Another Baby Afghan (In Progress)

There is a Baby Items Challenge going on at a Yahoo Group I am in. (Crafting for a Cause).  I wasn't going to join, because I get myself too stressed out AND I have to send the stuff. Well this time I told myself, "I'm ONLY going to finish what I have already started or almost done." Psshhh. Guess what? That didn't happen.  Well, it did. I finished it all. But, then I decided to make an afghan today.

To go with this sweater set.  :)  I figured, if I can finish a baby afghan in less than two weeks, I can finish it by the middle of April or so.  I am using a pattern which doesn't seem to be available anymore. It was on a wideopenwest site, called "Rectangle Square". I only have a little bit of the dark pink left, and a good sized amount of the light pink. So it will be a scrapghan.  I'll try & make it work. Then I will have three full layettes to send in. :)

Gangsta Leprechaun Wants His Gold Back..

This Thursday was "Hats Off To Reading Day". Well with it being so close to St. Patricks Day, I said to Eon, "Maybe you can wear your leprechaun hat I got you". (Love the Dollar Store...)  He said "Yeah." (And he wore his "Lucky" shirt, and his lighting up four leaf clover necklace, too...  And "sunglasses".  :P  I took his picture & he said "Post it on facebook and say 'Gangster Leprechaun Wants His Gold Back" lol! Where does he come up with this stuff?...  :P

Happy St. Patricks Day Everyone!

"I'm Too Sexy For My Milk Bone"

:P  Jetta used to LOVE her Milk Bones. I would say "Do you want a cookie?!" She would get so excited, and wiggle around and jump.  Then when I got the Milk Bone, she would go over to the carpet and sit, and put her paw up. Aw!...   Well then I got some "new" treats, (Chuck Wagon Chicken treats, or something?)  And she started acting like she was too good for Milk Bones. :(   Now all the Chicken treats are gone, so maybe she will like her Milk Bones again... :P    (Sorry for the blurry phone pic..)

The Circus!!

The Circus came to our town. It wasn't the Barnum Bros. or anything. But still...  For a little kid, whose never been to a circus before... :P  Eon got a free ticket (for him), at school. (I noticed later that the free tickets for children were all over town...)   We left a little too early. The shows were at 5 & 7 pm. Well I have never been to a circus before, either. I thought maybe the tickets might get sold out (in this town? -trust me...)  Well we got there, and the ticket window wasn't even open. So... We went to Walmart. 

Then we went to Dairy Queen! :D

Here's the Circus Tent.  I was secretly, I think; even more excited than Eon. I have never been to a Circus, either. :D

Waiting for Eon to finish his ice cream cone...  Sheesh. We should have gone to Dairy Queen first. It probably would have taken him the whole hour before the show started, just to finish that ice cream cone... :P

(My husband said he doesn't think he's ever been to a circus, either.. So it was a first for all of us.)

Going in....  (I hope no one saw me taking these pictures... lol)

Waiting some more, for the show to start. :)   I didn't take any more pictures than these. I did make a few videos, of some of the acts, though. They had pony rides. Eon wanted to go on one. But it was extra money.  (The ponies were SO cute!! My husband said "Do you want a pony now?" I said "Yes!" :P)  It was loud, and I don't like crowds, but it was still fun And they didn't have any creepy clowns either. (Bonus- for me, at least..) :P

Cake In A Cup

I made these for the kids last night. They like it, but I think it is gross.  The original recipe I got in an email  from an old friend of mine (who won't talk to me anymore).  This recipe is very simillar: 5-minute Chocolate Cake. It uses chocolate chips though.  :)

Eon eating his. He said it was too hot. :P  

A Last Minute Birthday Card

We got invited to our neighbors' 7 year old daugters birthday party today. I knew about it earlier in the week. Don't ask me why I didn't go buy a card earlier. Oh, wait. Maybe because my neighbor said not to bring anything. But, I didn't want to come empty handed.  So, one hour (yes, one hour) before the birthday party, I decided to make a card. I was going to go early in the morning to go get one. But, I do not feel good at all. I didn't even want to go because I really don't feel good. And Eon was taking forever to get in the shower & get dressed. (Like usual.)  Anyway, I decided to use kind of the same lay out as the baby shower card I did. But in girl colors. And a recent card making magazine I got had a page on how to do this lettering.  I used a puppy stamp of my son's. (Technically it is mine, but I let him have it..)  And, I gave her money.

