A little divergence…

So I’m not posting about my latest crafting project. This weekend (I’m starting early) I’m tackling a baking project! So before my sister abandoned me to move to Oregon, she had a baking business which means a few things. 1) There were cookies and cupcakes at my house ALL the time. 2) I learned a thing or two about baking although I’m no where near as talented as she is. 3) Six months later and people still try to place orders. For the most part she pulls the “I moved-sorry” card, but this request came from our super sweet neighbors and, well, we couldn’t say no.

So I have been recruited as the baker and I am going to make 2 dozen cookies for a one-year-old birthday party! Luckily, my sister is only a phone call away and she gave me a few tips to make this project a success. The recipe I’m using is called "No Fail Sugar Cookies" which gives me some hope. I can’t mess these up, right?

First tip from ms.-baker-extraordinaire is to make your cookies in “steps” with plenty of time between each one. That’s why I’m starting today and planning to be finished by Saturday evening. Today’s “step” was to make and roll out the dough. I’m housesitting right now and of all the things this house does have—they don’t have a rolling pin. Never fear though! A wine bottle is a quick substitute. Beer bottles work too, but they are shorter and tend to have weird impressions in the glass. I prefer wine.

Tomorrow I will cut out the shapes and bake them and on Saturday I will decorate!  Good luck to me!!!

p.s. This is the shortest time-span between blog posts I’ve ever had :)

Wait, wait, wait. It’s summer already???

Oh my I have not posted in FOREVER. I kind of forgot about the whole blog thing. Does that make me a bad blog poster? I dunno. Anyway, I’ve kind of being crazy busy lately. I was right to say that student teaching would keep me from posting. I didn’t really have all that demanding of a schedule. I taught 3 periods at my junior high and I attended ONE class at CSUF. I know, pretty simple right? You would be amazed by how exhausting that schedule can be! I would come home from class and sometimes I would just pass out for a few hours before rushing off to the next thing. I had other work to keep on top of as well (lesson planning, university homework, TPA’s, etc.) plus other commitments (mostly church) and well suddenly it was summer.

And I still didn’t post! It has actually been an incredibly busy summer. One of my best friends got married- and I got to be in the wedding! It was absolutely beautiful and I loved every second of it. Then I went to Oregon TWICE. I helped out at my church’s VBS and with our summer youth group. I’ve been making dinner for my family once a week and I decided to completely clean out my bedroom (no worries, the yarn stash is safe!)

I think I’ve finally reached a point where I can slow down and enjoy the rest of my summer. I have about five weeks to go before I’m back in the classroom!! Oh I can’t wait.

As for the actual reason I have this blog…my yarn has not seen much TLC from me :( I’ve worked on my gloves. One is done and now I’m starting on the second. I worked on a shawl while I was traveling, but so far I can’t cross anything off my project list yet. And then I went and saw the Harry Potter movie and all I could think about (aside from NO DON’T END YET!!!!!) was ooo can I make that???

I think someone should start a blog/website devoted to all yarn projects that are Harry Potter. Found one! http://hp-knitting.livejournal.com/
I’ve also seen a lot of patterns on ravelry and lionbrand.com that support the HP series. I am a terrible fan and have never made a HP themed project. How sad is that? And my life is going to get terribly busy in the next few weeks, so I need to power through my gloves so I can get started on a HP project. LOL.