Thanksgiving flee market

Although Thanksgiving was a bit of a bust, the weekend made up for it.

After a more then delicious lunch at the Moot House with most of my family, we took a trip to the Loveland flee markets. Here are my finds:

A beautiful bright green vase that would be perfect for some freshly picked wildflowers!

To bad there's an inch of snow on the ground.

A regular photo frame for half sized pictures. After consulting my little sister, I finally found the right four pictures to put in it. One from the top of a hill a Red Feathers, my favorite flower, a view from a little deli on my last day in Mexico, and of course some good ol' rocky mountain sheep!
My next find was this brass elephant taking a bath. Everyone tried to talk me out of it, but I knew exactly where it would go....
Its hard to tell in the photo, but the carving of the wood plank that held the elephant is identical to a plank that my great-grama used to do a mod podge many years ago. My last find of the day was this solid metal recipe holder. It is comprised of two metal plates bound together with some leather. On the inside of each plate are conversions including how you convert 4 pecks to 1 bushel. I have tried looking up this item, but I can't find anything on it.

The outside is carved amazingly too!!

And that sums up my Thanksgiving!

What is Halloween Without Pumpkins?!

This year we decided to have a pumpkin carve off! 

The winner gets dinner! Currently no winner has been decided:(

So who should win?

Angel or Monster?

After watching the talented carvers on Food Network Pumpkin Carving Challenge,

I think its a draw.

Baking is Deadly!

We were simply trying to make some acorn squash. 

After baking it for an hour, the pan was taken out, and hot water placed in the pan to keep the caramelized sugar from sticking to badly to the pan.

When all of a sudden.....

The pan shattered into, literally, a million pieces! 

Apparently this happens fairly frequently, but most of the time it explodes in the oven, not in peoples faces, as it did with us. This picture only shows a third of the broken glass.

So the next time you are cooking with glass...

WATCH OUT!

Little Green Hitchhiker

A few weeks ago I drove my little sister up for her second year of college. In order to do that my dad drove an hour to pick me up, then an hour back to get my sister. The next day we drove 3 hours to drop off my sister, then 3 hours back. At some point in those 8+ hours of driving, we picked up a hitchhiker. He became so attached to us that he did not want to leave, and the bees that normally reside in our oriental cherry tree, tried their best at getting the green hitchhiker to leave. I am not sure how long it took, but the next time I looked the hitchhiker was gone, and bees had gone back to their cherries, satisfied that they were able to remove the hitchhiker.

Daily Calendar

It was my boyfriends birthday the other day, and since I have no money, I made him a daily calendar. Although it took a long time, and June and August still are not done, I think it turned out pretty good. It is able to stand up on simply the pages, and is held together by two 2 1/2 inch rings. Most days have a quote, picture, drawing, painting or daily holiday.

This is a view of all the pages. On the other side are tags that stick out a little and mark the beginning of each month, as well as contain "mini presents", such as a coupon to get out of cooking for a weekend.  
Here is the fist day of the calendar. It includes a picture of my boyfriend, a quote by William Blake, and the first of the "mini presents".
This is another day with a quote, and some artsy paper. And no, that is not my finger in the lens, it just shows up on some pictures.

BUBBA THE BAT!!!

About 10 years ago we had a bat live on our front porch. One night he flew around our heads when we were sitting outside, and he was never to be seen again. Then just the other night his great^3 grandchild came back to our front porch. But he only stayed for one night. I assume it was his great^3 grandchild because bats will start having children at age two.

I did it!

Welp, I just wanted to search for coconut deserts, but I ended up making a blog!