Sewing Chick

The Fault in Our Stars

2012-01-11T16:55:00.001-06:00

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sometime last year I preordered this book for my husband, probably the biggest 30something grown man fan of John Green EVER. Seriously, if they made a John Green sheet and comforter set, it would be on our bed. It arrived yesterday, and like the good wife that I am, I waited for him to arrive home and open it to see what color sharpie John Green had signed his book. (It was red, btw.) Anyway, after watching my husband read it for 2 1/2 hours nonstop last night, I promptly stole it off his nightstand around 1 am, and I finished it just a mere few moments ago.

I have to say of all the John Green books, this one is my favorite. I think it is that even though they were two cancer-filled teenagers, their relationship reminded me of our courtship, which began over an email conversation in regards to having a relationship with "more light than heat." I found out later that was my sweet husband's hidden attempt at "testing" my intelligence.

Anyway, enough about me, let's talk about the book. I had listened before to my husband's vlogbrother videos when John had read from the book, so I knew the premise. I was worried it would be a rather painful story since you figured someone was eventually going to die. However, it wasn't like that. I loved the love story. It brings back those memories of first falling for the love of your life. It was a fun and funny, and the plot twists were unexpected.

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Just a little FYI

2012-01-07T01:04:00.001-06:00

After learning about GoDaddy's views on SOPA and their CEO kills elephants in his spare time, my website is moving. It is where all the tutorials are housed you can access. So, in few days they may become inaccessible for couple days while the DNS servers are moving.

Now that I'm an official college graduate, I have started working on crafty things again. Hopefully, I can get my act together and post some see and shows very soon.

Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup

2011-12-29T02:59:00.001-06:00

Like I said in yesterday's post, this is a compilation of a few recipes. This amount feeds my family of 5 plus leftovers for hubby to take to work a couple days. I'll post the long way and the changes for the quick and dirty way.

Long Way
2 chicken breasts
1 small onion
5-6 potatoes - cubed
2 cups of carrots - sliced
2 cups of chicken broth/stock
1 tbs minced garlic
1 tsp garlic salt
1 cup of milk mixed with 1tbs of flour
8 oz cream cheese
1 pkg of Reamed frozen egg noodles
Salt and pepper to taste

Boil chicken breasts in just enough water to cover them until thoroughly cooked. Turn heat down to medium and pull out chicken to cool. Add veggies, garlic, salt, pepper, chicken stock and some water (I usually add about 2 cups). Cook until veggies tender. While waiting, cool and shred chicken. When veggies are ready add chicken back to pot. Add noodles. Wait until its boiling again and then add the flour + milk mixture. Watch the pot and stir or it will boil over. Lastly add the cream cheese in large dollops and allow to melt. Don't try to stir it in or it will separate and look nasty. Once it's all melted, stir, add water if necessary and let it simmer for 10-15 minutes before serving.

The quick and dirty method speeds up the time because there is no waiting to cook the veggies. You just add a can of diced potatoes and a can of sliced carrots. Then, you can quickly add everything else and serve.

Easiest Homemade Bread Ever!

2011-12-28T01:31:00.001-06:00

I discovered peasant bread. Whip this up with homemade garlic butter and…oh my goodness is it yummilicious!!

Our Christmas Eve dinner was homemade creamy chicken noodle soup, this bread, and homemade peach pie. So good!! I'll post my creamy chicken noodle soup recipe tomorrow. It's a hybrid of various chicken soup recipes I've found. I served my mother in law on Christmas day the leftovers and she loved it too!

Peasant Bread
What's good about this is it takes about 1 hr from mixing to baking. And there's no kneading.

1 pkg of yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups of hot water
4-5 cups of flour
Melted butter
Cornmeal

Mix yeast, water, salt, and sugar until thoroughly mixed. Add flour a couple cups at a time. Cover with towel for 20-30 minutes (or longer if you have time). Then dust your hands with flour and throw a little on the bread and cut it into two round loaves. Dip bottoms of loaves in cornmeal (or flour if you're out of cornmeal). Then place on cookie sheet and brush with butter. Bake for 10 minutes at 425. Then turn oven to 375 and bake for 15-20 more minutes. Let it cool just a bit before cutting. Yum!!

As for the homemade garlic butter, I just throw ingredients together. I soften a stick if butter then add a spoonful of minced garlic, a smaller spoonful of parmesan cheese, a few shakes Italian seasoning, about 1/2 tsp of garlic salt and mix well. Then I use my Pampered Chef cookie dough/ ice cream scooper and make little balls of garlic butter and chill them in the fridge for a bit before dinner.

