Pens, Paper, & Ammo

I never posted anything from our first pear harvest… but this picture is just too cute not to share.  Someday, maybe I’ll post something current!

… and it begins!

Happy Belated Halloween!

I can’t believe my l’il Nooblet is one year old!   Happy birthday, baby girl!  We love you!

First of all, I do plan to update this site more.  I just seem to have run out of things to talk about.  I always finish a project and dream of the insanely exciting blog post that I could write about it… then lose all interest as I sit in front of the computer during my precious little “mommy time” after The Nooblet goes to sleep.  That aside, I feel as if I have accomplished a fair bit in the past month.  While I have been productive, I am extremely backlogged on pictures to share.  So, instead of bombarding you with all of them now… don’t be surprised if whatever I post in the next couple weeks aren’t actually from a month ago.  Anyway, here ya go:

I managed to finally crochet a doily.  I have no idea why I felt I needed one.  I think I just had to prove to myself that I could, in fact, actually follow a crochet pattern without going all googly-eyed.

The Nooblet’s birthday is coming up (the 9th) and I am determined to make an awesome cake.  I have forever been intimidated by fondant, but wasn’t fond (HAH!) enough of the taste to actually go through the hell that is the process of making it.  However, with some help from The Internet, I found an easy, cheap, and *gasp!* tasty way of making fondant with only mini marshmallows, powdered sugar, vanilla, and a microwave!  Hallejulah!  The basic recipe can be found here!

And since we’re talking birthdays… here’s a picture from The Nooblet’s birthday at her Ammie’s!

I’m also sharing this picture, since tiny food is adorable.

Okay, I’ll stop… for now!  *ominous music*

First of all, I have become hopelessly addicted to Doctor Who recently.  After surfing around on Ravelry, I found a pattern for a Dalek dishcloth called EXFOLIATE!  I mean, how could I NOT knit one?

 Let us please mourn the loss of my Harry Potter Ravenclaw scarf which sacrificed its short life to become this amazingly awesome dish cloth.  Amen.

Secondly, what do you do when your husband makes pounds upon pounds of spaghetti?  You make spaghetti frittata!  Om-nom-nom!

The recipe can be found here!  You can basically add anything to this dish - we added a bit of leftover ham lunchmeat and some shredded cheese.  It was amazing!

 And, finally, the requisite cute baby picture!

Not the best pictures I’ve ever taken, but the model was sure cute! Side-note: I stayed up far too late knitting that little jacket… *yawn*

The Nooblet stood on her own today!  Granted, she was kind of wedged in between the wall and her toybox… but still, no hands!  Also, note the bobbin - she’s going to be a spinner!

I forgot just how much I love cross-stitching.

And my best friend borrowed me her Kromski for the week.  It’s been, oh, four years since I last used a wheel.  It took me forever to remember just how to get started.  Eventually I got the hang of it again and spun some medicore - but usable - singles.