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There's nothing like a tall glass of ice cold lemonade during a hot summer day! My absolute favorite is served at Toomer's Corner in Auburn, AL. During football season it's hard to pass up a trip to the corner for some lemonade. I found a couple of recipes online and tweaked them a little to come up with this recipe. It really does taste a lot like the kind served there. It's pretty strong and will absolutely withstand the ice and keep the flavor. Here it goes.
You will need a lemon juicer of some kind. I used a hand held device but if you don't have the tools just squeeze it out with your hands using a fork.
You need to cut the lemons in half then squeeze the juice out into a measuring cup.
You will need about 2 cups of lemon juice.
Strain the juice while you pour it into your pitcher just to make sure to keep the seeds out.
Then, add about 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
Stir well.
Add 4 cups of water and about 1 1/2 cups of ice. Stir again and you're done!! Oh....so good!!
I couldn't resist.
Combine in saucepan: 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup salt, 1 teaspoon cream of tarter
Cook over medium heat until play dough is nearly set (stirring with a wood spoon occasionally and 'flipping' play dough over so it doesn't stick). Then, add 1 Tablespoon of imitation vanilla flavoring.
The colored play dough balls
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Empty the bag of cake mix evenly onto the top of the peaches. Then cover the top of the cake mix with butter squares or you can melt the butter in the microwave and pour onto the top. 
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until the top is light brown how you may like it.
Then cut a piece and cover with your favorite ice cream!
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If you need some quick and easy tutu instructions you're at the right place. These are great gifts and great for the kids to play in! They love pretending to be little ballerinas. Great for pictures too!!
All you need is: 6" wide tulle (2 or 3 rolls) and some No-Roll wide elastic. That's it!!
You can make these tutu's as long as you would like them to be but this one is the average shorter tutu. I cut a bunch of strips of tulle using a 2 foot measuring stick. Each piece will be folded in half later so if you want your tutu to be all the way to the ground you will need to cut extra long pieces. I use about 50 yards of tulle for one tutu. Sometimes more but at least that much. Cutting more strips makes the tutus look fuller.
Make sure you buy the "No-Roll" elastic. This is very important. You can decide how wide you would like for the elastic to be but I think the wider the better. 
2. You are going to tie knots with your tulle all around the elastic so it's easier just to put the elastic around your leg so that it stays in place. 
4. Now, here is how you are going to tie the knot. It's a little hard to explain but I hope the pictures will help. Take the two ends of the tulle that are at the top and loop them down and under where the hole is from the folded tulle.
5. Continue pulling the tulle down and use your thumb on the other hand to place the knot and tighten as you pull.
Hopefully this picture shows it a little better.
6. When you have pulled it all the way through your know should look like this on your thumb. You can adjust it as needed to make sure its tight.
7. Your first knot is complete!
8. Now you just need to make a bunch more!
9. Continue all the way around until it's as full as you would like for it to be. When you stretch the elastic you might see empty spaces to fill in.
10. Let them play their hearts out!! 
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My daughter helped tape a square in the middle to paint. She picked out the color and I let her have at it! Any type of stencils can be used for this or you can freehand everything. My oldest kids made their hand prints and my baby made her footprints! After the mat is painted, let it completely dry (maybe 24 hours or less), then seal it with a coat of polyurethane!
Another friend (Scarlett) made this one for her kitchen as well!
This is so much fun to do and so easy! I can't wait to paint some more!
