Fall Door Hanging

I love fall!  It is my favorite!  I made this to go on our door this year.  Not a wreath, but I love it.  I know, it is now January.  This was on the door until after Thanksgiving.  I am a bit behind.  I hated to take it down.  Can't wait to put it back up!

Thanks for looking!

Thanksgiving Plate

I got inspired by the posts of the Skilled and Chilled Silhouette Facebook page, so I tried a plate.  I love how it turned out.  The sentiment is from the Silhouette store.

In This House, We Do Geek

In our house we are a bunch of nerds.  And very proud of it.  We think we are cool as hell.  But still, nerds.  We are smart.  We love to learn.  We love science.  And sci-fi.  And fantasy.  Dragons, we really love dragons.  Legos to Legolas, Star Wars to Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons to Disney castles.  We love to dress up and imagine and create. I made this to go on our family room wall.  I used distress paints on canvas and then vinyl for the lettering.  Weeding the words was a bitch.  But it was worth it.

 "In this house, we believe in magic.
We have epic adventures
and unexpected journeys.
Once upon a time
and in galaxies far, far away.
We do wibbley, wobbley timey, whimey stuff while
going where no one has gone before.
We assemble and defend.
We know the answer to everything is 42
and that the odds are ever in our favor.
We never say die.
We do cosplay and fun.
We aim to misbehave
and we don't care what others think.
Because in this house,
we do GEEK!"

Viva Las Vegas!! Elvis Has Not Left the Building!

Tonight we attended my best friend's wedding reception.  It was beautiful!  They ran off to Vegas in April to be married by Elvis, so her amazing in-laws had their reception tonight.  It was the most fun I have had in ages!  I was honored to get to make a thank you card for her in-laws.  It was one of the most fun cards I have made lately.  I googled the Elvis image and the cards are from the Silhouette store.  I snagged one of their wedding pics for the card backs.  I got to break in my gold and silver Wink of Stella markers on it. Congrats Stacy and James!  Love you guys!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Today is my Dad's birthday.  I just found out that he is a Breaking Bad fan.  I also just found out he has Acute Myeloid Leukemia.  When he called to tell my brother about it, he told him he needed to get a Winnebago so he could start cooking.  Dad has a dark sense of humor.  When our chihuahua named Taco was hit by a truck when we were little, Dad broke the news to us by saying, "Kids, sorry, but we are gonna have to change your dog's name to Tortilla."

Anyway.  I knew he was gonna need a Breaking Bad card.  Since I am not in a very creative mood at the moment, I have to say I copied a card from Snappy Scraps.   The files is called Science Guy from SVG Cutting Files.

We subscribe to Loot Crate and had gotten the coolest Breaking Bad aprons recently, so I thought that would be perfect too.  My brother recommended that we put some blue rock candy in the bag with it, so we did that too.  Dad loved it!

 

 

Mounds Cake

Cake, it's what's for dinner!  

     Or breakfast.  I like it for lunch too.  A few weeks ago, I made a coconut poke cake.  You know, bake a cake, poke holes in it with a fork and pour some type of liquidy, yummy goodness all over it.  The first one was great, I used a white cake mix and added the coconut mixture and life was good.  But there was no chocolate.  So I figured that was a good enough excuse for the next week to have more cake.  Because, cake is wonderful.  
     When I was in my late teens and lived in TN, there was this little restaurant that was in what used to be a gas station that was now a tiny little hole in the wall place in BFE.  To look at it, it didn't look like much.  But the food was amazing!  They didn't have a menu, it was whatever they cooked that was what you got.  I loved it!  They served this wonderful cake on some days, it was chocolate, gooey, rich, coconut and mmmmmm.  Mounds cake.  So after not having one in over a decade or so, it was time.  
     You know how so many amazing blogs have the pretty pictures and the fancy plates and it all looks so perfect and awesome?  I love that.  I so want to do that stuff.  But I am about as jeans and t shirt as you get.  So is my cake.  This cake is anyway.  I didn't think about taking a picture of it until late one night as I was texting my bestie and telling her that she needed some cake too.  One day I might take fancy, cute pictures of pretty cakes.  This is not the day.  

Yummy!

So easy to make too!

Mounds Cake

box of Devil's Food cake mix

cup of milk

4 eggs

stick of butter

mix and bake in a greased pan

(a 13"x 9" pan at 350 for about 27 minutes most days works for us)

Let it cool for a bit and then poke it full of holes with a fork.

The coconut mixture is super easy:

A can  of sweetened condensed milk

A can of  Creme of Coconut

(not coconut milk, very different stuff)

mix these together and pour all over the cake

It will look like it is too much and that the cake is gonna drown.

This is good.  It will soak in and be awesome.

Top with Cool Whip and Shredded coconut.

Keep it in the fridge.  It gets better as it sits.  Day 2 is amazeballs!

We Have A Mailbox!!

After a few weeks of fighting with Firefox, I finally thought maybe I would try Chrome to post on here.  Firefox stopped letting me add pictures to the posts.  That makes for a very unhappy me.

Anyway.

We got a mailbox for the new house, which gave me a chance to play with some vinyl.  I made up the numbers and then wanted to add something to the flag.  It is silver and was looking way too plain for our family.  I was looking through my scrap pieces of vinyl to use to make a skull and crossbones, when I instead found a leftover bat signal.  It was a perfect fit!

Thanks for looking!