Check it out... I won

Check out my other blog,I don't want to repost ;) , but I do want to say that I finally won something!
http://thursdaynightsupper.blogspot.com/

Nicole inspired me

So, those veggies inspired me to link this recipe (for some reason I cannot copy and paste anything into blogger lately). They are Kole's favorite treat and really healthy believe it or not. We call them "cupcakes" but really they are muffins made with carrots (hence the inspiration from the veggies), whole wheat flour and dried fruit. I take most of the dried fruit out and use raisins instead and add small amount of mini chocolate chips for an extra treat ;) I use HALF the sugar it calls for and use HALF the oil it calls for but replace the other half with UNSWEET applesauce. Shredding the carrots is the most time consuming but if you use the shredding blade on your food processor it goes by quick! I like to bribe Kole with a cupcake so he's a "good boy" or he eats all of something that is on his plate. It TOTALLY works and I am NOT above bribing my kids at this point.
Enjoy!





Kole says, "mmm...cupcake taste good." Yes, he requests a crown when eating cupcakes most days when we are home. He must feel EXTRA special :)

Non-craft post - CSA

I'm so excited!  I have talked Chris into joining a CSA this summer. We are going to buy a half share from Visser Farms.  I bought a 'box' from there today so that I could see how it would work and so that I could talk to them.  Here is a peek at what we received today and I can't wait for the weather to get nice and we can start enjoying all of our great produce!  Why am I going this route?  Why don't I just buy what we need either at the store or the local farmers market?  There are a couple of reasons...

• I love veggies and want to try some that I normally wouldn't justify buying.
• We really want to be better about eating at home.  I think that by having the produce at home, I'll feel like I 'need' to use it and it will be an incentive to cook.
• I hope to create excitement for the girls about healthy food by exposing them to the farm and hopefully they will be excited to see what we will have each week in our box!

I really think that I should have been a farmer... I love this stuff!

Tee Shirt Transfers

Guess where we are headed on Saturday?? Naturally, I made larger ones for Seth and I. Pain in the neck though....all the cutting out gave me a cramp in my hand! Plus, I should have known better than to buy transfer paper from Walmart (but I was already there with the kids and didn't want to make a trip to Hobby Lobby) because it sucked! One piece got jammed in the printer, one was stuck to the package and ripped a little and was VERY fussy while cutting the small parts out. Not to mention that the colors ran. Oh well, it turned out fine I guess and it'll work for Saturday. Bummer I had to use gray but that was the only color I found that had ALL of our sizes. Better than plain white I guess :)











PS: I LOVE the Buttercup bag, I remember seeing that before and thought it was cute. You might have to "whip one up" and let me know how it goes. I like the two buttons on the front of the bag. I've used her baby tights tutorial before for Sydney's leggings (or at least the general idea).

What to do...

I just bought a fat quarter pack of Dolce from Free Spirit.

What should I make with it?  I'm think that I may make a quilt, but I also have enjoyed looking at the buttercup bag.  Any other ideas?

 

Taggie Owl

My taggie owl project is a little old.  I made them about a year ago, but to follow up to Jen's post, I thought that it would be fun to post them!   Let me preface this by saying that I'm addicted to blogs.  Specifically craft and recipe blogs.  (I really think that I have Jen to thank for this!  She introduced me to Jill's blog at www.homemadebyjill.blogspot.com and from that it just escalated.  I don't know about you, but if I jump on the computer, it seems like it is easy to just keep clicking and find new things all the time.  I will get on for a couple of minutes before I go to bed and before I know it, it is 1 am and I have been on the internet for three hours!   Well, to get back to the taggie owls, one night I found this tutorial on www.lubirdbaby.com and fell in love!  It is funny because I was reading Jen's post and I too had a reject owl... I gave it to my older daughter... she thought it was great!  (I felt better... that poor little sad owl wasn't rejected anymore!)  I did make a few changes.  I didn't use and interfacing and I had to make the owl a little bit larger.  I tried using the pattern and it just didn't turn out right!   (The first guys is my 1st attempt.  I wasn't quite happy with it!)

Owl Teether

So I thought these owl teethers were super cute so I decided to make a couple. Easy enough, right?? Why do the easiest things take me FOREVER to make??? It should have been a 30 min. project and it took me a couple of hours!! And, they didn't turn out like I wanted, either. One is okay and the other one has major issues and will be thrown away. Boo.
Here is what it was supposed to look like. I think my ribbons are too long and since I had to turn it right side out, I now have a stitch line at the bottom of the owl. Double boo. I even put a "crinkly" in there---a thoroughly washed portion of a Dorito chip bag :) It works well for that crinkly sound :)
Oh, well.
Nic, didn't you make these??? How did yours turn out???





~Jen

Happy Valentines Day!

So, this is NOT my craft but it was so cute I had to post a picture of it. My sister-in-law, Keri, made this for "Daddy" from her girls for Valentines Day this year. She claimed to me once before that she's not crafty. Hmmm... Looks like she stirred up a bowl of craftiness with this project ;)








~jen