I'm graduating on Friday!!

2011-12-11T19:46:00.001-06:00

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. There's probably 1.5 people still reading by now.

I've been finishing up my school work and assisting my husband in his school assignments for the last month or so. And I've started a little resale biz on eBay with my love of thrift stores.

And!! My mom has a friend on a quilt guild who is opening an upscale crafty place and my mom and I are going to share a spot. I can't wait!!

As for the title of my post…I'm walking the stage for my bachelor's degree on Friday morning. I'm getting nervous. I'm one of those people who are prone to falling on their face in public, especially while wearing heels. Wish me luck!!

I finally found this song!

2011-10-15T14:44:00.000-05:00

This is an odd story...okay well not really, but whatever I'm telling it anyway. As the few people who read this have probably realized throughout this blog, my husband is a HUGE Harry Potter freak. Before baby #3, we were able to go to a lot more Harry Potter stuff. Back when Half Blood Prince came out in the theaters, there were tons of parties and gatherings, blah, blah, blah. We are some of the crazy people that dress up. We usually go as Tonks and Lupin. Anyway, so as other HP people know, there are wizard rock shows. We went to a few of them, and at two of them was this band, The MudBloods, who consisted of one guy, Adam Dubberly. We picked up his unmarked albums at one of this shows, and it wasn't wrock music, it was something else. Hubby and I loved it. I think at the last show we saw I was throwing out requests for these songs and asking him the names of the songs. I just found him online again with a new band called Harvey Dowd, but I'm not sure if it's still in existence. I think he's a great lyricist. If you like their music, you can go to their site, Harvey Dowd, and download the entire album for free. I love all the songs on the album. We have a few more songs on that mystery album we bought that are just wonderful too.

Here is one of my favorites in an acoustic version:
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Here is Hubby's favorite. It even made him go read The Great Gatsby: Books Say and I Say by Harvey Dowd

Look at these MUMMY jars!

2011-10-04T00:04:00.002-05:00

Check out this tutorial for mummified glass jar candles from Crafting a Green World.

I'm totally doing this to our walkway. It's perfect as it kills 2 birds with one stone...clean out the fridge and add to my super cool Halloween decorations outside. Aren't they adorable? And I have all the supplies in my house...when does that ever happen?

I need to take pictures of our Halloween house and post here. It's like Glitter Halloween meets a little bit of scary.

We have realistic skeletons crawling up the bricks, and a giant glitter spider web complete with blue fuzzy spider killing a Barbie doll (well...technically it's a Scary Spice doll from the thrift store), and another partially webbed doll (Ginger Spice, also of the thrift store) -- all of which is outlined in my front windows decked in orange lights. We have ghosts in a circle holding hands around the big tree - made by me from thrift store white sheets, paper bags and polyfil and dowel rods. Those were in a magazine for Halloween this year, one of those crafty ones. Oh looky! I found a tutorial for them online.

We have glowing eyes in the side windows (we're a corner lot), and I will soon be adding orange lights around them and another spider web. Hmm...what else? Oh! Yes, we have spider webs with giant purple glittery spiders on either side of our garage and each of those light fixtures has a red light. Our porch light is now a black light and we have a ripped up black fabric curtain at the entrance with spider webs here and there and glitter bats hanging down. And when I can get the darn outdoor extension surge protector thingy from the Xmas decorations, I'll be adding some purply lighted bats to the bushes. And my husband's piece de resistance is the scary glowing eyes lurking in the bush at the front door that shakes the entire bush when it senses movement.

I'm working on the new tutorial I was supposed to have a couple weeks ago. I got bogged down with midterms for me and six-week tests and projects for the kids. Seriously, do these people have kids? Is this some kind of torture for parents? I just had to sew some "ear-o-matics" for an invention project. They keep long-eared dogs ears clean when eating. I should totally do a tutorial for those things. They are so easy to make, and I swear I've seen something like them in stores for outrageous prices.

Anyway, I'm back on easy street with my school work, so I should have the tut up by the end of the week. And, I've been diligently staying up at night working on stuff for an etsy store. My goal is to have it ready by November 1st. I have quite a few things, but I want a good stocking before I officially open.

Thrift Store Score!

