Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookie Madness

Over Labor Day Weekend 2011, I made Oreo-stuffed chocolate chip cookies. This is the fourth time I’ve made Oreo-stuffed cookies; the first two times were with Mini Oreos. Regular-sized Oreos definitely have a better taste to them. The Oreo-to-chocolate Chip cookie ratio is just better. These are now one of Christian’s new favorite cookies. My challenge for the next time I make these is to make them look prettier…

At least they tasted awesome! I will be making them again

Toy Society Drops #4 & #5

Last weekend, Christian and I headed down south for a few days to attend a baby shower and visit a few of our L.A. friends. While we were down there, I made two toy drops.

First toy drop was at the Promenade in Santa Monica.  I left it next to a triceratops sculpture.

An hour after dropping it off, I went back and noticed that it was picked up (yay!)

Later that same day, I dropped off another crochet cupcake in a geocache* on the beach by the Santa Monica Pier:

This one was picked up the next day and the receiver left this comment on my blog (on my toy drop #2 post):

“I found this cutie-pie in a geocache at Santa Monica Pier, CA on May 16, 2011 (if you don’t know what a geocache is, go to www.geocaching.com – it’s very cool)! As soon as I saw its pink sweetness I knew it was special and immediately knew what I would do with it. Just 2 days previous I had witnessed the birth of my good friend’s first baby, Ruby Rose. My friend had made and brought to the hospital pink cupcakes, to celebrate the birth of her baby girl. This sweet toy reminded me of those celebratory cupcakes and the wonderful event they represented. I gave this crochet cupcake to my friend, as Ruby’s first geocache. Thank you for such a special commemoration of a baby girl’s birth-day! ”

How cool is that?!

*Geoocaching is my new obsession.  I LOVE it.  Don’t know what it is?  www.geocaching.com

Special thanks to Justincomedy for turning me on to this awesome new hobby!

Toy Society Drop #3

I was worried I wouldn’t get an opportunity to make this drop in time for Easter, but I was able to sneak it in last minute – woohoo!

Crochet Easter Bunny Peeps – I found the pattern on Ravelry.com (Thanks, Amanda – I forgot I had signed up!)

I dropped these little guys off on a bench inside of the Great Mall in Milpitas near a kid’s play area.

Hope they find a nice home soon!

Toy Society Drop #2

Made my second toy drop this past Friday (this was before the aforementioned creepy lurker incident when life was simpler and times were happier).  I tied a cute little cupcake to the side door of a tutoring center in Sunnyvale, CA across from Fremont High School.

Hope someone takes this little one home and sends a snapshot of its adoption…

Toy Society Drop #1

Thanks to a posting by a Facebook friend a few days ago, I made my way into joining The Toy Society (www.thetoysociety.blogspot.com) and made my first drop today. Read all about the purpose and how it all works on the Toy Society page.  See below for the handmade bunny I made this weekend and dropped off today.  I tied the toy to the doorknob of a kindergarten classroom at a local church that was hosting a great event called the Empty Bowls fundraiser to raise  money for helping the homeless.  It was perfect.  Now to hope that my lovely bunny finds its way into a loving home.

It was fun and it made me feel good.  Great way to end my weekend

Helloooooo Out There

All right, so it’s been a uber-long time since I’ve posted but I am going to keep this one short and sweet.

Check out Christian’s video (and my baking adventure), the ART of the CUPCAKE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1cEhymWoqE and enjoy!

When you’re done with that, watch our latest 48 Hour Film project, Polar Opposites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWsuvX2GCk

And if you feel like doing a little reading, check out the latest posting on Lock It Down TV titled “It’s a Cruel Summer” written by yours truly.

Off to lunch, then a play, then some work for work. Happy Sunday, y’all!

Bikes & Diapers Can Rock!

I am starting to catch up on some photo processing and here are some cool ones of the bicycle diaper cake I made for a co-worker’s baby shower back in May (whose daughter was just born – yay!)

First bicycle diaper cake I’ve ever made

Here are the favors I put together for the party:

Everything turned out great and I was really happy with the cake, favors, AND pictures.

Want to see the rest of the photos?  Go here.

Thanks for viewing!

Craft Show-and-Tell for 7/9/09

I’m doing a quick blog update while the boys are out shopping for nerdy computer parts (by boys, I mean Christian and our friend Kevin who is visiting from L.A.)

I baked my cinnamon bread last night.  Yum again.  Cross one off the list.

I had crocheted a few things that were not on my list before I created my actual list, and wanted to mention them here:

Moonfruit – for a contest that moonfruit.com was having:

Cheetos Giant Cheese Puffs for a Co-worker as a thank-you gift for my free iPhone case (Giant cheese puffs are an inside joke):

A slice of bacon for my manager who gave me a WWBD (What Would Bacon Do?) Spinning wheel from Kentucky:

2 Cupcake Scarves that friends of a friend wanted to buy (they look indentical, I know):

And finally, sushi (maguro, to get specific) that I made for Kevin (our friend in town):

(JK – I hope this wasn’t disappointing.  Glad I already had this one cranked out to show you!)

I’m currently working on some bookmarks, but also trying to re-read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince before the movie comes out Wednesday, so I might be a little slow in my crafting this weekend/coming week.  We’ll see.

Crafting Ambition Overload!

