FRIDAY!! I made you a cartoon.

Happy Friday! Hope 5:00 comes fast.

blondies

Blondies > Brownies



and boys love the batter:



We used some basic blondie recipe, like this one.

fresh squeezed orange juice mimosas

This weekend has been good. Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the very first Whole Foods store in the U.S...and the location is right down the street from me! They had a big tent set up with lots of free samples of coconut milk ice cream, coffee, wines, beer, salsas, and small foods. Inside the store they had several more set up of wine samples and few more food samples. They also had a stage set up where the music/stage was completely powered by solar power.

I also got to make and eat brunch with Meg and Sean at their cute place. Veggie biscuits and gravy, cheesy eggs, fruit, pumpkin muffins, coffee, and mimosas. I brought over several oranges and Meg helped me put them through her fancy juicer. We made mimosas with the orange juice and they were delicious. The juice got really foamy when we poured the champagne in.

I highly recommend a mimosa with the fresh juice..and also highly recommend Sean's veggie sausage gravy. But I couldn't tell you his recipe. I'll ask Meg and maybe that will be another post sometime.





Willy was cute waiting for us to come outside:

homemade calendars

I love making my own calendars.





I'm also in love with little letter stamps. I have the large stamp that you put them into to stamp a whole sentence/phrase at once, but it's such a pain that I just individually stamp each letter instead.

curtains

Curtains are expensive, so I usually make my own. I actually posted this last weekend and took it down because I didn't quite finish the post (I had some tips for making curtains), but I ditched the tips and am just posting pictures for now.

I made these for the bedroom: (fabric purchased from Ikea)





Look how much fabric it takes just to make some little curtains:

happy friday!

I need to update! I will this weekend. But in the mean time..

Happy Weekend!!

I almost missed Happy Friday! Let me wish you a Happy Weekend! instead. You can wake up and maybe see this on Saturday or Sunday morning.

Speaking of mornings, I've come to finally love eggs. Yep. I'm a very unpicky eater- there isn't a vegetable, fruit, grain, etc. that I would ever turn down, but for some reason ever since I was little I never cared much for eggs. My mom used to make egg salad and I would be mad all day with that smell. In college, I tried to start eating them in hopes that I might learn to like them. I got to the point where I was indifferent about them, but they still didn't do much for me.

FINALLY I think I love them! My boyfriend makes them great and fluffy and I like them even with not much added. And of course I love breakfast tacos, but that's cheating since there are usually veggies and cheese living inside the tortilla too.

So Happy Weekend! Have some eggs.

pixel cookies!

One of my best friends, Ashley, showed me a neat idea of making pixie cookies using a play doh extruder. I loved the idea and so for my birthday she bought me my own play doh extruder :).

I wanted to attempt something fairly easy for my first time, so I chose to try and make the ghost from pac-man.



The idea is that you extrude strips and stack them. When your stack is complete, you slice your cookies. I didn't do a very neat job and ran into a slew of issues of my white dough falling apart every inch or so coming out of the extruder.

Beginning of the stack:



Continuing the stack:





The growing slanted stack:





The final straightened and trimmed stack:



Slices:



After baking:



Boyfriend about to eat one:



I didn't plan how I wanted the mouth area of the ghost to be. I was so frustrated with how things were going that I didn't care. Next time I'll make sure my dough isn't as dry and hopefully I won't have the breakage problem.

I used a sugar cookie recipe that Amy likes to use. You can find it here.

If you try to do something like this, you need your dough to be chilled. It shouldn't be too cold either though because the extruder is very difficult to use with very cold dough. I put my dough in the fridge overnight and was too hard and cold to use right away.


*The idea to make a pixel cookie using a play doh machine is not my original idea. I don't know whose idea it was originally, but here's my credit to that guy.

happy friday!!

SOooooo looking forward to this long weekend!