My post Friday late morning from other blog on the Aurora, Colorado event
I am saddened today... I wonder what the world is coming to in these dark times... I know many people will ask "How can God let this happen?" and the only thing I can say (from my tiny knowledge of anything) is that God didn't let it happen, He gave everyone free-will and that is something that He will not take from us... Yes it is sad and tragic, but God is not the one to blame... So here are my quick thoughts... Pray for the victims and their families-that the injured recovery quickly and that the ones we lost be grieved and remembered... Also pray for the shooter- that he will see what he did was wrong and seek God to turn his poor lost soul around...
I will be praying all day today, for those involved, for those now too scared to leave their homes, and for any other lost soul that needs to seek God in his life... I hope many of you will join me in prayer!
Psalm 27:1 "The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?"
Proverbs3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will direct your paths."
Combining Day to Day blog with this one
I am going to combine my 2 blogs into this one... so here is a post from Thursday on my other blog:
What a crazy year it has been... I try to get into a routine and fail, I try to get better at certain aspects in life and fail, sometimes it feels like all that I do is fail, but I know that God still loves me and that is the important thing... One thing that I have been succeeding at doing is reading a devotional every morning, it has been so refreshing for my soul! This week has had some other great things happen in it... Things that are more day-to-day and having to do with being a mom and housewife (still not sure how I feel about that title, but hey)... This week I have tried 3 new recipes, all of which were successes! This is great news since I tried a new recipe a couple months ago and it was ok, then when I tried to re-make it just last week it was a huge failure, followed by 2 other meals that I make all the time failing horribly... so what did I make this week? Monday I made Lasagna Roll-ups... It is the same idea as lasagna, but instead of layering everything you roll each noodle up individually so that each noodle is a serving... Here is what I did:
Lasagna Roll Up (got the main idea from this site: All Recipes.com)
Brown 1 pound of ground beef (I seasoned mine with oregano and parsley) Boil lasagna noodles until Al Dente (or my version of al dente is just before they are soft enough to eay hehe)
Mix together Ricotta Cheese and Shredded Mozzarella Cheese in a bowl Once everything is cooked and mixed together, lay noodles on a piece of wax paper, put a TBS of sauce and spread over noodle, then crumble about 2TBS of beef across the sauce, drop/spread 2TBS of cheese mixture over that... Roll them up like a jelly roll... Once they are all done (I made the entire box of noodles) I put some sauce in the bottom of a baking dish and placed a few lasagna rolls in the dish, covered them with more sauce and baked at 375 for 30-35 mins... The rest of the rolls I put in aluminum foil and a storage bag to put in the freezer for an easy freezer meal later
My family loved it!
Tuesday I made this Vegetable Tian meal... I have no idea what that is and had to alter the recipe that I found, but again it was a huge success Here is what I did:
Vegetable Tian (adapted from Budget Bytes)
I had browned too much beef on Monday so I had about 1 pound of ground beef seasoned with parsley and oregano that I layered at the bottom of a baking dish, next I sliced zucchini, cucumber (they suggest squash and I would have if I had it, but the cucumber worked well), tomato and potato and stuck them vertically on top of the meat alternating the veggies (don't layer them, you want them standing on the "edges")... sprinkle some salt, pepper and oregano (or was it parsley or something else?) on top of all the veggies, cover with foil and bake at 400 for 30 mins, remove foil and add a generous amount of shredded cheese (they said Italian blend, I used a colby jack blend) and bake uncovered for another 15 min
this was probably Greg's favorite, not sure that O cared for it, or he may have not been hungry and I thought it was missing something so I'll keep experimenting...
Finally Wednesday I made up my own Noodles and Beef Tips
Noodles and Beef tips (basically my own recipe, but I saw a recipe somewhere just can't remember where that used a packet of gravy and a packet of Au Jus and I made up the rest from there...)
I took Country Style Beef Ribs and put them in a crock pot, sprinkled some cumin and red pepper on top, added 1 packet of brown gravy mix, 1 packet of Au Jus mix and 1 cup of water... Cooked on high for about 1.5 hour then turned to low for 3 or 4 hours... towards the end I made egg noodles as normal, while they were cooking I took out the beef and cut into smaller pieces and put back in the crock pot for the remaining time and let them marinate a little more... then pour the beef and gravy on the noodles and have some deliciousness!
