Valentines Day Challenge Day 3

Breakfast is BIG in my house and by BIG I mean; freshly grated potatoes to fry into hash-browns, fried tomatoes, eggs (any style, my favorite is poached), bacon or ham, juice, and coffee... Anyone hungry? One of my, sleeping in too late to do anything special, favorites (for the sole reason of being so easy) is Egg in a Basket. This morning I made it Valentine's Day style.

That would be breakfast for LH and Hunter (mine is still cooking). I tried to cook the bacon into a heart.... but that didn't work out too well.  I'll spare you that picture :)

Egg in the Hole
you will need:
Eggs
Slices of Bread
Butter 
In a skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Tear about a 1 1/2" hole out of the center of each piece of bread. Lightly butter front and back of the slices of bread. Place each slice of bread next to each other in the skillet. Crack eggs and, one at a time, place into the hole in the center of the bread.

After about 3 minutes, flip the bread and cook on the other side until the egg has set. The bread should be lightly toasted. Slip onto a plate and enjoy.


NOTE: I almost always use a cookie/sandwich cutter to make the holes in the slices of bread. I make dinosaurs, Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader's TIE Fighter, hearts and stars.


What is your favorite breakfast? Do you make Egg in the Hole?

Valentines Day Challenge Day 2

I had a night out with a girlfriend and went to see The Vow. 

This is not crafty by any means, but I had to see it.


This was not a tear jerker like I thought it was going to be but, oh, so good. Rachel McAdams is one of my favorite actresses and was great in this film, and Channing Tatum, besides being drop-dead-gorgeous, is a great actor and plays this roll very well. This will definitely be added to my movie library.

If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend that you do. You can see the preview here. I love the way he loves her (heart melts). Enjoy!

P.S.  Channing Tatum is SO gorgeous!!! If you have no other reason to see this movie, he makes it all worth it.

These photos are not my property, nor do I claim them to be. They are owned by Sony Pictures and its affiliates. 

They are on here solely for the purpose of this blog post.

Valentines Day Challenge Day 1

Crayon Hearts
What you will need;

• Thread and needle (any color, your choice)
• Wax paper
• Crayons, lots of crayons
• Iron
• Scissors
• Hand-held pencil sharpener (to shred the crayons)
• Something to hang them from; wire hanger, etc.

Lay out one piece of wax paper and start to shred the crayons on to it. My son and I used every color we could grab but it would look nice with similar colors put together. Now this is very important, make sure you cover the area with shredded crayon, leave no empty areas. Take another piece of wax paper, the same size as the last, and lay it over the shredded crayons. Once your iron is hot, very lightly iron the wax paper. Do not use a lot of pressure and try not to rub too much on the paper; you don't want the melted crayon coming out the sides.

Now you can cut out any design you want, Hunter and I went with hearts for Valentines Day. A couple big hearts and a lot of small ones. Once we cut our hearts, some of the edges became loose from each other; a little heat from the iron fixed that problem. 

Take your needle and thread and poke through the top part of the heart and tie a knot in the thread to keep the heart attached, then take the other end of the thread and attach it to where you want the heart to hang from. Hunter an I attached ours to a wire hanger.

This was so much fun to do with Hunter and he is so proud of it. We have it hanging in his window and it looks so cool with the sun hitting it. We will definitely be doing this again.

8 days to Valentines Day and counting

This is the goal...

I want to do one Valentines Day related item a day.

Starting tomorrow,

Lets see what we can come up with.

Pictures 1 and 3 are stock from Google, 2 and 4 are from Martha Stewart.

TGIF!

I am so glad the weekend has finally come. I wish I was spending my weekend here. In Monterey, CA.

This is a picture of the Monterey Bay looking towards Lovers Point

It has just been one of those endless weeks for me. I feel like I have completed so much and have so much to look forward to this weekend; time with my son and husband, spending time with friends, the Superbowl is on Sunday... a lot of time to relax. 


here are some sayings about the weekend; enjoy! I hope you all have a brilliant weekend!

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. ~John Shirley

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.~ Chuck Palahniuk

"I've been thinking Hobbes --"

"On a weekend?"

"Well, it wasn't on purpose..."

~ Calvin & Hobbes Quotes

Where do you wish you were this weekend? What are you plans?

Antiquing

I had a birthday a couple months ago, during the time time I was away. LH bought me a great gift. I get comments from everyone who comes in my house and thought I would share.

LH and I were walking through a little antique store in Troutdale that always has some great stuff. As we were walking toward the back a little something caught my eye.

Isn't it great! I didn't care if it was worth anything, I had to have it.

We found out that it was made in the 1890's (cant remember the exact date right now and LH doesn't remember either) and was made by the Corn Planter Co. in Grand Haven, Mich. and it is called the Challenge Iceberg. We did a little research once we brought it home and discovered that this company was only in business for about a year before they were sued for patent infringment. Very interesting.

If anybody knows anything more about this company of how much this could be worth, please let me know.

Any way, here it sits. In a nook in my kitchen... until I find a better place for it.

Don't you just love her? Do you have any special antiques? Ever find something you just had to walk away with? I would love to hear your stories.

Last Nights Dinner

Amazing! So good! I can't stop picking at it!

Last night I made Pork tenderloin in the slow cooker. I had it sitting in the fridge for two days wondering what I was going to do with it. When I couldn't decide, I turned to the internet. I happened upon this recipe. Only 4 hours in the slow cooker ( I lost track of time, so mine was probably in there for 30 minutes more than needed) and it is so yummy.

If your thinking of a quick, no-fuss dinner idea, you should try this.

The recipe does call for some red wine but I did not have any and didn't feel like running out so I just omitted it. 

Sorry, these pictures are a little less than great. I had to take them on my phone since my camera was charging. In addition, I don't think these do the food justice, you'll just have to trust me on how tasty it is.

Let me know what you think. Did you try this recipe, and if so, what did you think? Do you have a favorite way to cook a pork tenderloin? Do you have a favorite crock pot recipe?