Birthday Boy

Wow, time flies.  Buddy is now eleven....it seems like just yesterday he was crawling down the hallway crying because he wanted to go to bed...here's his birthday cake.  I even took my hair out of the ponytail it was in for the picture...he is adamantly opposed to my hair being up.  Seriously,  he goes around pulling out the ponytail holder/clip.  The woman he marries will have a nice budget for clothes and hair. Fortunately, my husband isn't vary partiular.  The boy was most excited because I allowed him to help decorate the cake.  We only had about 25 minutes, so I was thrilled with how it turned out...I even used store bought icing with all those extra chemicals...shame on me.  Here's the inspiration:   how-to-make-a-pirate-ship-cake

Meatless Monday

To stretch our grocery budget and add variety to the diet we've gone back to meatless Mondays.  Dinner was a big hit yesterday:  fried green tomatoes, cheese grits, and a combination of these two recipes Hungry Mama zucchini pancakes / all recipes zucchini pancakes.  We might eat this frequently while I have tomatoes and zucchini from the garden.

Getting back on track

A while back I started reading an ebook 31 Days to Clean.  I even started doing some of the challenges...and then life as I knew it was interrupted.  It's interesting how that seems to happen to me regularly... so I'm trying to get back on track and grow in maintaining our home so that it is a peaceful place for us to work and play.  Here's my mission statement:

Sewing Camp - Totebags

I loved seeing the creativity and personality of the girls show with their fabric selections.  Simplicity totebag

Sewing Camp - Pillow

Here are the directions: 9Patch 

Sewing Camp - Pillowcases

I'm teaching a sewing camp at our church this week and the teens are doing a great job.  Here's their first project using these directions:  Quilts of Valor Pillowcase

First Fruits

We have ripe tomatoes!!