Greg and O loved, but I thought I put too much cumin in (which it did come out a little fast for my preference) otherwise complete success!
Now tonight is going to be a simple grilled chicken on a salad of romaine lettuce, cucumber, zucchini and tomato topped with cheese and dressing! yum and simple!
Now for other news... O told me 8 different colors yesterday while he was coloring, he would pick up each crayon and tell me its color... He told me blue, black, brown, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow! Then when showing Daddy, he was being a stinker and not paying attention, but if I would tell him to grab the red crayon he did and did so with all 8 colors again! (had a little problem with purple at first, but got it soon enough) So proud of my little man!
Well this post is longer than it should be, so off I go!
Have a blessed day and remember that God is in control!
What a crazy year it has been... I try to get into a routine and fail, I try to get better at certain aspects in life and fail, sometimes it feels like all that I do is fail, but I know that God still loves me and that is the important thing... One thing that I have been succeeding at doing is reading a devotional every morning, it has been so refreshing for my soul! This week has had some other great things happen in it... Things that are more day-to-day and having to do with being a mom and housewife (still not sure how I feel about that title, but hey)... This week I have tried 3 new recipes, all of which were successes! This is great news since I tried a new recipe a couple months ago and it was ok, then when I tried to re-make it just last week it was a huge failure, followed by 2 other meals that I make all the time failing horribly... so what did I make this week? Monday I made Lasagna Roll-ups... It is the same idea as lasagna, but instead of layering everything you roll each noodle up individually so that each noodle is a serving... Here is what I did:
Lasagna Roll Up (got the main idea from this site: All Recipes.com)
Brown 1 pound of ground beef (I seasoned mine with oregano and parsley) Boil lasagna noodles until Al Dente (or my version of al dente is just before they are soft enough to eay hehe)
Mix together Ricotta Cheese and Shredded Mozzarella Cheese in a bowl Once everything is cooked and mixed together, lay noodles on a piece of wax paper, put a TBS of sauce and spread over noodle, then crumble about 2TBS of beef across the sauce, drop/spread 2TBS of cheese mixture over that... Roll them up like a jelly roll... Once they are all done (I made the entire box of noodles) I put some sauce in the bottom of a baking dish and placed a few lasagna rolls in the dish, covered them with more sauce and baked at 375 for 30-35 mins... The rest of the rolls I put in aluminum foil and a storage bag to put in the freezer for an easy freezer meal later
My family loved it!
Tuesday I made this Vegetable Tian meal... I have no idea what that is and had to alter the recipe that I found, but again it was a huge success Here is what I did:
Vegetable Tian (adapted from Budget Bytes)
I had browned too much beef on Monday so I had about 1 pound of ground beef seasoned with parsley and oregano that I layered at the bottom of a baking dish, next I sliced zucchini, cucumber (they suggest squash and I would have if I had it, but the cucumber worked well), tomato and potato and stuck them vertically on top of the meat alternating the veggies (don't layer them, you want them standing on the "edges")... sprinkle some salt, pepper and oregano (or was it parsley or something else?) on top of all the veggies, cover with foil and bake at 400 for 30 mins, remove foil and add a generous amount of shredded cheese (they said Italian blend, I used a colby jack blend) and bake uncovered for another 15 min
this was probably Greg's favorite, not sure that O cared for it, or he may have not been hungry and I thought it was missing something so I'll keep experimenting...
Finally Wednesday I made up my own Noodles and Beef Tips
Noodles and Beef tips (basically my own recipe, but I saw a recipe somewhere just can't remember where that used a packet of gravy and a packet of Au Jus and I made up the rest from there...)
I took Country Style Beef Ribs and put them in a crock pot, sprinkled some cumin and red pepper on top, added 1 packet of brown gravy mix, 1 packet of Au Jus mix and 1 cup of water... Cooked on high for about 1.5 hour then turned to low for 3 or 4 hours... towards the end I made egg noodles as normal, while they were cooking I took out the beef and cut into smaller pieces and put back in the crock pot for the remaining time and let them marinate a little more... then pour the beef and gravy on the noodles and have some deliciousness!
