It seems as though my days are filling up rather nicely lately. I have Christmas gifts that I am working on, and 'Stuff' that HAS to be done.
Yesterday, I decided that I wanted to bake some tasty chocolate cupcakes from scratch (NO box mixes for me!!) So I hauled my ass to the store in the FREEZING cold wind to pick up the few things that I needed, and whipped up a batch of GINORMOUS cupcakes. Seriously, these damn things could EASILY feed 2 people a piece. I like homemade cake (much less sweet than a box mix) and I love to make homemade ganache (semisweet chocolate/peppermint ganache to be exact.) They are soooooooo tasty!
I have 2 skirts to make before Wednesday night's Christmas program - one for each girl. Along with 5 pairs of pajamas for Christmas gifts. AND......various charms and pieces of artwork that I intend for gifts as well. Candies and cookies and presents.....OH MY!!
Busy, busy, busy!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Another VERY GOOD day for the books!
Today the youngest girl child went off to have an adventure with her Nana and Papa that will keep her busy overnight and most of tomorrow as well. So the oldest girl child and I decided that since she had to stay at home (She's very loosely grounded for the time being.) we would go to dinner and have a 'Grown Up Girl's Night Out'.
Our evening began with a trip to one of her favorite restaurants, New China, for sushi and lemonade. After dinner, we decided to drive across town to one of the fabric stores so that I could check out their selection of bottom weight twill for the girls' skirts that I need to get started on for their Christmas program at school. (The selection was SAD to say the least, although I did manage to pick up several more buttons to make into charms for their bracelets and a metal craft jewelry book that I cannot wait to try to make some of the stuff in.) A quick trip to one of the craft stores in town revealed the fact that I am going to have to seriously consider looking online to buy jewelry making supplies if I want quality stuff (Aluminum filled copper wire is just not going to cut it for these projects, I need the good shit.) Then to WallyWorld for some tracing plastic for the pajama patterns I need to get started on this weekend, and a quick-ish trip to the bookstore for some fun reading materials. We decided to cap off the night with a trip to Starbucks for some Peppermint Hot Chocolate, and made our way back home.
It was such a long and busy night, but it was so much fun. I love spending time with my girls, and I am so glad that they love spending time with me. :D
Our evening began with a trip to one of her favorite restaurants, New China, for sushi and lemonade. After dinner, we decided to drive across town to one of the fabric stores so that I could check out their selection of bottom weight twill for the girls' skirts that I need to get started on for their Christmas program at school. (The selection was SAD to say the least, although I did manage to pick up several more buttons to make into charms for their bracelets and a metal craft jewelry book that I cannot wait to try to make some of the stuff in.) A quick trip to one of the craft stores in town revealed the fact that I am going to have to seriously consider looking online to buy jewelry making supplies if I want quality stuff (Aluminum filled copper wire is just not going to cut it for these projects, I need the good shit.) Then to WallyWorld for some tracing plastic for the pajama patterns I need to get started on this weekend, and a quick-ish trip to the bookstore for some fun reading materials. We decided to cap off the night with a trip to Starbucks for some Peppermint Hot Chocolate, and made our way back home.
It was such a long and busy night, but it was so much fun. I love spending time with my girls, and I am so glad that they love spending time with me. :D
Friday, December 3, 2010
Today was a VERY GOOD day!
