Triangle Quilt

Last fall the newest member of my extended family was welcomed to the world and from the minute I heard about his arrival I wanted to sew something up for him. I searched and searched through blogs and books and just could not make a final decision. Many many weeks later I found the posting on how to make a scrap fabric triangle quilt and within hours I was cutting triangles. I used my scraps from the bed caddy project to make the triangle quilt. In addition to the quilt I made a quick bow tie from the Prudent Baby site tutorial to add a little spunk to the finished project. Here are some pictures of my progress throughout the project. 

Don't Judge a Book by It's Cover

Just when you think everything is in place you find something that can be placed elsewhere. After a major  winter cleaning I decided to put all my cookbooks in my kitchen cabinets instead of being on display on my living room bookcase. After all the cookbooks were nicely put away in their new home I was left with a semi-empty bookcase that needed a major face-lift. 

Before Picture (Taken with an iPhone)

The cookbooks in their new home.

Initially, I had all the books arranged by color to keep things pretty. The colorful arrangement that worked before was not going to work with all the cookbooks in their new home. I had a bunch of mismatched books and chatskis on my bookcase that was quite the new eyesore. Then out of nowhere came the memory of a blog posting on The Precious Little Things in Life blog I read regarding bookcase arrangements. While an article in Real Simple started me on organizing by color that blog posting gave me the inspiration for my current arrangement. 

Cake Balls 101: Part Two

Disclaimer: Please work with me here as I am learning how to explain in writing the process of making cake balls. The last time I made cake balls, I timed the process to give you an approximate "cooking time". I made 108 cake balls and it took 5 hours over a period of 3 days. Day 1: Bake Cake, Cool, Combine with Icing & Refrigerate - 1 hour Day 2: Scoop and form cake balls into balls & Freeze - 1 hour Day 3: Dip cake balls into candy coating and decorate - 3 hours

Cake Ball Making Instructions by Kady:
1. Bake cake according to the directions on the box in a cake pan of your choosing. 
2. Let the cake cool completely before transferring to a mixing bowl. 
3. Crumble the baked cake into a mixing bowl. 

Changes and Current Music

I'll be making a few changes to my blog over the next couple of weeks to reorganize and refocus my goals for my blog. I hope you enjoy the changes!

Current Music Choices:

She & Him 

Adele

Santigold

Happy Listening!
Kady

Happy New Year

Ten... Nine... Eight.. Seven... (Quick! What's your new years resolution?!) Six... Five... Four... (something creative and different this year!!) Three... Two... One... Happy New Years!! 


I am excited about 2012... in the past few weeks I recently heard about The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Her concept is a great one and I hope to blog about it this year. Stick around and let's have an adventure together! 


Happy New Year! 
Kady

Cake Balls 101 - Not forgotten

Dear Readers

I have taken a VERY long break from blogging. I kept on forgetting to take pictures while making cake balls this holiday season... too many times. I plan on doing the pictures this next week during the day to help with the pictures! Yay! I hope everyone has had a blessed holidays. 

-Kady

Cake Balls 101: Part One

Cake Balls have become the new cupcakes, with an even bigger price! I am still in shock for a mere dozen you can be paying $13 or more! With my recent adventures in cake ball making I have come down to this equation:

Box Cake Mix $3 

Can Frosting $3

Eggs 20 cents

Canola Oil 10 cents

Coating Chocolate $4 (times 4 = $16)

Total $22.30 + Labor (Free if you do it yourself) 

I have found using a Melon Ball scoop, I can make 108+ cake balls with one box cake mix... drum roll please... approximately 20 cents each, so paying nearly 5 times as much is rip off, when you can do it all yourself. Thankfully, Paula Deen put together a mighty fine and quite delicious list of Cake Ball pairings! I have to warn you it takes time and on top of that it takes a lot of effort. Your first adventure in cake ball making might be difficult, but stay strong - you never know when someday someone will be paying you to make them cake balls! Over the next week I'll be adding pictures and steps to making cake balls at home.

Step One: Gather all of the ingredients

Left to Right: Chocolate Sprinkles, Chocolate Coating, Cake Mix, Canola Oil, Chocolate Frosting, Toothpicks, Eggs & Four-Pronged Fork. 

Left to Right: Disposable Gloves and Melon Ball Scoop

Happy Shopping!

Kady

Farm Fresh Eggs

I have to be honest about something, white eggs kind of creep me out especially after being exposed farm fresh eggs. I'm genuinely curious, "Where do white eggs come from?" I'm sure someone out there can help me with that question or I can just "Google" the question on my own. 

My Aunt and Uncle live a few hours North of me and when I'm lucky, I receive gifts of farm fresh eggs, fresh basil and other homegrown items. After a visit up North, my mother brought me back farm fresh eggs as a surprise. These eggs were especially unique this time and I knew I wanted to post them for everyone to see. Please take note to the color variations of the different eggs. Whenever you see a sign for farm fresh eggs or have the opportunity to have farm fresh eggs, please try them someday! 

This is a mixture of eggs.
One store bought white egg, three store bought brown eggs and  seven farm fresh eggs. 

Current Music

I want this to be a regular post, updating my readers of the current music playing in the background as I type these blogs or out on walks with Dixie. Enjoy! 

Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 

Bob Marley - One Love/People Get Ready

Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page

Happy Listening! 

Kady

Dog Bed, Chevron Print & Piping

Over the past 21 months we have gone through quite a number of dog beds. I cannot lie when I say I'm thankful to have the ability to sew. With my endless browsing of the internet for fabrics and sewing blogs I continually see the Chevron print and I'm dying to use it somewhere in my apartment. Well, that chance came with the most recent destroying of Dixie's bed. (I do not promote the destroying of dog beds, sometimes it just happens)

When it came down to the design of this new dog bed I knew I wanted the following features: 
þ Rectangle shape  

þ Zipper closer

þ Piping/Cording around the edges

þ NO STUFFING!

Most of those requests are doable, no problem - but how is a bed supposed to be comfortable?? That's when I came around to the Molly Mutt site and I knew I had to make this for myself. 

Here is the adventure of making Dixie's *NEW* Dog Bed:

All the supplies: Approximately 10 T-Shirts, Pins, Rotary Cutter, Scissors, Piping (96 inches),  Cutting Mat & Ruler,  22 inch zipper, Fabric (1 yard, 44 inches wide for outside) (1/2 yard for piping/cording) and Muslin (1 yard, 33 inch wide)

Sewing completed!