Olive Bread, Churro Bites, Make It So

It was a crafty weekend for me and Piper! We made olive bread and churro bites for dinner at a friend's house, then cross-stitched a gift for my boss!

Churro bites = diced angel food cake rolled in cinnamon & sugar!

Mmm, warm olive bread!

For the boss... er, captain.

Subspace Purse

If I'm going to be Ramona Flowers for Halloween, I'm going to need a subspace purse! Instead of spending over $100 to buy one, I decided to make one! Piper helped!

Gather your supplies!

Showing off the finished product

Nice and roomy... if Scott Pilgrim can fit in there, Piper certainly can!

Welding Goggles

Since I'm going to be Ramona Flowers for Halloween, I need to start piecing things together now to spread out the costs and give me time to find weird things like welding goggles. Well, I have those locked down, at least!

Piper thinks they'll look better once my hair is blue.

Birthday Cookies

We also baked birthday cookies for Husband's birthday!

Supervising the unwrapping of the Kisses with Damson

Yummy finished product!

Delicious! We have another batch of cookies to make for the training day at work before we go to Canada on Friday!!!

Mothers' Day Cookies

We made cookies for Mothers' Day! This batch was for my stepmom... gluten free chocolate cookies with chocolate and butterscotch chips!

Helping me add the egg and vanilla extract

She wants to lick the beaters!

Showing off the finished product! We did it!

We also made walnut butter balls for Mom (lots of powdered sugar... didn't want to get it all over my camera) and raspberry cookies for mom-in-law (lots of raspberry juice... didn't want Piper to get that all over her!)

Colbert Report: Norfolk Edition

So I was watching The Colbert Report the other night, and Norfolk was being featured in the "Better Know a District" series!!!

Those are a couple of Norfolk mermaids in the collage! It was pretty exciting for an otherwise boring weeknight.

Big adventures coming soon... we're leaving for Toronto next Friday!

Meeting Damson... and Gimli!

Damson is here! Damson is the LV I'm hosting for the current round. He and Piper are going to be best buds:

Then Piper snuggled up to our kitty, Gimli, who was taking a nap (and therefore unlikely to bite or claw Piper):

Then Piper and Damson helped me figure out which clothes to pack for Toronto, which is where we'll be two weeks from now!!!