I think Eon had fun. In fact, I am almost 99.9% positive he did. :)

The Bouncy House!

Unbelievably, he was the only kid in there at this moment.. :P 

I think even Eli had fun. He went home and got his frisbies and Nerf swords; and he went in the bouncy house. :P I think I might have had some "fun" if I had felt better. Plus, I didn't hardly know anyone. Except my neighbor.

A wolf spider (yikes) was on their front sidewalk.

And this one of their dogs, Brandy. She's a sweetheart. She's a Red Heeler; pretty old. I gave her a few scraps.  She gave me some kisses. :)

More Arts & Crafts Fun... ("Crayon Cakes" Again...)

Last night Eon wanted to make these. I said "Oh yeah... Those are cool."  :D  We didn't have many broken crayon pieces this time.

And, we probably should have made more in each muffin tin. They were pretty skinny. But I thought they turned out kinda cool.

The tops of them.  

Well Picky Mr. Eon didn't like them being skinny and some were "cracked".  Ugh...  So I said well just put one on top of each one & re-melt them.  I thought they looked cooler the first time. :(  But oh well.

He wanted to give one to his teacher.  :P  Poor teachers. Probably get a bunch of stuff from students that they're thinking "What am I going to do with this?"...  Lol. 

While I was googling how to recycle crayons last night, I found a couple really cool ideas. This one was THE coolest one: Crayon Heart Valentines. I need to get some glitter, and some heart shaped silicone molds.  :P  More cool ideas: How to Creatively Recycle Your Crayons. Cool lego people & lego blocks!! (I am not showing that one to Eon. I have no idea where to get lego molds... :P)   Cool Puzzle Piece and recycled crayon molds!  Man, now I just feel like a Lame Mom. :(   More recycled crayon molds, and cool layered triangles.  I do have star ice cube trays. Maybe I could use those next time. 

ETA: I found some silicone lego block and lego people molds on Ebay!! Eon is going to be so stoked. I think even hard to impress Eli might be stoked, too.  I just got the block mold, but maybe I'll get the people one soon...  :D  Now I don't feel like such a Lame Mom...  :P

Broccoli Ham Ring

This blog is turning into a food blog, lately...  I made a broccoli ham ring for dinner tonight. Something different. (And yummy!) I think the las time I made this (or the last time I remember making it) was for my sister-in-law's baby shower. That "baby" is now 13 years old. Anyway, I used this recipe: Broccoli Ham Ring.

Shamrock Shakes

The shake machine was down at McDonalds the other day. So tonight, I made us some Shamrock Shakes at home. This recipe is good: Copycat McDonald's Shamrock Shake. I also like this one: McDonald's Shamrock Shake Copycat Recipe. It's just basically making a shake & adding mint flavoring, and green food coloring.

Cup Caddy

Well I finally bought Carlinda's Cup Caddy pattern on Ravelry, about a week or so ago.  And yesterday, I finally got around to crocheting one.  I just love it. It's so cool. Little enough to put on a desk or bookshelf...  And hold all the extra pens or crochet hooks and other stuff that are laying around. It's a recycler and an organizer all in one. :D

I made this one in "Monet" by Red Heart. I have someone in mind to give it to. I didn't have any coffee cups in a matching (or simillar) color, though. So yesterday I asked the kids if they wanted to go to the Thrift Store. Eon always does. But Eli, I don't think wanted to...  (But he went.)   A girl asked me if she could help me find anything. I said "Well this is going to sound weird; but I'm looking for a coffee cup, in blue or purple/lavender."  She helped me find one on the top shelf. I said "I was trying to look up there, but I'm too short." :P She said she had just cleaned that shelf off that morning, so she knew what was up there. :D    Well when I got the cups home (I bought a white, "Circus, Circus" one, too) I untied the ribbon and cellophane off the cup (it had green peppermints in it) to wash it. I saw that it's a cup from Detroit, Michigan.  How funny~ I got a Michigan cup at a Thrift Store in Nevada?...  Lol.  I just thought that was neat.

I hope to make lots more of these, for gifts and one for myself.  I'm going to have to start going to garage sales for more coffee cups! :D