WITL Day 6 and 7

I was looking back at my last WITL post and I put day 6 when really it was day 5.  I need to stop doing things before my coffee in the morning!!!  I probably mislabeled all my days haha.  Geez Louise!  My day 6 and 7 were uneventful. 

I didn't even take pictures!

Wednesday:  Got up early again, hung out with Zoe and then headed off to work.  Now on Tuesday I got those awesome plates to make platters with, well on Wednesday I ran back to the thrift store and got the rest.  I haggled the guy (yeah not really) and got the big plates down from $1.49 to a buck.  There were three left so I saved like $1.50.  Not bad.  I then got green glass candle holders.  It looks so pretty the green with the fine china plates!  When  I got home I just got lazy and sat around my apartment for the rest of the night.

Thursday:  I work nights on Thursdays, so I spend my days doing laundry and cleaning.  But I didn't really feel like doing that yesterday.  So I asked my friend if she wanted to go to ikea with us.  We were leaving at 11:30.  That left me 2 hours to get some cleaning done, so I wouldn't feel too guilty.  We headed to ikea and Zoe was too short to play in their playground, so we walked around.  My friend got a lot of things for her classroom and I got a lock for our fridge.  Richie found some chick-fil-a near Zoe's kitchen the other day and we hadn't been to Chick-fil-a in forever.  So she needs to be locked outta the fridge!  Then I bought some cute little bud vases for $.79 each.  I think they would look cute for platters :)  I'm obsessed!  After lunch at Ikea (which kids eat free Aug 1-21) we left and got some $1 ice cream on the way out.  Then we headed to hobby lobby.  Which was funny, because I was browsing a blog and she kept talking about hobby lobby and then my friend mentioned it. I didn't even know we had one by us.  So we headed there.  It was huge, like Joannes and Micheal's smashed together.  They were a little on the expensive side.  My friend who is not a crafter in any sense was not impressed, but they had Christmas decorations so I was super excited lol.  They had a bunch of cone trees covered and smothered in bright sparkly colors!  I feel in love haha.  So after that we headed home. Zoe was a grump.  I took a quick 30 minute nap before I headed into work. 3 hours later I was phased.  Fine by me.  I headed home and relaxed the rest of the night. 

I had fun doing this little project.  I think I will do it periodically.  Like maybe during the holidays.  Just to see how every ones celebrations went.  Now I am off to work again :(

*Allie

Obsession Thursday

The Obsession of the week is.....Paint chip samples.  I have seen so many niefty things you can do with them.  Now I need to run to Lowe's and discreetly snag oh I don't know ten million of them and I'm good!

You can make this awesome bookmarks found at bella carta or

if you are feeling adventurous you can make art

found at mod podge rocks blog (why yes it does rock!). 
Now this one takes dedication, and a lot of trips to several stores.

Isn't this awesome?!  Find it here at cozy little cave.

I don't know what it is with me and magnets, but these are so cute!  and colorful and I know Zoe loves playing with all my magnets so it can be made into a color game!  Found at how about orange.

hellolucky uses them for utensils.  This would be cute for a kids party, just match the color up with the theme!  (minus the knives).
My favorite that I found last night, that I will be scouring garage sales for would be paint chip coasters!

itsy bitsy paper blog, over at this blog she has a whole week dedicated to crafting with paint chip samples!  Awesome.  This will def be on my list of projects during the school year, because its basically free! 

*Allie



WITL Day 6 (8/9/11)

Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.  I like Tuesday but then I don't.  I don't because it is my last day off and then I dread going to bed at night because I  know I have to work in the A.M.  Well we started our day off early again.  I'm getting sick of these early mornings.  I am a morning person, but when I wake up exhausted it just kind of sets a president for the rest of the day.  Anyone else getting sick of always being tired??  I need to find that happy medium where I am not so overly tired, just a little, but awake enough to get things done!

