Spiral Cut Hotdogs
Tonight I made spiral cut hotdogs – they were great – I thought they tasted much better than non-spiraled dogs.
On the grill (initially I started half with skewers and half without to see which worked better, but they ended up cooking better without so I pulled the skewers out of all of them):
Hotdogs on the plate after grilling:
Ready to eat!
Sketching Felt-board Story Ideas
I’m sketching ideas for the felt story board for the kids – these pictures are for ‘Stone Soup’.
Sweet Tooth
I was going to make blackberry jam tonight with the rest of the berries we picked but it turned out they didn’t survive until today in the fridge. So the backup plan is: Banana Split!
Blackberry Lemon Pound Cake
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 ¼ cup (2 ½ sticks) unsalted butter
5 large eggs
2 cups plus 8 Tbs all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
3 cups blackberries
Time to Overhaul the Bedrooms (Again)
My mother-in-law left recently, which means we had a guest room just sitting empty. We debated moving our son back into his own room, but decided for now to keep the kids together in one room and turn the other room into a playroom. Here’s what the room looked like this morning:
After a few hours of work moving furniture around and sorting toys, the room now looks like this:
Since I was able to move some things out of the kids room, I was able to reorganize their room as well (there are no before pictures but imagine complete chaos):
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| these are simple and cheap magazine holders from Ikea that I’ve used to organize the kids’ activity/coloring books, magazines and drawing pads. Those things used to be stacked up on shelves in a cupboard and they were rarely used because they were too hard for the kids to look through. |
Felt-Board for Storytelling
We have a big trip coming up in about 6 weeks and it involves a loooong plane ride, so I’m starting to think about how to entertain the little munchkins while we’re airborne. One thought was to make a small feltboard that I can use to tell a few stories with, and that the kids can play with independently. We have a feltboard version of the Hungry Caterpillar, but the board is huge so I wanted to come up with something smaller and more carry-on friendly. I will still be able to use the felt pieces from the Eric Carle story, but with my own backdrop.
I already had a piece of white felt that measures about 8″ x 11″ so I decided to use that and just paint it with a landscape that could be used for several different stories. I painted on the felt with watercolor paint – its still wet now but I hope that when it dries the felt will still have the ‘sticky’ quality that will allow the felt story pieces to stick to it. I figured that acrylic paint would create a slick layer on top of the felt that would hinder the sticking.
I’ve got a few ideas for felt-board stories – I’m really excited to start working on ‘Stone Soup’ – but does anyone out there have any suggestions for me?
Running Low on Creativity Today
This is the extent of my creativity for today – having a glass of wine with my honey in the bar. Does it count that we made the bar (albeit years ago)?
New Bedroom Curtains
I’ve finally gotten around to a window treatment for the bedroom. I got a steal of a deal on these curtain panels from Ikea, but still need to hem them.
Leftover Pork Sandwich
After the epic day and epic post yesterday, today all I have for y’all is a sandwich made with some of the leftover pork shoulder, french bread, and the salsa criolla (red onion relish) I forgot to take out of the fridge to serve yesterday.
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