emzio's birthday cake craziness

It was my best mate Emmas birthday last week and as I was on nights I decided to cook tea when her, Sarah and I were all free. We had meatballs and pasta for tea and I made her some special cupcakes. Surprise surprise I found this on pinterest. Basically put your batter in the cases as normal then just stick an ice cream cone on top then bake until cooked. I topped mine with fudge and sugar sparkles in oir favourite colour green! Plus a candle which until she blew it out I had forgotten I had bought re-lighting candles for Stevens older brothers cake earlier in the year.

gig gig gig

Well! I'm particularly stoked for the coming week. I've been waiting to see Bowling For Soup for like ever and next friday I get to go see them with three of my best friends! Its going to be amazing! And to make it even better The Dollyrots who I also adore are supporting! I didnt even think they were still touring! When I heard that they were supporting I screamed a little! Well as I said in an earlier post things had to start looking up and they are!

I was worried with moving back to my old job we were going to struggle with money for a month, but I recieved in the poat yesterday a tax rebate for a grand! So Steven can get his money for the bills and I can finally buy some new clothes and put some of it aside for when we go to Edinburgh. This means we can actually not worry about spending money as I get another payday before we go too.

Happy realisation of the day, postive thinking/attitude may have some credibility after all :)

my vegetables

My bean and tomato plants died :( I was devastated I think I over watered them. I never professed to be a good gardener this was my first proper attempt. Next year I will implement a schedule and tick sheet with when I have watered them and how much. Then I should have a better chance of them growing and producing an edible crop. I feel bad though because the tomato plant was given to me by my friend.

A few punk rock housewife failings

Well I have been putting up things that have worked well and I'm proud of but you have got to make mistakes somewhere right? Well, I have certainly learnt where I went wrong for when I try them next time.

Washing curtains... good god how women used wash and iron them regularly I don't have a clue. Its hard, like as they are so big you have to flip them over a few times to get the main creases out. Mine are still creased a wee bit but I have given up haha never again will I do my on curtains!.

Cheese making, now everything was going well until the final stages of stretching and heating but I soon realised when it says use 8 pints of milk use 8 pints of milk! It wont work properly!

The gingerbread mixture for my houses needs to be followed exactly, also reading the instructions for the rest would help. I was getting muddled up in my head. Next time I would portion out the dough into 4 to get an even thickness and not try to over use the small space in my kitchen.

bambino

Well I thought I would share my basic but I think cute baby booties and bibs. They dont take long to make up. They are for my pretty much sister Shelly's little baby girl Jasmine and my close friend Maddys little boy Lennie. I decided to make tiny pom poms for the booties and cute little star buttons on the bibs.

the finished product

So remember the half stocking? Well its done I finished it yesterday complete with an i cord loop. Im dead impressed with how it looks, Steven told me he was so proud of me as he thinks it looks awesome. 

So one down 16 to go! 

christmas countdown!!!

So I have started my christmas stockings. Im knitting one for everyone in my family including Steven and I. Thats what erm like 17 so I have to get cracking. they are all going to be different too. Im making my own designs within a premade pattern. Here is the first half of one.

As it is made to be sewn together it does look mishapen but it will look better once finished.

Do you have any plans for christmas? Are you going homemade too?