Cupcake Place Mat And B-Day Card

This is my attempt today at making place mats for the kitchen table.  The place mat was simple to make, all I did was cut two rectangles out of white muslin vloth and lay one rectangles of cotton batting between them. The edges were tucked under about 1/4 inch and sewn down. The back looks very rough, the next time I’d fold the edges under twice to make the hem. The dots up top aren’t spaced well, but it was my first attempts. Impulsiveness is good in creativity, but I really need to take more time to measure things.

The card is for D’s sister, and is made out of unbleached muslin and brown paper lunch bags that I cut into rectangles and sewed together on the sewing machine. Brown paper sews together very nice.

A Few Things I Want To Do This Week

Make grocery bags so we won’t use the plastic ones.

Get the garden ready

Make the menu for the month

Be Kind…

These are some of my first attempts at baked goods art. The cookie one is a fabric print design. Hope y’all like it ok, please feel free to criticize. It’s the first time I’ve tried painting on fabric. trying to get the courage to put it up in public.

While leaving a rambling essay in Tempered Woman’s blog, I managed to tip my cupcake over onto my tummy. D (also known as pscyclone from Lythos and Lythosants) took this pic. Look Ma, I’m a cupcake treat!

Cupcake Wallpaper

This is the first bit of cupcake art I’m trying. Gonna try more, wanted to put this tiny little bit up. It ain’t anything impressive, but its mine! Y’all are welcome to use it if you want, credit would be appreciated. Speaking of mentioning things, if anybody reads this boring little blog, would you comment and let me know? Love meeting new people so much!

Progress

The house is looking good, dinner is on, and things are going ok enough. There’s a few days to get everything done in, and I was gonna start things today. Instad, what seemed more comfortable was to clean the house very well. with a little bit of effort, I can probably minimize the mess and enjoy the baking more. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it, I love doing this sort of thing. Want to try to take pics of the things I make, so that if anybody else reads this at all they can chuckle at my attempts to be Donna Reed with a drawl.

The holidays and the tart

Haven’t written in forever, but I’m gonna try to make this an account of things as they happen. Thanksgiving went pretty well, it was very pleasent and the breadcameout perfect. The only thng I wasn’t happy with was the reen bean casserole, and that didn’t taste as good because I used the low sodium cream of mushroom soup. Usually that’s fine, but for a special occassion I’ll use the normal one. Now it’s officially the Christmas season, and I’ve volunteered to make hand made gift bags for everybody to try to save some money. The first two were supposed to have a week and a half to make, but the date was wrong and I had two and half days to make them. The result wasn’t what I was hoping for, but I did pretty well considering. This is what I put in there.

 

In fact, this time I’m gonna try to take pics of everything as I go along, cleaning, sewing, all of the cooking.  Mom and G-Ma are coming this weekend, so it’s gonna be a scramble to get everything done. The house isn’t in good shape right now, it really got messed up when I had to do everything last week.