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October 10, 2015/in Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

7Up Cake This is a deliciously easy cake recipe that came from my best friend! It’s great served on its own (as it forms a nice glaze on the top) or served with ice cream, fresh fruit and/or whipped cream! Ingredients: 1 1/2C butter 3 C sugar 5 eggs 3 C flour 2 tsp […]

Making your own Search and Find Books

October 10, 2015/2 Comments/in Activities, Craft /by ValleyFamilyFun

How to Make You Own Search and Find Book This past fall our family embarked on a project to make Search and Find books for Christmas presents. These were a big hit and make great coffee table books. Here is how we did it. Over a few months, whenever we went anywhere – for […]

7Up Cake

October 10, 2015/in Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

Making your own Search and Find Books

October 10, 2015/2 Comments/in Activities, Craft /by ValleyFamilyFun

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7Up Cake

October 10, 2015/in Recipe /by ValleyFamilyFun

7Up Cake

This is a deliciously easy cake recipe that came from my best friend!
It’s great served on its own (as it forms a nice glaze on the top) or served with ice cream, fresh fruit and/or whipped cream!

Ingredients:
1 1/2C butter
3 C sugar
5 eggs
3 C flour
2 tsp lemon flavouring
¾ C 7Up

Cream butter and sugar.
Add eggs one at a time.
Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth.

Bake in a greased Bundt or tube pan at 325 for about an hour (until a toothpick comes out clean and the top is golden)

Cool upside down on a rack for about 15 minutes before removing from the pan.

This cake freezes well, too. Wrap it in tinfoil and pop it in the freezer until needed!

Enjoy!

Making your own Search and Find Books

October 10, 2015/2 Comments/in Activities, Craft /by ValleyFamilyFun

How to Make You Own Search and Find Book

This past fall our family embarked on a project to make Search and Find books for Christmas presents.
These were a big hit and make great coffee table books.
Here is how we did it.

Over a few months, whenever we went anywhere – for a walk, playing in the yard, at the beach, on an adventure, we would stop and take a few pictures.

The kids would hide somewhere in the scenery – sometimes obviously, or sometimes trying to camouflage – and I would take a picture.

We never dressed for the scenery (not trying to camouflage) as we didn’t think that far ahead! However, you easily could if you plan out your photo adventure!

After a few months of doing this, we had over 40 pictures that I had filed in a folder on my desktop. We then sorted through the pictures and divided them into “easy”, “medium” and “hard” finds.

I then researched a few online photo book options. There are often Groupons for these or website specials. I ended up using PhotoBox.

All of the programs are intuitive, easy to use and have great templates.
I looked at the cost of the book, the number of pages in the book, and the shipping.

Because we had so many pictures, I created 2 books. It would have been a lot more expensive to “add pages” to the template than it was to make 2 books.

I sorted the pictures so there were easy-hard pictures in both volumes. I added fun captions at the bottom and told the reader who to look for in the picture.

It was that easy!
Now, we have a lovely keepsake and conversation piece when people come to visit!

I am not a photographer or a designer, but this project was easy and fun and the boys loved making it for their little cousins for Christmas!

Maybe we will try for another volume next year!

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