Card Day!!!!

For this weeks card the requirements where:
Use ribbon and green, and make it a friend card........

Tuesday Treats

For my first addition of Tuesday Treats I have added some pictures of the pizzas that my boyfriend and I made from scratch the other night, and by boyfriend and I, I really mean he did all the work, and I just decorated mine! The fat pizza with a slice cut out was my three cheese, jalapeno, white, and green onion pizza. The flatter one is his which is basically the same plus tomatoes. They were delicious and will be made again!!

Thank you Cardalicious blog

My mom and I have started to semi-join the cardalicious blog fan club. I'm not too great with computers so instead of uploading to their web site, we have used their creative weekly card ideas and I have posted the ones I have done so far. 

This card was to use something green and orange, as well as use a card tag. I think when I find the right thing I will add some sort of pop-out flower or something like that for depth.

For this one we were to use three types of patterned paper and orange letters.

This is my favorite so far. The things to use were pink coloring, stitches which I just used fabric, felt, which I had none of, and make it a thank you card.

This one was my first one, and it called for flowers, sparkles, and circles.

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.