Any ways....we woke up, watched cartoons, I surfed my blogs.  Zoe insisted on helping with the eggs this morning.  Which is fine, she does a good job up at the stove. She knows she isn't allowed to touch the hot stuff, plus she is an excellent stirrer!  Shes gonna be a master chef one day!

 It was really crappy and rainy out all day.  Finally around 10:30 I was like lets just get dressed and go out.  So that we did.  We headed over to Monkey Joes, or as Zoe likes to call it Monkey bars.

 Zoe pouting because I told her she needed to wait her turn. and I just noticed that person behind her wearing socks and flip flops. oh my goodness. 

So after that we went to look around the dollar general market.  I wanted to get stuff to add to my first aid kit I am making.

Then I promised her McDonald's so we stopped there.  Tuesdays they have 6 nuggets for $.99.  Cant beat that!  Then I wanted to visit my mom, so we stopped at another McDonald's and got her lunch.  Yes I totally felt like a glutinous fatty pulling up to another McDonald's with a bag of food already in my front seat with me! haha.

hung out with my mom at her job for a little bit then headed to a thrift store.  We don't go there often because my mom doesn't like it.  And I always seem to go thrifting with her.  I found these great plates, fine china for cheap.  I bought the dinner plate and small salad plate.  I think I am going to go back today and buy the rest.  They would make the nicest cake stands!

Then we headed to the "best used book store" that's the name.  I have never been, but always wanted to go.  They had so many books.  Zoe and I were in heaven.  I even found books from my childhood that brought back memories.  I have to go back when I'm not with Zoe which is never.

We headed home and just relaxed for a bit.  I made dinner and then after dinner my night is done.  I get in bed and read.  Its an exciting life but someone has to live it!

I did make spinach stuffed portabellos to go with dinner and they were delish!

If you make these I suggest just having that for dinner, Richie and I barely even touched our chicken.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!

*Allie  



Birthday Wishes

So my birthday is coming up.  Not like I want to celebrate it because I am closer to becoming 30....but I still want presents.  he he.  Doesn't everyone want to open some presents on their birthday?? I really don't care for the presents but there are some things that I really want and they are odd requests but I haven't had the extra money to get them myself.....this page will be left open so someone can see it.....

First off I want a donut pan

Yeah I am not even a big fan of doughnuts but I really want one so I can make them.  Mainly for Richie.  Weird yes.

Next is for a craft project for Zoe and myself

Now I don't expect these things from family, because I know money is tight, but its nice to have a wish list.  Considering I haven't had a wish list in years.

A kindle! I am behind the times, Richie got me a ezcruz reader for xmas but I don't know how to use it. and I can only read where there is wi-fi and its a tad bit confusing.  Although I love the gift and him thinking of me to go to all the trouble of getting it.  I kinda still really, really want a kindle.  So now that that I made my list I can now go back to planning Zoe's third birthday.  Because in reality her birthdays excite me more then mine do. 

*Allie 



Mini Cupcake kind of day

I am in cupcake mode for some reason.  Anything bite size really.  Just pop in your mouth and go.  The only bad thing with that is one is just not enough.  Five may be enough but not really five turns into ten and then so on.....I found this recipe a few days ago and went out and bought sour cream because it was the only ingredient I was missing.  I made pound cake mini cupcakes. 

The recipe is as follows

1/2 c. butter, soft

4 oz. cream cheese, soft

2 c. sugar

4 eggs

1 t. vanilla extract

3 c. all purpose flour

1 t. baking powder

1/2 t. baking soda

1/2 t. salt

1 c. sour cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream butter and cream cheese together until fluffy.

Add sugar, keep mixing.  Add one egg at a time until incorporated.  Stir in vanilla.  Mix together dry ingredients and add in intervals to egg mixture.  add the sour cream.  This will come out doughy when  you are done. 

Add a rounded tablespoon to your mini cupcake tins.  Mine came out all sorts of sizes because I was just throwing it in.  So some were smaller, some were bigger.  They still tasted delicious.  Bake for 13-15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.  (side note: if you don't use cupcake liners, they bake faster then ones in liners...heads up, I lost a few cupcakes).