Greg and O loved, but I thought I put too much cumin in (which it did come out a little fast for my preference) otherwise complete success!
Now tonight is going to be a simple grilled chicken on a salad of romaine lettuce, cucumber, zucchini and tomato topped with cheese and dressing! yum and simple!
Now for other news... O told me 8 different colors yesterday while he was coloring, he would pick up each crayon and tell me its color... He told me blue, black, brown, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow! Then when showing Daddy, he was being a stinker and not paying attention, but if I would tell him to grab the red crayon he did and did so with all 8 colors again! (had a little problem with purple at first, but got it soon enough) So proud of my little man!
Well this post is longer than it should be, so off I go!
Have a blessed day and remember that God is in control!
Lapghan/ Pillowghan Update
Well here are the updates to the afghans... The square that is at the bottom by itself will go on the back as the pocket for the pillow part...
Now to finish a total of 28 more squares to be finished with all three....
Now to finish a total of 28 more squares to be finished with all three....
Lots to catch up on!
Well I did it again, I got way behind and I have been crafting away! So here are a ton of pictures to show what I have done since my last post...
I have finished the lapghans for Warm Up America... I made the green squares for second blanket, but otherwise I only joined the squares given to me with yarn given to me...
I've also done many more squares for the afghans, and will try to get that updated...
I have made several more prayer squares as well:
I've made washcloths for soldiers
Then I made a few things for the house, a hot pad and 2 dishcloths:
This dishcloth was using a knitting pattern that creates an illusion effect, I tried on my own to turn it into a Tunisian crochet method and failed, then someone told me about a thread that had a link to instructions on how to convert the knitting pattern into a Tunisian pattern! I think it is pretty cool!
I did a test for my prayer partner's new design:
As well as several squares for her Journey House project:
There are so many more that I have made or started but this post is getting rather long, so I will end now and try to get the rest tomorrow or Monday when I update the afghans...
Hope you enjoyed all of the crocheted goodness hehe
I have finished the lapghans for Warm Up America... I made the green squares for second blanket, but otherwise I only joined the squares given to me with yarn given to me...
I've also done many more squares for the afghans, and will try to get that updated...
I have made several more prayer squares as well:
I've made washcloths for soldiers
Then I made a few things for the house, a hot pad and 2 dishcloths:
This dishcloth was using a knitting pattern that creates an illusion effect, I tried on my own to turn it into a Tunisian crochet method and failed, then someone told me about a thread that had a link to instructions on how to convert the knitting pattern into a Tunisian pattern! I think it is pretty cool!
I did a test for my prayer partner's new design:
As well as several squares for her Journey House project:
There are so many more that I have made or started but this post is getting rather long, so I will end now and try to get the rest tomorrow or Monday when I update the afghans...
Hope you enjoyed all of the crocheted goodness hehe
Nothing to show this week...
Well I have been working on things this week, but nothing is finished and I don't really have "in progress" photos... The only thing I can show is the lapghan that I am assembling for the Warm Up America group through Pat Catan's...
I picked up "squares" to assemble for them to distribute to other foundations that help keep those in need warm... These foundations include helping Nursing Homes and Women's Shelters... One of the sets of squares I grabbed were these bright pink granny squares:
There were only 10 of them and making a 3x3 was not nearly big enough... so I made 14 more squares using a mint color that coordinates well enough with the pink... I am joining them together using the flat-braid method and a cream yarn that Pat Catan's gave me... Here are the completed mint squares:
I have been working on a "costume" hook (like a pirate's) and more of the squares for the afghans, but again nothing is done yet...
What a crazy week... Hopefully will have more for you next week!
There were only 10 of them and making a 3x3 was not nearly big enough... so I made 14 more squares using a mint color that coordinates well enough with the pink... I am joining them together using the flat-braid method and a cream yarn that Pat Catan's gave me... Here are the completed mint squares:
I have been working on a "costume" hook (like a pirate's) and more of the squares for the afghans, but again nothing is done yet...
What a crazy week... Hopefully will have more for you next week!
That time again...
Well here is more of what I have done this week...
