Hot. Not. Loobylu. Need I say more?
This week, I'm starting with the NOTS.
Not. Any Computer in Our House. Or, for that matter, any electrical appliance, like say my car. My refrigerator. Half the lightbulbs.
Lordy, it's been a week of technology-related woes, and I still feel a bit shaky. I know I was complaining about this last week, but things just kept getting worse every time I turned around, and of course my husband was out of town for much of the week, leaving me, the person who still struggles even just to turn on the TV (which is really not my fault, since we seem to have like a thousand remotes and way too many buttons and I never have the right ones), to be the family Geek Squad. Mostly that means we were computer-light (hence the week of no posts - but I have lots of stuff half written I'll try to post in catch-up fashion). And the car wouldn't go, so I was stuck at home. And the refrigerator was WAY too cold, freezing all the veggies and making the butter extra-rock hard. Maybe even diamond-hard. And I don't know what the heck was going on with the light bulbs, but they were burning out left and right and I still haven't caught up replacing them.
Making Little Dresses for Little Piggies.
This little dress was way too small. This little dress was way too big. And this little dress was really too big too, but I fudged and made it kind of fit because I couldn't bear to try again.
Not getting the recipe for this St. Nicholas Day treat up until today. Two days after St. Nicholas Day.
These are actually buckeyes, which aren't officially a St. Nick treat, but they are very similar to a traditional St. Nick candy I found online. More importantly, they are super easy, no cook, use only ingredients I already have in the house, and contain chocolate.
Here's what you do: Combine 3/4 cup of peanut butter, 2 T honey, 1/4 cup crushed graham crackers O
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By: Carol Baicker-McKee,
on 12/2/2009
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I'm joining in again with what's hot and what ain't at Loobylu (and you should definitely head over there to wish her a happy 10th blogging birthday at a minimum), but I'm starting to squeak in just under the deadline every week - but it's one of the "nots" fault. At least it's not yet midnight on Wednesday (here in Pittsburgh anyway), so here's my list:HOT
A Template for the Scandinavian Heart Tutorial Which I posted, um, last December here. Well, now that I've remembered again how to turn jpegs into pdf files and post them so you can actually get them (I think Blogger still doesn't allow them - somebody please correct me if I'm wrong), I decided to make a new printable (can't find the old one anymore) and quick get it up. You can get it here. It's not exactly pro-quality or anything, but it does get the job done - as shown in the examples above.
This (above, not the chili below) is what the finished templates should look like when you make them out of your cereal box.
Turkey Chili - and Using Up the Last of the Thanksgiving Turkey
This (above, not the chili below) is what the finished templates should look like when you make them out of your cereal box.
Turkey Chili - and Using Up the Last of the Thanksgiving TurkeyThis is such an easy meal and satisfying on a cold night (and again for lunch the next day) and it makes a nice change from yet another turkey sandwich. I make my chili dinners a little differently each time (my usu
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Your little piggies are really great, lovely that you have an option appropriate for babies and toddlers. Good on you making a tute!
Don't fret time wise though - its a demanding time of the year Carol!
Chele x
Oooh your softies look absolutely adorable! And finally someone after my own heart on the snow and all the quiet calm it tends to bring me!
love the mimis. very adorable! especially the little slippers
I am in love with the little piglets, they are so cute! That book must start selling like hotcakes. I love the ears on Mimi1, and she's got such a cheeky, adorable face to go with them.
I can't wait for a bit of snow in my neck of the woods!