2011-10-01T21:40:00.001-05:00

My mom found a new thrift store earlier this week and I HAD to go check it out, so hubby and I went tonight. It's definitely a new fave. I got a $100 diaper bag for $4 and a practically brand new LL Bean coat for the winter for my toddler for $2. Woohoo!!

It was my birthday yesterday!

2011-09-26T08:21:00.003-05:00

Woohoo! Grandma babysat while my sweet, darling husband and I went to the casino across the state border. If you sign up for their player's club, they give you $25 after you earn 5 points on it, which takes you less than hour to do, so we got an extra $50 total from that.

My husband is so funny. He is never really thrilled whenever I talk him into going to the casino. He thinks its stupid to pour money down a hole, I suppose. I tell him it's like going to Chuck E. Cheese for grownups. We live like 35-40 minutes away, and we probably go maybe 2-3 times a year. However...when we do go, he's like a kid in a candy store and will not leave. He keeps finding more games to play. I have to drag him out of there.

He also gave me presents on Saturday night. First was that sweet wonderful card I mentioned earlier. Plus, he gave me a gift certificate for a pedicure (I can't wait!), an awesome new flour sifter (for cakes!), and a bottle of Olive Garden salad dressing (I swear I could drink that stuff :D).

And that wonderful grandma gave us $40 to blow at the casino! We broke even and came home with $40, even though I was up like $100 at one point, I somehow decided to blow it all. I blame the Yahtzee progressive slot machine. Oh and we ate at Toby Keith's I Love this Bar and Grill. The chicken fried steak is ginormous and comes with two sides, so we split one and each got a side. It was yummy!

The only disappointing thing was that a manager came over to talk to us and gave us free tickets to a show they were having, but it wasn't until 8 pm that night, so we couldn't go. We had to get back to the kidlets close to 6. Oh well...

It was a wonderful birthday! One of the best I've ever had!

Mustache Paper!

2011-09-24T00:56:00.001-05:00

We were at Michael's today getting feathers for Miss Em's art class, and we walked by the scrapbook paper and. Found this little gem, Mustache paper. Isn't it the cutest? She had to have it to decorate one of her notebooks for school with…mustaches. I can't wait to see what she does with it, lol!

I love this

2011-09-23T01:45:00.000-05:00

My husband, Nathan, drew this adorable self portrait on the envelope to my birthday card. (I can't remember if I've ever said his name here or just called him "hubby.") I just love it! I'm not allowed to open it until my birthday on Sunday. It's driving me crazy!

I love the way he makes me things. I have flowers made from napkins and clay and all sorts of origami from when we were first dating.

Thrift Store Art

2011-09-18T21:14:00.000-05:00

So I found this artwork this weekend for about 75 cents at the thrift store. I love it! It's going up in the baby's room.

A little something I never posted

2011-09-12T14:24:00.000-05:00

I always meant to post pictures of our wedding favors, but I think that a pregnancy and then an adorable baby got in my way. Well I found some of the leftovers while I was getting our wedding things for a shadow box I'm making for our wedding day and thought I'd share.

I decided on Hershey chocolate bars because you can buy them super cheap in bulk at Costco. And I could make these for next to nothing, which is about what we could afford. I planned a mixed media art design with vintage pictures and ephemera. I think the most expensive part was the flower stickers. I got the black pouches from Foilman.

Our wedding had a red/black theme. So I watched for scrapbook paper sales at Michael's and Hobby Lobby to get the paper and cardstock super cheap.. Then I spent a few late nights cutting everything to size and gluing it all together.

The back I created after looking at a few online. I printed it on white address labels.

My favorite is this last one because the vintage couple looks like us. It's the one I'm putting it in the shadow box with our invitation and hubby's boutonniere. I'll post later this week after I've finished it up. I need some black linen like cardstock first.

Look for my newest tutorial up later this week I have to read a couple of chapters and take a couple quizzes before I can get back to sewing this week.

The Toddler Sweater Coat Part 2

2011-09-11T19:16:00.000-05:00

We're doing something weird with dinner. We defrosted some pork chops and hubby is soaking them for 2 hours in a brine to make them more tender and yummy. Because of that, I had some time to finish up the sweater coat sew and show.

Here is a close up of the sleeve. I love the thumb holes. Molly put her thumbs through them and immediately started sucking her thumb, which is odd because she is not a thumb sucker at all. They were very easy to make, you just pull one of the pieces out of the serger's way to make a hole. Funny, since every once in awhile, how many of us do that inadvertently when serging?