The youngest girl child and I decided this morning that we were going to go out to lunch together (Something we used to do quite often, but for the past several months we just haven't been.) I let her choose, and she picked her absolute favorite restaurant ever ~ Fuji's Japanese Steakhouse
She LOVES it there (and I do too.) They have tasty, tasty food, and even tastier sushi. :D
We decided that, to add to our 'Girlie Day', we would do a little holiday shopping 'cuz there are some things that I need in order to get started making some of the gifts I have planned for Christmas this year. We stopped off at one of MY favorite yarn stores so that I could browse their selection of vintage buttons ~ www.simplyfibers.com I can't buy yarn there 'cuz they mostly stock wool/wool blends, and I am allergic to anything that began it's life close to/as part of a sheep. (I am kind of interested in some of the spin it yourself fibers that they have ~ particularly the camel hair ~ but, alas, I cannot spin my own yarn.) I managed to find some pretty sweet buttons to make charms for the girls' ever growing charm bracelets for Christmas (and a couple for myself as well. :D)
After that we decided to hit one of the used bookstores in the area to see what we gems we could discover there. The littlest one found a book of children's poetry and short stories from 1966 that she fell in love with, most likely for the large rooster that dominates the front cover. She enjoyed it so much, and it was only a dollar, so we brought it home to stay. :D
Then we took a trip to our favorite thrift store in search of more good deals that we could bring home and turn into GREAT stuff. Sadly, the only things that I found that I fell in love with were a child's board book (to make an altered book out of :D) and a salad service set that included 1 large serving bowl and 8 smaller bowls. (It was AWESOME! All of the bowls were shaped to look like they were made out of lettuce leaves, and it was VERY vintage and AMAZING! Sadly, it was all priced individually. So, between the large bowl and all the individual bowls, it was WAY too expensive for me to want to buy it at a thrift store ~ $25 bucks for all the pieces. I have limits. LOL) I may go back in a few days to see if they lower the price on the pieces. If they do, I am snatching them up so fast their heads will spin. (Get it? Lettuce? Heads? I'm a dork. I know.) Then I will post pics so that the rest of the World can drool over my find.
After a trip to our favorite Starbucks, we headed for home. We seriously enjoyed our outing. It was something that we hadn't done in a very long time. It was really nice to spend the day together ~ just the 2 of us.
All in all. Today was a VERY GOOD day!
She LOVES it there (and I do too.) They have tasty, tasty food, and even tastier sushi. :D
We decided that, to add to our 'Girlie Day', we would do a little holiday shopping 'cuz there are some things that I need in order to get started making some of the gifts I have planned for Christmas this year. We stopped off at one of MY favorite yarn stores so that I could browse their selection of vintage buttons ~ www.simplyfibers.com I can't buy yarn there 'cuz they mostly stock wool/wool blends, and I am allergic to anything that began it's life close to/as part of a sheep. (I am kind of interested in some of the spin it yourself fibers that they have ~ particularly the camel hair ~ but, alas, I cannot spin my own yarn.) I managed to find some pretty sweet buttons to make charms for the girls' ever growing charm bracelets for Christmas (and a couple for myself as well. :D)
After that we decided to hit one of the used bookstores in the area to see what we gems we could discover there. The littlest one found a book of children's poetry and short stories from 1966 that she fell in love with, most likely for the large rooster that dominates the front cover. She enjoyed it so much, and it was only a dollar, so we brought it home to stay. :D
Then we took a trip to our favorite thrift store in search of more good deals that we could bring home and turn into GREAT stuff. Sadly, the only things that I found that I fell in love with were a child's board book (to make an altered book out of :D) and a salad service set that included 1 large serving bowl and 8 smaller bowls. (It was AWESOME! All of the bowls were shaped to look like they were made out of lettuce leaves, and it was VERY vintage and AMAZING! Sadly, it was all priced individually. So, between the large bowl and all the individual bowls, it was WAY too expensive for me to want to buy it at a thrift store ~ $25 bucks for all the pieces. I have limits. LOL) I may go back in a few days to see if they lower the price on the pieces. If they do, I am snatching them up so fast their heads will spin. (Get it? Lettuce? Heads? I'm a dork. I know.) Then I will post pics so that the rest of the World can drool over my find.
After a trip to our favorite Starbucks, we headed for home. We seriously enjoyed our outing. It was something that we hadn't done in a very long time. It was really nice to spend the day together ~ just the 2 of us.
All in all. Today was a VERY GOOD day!
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