You can make any frosting you want, I used a chocolate frosting because I didn't have enough powdered sugar to do a butter cream.

Chocolate frosting:

1/2 c. butter, soft

2 1/4 conf. sugar

3/4 c. baking cocoa

1/4 t. vanilla extract

1/4 c.- 1/2 c. milk

cream butter until fluffy, add sugar a little at a time, then add cocoa and vanilla.  mix until incorporated.  Add milk little by little, until it is at the spreading consistency you like.

I love this chocolate frosting recipe, but I think it over powered the cupcakes.  Next time I would do something simple, or even leave them plain they were that good!

This is where you can get the original recipe for the cupcakes lets dish recipes. 

Enjoy!

*Allie 





WITL Day 4 & 5 (8/7, 8/8)

So I am a little behind on the times.  I was off yesterday but in a mood and just wanted to bake and sit and watch TV.  I guess that is the theme for this week haha.  So Sunday morning I had no Zoe to wake me up so I got up at 8 am!  Nice and refreshed.  Its been so long since I have had a full nights rest with no Zoe waking me up and no Richie stealing the covers while I sleep!  So I got up had my coffee, spilled my coffee on the computer....it didn't hurt it tho, I acted fast.  Phew...then I decided to get ready for work around 9:05, which is kinda late, considering I have to leave by 9:20 the latest to get there at 9:45.  I was in a good mood, so I didn't care if I didn't get there my 15 minutes early, like I do everyday. 

So 9:45 I am at work.  Nothing big happened.  It was slow, I got to work with Sara which was nice.  I made money even nicer!  I'm lucky if I get two cash shifts a week, usually it's one or maybe none.  So those two days its nice to walk away with cash.  Even if it is only $30.  Its 30 more then I had walking in the place.  My dad was watching Zoe while I was at work.  That wasn't planned by me.  He just sort of told my mom I am picking her up at 11am and that's that.  So he calls me during my shift which always makes me nervous.  Its not like I can stop working and chat.  So I quickly call him back and hes like we are having a BBQ tonight, so pick up Richie after you get off work and eat with us, then you can take Zoe home.  OK.  So then he's like I cant get in touch with your sister and neither can your mom, can you call her.  Ugh.  So i texted her annoyed because I am stuck doing all this while working and I get a snippy text back from her saying its late notice no.  So then I tell my dad and hes like oh well, the BBQ crapped out so we are just going to have kfc. 

OK so I work in Winter park, my dad lives in Winter park.  I live in altamonte springs.  I have to drive all the way to altamonte to pick up Richie then back to where I was originally to have kfc. 

But we had a nice dinner and watched I Love Lucy.  So it was a nice night.  And I didn't have to cook.  Even better!  When we got home I was exhausted so off to bed we went!

Monday: Zoe starts crying at 5:30am but was still sleepy so I convinced her to go back to sleep with me because the sun isn't up yet.  It worked!  She didn't get back up until 8am and then yells at me "mommy! why you wake me up??"  Ha, tables have turned kiddo.  We start our day in kind of a rush because I wanted to get to school to get books.  So after fighting with Zoe to get ready we head out about 8:45ish.  Get to school and I have to get a new school ID because I lost mine.  The lady was nice and didn't charge me the $10.  So we go and get my books, nearly $200 for an online computer course!  All for a code.  Good thing my grant paid for it!  I treated myself and bought some ear buds for my ipod.  Early bday present to myself :)

Zoe threw  a fit because she wanted to stay in the bookstore.  A girl after my own heart.  I was grumpy, she was grumpy.  I wanted to go to goodwill just to look around and she didn't want to.  She wanted to go home and continued to cry.  I didn't want to go home because it was a mess and I am sick of spending my two days off cleaning, then go to work the rest of the week and nothing get done so I have to do it all over again.

