Kayden's 1st Kiss

Leandre's quilt block for her little baby boy. I hope she likes it.

Swedish Butter Cookies
This was a new recipe for me.
The picture cracks me up it looks like a turd on the side of the cookie, but it a pecan that didn't get crushed.
Everyone in the house liked them, even Brandon who says he doesn't like pecans.
And Bob said they "melt in your mouth".

Swedish Butter Cookies

1 C butter, soften

1/2 C sugar

1 egg, separated

1 TBS half and half cream

1 tsp vanilla

2 C flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 C finely chopped pecans

Additional chopped pecans

Haved red maraschino cherries

In large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg yolk, cream and vanilla. Combine the flour and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in chopped pecans. Roll in 3/4" balls.

In small bowl, beat egg white. Dip balls in egg white, then roll in pecans. Place on ungreased baking sheet and top each ball with a cherry half. Bake 350 for 15 min.

Kayden is 8 months old now. Just starting to crawl finally, but he doesn't really like to crawl. He would rather walk. He loves to walk and is getting really good at walking with just holding one of his hands. I think he will be walking by himself by the time he is 10 months old, just like my two kids did.

For those that don't know Kayden is my grandson.

The other day Kayden was sitting on my lap and we do this thing were we put our foreheads together and I tell him "Grandma loves you, Kayden". After we did that a few times Kayden gave me his first kiss!!! You know the open month kisses that babies do. It was so cute and funny. Dara was a little hurt, because she didn't get his first kiss.

Kayden just had a cookie. Just thought it was a cute picture.

Kayden Crawling!

Fabby Award

Thank Vicky for awarding me this Fabulous award.

I have to list 5 addictions and 5 fabby friends.

My addictions:

1. Cross Stitch

2. Beading

3. Sewing

4. Baking

5. Taking pictures

I give this award to:

Virpi

Viv

Shari

Mylene

Debra H

Frozen in Indiana

It has been a cold, cold week in Indiana.

Wednesday the motor stopped working on the furnace.

Bought a new and it was running in no time, but it wasn't getting warm very fast.

Bob figured out he didn't put the fan wire on right and it was just blowing the heat in the basement. Got it fixed and it was getting warm as the temps fell outside to

-12.

I did cleaned the living room and moved a few things around.

Finished the San-Man Originals freebie from 2002, Trick or Treat Candy Roll. Not my best stitching, but I think it was because I had hand painted the material (a long, long time ago) and some of the holes in the Aida were hard to pull the thread through.

Did some baking this week.

Banana Sticky Buns

1/2 C brown sugar, 1/2 C soft butter, 36 pecan halves, 2 C Bisquick, 2/3 C mashed riped bananas, 2 TBS soft butter, 1/4 C brown sugar

Heat oven 450. Put 2 tsp brown sugar, 2 tsp of butter and 3 pecan half's in each 12 medium muffin cup. Place in oven to melt the sugar and butter.

Mix Bisquick and bananas to a soft dough. Knead 5 times with flour. Roll out and spread 2 TBS butter and sprinkle with 1/4 C brown sugar. Roll up, pinch edge of dough into roll to seal.

Cut roll into 12 pieces. Place in muffin cup. Bake 10 min.

Immediately invert pan onto serving tray or baking sheet. Serve warm.

Hot Fudge Cake

The whole family loves this one. YUMM!!!

1 3/4 C brown sugar, 1 C flour, 6 TBS cocoa, 2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 C milk, 2 TBS butter (melted), 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 1/2 C semisweet chocolate chips, 1 3/4 C boiling water. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

In bowl, combine 1 C brown sugar, flour, 3TBS cocoa, baking powder & salt

In another bowl combine milk, butter and vanilla.

Stir into dry ingredients just until combined. Spread evenly into a 3-qt slow cooker coated with non-stick stray. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.

In bowl, combine the remaining brown sugar, cocoa. Stir in boiling water. Pour over batter (do not stir).

Cover and cook on high for 3 to 3 1/2 hours or until a toothpick inserted near the center of the cake comes out clean.

Serve warm with ice cream.

Saturday night Bob and I met up with some old friends from Argos. It was a lot of fun.

Lynn and Shawn H.

Lorrie N.


Bob and Lorrie

The group! Bob, Jody, Shawn, Lynn, Lorrie, Pat and Lori.

They made me play a game of darts, which I don't play darts and I won the one and only game I played. LOL!!!

Who has been affected by the stock market?

I didn't think I had been until Bob received a report on his local pension.

It lost $5,000.00!!! OUCH!

Oh I hate Winter!

Completed Crafty Cat by Margaret Sherry.

I hand dyed the material, at the Hoosier Stitcher's retreat last fall.

I think it turned out really cute. Reminds me of Dylan's cat Bubbles.

Darn cat is always in the floss.

This one is for Katie's son "J". I hope he likes it.

I think it is funny. Hope he does too. It is three freebies, I but together.

I started another freebie by San-Man Originals, Trick or Treat Candy Roll, printed 2002. No picture.

Picture of Dara, Dylan and Cooper.
Dara and Dylan were playing around, it is so funny because Dara use to tackle Dylan and pin him, when they were small. We kept telling her someday Dylan would be bigger then her and paybacks are Hell.
Dara started it just like old times.


Video is of Kayden and Cooper.
K is the light in my life.


Oh I hate winter. I hate the cold, I hate having to wear 3 or more layers of clothing to try to keep warm!!! I always get depress this time of the year and can not wait for spring to get here. I know I should move to a warmer climate, but I feel like I am stuck here.
Is it spring yet??? I need to feel the sunshine on my shoulder.
Trying to keep myself busy with scrubbing down the house, finish the kitchen and moved on to the bathroom and completed both hallways downstairs. I will be starting on the living room tomorrow.
I live such an exciting life. LMBO!!!

Stitching Progress

I continued stitching on the garden angles.

This is all that can be done until I get the Kreinik thread for the wings.

On New Year Eve I pulled out Earthdancer to stitch and found a hole in the material.

Close up of holes in the material.
So, then I pulled out Crystal Tree. This is what it looked like.

By January 3rd this is what it looked like. I was trying to complete the first page, but ran out of one of the DMC colors on the last row. So close!!! And of course it wasn't one of the colors that I have extras of.
Before going to bed I found the pattern Crafty Cat by Margaret Sherry, pulled all the threads and material. I hope to start on it today.
I am trying to stick to my list so far so good.

In 2007 I was at Shari's house stitching and she had asked me how much I spend on postage each year. I really didn't know. So in 2008 I kept track and the total for 2008 is... $194.70
I was in two birthday card and floss exchange-either of them was big so maybe $15.00 in postage.
I was in SFE and spent maybe $50.00 in postage.
The rest would have been for games and prizes for the group.