Tina's Chic Corner

Sugar Cookie Icing

March 4th, 2013Tina2 Comments

Everyone needs a good sugar cookie icing recipe in their recipe collection. I don’t make cut-out cookies often, but when I do the icing is a must for presentation points! This icing is sweet which makes it perfect to use with sugar cookies. In fact, I would use this icing recipe with other cookies like gingerbread cookies. You can customize the icing to any color you want. Plus, initially its consistency is thin so that it’s easy to use for icing the cookies, but then it hardens up nicely. I love to decorate my home, so it makes a lot …

Banana & Peanut Butter Smoothie

February 28th, 2013Tina0 Comments

I am forever on a quest to be healthy, fit, and skinny. Who isn’t? So I’m always looking for healthy recipes, new exercises, and any other information that will help me succeed in this quest (a lifelong quest it seems). Even though I search for new ideas, I hold onto the “oldie but goodie” ones. Banana & peanut butter smoothies have been around for a while and there have many variations to the recipe. I have made the banana & peanut butter smoothie recipe found below so many times that it’s too many to count. If you love bananas then you will …

How to Clean a Jetted Tub Using Natural Products

February 26th, 2013Tina0 Comments

Okay, so this isn’t going to be the most exciting blog…I mean cleaning?! Not a glamorous topic. Nonetheless, I just learned how to clean the jets of my jetted tub without using chemicals and I figured that since I had to research how to do that then maybe others might be interested in my passing the info along. My husband and I have a jetted tub in the master bathroom of our new home and this is the first time I’ve ever had one. In general I try to use natural or “green” products for cleaning around the house but …

How to Dry Orange Slices

February 25th, 2013Tina0 Comments

My husband and I had oranges in the house and they were about to go bad so I thought I’d try to dry. I’ve never tried to dry fruit before so I turned to the “all knowing” internet. There are actually a lot of techniques for drying oranges slices but I turned to Martha Stewart. I mean she would know best, right? I loved the way they came out because they have a shiny sheen and bright orange color to them. I would definitely bake them this away again in the future. The orange slices look great in a bowl …

Wine Corks Decor

February 24th, 2013Tina1 Comment

Wine is always present when my husband and I entertain, so we have quite the collection in our wine cellar. I call it a “wine cellar”, but our wine collection is really in a series of racks in a corner of our unfinished basement. I’ve always thought that wine corks were cool looking, especially when they are grouped together. One day, many years ago, I saw that some stores were selling wine corks as a decor filler. What?! I can get them for free if I collect them from our own wine bottles. So, now each time we open …