$300 in that bag

This is what I left the house looking like.  I yelled at Richie saying he needs to help me out, I'm sick of it.

I came home and the dishes were done :)

Zoe and I lounged around and around lunchtime I decided to make mini cupcakes.  They were a pound cake cupcake and came out really yummy.  I have another post alone for those.

 Zoe riding her bike, while I bake.

 Its a little more bearable to cook in the kitchen with this little bad boy pointed my way.  otherwise it gets so hot.  Needless to say we will be looking for a new place to live when our lease is up.  This apartment is just way too hot.

the finished project.  I should have made just a regular buttercream icing, but I didn't have enough powdered sugar :(

I ended my night with finishing up catching fire.  I was in a heated argument with my friend Cathie on why Peeta is better then Gale.  Now I have to go find the third installment!  Happy Tuesday ladies!  This weeks ends on the 11th.  So you get three more days!

*Allie 

WITL Day 3

Hello all!  Well no pictures today.  It was a blah attitude kind of day. 

So Zoe gets up again at 5:30 but I pretend to sleep so the two of them leave me alone.

8am Zoe comes barreling into the room telling me to wake up, Richie is like I told her "why do you guys always wake me up but you never wake up mommy??" so then she took that as let me go wake up mommy because she never gets to sleep in.  So I proceeded to tell Richie that she wakes me up every single day in between the hours of 5am-6:30am, so I don't wanna hear it.  You have one day a week you get up early with her.  Try 6, try getting up several times a night because she makes a noise, or has a bad dream or crawls into bed with me........

So I get up and I'm already in a bad mood.  I was fine all week long having to work a double because that means its more money for me, but today I was not having it.  Not only was I grouchy but Zoe was spending the night at grandmas house so Richie and I would have a night to ourselves to maybe go see a movie.  Well I released my shift, but when I got into work my manager is like please work bakery, we are short one person.  I was like um if I am going to work, I might as well work curb run and make some money.  My friend Angie decided to stay and work till 10pm.  Long day for her.  I told them I would come in and help the bakery if they got weeded.  Well we were busy during the day but at night not so much.  Well the bakery wasn't any way.

So the first guest I get was a you know what.  Didn't tip and was like how long will this take?? She was only getting a salad so I was like 10-15 minutes and shes like "well make it 20, I'm going to ulta next door"  I was like yeah, yeah sure whatever.  Then this regular called and ordered and Angie took it for me.  He is a pain, always complaining that his food isn't done on time and we cant quote right.  And then when we do quote right he doesn't show up and his food just sits there.  So I got his order all ready and made sure his extras were there and everything was right.  So he comes in and I'm like "hello......(i wont say his name)" and hes like hi, Angie you took my order right? and shes like yeah so he throws two bucks down and was here ya go that's for you and then looks at me, well I'm sure you did all the work but whatever.  I just smiled and took his money and slapped it on the counter, gave him his food said bye have a nice day and instead of saying thanks you to, hes like "bye Angie! thanks!" WTF how rude! I wasn't mad at Angie I just thought that was incredibly rude of him.  So next time he comes in i  hope is food is all jacked up!  After that we were just running around.  I was tired and grumpy and just wanted to go home.  My manager was like well you asked me to work curbside at night.  I was like yeah but today I am just tired and want to go home lol.  But i made some more money.  It wasn't busy at all. and I felt bad sticking around and taking money from the girl I was working with.  So i tried to leave at 8 and the manager wouldn't let me.  the other manager on, who was lent to us from another store was like OK whats his name is in the office so you can go, just sneak out the back door.  So that's what I did haha.  I called the girl I was working with and was like you didn't get hit did you?  I would feel bad and shes like ha no.  Its so dead. 

So now I am home, watching I love lucy because its her 100th birthday and I love, I love lucy!  My next daughters name will be lucy lol.  So we are baby less and Richie leaves for work soon. I am looking forward to a uninterrupted nights sleep.  Even tho I miss my baby!  Hope everyone has a wonderful sunday!

*Allie