Pens, Paper, & Ammo

Look at that distraction!  It’s so shiny and interesting!  I’ll even bet that you’ll forget all about the fact that I have nothing worthwhile to post!

Also, here’s another older pic - since I hate picture-less posts.

Yep.  Brain cupcakes.

… 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*

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*

What type of insane human being buys 8 lbs of carrots, 10 lbs of potatoes, and ungodly huge bags of spinach for no real reason other than “hey, they were a good value.”?  Me, obviously.

Now, what do you do with said truckload of veggies?  Why, make a truckload of baby food, of course!

Left:  Chicken/veggie medley  Right:  Spinach, carrots, and potatoes. Yummy, huh?

 

Carrots and potatoes

From the Longcat Scarf pattern

Longcat is LOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGG!

 

Has it really been over a month since I last updated?  A lot has happened since that last update, namely Christmas has come and gone, The Nooblet now has two teeth, and she is almost crawling.  I don’t really know what to type today, since the Nooblet has decided to knock over my coffee.  Instead, here is what most of you are actually here for: adorable pictures of The Nooblet!

Awww!

Ignore the horrible mess.

Lexi seemed enthralled by Obama.

There are more pictures here (and I plan to upload more soon) and I do have some crafty things that I will add tomorrow.  Videos to come soon - The Nooblet is in a poor mood right now.  Maybe she’ll make some attempts at crawling when she’s had a nap.

I now understand just how challenging it is to photograph babies.  I took over a hundred pictures yesterday in an attempt at getting one that would be Christmas-card suitable.  I finally did - but this is what the majority of the shoot consisted of:

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!