Now here is a close up of the button placket. I admit I was in LOVE with this turquoise sweater. It was 100% cashmere and heavenly. I tried to use it as much as possible. I also loved the placket. You can't see, but under button #2 it has a gathering that is just adorable. I attached the placket when I attached the hood together at the same time. I attached them under the binding that goes around the entire edge of the coat. Oh! Here you can see the waistband and the ties. This way it's a little big now and we can tie it tighter, but as she grows into it, we can loosen the ties.

Here is the back. I made a shortened pixie hood. I was afraid it would drag the floor if I made it too long. It's really cute, especially when she has it pulled up over her head. The front I made very wide and attaches fairly low onto the front of the coat. I like how it's open, so if she's wearing a hat, it won't be too tight.

This is the side view, so you can see the length of the hood. To give you an idea of the size, I'm saying 18-24 months. She wears 12-24 months size. She's a tiny 16 month old. She is always in the 5% for height and weight.

And here is the little stinker. I bribed her with rocking in the recliner by herself if I could snap a few pictures. This was, unfortunately, the best one that gives an idea of the fit. For the bodice, I used a nice black Banana Republic sweater in 100% italian wool with puffy sleeves in a size adult medium. I felted it, and it shrunk down to probably around a size 6x. Then, I put it on her and pinned it a more fitted size for her, and probably took about 4 inches off the width of the bodice and 2 inches off the sleeves. I was able to keep the puffy sleeves, but you can't really tell in the pictures. In real life, it's adorable with the puffy sleeves.

The Toddler Sweater Coat!

2011-09-11T17:56:00.001-05:00

I Made this start to finish today! This is Molly's sweater coat. She would not sit still for pics so I put it on my baby mannequin. I made it from inspiration from the grown up versions by Katwise.
I am so pleased. It came out just lovely. It is made from upcycled wool, cashmere, and silk/wool blend sweaters. And it has thumb holes!!(Molly loves the thumb holes.)
I'll post more pics after dinner so you can see it all, including the adorable elfin hood and the back.

I feel as if I committed a mortal sin!

2011-09-10T11:36:00.001-05:00

I'm working on the sweater coat for my toddler today. I cut up these beautiful wool and silk and cashmere sweaters. The hardest was the luxurious cashmere. It felt so wrong ;) (Wow, that pun was completely unintended, lol)

Stretchy Book Cover Tutorial

2011-09-09T23:43:00.001-05:00

My eldest daughter needed book covers this year. According to her teachers, it's a state law to keep textbooks covered. And my cooler than cool daughter did not want the hideous paper book covers she was forced to put on her books during class. Oh the horror!! A couple years ago my ex bought her stretchy book covers that were between $3 and $5 a piece, but they were all too small for her ginormous middle school books this time around. Apparently, there are these same stretchy book covers that are super sized, but they are even more expensive. I, being the frugal sewing mama that I am, was hellbent on figuring a way around this.

I took a look at one of these stretchy book covers and realized I could whip one of these out in a matter of minutes. And then I realized I have this entire plastic tote FULL of dance lycras from way back when Miss Em was still dancing solos and I was making costumes that would be perfect. So, she dug through and picked the fabric you see above. I whipped up the book cover from cut to finish in less than 5 minutes, literally. It is made out of neon orange super soft velvet. It’s heavenly and plush! Then I thought, what a great tutorial for the beginning of the school year to share with you guys!

Stretchy Book Cover Tutorial

Your time will be cut to bare minimum if you do this with a serger. However, if you don't have a serger, you can still easily make these using the overlock or zigzag stitch on your sewing machine. It's literally two rows of sewing and you're done! Also, one yard of dancewear lycra is 60 inches wide, so you should get approximately 3-6 book covers out of 1 yd, depending on the thickness of the book.

Guess what? I already have a new tutorial lined up for next week. It's an upcycled tutorial. I can't wait to show it. I have all the pics, just have to write the tut, which is the easiest part. Can you tell how proud of myself I am? I get so mad when I can't finish a project I have planned for weeks or months on end for my blog.

I think I'm actually going to be able to have a tutorial a week from now on while my creative juices are flowing. I'm so excited!! I don't know if this is just rewards for being my last semester of college, but my classes are so easy this time around with next to nothing in homework that I'm able to do other things besides read textbooks.

Thrift Store Score!

