Thursday, I made my first ever batch of croutons. I know, right?! I'm such a foodie, so it's crazy that I've never made them before. Honestly, I'd just never really thought about it. I didn't really use a recipe. I just cut up some bread I'd made earlier in the week, added some butter, olive oil, and seasonings, and stuck them in the oven. And they turned out pretty awesome!
Also on Thursday, I made a half batch of my yummy and healthy Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Muffins. I had the egg white to use up from the Single Serving Peanut Butter Cookies I made eariler in the week, so these muffins were the perfect thing! I left out the raisins this time but added some crushed almonds. Woowee! The little bit of crunch from the almonds was delish! I had the last one this morning with some peanut butter slathered on top. (I may have forgotten to mention that I am absolutely obsessed with Jif Natural Peanut Butter right now. I swear. I'm eating it on EVERYTHING! I truly think the natural tastes like nine million times better than the regular kind. Maybe I'm crazy though.)
And another thing from Thursday (apparently I was pretty productive that day): I started on a new scarf! Here is the progression it went through on Thursday and Friday.
I started out knowing I wanted to use the variegated "film reel" yarn in the left-middle, but I had no idea what I wanted to use with it.
Here are the final five. I used these to warp the loom randomly as shown below.
Here's the warp getting ready to be wound on the loom.
And here we have my two options for the weft. (I did have a third, the hot pink-ish color, but I already ruled that one out.) After a few days of letting it sit and walking past it a hundred times looking at it, Thomas and I are both leaning towards the top, darker silver. I like the funkiness of the bottom black/silver, but the top yarn is a little calmer and much, much softer. So, I will probably get those samples un-woven today and start weaving for real!
Friday, I got a haircut. It's not a huge difference, just cutting the split ends off and putting some layers back into it, but I like it.
Saturday, I made this baby for our Easter get together at some friends'. Boston Cream Poke Cake. Oh yum! This is one of my favorite cakes, and it's so incredibly easy to make! Just bake a yellow cake, poke a ton of holes into it, pour on vanilla pudding and then cover with chocolate ganache! So, so, so good! Except for the fact that we brought way too much back home with us! Now I'm going to have to get fat or find someone to help us eat it!
And lastly, I did some idle shopping on Saturday afternoon and came up with a great project to add some more coral to the bedroom! The best part: for this project, I spent a total of $6!!! Sunday, I put it all together, and voila cute bedroom wall art!
It all started as I was strolling through Michael's with no intention whatsoever except to take up some time. I happened upon the scrapbook papers and found some adorable sheets that matched my coral pillow exactly! (And how did I know they matched exactly? I now carry a swatch of that fabric in my wallet so that I can pull it out anywhere, anytime if I find something coral.) The 12x12 sheets were only $.59 a piece! So, I continued strolling through the store while I let the ideas formulate in my head. I ended up with two corals and two grays. Then I headed across to the dollar store to grab some $1 8x10 frames. Print and cut out some letters, put it all together, and here's what I got!
I just L-O-V-E it! Haha! And I loved the $6 price tag even more!
Well, that about brings you up to speed on my life! I did start a new running program today, but I'm not quite ready to share it with anybody because I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail miserably at it. (It looks really hard.) But, I will maybe share it in a few weeks if it hasn't killed me by then!
I hope you find a few little lovelies in your own life to get you through Monday!
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