My First Homemade Bread
Posted on | January 10, 2010 | 11 Comments
First a card:
I used PTI stamps and the pattern paper is a little bit of leftover from one of my digital papers from Shabby Pickle Designs. The colors came from Dawn McVey. I could have made all sorts of cards/scrapbook pages all day today but I wasn’t motivated. Instead I just lounged around with the girls.
As for the bread… Check this baby out:
I am doing really good with my 2010 goal to make more food from scratch. The above wheat bread is really delicious. I got this one from AllRecipes and the 500+ people who gave this five stars were right!! M and hubby loves it. It is a tad bit sweeter than the store bread but I think you can easily adjust by removing the 2nd cup of sugar. I did follow one of the tip; I divided the dough up into two instead of three to make it more sandwich size. Another tip said to put the dough in the dryer to speed up the growth and so I did – it’s not like I have a lot of warm places options to let my dough sit and rise anyways. I didn’t have any laundry to dry and so I just turned it on for a few minutes before I placed the dough in there. Did it help? I dunno but it grew well. Lovely bread and next time I’m going to try adding sunflower and more wheat and reduce the regular flour.
I hope you had a great weekend. My spring class starts up tomorrow and I have a full class so I’ll be sporadic with the crafting as I get more papers to grade. So until next time!!!
More Christmas Joy
Posted on | October 23, 2009 | 22 Comments
Message from Emma: hi ms dawn hugs emma.
And… here’s M holding my card for me. I used Dawn McVey’s colors and stamps from PaperTrey for this card (there’s a line mark on M’s cheek. It’s a pen mark. She said she wanted to look like a cougar).
Here’s a better picture of it. The center of the ornaments were embossed using American Craft Zing.
The brown cardstock was adhered with glue to the cream paper. The rest were adhered using the new dimensionals that I ordered last weekend from StampInkTons. I got the 1/8″ and 1/16″ (this is the same as SU’s dimensionals) and compare to a CD case, these are how big 36 yards are. They adhere well. I like and it’s nice that I can cut however big of a piece I want. The hard part… storage.
Speaking of storage, do any of you have a JetMax storage system? I’ve been looking at them and seeing what others do. Here are some links if you want to see some configurations. Michael’s carry these and sometimes they’re on sale and sometimes you have to use your coupons.
I think it might fit my needs. I was looking at IKEA stuff but shipping is to expensive and I want to get them here and soon while I still have a job. There’s also the Store in Style but I can’t find them locally. I don’t know which is better either. Let me know if you use this (or other) system and what you think of them. You think they’ll be able to stand an overseas move and hopefully back to later in a few years?
I Like This Card :)
Posted on | September 5, 2009 | 16 Comments
NOTE: I have a blog candy!
No, not that one above. The above was what M made… all by herself!! She did this at the after school program yesterday. It’s a picture frame for a picture that her little penpal, Sofi, made. Who doesn’t know Sofi? If you don’t you’re missing out! She’s Cathy Pascual‘s little girl. Cathy’s an awesome awesome paper and digital crafter – Sofi use to be her main scrapbooking subject but now she has a newbie to exploit {::LAUGH}. She’s been published many times and have designed for many folks. She’s currently a fashionista as SIStv, where I met her. M and Sofi has been snail mailing and M thinks Sofi’s the cutest thing! I think if Cathy and I lived closer we’d make great real life friends and the girls will have a blast together. M with Sofi and Jovie with Zara. We’d be totally weird at the park tho… ppl might think we’re paparazzi ha ha ha… we’d have our cameras aiming at the kids at all times {::SMILES}.
Okie, my card that I like…
I used Dawn’s colors for this week and really like the color combo on this card. You all know Ashley Newell? Well she started a new online publication, Embellish Magazine, and even though this card does not meet her challenge criteria the twine was inspired by her. Besides the colors I like the fact that I used this stamp set again. I’ve had this SU set for awhile and have only used it once until this week. The top, the cream ribbons, those are just little strips of ribbon that were adhered on with glue first and then sewed. I think it gives the card a little bit more dimension.
Alright, that’s it from me. More later! Tomorrow hopefully since it is a long weekend and we’re not doing anything but clean and lounge around at home. Have a great one you all and oh, don’t forget the blog candy!
Card and Stuff
Posted on | August 27, 2009 | 30 Comments
Wow, I made a card! I haven’t had a lot of craft time since I started work again last week. Actually I haven’t had a lot of time period! I walked into my craft room the other day and I was so surprised to see it nice and tidy. Even the desk was clean! It felt good making this card but boy, I’ll probably pay for it later this evening!!! So here’s a Christmas card using Dawn’s colors for this week. The card’s inspired by Moxie Fab: vintage and I think it can past for clean and simple too. What do you think?
The stuff… my poor Emma… ya know, the kid in the picture above… school’s just rough for her! I thought I had it bad when the girls use to gang up on me cause I was bi-racial but goodness, nobody ever told my daddy, right on his face, that I was ugly.
Yesterday hubby picked M up from school, the after school program to be more exact. While M was getting her backpack and stuff, this girl came up to my hubby and told him this: Your little girl has an ugly face. My husband loves kids. Kids love him too but when he heard that he automatically went into fight mode and all sorts of bad things ran into his head and if looks could kill, that little girl would have been a goner! It was his sweet little M that the girl was referring to and nobody messes with his little baby girl!!! But he didn’t do anything although he did say: It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, huh? Instead, he just looked at the teacher (who also heard and was in shock) and asked her to do something with that girl.
So my kid’s eccentric. Sometimes, when she comes downstairs her clothing choices would just shock me but she loved every bit of how she looked and that I’m cool with. She’s confident about her decisions and I’m proud of her for that (of course if she wants to wear a bikini to school I’d have a say in it but so far she’s modest… just colorful). Plus, despite her colorfulness (she reminds me of Punky Brewster) she’s not at all ugly. Nothing she wore has ever made her face look anything but beautiful. What makes her more special is that she’s also beautiful on the inside. She thinks everybody’s beautiful and she treats everybody equally.
Hopefully school will be a positive and safe place for her to learn. I hope things will get better (being slapped last week was shocking too) and if not, we’re glad that we’ll be moving soon and hope that the next school (hopefully with nuns in them!) will be better.
There’s Something About Dawn
Posted on | August 18, 2009 | 15 Comments
That made my kid, Miss M, want to go home with her. I mean I guess if I were a kid who loves to stamp I’d want to go home with Dawn too so that I could play in her studio {::SMILES}.
Today the girls and I went to Kansas City to do some errands and have lunch with Dawn McVey (if you’ve been living under a rock she design for Papertrey Ink). A little while back we got to emailing each other because we found that we’re both foodies and we have a thing for Europe or traveling in Europe. I’m glad we decided to meet up. It was fun! Dawn’s super sweet and thoughtful and M thought she’s prettier in person than in pictures (she said this in the car). Thanks Dawn for everything!
Here’s another page that I did:
Another simple page with Scarlet Lime’s August kit. More pretty papers!!! I love M’s picture too. She’s so funny how she’d dress up for whatever occasion. I made us some tea and to drink it she had to put her bathing suit and lei on.
Hope you all will have a great one. It’s M’s first day of school Tuesday and we’re all excited!! Oh, here’s my favorite photo of M with Dawn:
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