100 Day Project, Not a winner and Scone recipe

This is my daughter's 100-day project last week in kindergarden. What a milestone! She loves butterflies so we found a creative way to display 100 paper butterflies and to use up dollar store silk flowers. This will hang in her room when it comes back home this week. The lettering was done with Cuttlebug die cuts (Olivia font) and used a K&C company Valentine's paper. Double click the photo for a closer look.

Must not have been lucky enough to win any of those terrific prizes at PTI...wonder if the winners would want to share any of their loot with me :-)))

Here's my Mom's great scone recipe (thanks, Mom!). If I find the time next week when I make more of these at home, I will take photos of how the dough should look at each step.

NOTE: Please do not sell or pass this recipe off as yours. My Mom spent a lot of time tweaking this recipe so please give credit to this site if you are sharing the recipe with others.

Buttermilk Scones
Combine the following ingredients in a large mixing bowl:
3 c. all-purpose flour (12 oz)
1/3 c. granulated sugar
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt

Add to flour mixture, using a pastry cutter:
3/4 c. unsalted butter (make sure it's cold, straight from the refrigerator), cut into little cubes
-- combine until mixture is mealy and no chunks of butter left

Make a hole in the middle of the flour mixture and slowly add:
1 c. buttermilk (I use lowfat buttermilk and they still taste divine)
-- use a fork to slowly incorporate the flour mixture with the buttermilk; mixture will be very sticky.

Optional: before rolling out the dough, add 2 generous cups of chopped assorted chocolates and dried fruit (I used leftover chopped up Kiss chocolates and dried cranberries - be creative! You'll be surprised how good and different each batch will taste when you use up different kinds of leftover chocolates from your house).

Use a rubber spatula to mix in the chocolates. However, do not overmix! Think biscuit dough!

Dust your countertop or work surface with flour then scrape the dough onto the surface. With floured hands, pat the dough to about 1" thickness and use desired size biscuit cutter to cut the dough. NOTE: don't twist the cutter when cutting out the scones - otherwise they won't rise very high. Put on parchment lined baking pan, about 1/2" apart.

Bake at 400 F degrees for about 15 minutes or until slightly golden. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.

Paper purses instructions will have to wait later next week, as I'm struggling to get the PTA books balanced! No matter what I do, I'm off by about $84!! Also, even with my 8 yr old son doing vacuuming around here, I still run short on time!