Friday Musings #13

Ahhh - I wish this was next week! How cool would it be to have Friday Musings #13 on FRIDAY THE 13th!?!?!. I'm peacing out of work in about 2 hours (gotta beat the crazy DC traffic) and heading down to Williamsburg to spend Easter weekend with the fam - and of course go to Busch Gardens. I made cupcakes last night for Easter lunch but I still have to decorate them.

Peep Sushi

Look at the ADORABLE peep sushi my coworker Amanda made!! It's peeps on top of rice krispies wrapped in fruit roll up. I want to EAT THEM ALL. Next year I will be up on my Peep crafts - I failed miserably at them this year. Hope you all have a Hoppy Easter!!

Baby Shower Cookies!

With the last post about baby knits, I thought I'd continue the baby streak with the sugar cookies I made for Kim's baby shower. These were the first royal icing cookies I ever decorated. I copied the suggested designs off of the Wilton cookie cutter box. As you can see the teddy bear didn't get a lot of decoration. Now that I have more experience working with royal icing, I think I can get it to the consistency where it'd be much easier to decorate.

The carriage and the onesie were probably the easiest to decorate. The rocking horse and teddy bear had a lot more detail. But they all are so cute!!

Wednesday Review: The Little Box of Knits for Baby

This book (using that term lightly) by Sandy Scoville is really fun. It has some great projects for babies 6-18 months.

What I like:

·         It's a box! That's right - the title ain't lyin'. Inside are 20 "portable project cards" that have step by step instructions on how to knit sweaters, booties, blankets, hats, & Scarves.

·         The cards are colorful, with good pictures and a glossy finish. It's nice to be able to take the card out for the specific project you're working on and not worry about it getting all crumpled up.

·         There are some really cute designs! There is an adorable cardigan for a little boy and this cute pixie dress for a little girl that I definitely want to make someday.

·         There is an extra card that has a list of abbreviations, types of yarn to use, and a yarn conversion chart (for all those metric people?)

What I don't like:

·         A few of the designs are outdated (Hello 80s!) but I think if you just change the color yarn you could easily fix that.

·         There's no difficulty scale on the cards so you'll really have to read through the instructions first to make sure you'll be able to do the project. (Not that you shouldn't do that anyways)

Bridal Shower Desserts Part 3

Here are the rest of the desserts I made for Kim's shower! Did I mention how much I loved the color scheme? Because I LOVE the color scheme! First - a major shout out to Mackenzie who came over the night before the shower and helped me to make all the desserts. I would have been up till the wee hours had she not showed up!! For the heart shaped rice krispy treats we dyed the marshmallow goo pink and then cut them out with cookie cutters.

I got yellow and orange candy melts as well as chocolate chips to dip the hearts in. 

This is a great way to spice up your rice krispies!

Next I made my traditional wedding shower cookies in the shapes of dresses and cakes. I used lemon flavoring in my royal icing to give them an extra springy taste. I dyed some of the leftover fondant from my Hunger Games cake to make bows and flowers to decorate the cookies.

Then of course I doused them in disco dust!!

Bridal Showers and Cherry Blossoms

This weekend was my friend Kim's bridal shower. We had a blast! I LOVED the color scheme too - we did a spring brunch and our colors were pink, orange, yellow, and green. It's a wonderful color combination. The sun even decided to make an appearance long enough for us to take pictures outside!

I made yellow and pink heart sugar cookies with the bride and groom's name in them. Tomorrow I'll post about the other desserts I made. Yesterday I ran in the Cherry Blossom 10-miler. I PRd with a time of 1:44:39 (according to my phone). Here's me around mile 4:

Haha, I love the woman behind me. The fun things you can do when you have your smart phone with you on a run ;) The weather was a little chilly, but great for running. Afterwards we went to fill our calorie deficit at Cheesecake factory. What a GREAT weekend.