Hey everyone! Happy 4th of July!!! So I've been working hard and finally got part 1 of my next crochet tutorial out! You can view it here: I had at first considered making it all in one video but that would probably have ended up an hour long. So I decided to break it into parts to you all and myself a break. Haha! To create this pattern I was inspired by two other patterns which you can find here: Other than that I hope you enjoy it! I was inspired to create a character from Final Fantasy XII (12) because I love cacti and thought it would be a funny twist to a crocheted potted plant. If you've never played the game and don't know what a flowering cactoid is don't worry! You can omit the face and just have you own potted cactus. =)
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Hey all! This month has been insane!! Sylvia has been going to special classes once a week to earn her WRAP credentials so I've been taking her once a week to the train station where she goes down to the city. And guess what? She graduated! If you want to know more of what Sylvia has been up to you can follow her here: Anyways, when I went on the train with her on her last day for the graduation I happened to notice some greenhouses out the window. I thought about how nice it would be to have some of my own. But of course living in an apartment you don't get much chance to grow a lot of plants. So instead I decided to build some virtually in Minecraft. I've got potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, melons, beets, sugarcane, and cocoa beans ready for the harvest. I also have wheat too but that's growing in separate field all by itself. Then of course I needed a chicken coop to go with.... You can see the chickens roaming in the outside pen. Here is the inside of the chicken coop. I gave them special beds made of hay and a nice clean water trough. They also have a little door that they can use to come in and out freely. You can actually see them using it. I always enjoy a bit of farming. It's rather relaxing. Now all I have to do is finish my house. Haha! Also, in other news Jackielantern came over this month and we've had a whole buttload of shenanigans! I've also been working on another crochet tutorial! Here is a sneak peak of what you will be crocheting with me: As always stay tuned!
Hey all! Hope you had a wonderful Earth Day! I like to spend that day in nature if at all possible. It's also a great day because it's the day I was born. No wonder I'm a nature girl! But it doesn't have to be Earth Day for you to appreciate this beautiful green and blue planet we live on. You can do something for the Earth or involving the Earth every day. Whether it be going outside or recycling it's up to you. Sometimes on my nature walks I come across really cool looking rocks. I'm sure you have too. Maybe you are a rock collector. If you aren't you might want to start collecting a few because there is a cute little craft you can do with them. You'll also love this if you are a fan of puns. ;) Anyways, I cooked up another DIY experiment which you can follow along with here: Happy crafting!!
What does a rabbit have to do with eggs? I often wonder how those two things got associated. Regardless, it makes for some yummy eating. While I was hanging out with Jackielantern a few weeks back, we had a few cooking escapades. One of which involved making delicious bunny rabbits. Not real ones of course, but scrumptious doughy ones! You can check out how that turned out here: More recently, this weekend to be precise, I also colored eggs with Sylvia and the Cheetah. We started off with a standard dye kit. For some reason the colored tablets were somewhat unidentifiable at first. That quickly changed once we dumped the liquid in there. Then Sylvia showed us the tricks of the egg dyeing trade. You can do all sorts of things to make designs such as wrapping a rubber band around your egg. The kit also came with some cute little stickers that Cheetah got especially creative with when she made a little butterfly. Something else you can do is crack the shell of your egg before you dye it. Then when you peel it later is has a nice crackle effect. We ended up with a pretty good haul I think. Happy Egg-laying Bunny Day!
Last week was St. Patty's Day and I always look forward to the green. Green grass, and green food. No not the moldy kind....Shamrock Shakes! But ever since I stopped eating dairy I can't enjoy that tradition anymore. Until now!! I found a DIY Shamrock Shake on Pinterest awhile back and this year decided to try it out. It rocked! Best of all I could make it my way: vegan style! Here's how I did it: In making this shake however, it occurred to me that I can also make vegan versions of chocolate and strawberry shakes. Using the non-dairy vanilla ice cream for a base, you can either use cocoa powder for the chocolate shakes and real strawberries for the strawberry. I actually like to use Nesquik. No this is not an ad. But as someone who can't eat dairy and is rather health conscious it's surprisingly not bad. No dairy in it, no high fructose corn syrup and no fake sugars. Well...unless you get the no added sugar kind. Yeah....don't recommend getting that kind.
I suggest experimenting with these shakes in your own style with your own favorite ingredients. Try using real fruit, or maybe even Kool-Aid mixes. You could potentially make a cherry shake, an orange dreamy shake, a pina colada shake. Mmmm I'm getting hungry. Who says being lactose intolerant has to be a downer? |
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