I told you it was good

Awhile back I linked up to Fun on a Dime with her mini apple pies. I said they were really good. Halloween weekend, I entered them in a bake off that our local bank was hosting. I told you they were good. They won.

There weren't any rules posted so it didn't have to be an original recipe and I guess could include a store bought crust. They said there was a prize, but didn't say what. I thought I'd it as an excuse to make them again.

I still don't have any pictures of the little apple guys of my own, but here is her post about them with pictures and the recipe.

Want to see what I won?


Interesting prize for a bake-off. I'm not complaining. I had a pretty good hair day the next day.

These are next (apple rolls from Little Birdie Secrets), oh, these are so next!

chair 1 me 0

Day 1 of the chair remake was not a productive one. It's a gift, so I've gotta get cracken'.


I got motivated the other day and grabbed some sandpaper from the garage. Chair 1, me 0. Pretty much no luck with this method. Next I try some type of liquid paint remover.

Good grief, the paint is on so thick!

Gobble Gobble

I so stole this idea. The mom that brought snack to my class early in the week brought these cute glove turkeys. I changed just a few little things and now Lou has his snack for his class for this week.


The other mom stuffed each finger of these food service gloves with something different, I just went with colored gold fish crackers. She used chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, raisins, mini marshmallows, and goldfish. Pipe cleaners make the little turkeys feet. A red pipe cleaner can be made into the little gobbler thingy on his neck. This made it harder for the kids to open the snack in my class, so we left those off of most of our turkeys.

Why make just one when you can make a whole bunch... or flock.

the mystery quilt

I literally started this quilt(ish) project in July (hence the color scheme). It's a good thing it's getting close to done, it's a Christmas present. I can't say who. I can say that I'm super excited to get it finish and get it gifted. I also can't wait to get to show more pictures here!

It's for someone very special. Someone new!


Almost as exciting, Lou can almost sign his name!

well,

Hubby needs the computer tonight. It's my fault. I have contracted a virus on my computer. Blah. The two other times I have gotten a virus I was searching for macaroni and cheese recipes and once researching how to breed guppies. Today I was looking for printable pilgrim pictures. I shouldn't go to such scandalous sites. Tomorrow, I'll have a real post. Hubby's good with my virus contracting computer.

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You may have noticed, or not, that my blog now has an ad... I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I thought I'd try it out. I know a lot of people are getting paid for blogging. I have up to this point, not looked into it too much, so I'm experimenting. My biggest concern is that I don't choose the ads, so there might be something advertised that I don't like. For the next few days, it's public service ads. You can't disagree with most of those... I can remove it at any point, so we'll see what happens. Hopefully no one gets offended in the process.

new macaroni and cheese

I have a good macaroni and cheese recipe that we all really like, but I keep trying others. I think we've found a new go-to mac and cheese recipe. I adapted this from one in Bee's school cookbook. The cottage cheese was their idea... who would have thought.



New favorite mac and cheese

1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup sour cream
6 oz cheddar cheese (shredded or sliced up)
6 oz another yellow cheese (shredded or sliced up)
1 egg
1 t salt
7 oz. cooked elbow noodles

mix it all up and bake 375 for 25-30 minutes
If you're using sliced up cheese, make sure it stir it really well at some point in the middle of the baking time.

about that mermaid

So, about that mermaid costume. We keep getting asked how it was made. It was so easy. I had intended on taking pictures during the making of it, but Bee was jumping up and down beside the sewing machine putting the pieces on as I finished them.

The body suit is a dance leotard that I purchased from the costume shop in town, only because the dance shop didn't have nude in the child's sizes. Bee picked out the fabric. The green came from the dance/swimwear/spandex section of the fabric shop. I only bought 3/4 yard.

I turned down the top edge about a half an inch and sewed that down. That became the waist. The fabric is stretchy and needed no other waist band. Then I wrapped the skirt on her with the wrong side out and pinned it on her. I sewed along the pin line from the waist to about mid calf.

I had her try it on and I trimmed the bottom. It is supposed to be V(ed) down in the front. I made a ruffle out of the remaining fabric using about twice the length of the bottom measurement. I sewed this ruffle to the bottom edge of the tail.


I started and stopped the sewing of the ruffle in the back so it would stay open. This helps with walking.
For the top, Bee picked out something pink and shimmery. I only bought 1/4 yard. I wrapped it around her chest and pinned. I sewed it in a loop. I cut a thin piece from the trimmings of this and tied a knot around the seam.

See. underside shows the knot.

Then I added thin straps.

I made a quick headband out of the scraps. The green is a loop of the tail fabric. The star is two layers of the sparkle with a layer of batting in between. This headband was her idea.

Now all you need is a superhero brother and you're good to go.


I linked this up at: Fabric Fun Thursdays @ Cheap Chic Home