Just a small note

I think that the women on Celebrity Apprentice would drop dead at my house. I'm watching yesterday's episode while I do laundry and they had a baby on there. The baby was crying. It stressed all of them out. Annie Duke said that it was like the 7th rung of hell..... all because of a kid's fit. What if she came over on a day that all 3 of my kids were throwing fits and crying?  It made me feel empowered, I suppose.

Those silly leprechauns!

They came to our house Monday night and left a mess!!! Not only did they leave out all the stuff they used to make stuff for the kids, but they also did this:


and this:


and they hid presents here and there, which ended up like this:


The kids were happy, like this:


As they do every year, they did this:


which we turned into this:

HOly cow, enough already!

So, remember how I had strep? Yup, then I got shingles. Nasty! Yesterday I didn't even come downstairs! Today I am feeling MUCH better, however and even have some.... dum, da da dum! pictures for you!!!

my cute kids!

Juliana wearing my Bumpits

Ok, so I thought I had more pics. Apparently not. I'll get more up soon, esp of my Halloween Afghan (in progress)

Getting back in it

Ok, finally out of our sick funk (except that Vaughn has an ear infection). I need to do some serious picture taking. I've been so out of everything for the last couple weeks, between sick and - bizarly enough- a social life. SOOOOO- I have a bag almost finished- all I need to do are sew the handles, I just finished a Thank You book that I'd like to post pics of, and I finished some Halloween Embroidery.

Pics to come soon!

Strep

Sorry I've been MIA, I have strep. Xander has strep. Juliana has strep. Yeah, so we've been laying low all week. Finally back to doing laundry today. Good timing too, Studio 5 had some great stuff today! I'm excited to try some of the mixes they were talking about, esp in trying to weed out some of the dyes for Xanderman.

Bumpits (not to be confused w/ bum pits)

I LOVE THESE THINGS!!!!

Here's a link to the official site (but I got mine on ebay)

I did it!!!!

I'm so excited!! It does not look like the picture, I didn't want to do the big goblet thing, so I decided to do a bowl on a little tiny stand. I couldn't figure out how people got the bowl so perfect, so I looked up "Chocolate Bowls" on the internet and found that many people use balloons, coating it 3x in Chocolate with a pastry brush (freezing in between) then leaking the air out of the balloon. Well, my pastry brush is silicon, so it sucked for that. On the 3rd freeze, it fell a couple shelves in the freezer and cracked, so I did a 4th layer, but it just kinda fell off.

The truffles I used a truffle mold for and I totally love it! I'll be making LOTS more truffles in the future.

So, it's not nearly as pretty as the one in the picture, but the fact that it's done is incredible to me.

I took a picture of just the bowl first (in case it broke before the end). And in case you're wondering, yes, it is laundry detergent in the background. The laundry room is the coldest room in the house, so I set it out there to wait for the truffles to be done.

Then I put a few hearts on the back (instead of all the way around). I didn't have a heart mold, so they are free-handed- hence the different sizes The little flap on the bottom is where the 4th layer was falling off.

And here it is full of truffles!!!!

As for a Valentine's Update- my husband bought me a iTunes card so I could get the Lenka CD, 27 Dresses (the movie, not 27 actual dresses), Mountain Dew Voltage, Peanut Clusters, and some more yummy chocolate.

We also went to Red Lobster for Lunch (thanks Phylissa) and I tried scallops for the first time. YUUUUUMMMYYYY!!!

We had a great day!

I have one thing to say....

...to my cold.

BOOOOOOOOOO and go away.

Ok, now that I'm done complaining, here are some valentine's day cards I made for a family swap:

And here is a cute boy to wish you a Happy Saturday

Overly Ambitious

I am going to try to make Roger something fancy shmancy for V-day. Are you ready for this?

it's called True Love Truffles by Wilton

Yes, I know! The instructions are HERE and my mom is making teh truffles ahead of time (because I can't do this without her help).

Anybody else make this before?

Free Downloadable Valentine's

So, nothing too fancy, but I thought these were pretty and kinda fun. Available in color or B&W

T download, click to open full size, then rt click>save as

Color:


B&W:

Enjoy!