2011-09-07T15:52:00.003-05:00

Today at the thrift store, I found a Hanna Andersson playdress for $1, a Hanna sweater for $2, a pair of practically brand new leather Keds in the baby's size for $2, and a Folkmanis puppet for 95 cents!! Woohoo!!

Do you know the beautiful Katwise sweater coats? Well I'm making kid versions for some craft fairs my mom is going to go to this fall/winter. So, I've been scouring thrift stores this past weekend for sweaters. It's funny, I have found more cashmere sweaters for $1.49 than wool ones. You would think those would be more expensive? But...oh so soft!! Hopefully in the very near future I will have a showing of Molly's sweater coat I'm working on ala Katwise. (Don't tell but hubby wants me to make him one, too. I'm not so sure...but we're talking about a man who bought a kid's hat with a giant stuffed duck on it at a thrift store and wears it in public.)

Anyway...You can do this too! Being a stay-at-home mommy with only one income, hubby and I have become thrift store aficionados. We buy our clothes nearly exclusively at thrift stores for both of us. I once found a wad of cash in a pocket of dress pants I bought hubby at the thrift store. My oldest is still a thrift store snob, but she's seeing the fun in it lately, especially when I can find her favorite brands. The younger two could not care less where their clothes come from. Mr E thought it was awesome when I found him a t-shirt from a Soviet airlines.

The baby gets 100% of her clothes from thrift stores, and I exclusively buy boutique brands or nice brand names of stuff like Gymboree, Hanna Andersson, and the Gap. You would not believe the stuff I find in thrift stores practically new. Aeropostale, Abercrombie, Land's End, and all kinds of boutique brands.

We have also started a little eBay biz with thrift store scores. I found a Coach purse a couple months ago for $17, vintage Tupperware for 39 cents and sold it for $3, every Hanna Andersson piece I put on eBay usually sells with the BIN button. Our best so far was a recent purchase of a vintage Peterson strobe tuner. Hubby found it at one of our thrift store outings for $15. He played with it for about a month, and then we sold it for $118.

To do this, all you need is to specialize in a few things, so you can easily know your product and figure if what you want to purchase can be sold at a profit. My specialties are baby clothes, contemporary and vintage sewing stuff, and vintage food stuff like Tupperware. Hubby specializes in vintage electronics and musical equipment. I don't buy something if I cannot make at least 200% profit on it, minus the fees on eBay.

A lot of times if we aren't sure, we use our iPhones with the eBay app and check "completed listings" to see what stuff sold, while we are in the store.

Art Girl

2011-09-04T12:53:00.003-05:00

Why do I bother posting with my iPhone? It messes this thing up all the time. I'm now fixing this post for the last damn time, lol.

While waiting for diapers to dry at 2:30 in the morning last night, I made this for Mol's room. The kids each have a little "mommy" work of art on their walls so I felt like it was time for hers. I don't like how her name is, so I'm going to change it after I find this certain set of alphabet stickers in my stash today.

I think this little art doll is my favorite. I hand sewed the entire thing. I thought the orange hair was a little fitting because #1 Molly was born with red hair ( though it's now blonde) and #2 amazingly fir being a baby her hair is nearly identical to the styled mess if the doll. Lol!

Without the other kids on this holiday weekend, my next project is Em's apron tonight.

It had to happen eventually...

2011-09-02T22:51:00.000-05:00

Since moving to the new house coupled with the fact she-who-must-not-be-named lives with her mother about 5 minutes away, I knew eventually we'd run into her. Well....tonight was it. After some wonderful alone time with dear hubby, we headed out to Freebirds around 9 pm tonight. It was our first time there, and it wasn't as great as Planet Burrito, but it was fairly good. We decided to eat outside and believe it or not, the atmosphere outside at 9 pm in hot Texas hell was actually lovely.

It was just three of us--me, hubby, and the baby--as the other kidlets were at their dad's this weekend. We sit down, I start feeding the baby. Hubby gets the drinks and sits down and starts eating. All of sudden a couple of people bust out the door to find seats out on the patio, too. This woman walks past our table and starts looking for a seat. I look up and realize it's HER! I'm rather glad the look on my face was more along the lines of "WTF, you evil bitch" than a look of "shock and awe." So I glare at her as she takes in me, the baby, and then realizes it's her ex-husband sitting with us. She literally ran around the corner to the ONLY table out of our sights. It made me giggle. The look on her face was priceless. I should have taken a picture.

