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I’ve been busy

Published
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robayre
on December 26, 2009
in Projects
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Wow, it has been so long since I’ve posted. I’ve returned over and over to update, but just couldn’t get myself to do it. It’s not for a lack of things to write about, but more an overwhelming amount of things to do and things to cover in one post. Let me try and do this without getting too wordy.

I joined the PenPalParty organized by Susie at BoyGirlParty and have two new penpals that are the best.

Next, my friend Nikki is like me in that we always want to have adventures. She organized a trip into the city (chicago) and we went ice skating at Millennium Park. I’ve wanted to go skating in Chicago since I was in high school, so this was a huge thing. It wasn’t on my 2009 list of things to do, but it should have been so I’m going to add it as an honorary item. We were all nervous going in, but once we got out onto the ice, the day turned magical, going from nasty rain to perfect snow. I had so much fun. It was one of those days where my cheeks hurt from smiling sooo much for sooo long.

Santa catching a ride on the “zamboni” with the city in the background

Matt and I with the city lights behind us

On the 18th I held my fourth annual gingerbread house making party.  There were 12 people in attendance, 10 houses created while we munched on snacks, sipped hot chocolate, listened to Christmas music and conversed. As usual there were such creative entries, including a saucer UFO, an operation massacre, and a sleigh ride! Click the picture above to see each gingerbread house on it’s own.

I used this recipe to cook pfeffernusse cookies for the first time. They came out delicious, but I’m not sure if they were really like the pfeffernusse cookies that I’m used to. Fortunately, Archway pfeffernusse cookies are back on the shelf this year (after the company closed last year), and if you want to sample some deliciousness, snatch them up from the grocery store shelves quickly before they are gone until next year.

I’ve been working on so many other little projects, things here and there, that I also wanted to share, but for time’s sake I will postpone.

Spring was great while it lasted

Published
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robayre
on June 23, 2009
in Cool Links, Fun, General Update and My Artwork
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As I promised, some visuals. I decided to break out my page a day book after work today and did this page, as well as the page below. It’s been a while since I’ve done any quick collages and I was a bit rusty. This is why it is called Page A Day, not Page Every Six Months.

We’ve been and will be under heat advisory for today and tomorrow. I’m tired of summer already, yes two whole days later :p

Today my final rag bracelet fell off. Last year I posted a link to this tutorial to making a summer rag bracelet and I’ve been wearing some ever since. I started with solid black, solid gray, and black & white striped bracelets and they went great with my black jelly bracelets that I always wear. Slowly though, they’ve been ripping and unraveling, until today the final one basically disintegrated in one spot and fell off. Funny enough, it wasn’t at the knot. Well, summer is here again and it’s time to make some new ones! We should all make wishes when we put them on and when they fall off our wish will come true.

Also, with heat indexes in the hundreds, it might just be time to bake some cookies in your car :)