I’ve been sitting in the office/craft corner for 15 minutes debating about which craft project to start up next.  I just finished making 2 cupcake scarves for some friends of a friend (first time selling stuff I’ve made and it’s kinda weird, but whatever).  Now that those are done, I have a bazillion other things I want to make – just not sure where to start…

Here’s my list:

• Crochet sushi
• Crochet turkey drumstick
• Crochet pear
• Crochet ice cream sandwich
• Crochet ice cream cone
• Crochet chocolate chip cookies
• Crochet strawberries
• Crochet bunny rabbit
• Crochet roses
• Crochet Sack Boy
• Crochet mini-monkey
• Crochet blanket (that’s a huge project)
• Make Cute Stuff tote
• Make Cute Stuff sack
• Bake bread (to be done on 7/8)
• Sculpt Fimo cupcakes for glazing
• Sculpt Fimo ice cream
• Make bookmarks
• Finish scrapbooking the rest of 2008 (I left off in March 2008 – another huge project)
• Make Iron Man blankets (2)
• Make pocketed skirt (haven’t decided on red or blue yet)
• Make bubble skirt

I’m sure there’s more to add to the list.  Those are just the first few things I was able to come up with immediately.  Each project has a purpose and several have more flexible timelines than others. 

Marathon crafting – here I come!

Inspired by WonderCon 2009

I stopped by many booths at WonderCon in SF today. Lots of cute and creative things up on display and for sale. Cute fleece hats and creature ears were popular this year. I was intrigued by one booth that was selling pairs of furry clip-on cat ears for $10. They were all hand-made by the lady running the booth and her mother. I really wanted a pair… wasn’t sure what I’d do with it, but they were really cute. I decided to study the ears and make my own. Just so happens I have fur, felt, and a pair of hair clips in stock at home. So I made these guys:

Cute, no? I might even be brave enough to wear them to the Con tomorrow

More Crafting

I was inspired to make a fleece tie blanket this weekend, so I did.  I spent a few hours not sewing this baby together Sunday night.  I think it’s cute.  I made it for a friend’s newborn (once she’s born).  Hope she likes it…

Obsessed or Inspired?

Soo… I spent a few hours last night and today making these:

I was inspired by a project that was posted on a blog that I was very recently introduced to and totally ran with it. Ended up with 20 fabric bookmarks… Anyone like to read?

Bodbrane and the Wizard of Spas

And finally… here’s the video!

48 Hour Film Project – Photos

Here are the photos from Saturday’s project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157606808836166/

This is Bodbrane the Wizard working his magic:

Movie to come later this week!

San Jose 48 Hour Film Project 2008

The 48 Hour Film Project for San Jose started 7:30 PM Friday and ended 7:30 PM tonight. The genre Christian & Jason pulled was fantasy. The required prop was a pin. The required character was Chris or Christie Doyle the drummer. The required line of dialogue was “What just happened?”

Christian & Jason, of course, went in full force and came out with an excellent end product (in my opinion). I spent Friday night – Saturday morning cranking out two wizard costumes and assembled several props. Christian had to take Lily to obedience class alone Saturday morning because I was way behind schedule and was still assembling wizard robe #2. Thank goodness class ran late because that bought me an extra 15 much-needed minutes to sew sleeves on! I played photographer all day Saturday while the guys shot their footage. At about 5 PM, I started feeling the onset of exhaustion and realized that my mind was a little gone when I started texting in Gibberish to Jason’s wife, Sharon. After 40 sleepless hours, I finally hit the sack for a much-needed 11 hours last night. I still feel completely exhausted, but it’s very satisfying to know everything we accomplished in a mere two days.

I’ll post photos and pictures as soon as they get uploaded.

The film will be shown on the big screen at the Camera 12 theaters downtown this coming Wednesday for those of you who are in need of plans Wednesday night and want to support us (at least help vote for us to win the audience award!) It’s the Camera 12 Cinemas on Second street. The films start at 7:30. Hope to see some of you there!

For My Cyber Stalker

Did you all just think to yourself, “Is she talking to me???” LOL! Love it

Today, I’m calling out TDog, a loyal reader and commenter!

Anyway, I got excited about the wedding talk, (especially since I don’t have to do any of it for my own wedding EVER AGAIN) I thought I’d post a few helpful things on here for you or anyone else who happens to be planning a wedding.

Here’s what I did for my wedding favors:

* White frosted mini take out boxes from Uline.com – the boxes themselves came out to about $.45 a box.
* Bought the ribbon from http://www.efavormart.com – I actually found them and bought off of them via eBay – super-smooth service. They have TONS of other wedding supplies
* Snowflake sticker from Oriental Trading Co.
* Mini glue dots from Michael’s:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=gc0276

* Personalized fortune cookies from Fortunecookiestore.com
* Truffle Hershey’s kisses from Target
* Glass stones from Walmart

Here’s adhesive info that might be helpful for your invitations:

Vellum tape:
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0070
Double stick tape:
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0072
Scrapbooking tape: (pretty much same as above)
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0068

And Here’s a blurb about the role of the bridesmaids:

Hope this helped some…

A Domestic Weekend

I have a busy and domestic weekend ahead of me (I’m sure some of you have it much worse, but it’s my blog, so I get to complain ). This may look familiar to some of you:

For those who don’t know the suffering of the vertically-challenged, this is what I have to deal with everytime I buy pants.

I also have the following few tasks to look forward to in the next few days:

-Organize our mess in the living room
-Find hiding places for the random junk on our kitchen table and floor
-Vacuum the house
-Re-caulk the bathroom
-Re-buff the bathroom counter

And probably laundry. When isn’t there laundry?

You’re reading the blog of a girl who knows how to have a good time during her weekends off

These Look Familiar?

Yum.

Happy Easter!

Pizza from scratch

Look friends! I made pizza from scratch today!

I made:

*Pesto ranch w/ garlic, tomato, & basil
*Garlic, tomato, basil, olives
*Garlic, tomato, basil, olives, salame

Here’s how it started:

And here they are all baked (a tad overbaked but that’s okay) and ready to be eaten!

I’ll definitely do this again. Didn’t take long at all.

Good Eats!