Life in Color — a scrappy Log Cabin quilt block pieced in pink and green prints.

  • Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.

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  • Oh man. Have you seen those so funny “nailed it!” posts on craft fail? With Pinterest I go into every project with a lot of inspiration and quite a bit of expectation too. So when I decided to whip up a couple of easy chocolate covered bananas I thought, no problem! How hard could they be?

    (source: epicurious)

    Oh my goodness this was so hilarious. Tuesday and I went about prepping. Her sweetly smashing peanuts and testing sprinkles while I slowly and carefully melted chocolate and butter in my double boiler. And then it all started to go wrong. The chocolate started “seizing” and I quickly added cream, which made it into a kind of fudge. After attempting to dip the frozen banana halves I decided to just grab handfuls of the chocolate and try to smoosh it onto the bananas. I gave a few to Tuesday to try and decorate but everything was happening too fast. I had to stop and write down what Tuesday was saying while she watched me perplexed.

    “You’re just cooking with your big belly.”

    “I think you should let papa do this part.”

    “Mama, you don’t need to bake. You can just relax.”

    and my favorite

    “Why is that poop on the floor?”

    Holy cow it was funny. I did put them back into the freezer and try one during rest time. I’m not going to lie, I think the only reason I finished it was because I was craving the banana chocolate combo and couldn’t let the idea go. It was bad. Not as bad as Magic Mike (but that’s another story). So in case you’ve ever thought all my projects turn out great over here you can rest assured that is not the case. I can not bake, and apparently candy making is out of my future too. Have you had a crazy craft fail? Embrace the hilarity and tell us about it!

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  • I have had this fiber on the bobbins for so long! I found a picture of the fiber (at least I think this is it!) from September of 2009, but no pictures of me spinning it up.

    Luckily I was obsessed with keeping track of my stash in Ravelry at this time so I know it’s 8 ounces of Corridale wool from Sunset Fibers. Maybe this was a gift from Carmen? I can’t remember. But I love the juicy colors. I actually had spun up this fiber, all that I needed to do was ply it. I had to put on my jumbo bobbin and head to ply so that must have been what was stopping me. Well Bj put it on for me the other day and I plied this stuff up. It’s soft and squishy and I love it! It turned out to be striping, at least a little bit I think, so I might have to do something for the baby.

    Ideas? I think it will knit up well on size sevens, so a bit of bulky something probably.

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