on my Cricut. I added butterflies, felt and paper flowers, a stamped owl, and buttons on the triangles for some extra cuteness! Then I punched holes to thread the triangles on ribbon and hung the banner on the wall!

Menu Plan Monday

....or uh Tuesday! What awesome weather we had last week....alot of time was spent outside. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! Our weekend was a busy and fun time spent with family. Now back to somewhat normal! {Our garden is doing pretty good....so I hope to incorporate fresh veggies this week!...and will soon try spaghetti squash for the first time!}

Monday ~ creamy mushroom & chicken soup, bread

Tuesday ~ pizza, salad

Wednesday ~ stuffed chicken breast, sauteed zucchini, ramen noodles

Thursday ~ orange-ginger tilapia, green beans, potatoes

Friday ~ southwest roll-ups, rice, corn

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Creative Corner...pinwheel wreath

I have been wanting to make some paper pinwheels for quite some time now....they are just so stinkin' cute! So when I saw the wreath in this post I knew I wanted to create my own version. So last night I whipped this up...just in time for the holiday weekend!

I used some scraps of patriotic paper that I had leftover from other projects to make the pinwheels. I cut 5 inch squares. From each corner, cut in towards the center stopping about halfway towards the center. Punch a small hole in each corner of the square and one in the center. Gently fold up each punched corner to line up with the center hole. Secure with a small brad. Then I added a punched star with some dimensional adhesive to the center of the pinwheel....and finished it off with a button! I hot glued all the elements to the wreath.