Category: Random

Mitts Week 4: Peacock

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For week 4 of the mitts project, I found some bright Red Heart yarn I had left over from some other project I don’t exactly remember. I thought it would go good with some small cables on each side of the back of the hand. The kind of get lost in the colors, but it makes it look rather nice.

I managed to knit most of these while babysitting and watching a classic movie marathon on Netflix. Which was good, because I started them at the end of the week instead of the beginning.

As always, you can find these and others on my Etsy Shop.

Pups Save A Cake, The Remix

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Last year I made a Paw Patrol cake for a certain little nugget’s third birthday, using frozen buttercream transfers to make the pups. This year, we did it again, but I decided to do it a little differently.

This time I made royal icing transfers. I also added a non-ghosty Marshall (“I want the ghost, too!”) and Ryder. At first I tried to make letters, but i kept smashing them with my hand as I was writing so i gave up and decided just to write it on the cake the right way around.

We used this strawberry cake recipe. Since the birthday boy loves to bake, he got to help make it. And, since his school was out that week, he also got to help shop for the ingredients. Which wasn’t all that exciting except we went to the grocery store with a Starbucks inside and got our drinks first.

He was very happy with the final outcome, and so were his friends at his impromptu birthday at the park playdate they were having anyway. Then again, you can’t go wrong with sugar on a birthday.

V-owl-entine’s Day Gifts

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I’ve made a few different owl-themed projects this past year that I have featured on my Tumblr. This has lead to me getting followed by several owl-themed blogs that I have followed back, so my dash is usually sprinkled with owls. When I started to think of Valentine’s for the kids, owls immediately came to mind. Especially after “Superb Owl” Sunday the previous week.

If I was not lazy, I would’ve started working on those during the week. But I am lazy, so I scrambled to find something I could make quickly on Satuday night. There wasn’t time to go to the store, so I had to pick something I had on hand that would be quick to put together. I pulled out my wool and looked up this tutorial on Pinterest for a general guideline.

I made one set on Saturday to give Sunday morning, then I was able to make the second set on Sunday to leave out for Monday. I even managed to only stab myself about ten times total, and I didn’t bleed on the owls. I’d call that a success.