Happy Thanksgiving!

Was YOUR centerpiece as cool as ours?















We hope your Thanksgiving was as wonderful as ours.... even if you didn't have a cool stuffed chicken on the table.
And to show you just how much I love all of my fans and how much fun I want you to have a super good time this weekend, I'm going to offer 20% off of everything in stock in my store ALL WEEKEND. Just use the coupon code BFCM2011 at checkout! Starting.... NOW. I will close the coupon on Tuesday, November 29... If you've had your eye on something, you'd better head over there now. :) and....
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

call me crazy...

but i just can't resist bright colors.

so, what did i do today? i colored some rice. super easy. the littles helped me. we put one cup of rice in a ziploc bag, dumped about one tablespoon of rubbing alcohol in and about a tablespoon of food coloring. zipped them up, and squished them around. then poured brilliant colored rice into a pan to dry.

then comes the crazy part...



















i gave it to the kids. with glue.



















see! 'mommy gave me my own bottle of glue!' i'm almost afraid of what's going to happen at this point. this could be a disaster. #whatwasithinking???




















but, we're crafty people. we can't let a two year old with a glue bottle and thousands of little colored specks scare us away... no! we need to create!




















and THIS is the reason we let them have glue when they're two!

custom orders

see! i'm not slacking! just a few customs that are ready to be sent out! :)

you're right - i DO need to blog more...

it snowed a few inches last night. not a whole bunch, but enough to make the roads slick enough to worry about whether or not hubby made it to work. he didn't call, of course. as i suspected, it was only because he made it just in time to clock in... i wasn't super worried. really. there's also enough snow out there for the kids to just go bananas... an early morning sledding run was definitely in order. and, last but not least, enough snow for me to get the urge to make some sort of comfort food other than hot cocoa... we did that the other day. so, here you have it. brownies. brownies with cream cheese. brownies with cream cheese and chocolate chips. brownies with cream cheese, chocolate chips, and walnuts to satisfy the nuts in this house (i'm not one of them, but i'll tolerate them).
terry said, prove it. prove that you made brownies.... so here it is.... PROOF. (i hope they make her hungry enough to travel the 3000 miles across the country and share one with me).















eggs...















beaten...














with plenty of sugar...














add cocoa and melted butter...















cream cheese...














and sugar and an egg and chocolate chips...














layered...














topped with walnuts!














while they're baking, contemplate this. my grandparents :)

wordless wednesday

or 'why i wait until the kids are in bed to do my sewing'....