Another Hat, I donated the 2 spider hats and the pixie hat to Catholic Charities:
Then I finished this DS Case (it has 6 game pockets and 3 memory card pockets on the inside):
And as promised the 3 afghans that I have been working on... I am making "pillowghans" (where the afghan folds into a pocket to become a pillow, like a quillo)... I have 3 squares for each done, I will be making a total of 16 squares (a 3x5 and a square for the pocket) I included muted "squares" to represent the way it will be organized...
Here is the first which will be done in burnt orange and "linen"... I will join with a brown, but haven't chose which one yet...
The next will be made primarily the same as what you see, the variegated center with an orange ring and then the majority of the square in the same variegated... It will be joined with a yellow (hence the yellow background)
Finally This one is the most "involved"... I first made the center square with the celtic knots to incorporate ALL of the colors that will be used... The rest of the squares will be a solid color of the 4 colors used in the first one... This one will be joined in a dusty gold color, similar to the background...
Then I finished this DS Case (it has 6 game pockets and 3 memory card pockets on the inside):
And as promised the 3 afghans that I have been working on... I am making "pillowghans" (where the afghan folds into a pocket to become a pillow, like a quillo)... I have 3 squares for each done, I will be making a total of 16 squares (a 3x5 and a square for the pocket) I included muted "squares" to represent the way it will be organized...
Here is the first which will be done in burnt orange and "linen"... I will join with a brown, but haven't chose which one yet...
The next will be made primarily the same as what you see, the variegated center with an orange ring and then the majority of the square in the same variegated... It will be joined with a yellow (hence the yellow background)
Finally This one is the most "involved"... I first made the center square with the celtic knots to incorporate ALL of the colors that will be used... The rest of the squares will be a solid color of the 4 colors used in the first one... This one will be joined in a dusty gold color, similar to the background...
ok, going to try to blog once a week...
Wish me luck... here are the items that I have completed to date: One of the first things I finished this year was mine and Greg's scrapghan:
I made myself another Hook Case... If you are looking for the pattern I got it on Ravelry (here), but I altered it quite a bit so here is my project page with a few notes... I love this one, and have many compliments on it:
I made a total of 5 sets of Fingerless Gloves (Brie commissioned me to make 4, and I wanted a pair) So here is one of the commissioned and then my pair:
and 
Then I tested a pattern for this hat (uber cute, too bad I have a boy not a girl hehe)
I tried my hand in Tapestry crochet to make this square, that I sent to a friend to add to her blanket (It's a prayer square- I pray while crocheting, she assembles with other squares to be able to wrap herself in love and prayers)
The next 2 squares are also prayer squares sent to Gigi and Lisa:
and 
Then I tested for a Tapestry style hat (I think I want to try it again w/ different colors that will show better) These will go to my local Catholic Charities:
Next I made 4 more prayer squares to send to Cindy so she can assemble for her sick nephew:
Finally I finished a fringe blanket photo prop for Greg to use in his photography:
This has all been done this year... I have also been working on some more blankets which I will get a collage of the squares made so far and will post them during next weeks post... And once I start posting again regularly, I won't have as many to post each week hehe
I made myself another Hook Case... If you are looking for the pattern I got it on Ravelry (here), but I altered it quite a bit so here is my project page with a few notes... I love this one, and have many compliments on it:
I made a total of 5 sets of Fingerless Gloves (Brie commissioned me to make 4, and I wanted a pair) So here is one of the commissioned and then my pair:
and Then I tested a pattern for this hat (uber cute, too bad I have a boy not a girl hehe)
I tried my hand in Tapestry crochet to make this square, that I sent to a friend to add to her blanket (It's a prayer square- I pray while crocheting, she assembles with other squares to be able to wrap herself in love and prayers)
The next 2 squares are also prayer squares sent to Gigi and Lisa:
and Then I tested for a Tapestry style hat (I think I want to try it again w/ different colors that will show better) These will go to my local Catholic Charities:
Next I made 4 more prayer squares to send to Cindy so she can assemble for her sick nephew:
Finally I finished a fringe blanket photo prop for Greg to use in his photography:
This has all been done this year... I have also been working on some more blankets which I will get a collage of the squares made so far and will post them during next weeks post... And once I start posting again regularly, I won't have as many to post each week hehe
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