I look at my husband and say, "Um, I think that was your ex-wife." He looks shocked and then he sees her brother and her mother coming out the same door to sit with her. Then my dear husband says as loudly as possible, just as his former mother-in-law walks by us, "Yep, that's her." Then we both start giggling.

A little while later, the baby gets tired of sitting in the highchair, so I let her walk all around the patio with me. When we turn to go back to our table I look over, and she-who-must-not-be-named is practically trying to crawl into her little plastic basket holding her burrito. After being such an ass to my husband, she was such a scared little girl when I saw her. I couldn't believe it.

After a little while, we finish, grab a drink refill and walk past their table to leave. Hubby carries our sweet little girl on his shoulder past them with his head held high, completely ignoring her. I thought it was great. It went much better than I anticipated. I figured the first time we saw her out, she would confront him or something. There's always next time, lol.

New Tutorial!! Letter Art Tutorial

2011-08-31T00:52:00.002-05:00

For the past couple of days my kids have had to decorate and decoupage composition books for school. So as I sat at the table supervising adhesive and decoupage, I decided to join in on the fun and get a little project out of the way I've been meaning to do for quite a while. Plus, I needed a reason to try out the super cool PINK Exacto knife I got at Walmart tonight. It's ergonomic!! And...it was marked down to $7, even though the tag said $10.

The older two kidlets had signs and pictures on their doors, but the baby did not. I've had these wooden initial letters sitting in my crafting room for what seemed like eternity and thought I should finally put a decoration on her bedroom door.

Letter Art Tutorial

I made this tutorial up as I went and decided to turn it into a cute little how to for anyone else. I love, love, love how it came out. It's super fun and so easy to make. It will take you less than 30 minutes from beginning to end for one letter. But, you could do their entire name and be done in an afternoon and have a great wall decoration for a nursery or anyone's room.

Enjoy!! Hopefully that apron tutorial will get itself done this week. My sewing room is making me feel anxious and overwhelmed. There is just too much stuff, but I've gotten it down to the minimum I need. I think I need some more storage for it. Maybe I can go thrifting this weekend and find something amazing for a bookshelf.

Serge an Apron

2011-08-26T08:25:00.001-05:00

So my next project is a cutesy apron for my almost 12 years old for her art class. I'm thinking ruffles and I'm thinking I can do nearly the entire on my serger. I am determined to only use the serger and not use the sewing machine for it because I'm a lazy slob.

I want to give it to her this weekend for her b-day and if I can manage it with only the serger I'll post a tutorial. I'm thinking my technique will be somewhat like a serge-a-quilt.

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Popovers!

2011-08-15T19:46:00.001-05:00

It's amazing something with just 4 little ingredients can be so yummy. I've never made popovers before but these came out wonderfully. I pulled them open an added a dollop of homemade whip cream to top them off. These are great for breakfast, I think. Now I just need a popover pan, lol.

I remembered the picture this time.

Pinterest and Sopapilla Cheesecake!

2011-08-13T17:59:00.001-05:00

Have you discovered Pinterest? It's so much fun. You create "boards" of stuff you love basically, and you can look at other people's boards and repin stuff to yours that you love from theirs.You can request an invitation and then you're off and running.

So while looking at other people's boards I discovered Sopapilla Cheesecake over at My Yellow Umbrella. Ms Em and I had to make it. I let Ms Em make the entire thing last night after dinner. It was delicious!! Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture.

We did change up the recipe just a smidge.

Sopapilla Cheesecake

2 cans crescent rolls
2 (8oz) packages cream cheese (softened)
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

2 tbs butter (melted)
Cinnamon & sugar - I used 1/3 cup and sugar and 1 tbs of cinnamon.

Instructions:
Unrolled and spread 1 & 1/2 can crescent rolls on bottom of un-greased pan. Combine softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Spread mixture over crescent rolls. Unroll and spread remaining crescent rolls over mixture. Spread melted butter over the top and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

And after we made it, I thought if it's a sopapilla cheesecake, then it needs honey too, so after it's sliced and on the plate, we add some honey to top it off.

My Sewing Room - work in progress

2011-08-08T21:41:00.000-05:00

We moved in 3 months ago but unfortunately I've been in school since then. I finished up my last class a week early so I'm having a 3 week break before classes resume on 8/29.

My plan is to get my sewing room in order so I can sew some things for a couple of craft fairs with my mom and some Etsy things.

So here is the work in progress. This is my eBay/sewing/baby room all in one. As soon as I'm done I'll post new pics of my tricked out sewing room lol.