Cooking and Crafting, Crafting and Cooking

The crossbody bag I gave to Emily was no longer working for her, so I had my mom pull one that I'd purchased for later from Sarah's basement.  Once Grace saw it, she wanted one too.  So, when I found one in the clearance room of one of my favorite thrift stores, it was an easy dollar to spend.  

However, when I got home, I saw why it was in the clearance area, as it was fraying along the connection between the strap and purse.  With my sewing machine, it took me less than a minute to reinforce, and she didn't even notice until I pointed it out to her!

I broke out my vinyl cutter to add a personalized decal to my mom's free find for my cousin Acea.

I had to repair another rip on my favorite jeans.  And sadly, it's currently back in my repair pile, but I'm going to need a large donation piece from some ripped jeans to repair along the side that my purse rubs up against, as there are many small holes as well as thin spots.  Luckily, rummage sales are starting to surface!

This year, so far, the rule has been, that if you have a snow day, you get to plan a meal to cook!  Emily chose a thai dish to make, and it was liked enough by everyone that I made it again a few weeks later!

But, we don't eat fancy every night, lest you be deceived, spaghettio night gets 'dressed up' with a basil leaf, but they are still spaghettios.

Alice and Emily's eye appointment was pushed back from December, thanks to our changing insurance, to January.  While we were there, I was telling them about an impactful meme that I'd seen.  Pretty much that the internet was a 'place' we would go, while on a pc or laptop, but then we would turn it off and go do something else.  It wasn't always avialable in our hands.  

Anyhow, the same article mentioned the quizzes we'd take then, and so I was telling them about how we would take and make all sorts of dumb quizzes.  The example I gave was "what kind of toast are you?"  So, we spent the rest of our visit taking quizzes for each other to figure out what type of toast we are.  Turns out I'm condensed milk toast.  

Well, I'd never heard of such a thing, so at home, I looked up a recipe for said toast, and made some.  I can now say that it's not bad.  It's not my new favorite, and I'd rather just eat the straight milk, but not inedible.

A second repair on William's pants.  Sadly, this embroidery floss was cut into tiny strips, big enough for only a single stitch per needle threading, so it was slow going!  But, I've started bringing my mending to my weekly mom's meetings, and so it's really pleasant to chat and repair simultaneously!  = )

Grace checked out a cookbook, and really, desperately wanted to make the cupcake recipe.  I was in and out of the kitchen, but she did it almost entirely by herself!

Her biggest issue was that she didn't know that there was a difference between sugar and powdered sugar, so her icing was kind of crunchy.  Aside from that, they came out really tasty. = )

William's snow day recipe called for a rotisserie chicken.  Sadly, my Kroger delivery did not contain said chicken, so I ran by Carl's on my way to collect the twins after school, and they had one single one left!!!

So, William was able to make the pizza for dinner afterall!

I still have two, very productive, Basil plants producing copious amounts of basil on my counter, so I've been drying it and bottling it up.  Well, we didn't use much of the fresh cilantro that we bought for last week's snow day meal, so I looked up to see if I could dry it in the microwave, the same way as the basil, and I can!!!

I didn't get through it all, because cilantro leaves are much smaller than Basil, so it's far more tedious, but I'll try to dry a few platefuls a day, so as not to waste it!

If luck holds, we'll have another snow day Thursday, with a new child made meal! ; )

later days