Honest Scrap Award

I want to thank Daisy Soap Girl for mentioning me in her blog and passing along the Honest Scrap Award. She describes it as "...you're honest, enjoy your craft and work hard at having others enjoy it as well.". I am very thankful to be noticed by such a great blogger and crafter. It's great to see the support of a fellow blogger and crafter. If you haven't checked out her blog I definitely recommend swinging by and taking a look.

These are the rules as follows:

1. I must thank the person who gave me the award, list their blog and link.
2. I must list ten (10) honest things about myself & a copy of The Honest Scrap Logo on my blog.
3. I must select at least seven (7) other worthy bloggers & list their links
4. I must notify the bloggers of the award and hopefully they will follow the above three requirements also.

10 Honest Things About Me

1. I can't wait until I'm older.
2. I am striving to become vegan again and begin baking vegan.
3. I'm a bit OCD which is why I tend to do all the cleaning myself and have come to accept it.
4. My favorite color is green.
5. My first concert was a Backstreet Boys concert. How shameful!
6. I'm a loner.
7. My favorite movie is Rocky Horror.
8. I don't trust cats.
9. I love to make people laugh.
10. It's quite easy to make me laugh.

Worthy Bloggers

1. Sweet Treats Baking Blog
2. Frog Hair
3. Fig and Plum
4. Cookie Madness
5. Yarn Zombie
6. Brooklyn Tweed
7. Knit and Tonic

Happy Belated April Fool's Day!

I was a bit silly on April Fool's Day. I only played one prank but I made sure it was a good one. I'm actually the first one to be at my job with my boss and while he was in the office I shrinked wrapped all the registers and copy machines. To say the least, his facial expression was PRICELESS.

Word of the Day

I have an e-mail subscription to a couple word of the days and found this one to be a bit interesting. I received it a while back but am just now getting around to sharing it with you.

dyed-in-the-wool \dyde-in-thuh-WOOL\
adjective
Meaning
: thoroughgoing, uncompromising

So there you go my wooly fans, see how you can incorporate it into your regular vocabulary :)

Ten On Tuesday

10 Underrated Movies

1. Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. Shock Treatment
3. Lady Killers
4. Walk The Line
5. Superbad
6. The Cable Guy
7. Clerks II
8. Wedding Singer
9. A Christmas Story
10. 30 Days of Night

Bonus: Across The Universe

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Ten On Tuesday

10 Signs that You're Getting Older (from a 24 year old's perspective)

1. You ache when you wake up in the morning.
2. You realize you need a retirement plan.
3. You have to pay your own bills for the rest of your life.
4. Your friends are all starting to have a kid... or two.
5. Even worse, people younger than you have kids.
6. You remind yourself how you need to start taking vitamins again.
7. You find young kids nowadays are obnoxious.
8. You really notice that your parents are getting older and you need to appreciate them more (note to self: call mom and dad).
9. You start wondering if you should have kids because you are getting older even though you're against having kids.
10. The weekends are for resting and when you do go out to enjoy the nightlife it's strenuous work.

If you wish to play along, please do feel free to check out the Ten On Tuesday blog.

What I did on my vacation

I actually began my vacation with a road trip but I have yet to get all my pictures and thoughts organized so I'm going to make that a separate post. As to the rest of my vacation after the road trip with Paul and his dad which was filled with breath taking scenery, I got the bird feeder filled up along with the suet cakes out. The birds were flocking to them to get food all week long and the Cherry tree was blooming right outside my apartment spreading it's fragrant smell all around. The whole week was so relaxing. We just sat back and enjoyed each other's company. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

I finally finished my pencil holder! I'm so happy with it. I found the instructions for it on this blog. I accidentally made it an inch taller than specified so some sections I stuffed with paper in order for the pencils and pens to sit up higher on. Paul asked me if I was going to paint it which reminded me that I had some paint sitting around somewhere around here and in the process I found my gold glitter from glittering pumpkins around Halloween. The light bulb turned on. I glittered the whole thing and gave it a coat of glossy Mod Podge to stop the glitter from leaving a little trail everywhere the holder is set. I think it turned out pretty neat looking.

In one of my recent trips to Michael's, I found a bunch of Craft magazine which I snatched up quickly. One of them was focused on weaving and had a small paper loom. I wish I had one of those huge looms to make beautiful blankets with, but I figured I had to start somewhere and what better to start with than a free paper loom. So here is my poor attempt. It's a bit more difficult to hold and weave as the article describes but I'll continue to give it a honest try.

Knit Picks Big Snugs in the sea foam color. This is my next knitting project.

Here's some of what I cooked and baked during my vacation:

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

I also made Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies but I only had a 9" pan when it called for a 8" so they didn't come out looking too good even though they tasted just fine. I didn't take pictures since they weren't up to par.

Ten On Tuesday

10 Least Liked Foods

1. Meat
2. Eggs *
3. Those little potato - onion looking veggies in Chinese food.
4. Milk that came from an animal *
5. Peas
6. Fish
7. Pickles (Especially the smell)
8. Horseradish (Especially the smell)
9. Figs (Did you know that these have crushed bugs in them?)
10. Sauerkraut

*The thing with these foods is that I will purchase foods already made that include them but I myself don't purchase eggs and I only bake with milk if it's a critical part of the recipe and cannot be substituted.