Craft Time: Penguin Painting

Painted myself a little penguin! i love painting things like this. I'm not 100% on the blue eyes, thought it would be a good idea but after doing it, not completely liking it.
I have lots of little hobby things like this that i just don't get a lot of time to do them :(

Well here's some before pictures

Food Chat: Haunted Cookie House

I love making these houses and was super excited to see a halloween one. I just wish i was better at them lol.

So that first picture is the best side of what i did lol. The house was already pre-built, so any of the huge amount of frosting between the pieces wasn't done by me. Though i do love how smooth i got the purple on the roof :)

If i had more things for decorating, i could of done a lot better. like if i had white i would of dome white winders with black lining. I don't have a picture of the box, but on the box it showed green grass looking thing so i thouht maybe something like that was included...nope. turns out it was just a helpful tip of coloring coconut green. So i gave a orange yard with gold rocks lol. I don't know, i kinda half assed the last bit because i was hurrying because my daughter wanted to come out of the living room to help me. Next few pictures are the other sides of the house(i tried to do a spider web design but failed lol) and what i let kaylee do since i didn't let her really help on the house....though she still put in something to it.

 before starting

 what kaylee made

what she added to it.

Food Chat: Hot chocolate Coffee

So i went to a restaurant before and when looking at the drinks i saw that they had a trying that was half coffee and half hot cocoa. I like both of them, so i thought i'd try it. I think i feel in love after first sip.

It is such a basic idea too. just mix them together and you get that creamy cocoa taste with the lovely taste of coffee added, and caffeine boost for those caffeine does more for them lol. And of course you can't forget the lovely whipped cream.

I do like this drink and it's not hard to make....i just am sometimes sooo lazy i'd rather just pour some coffee into the cup and call it good(after my coffee add-ons lol).  I would tell people to try this if they like both those drinks. You could measure to try and make sure you have exactly half of each, or just eyeball it and see what you get. I mostly eyeball it.

Food Chat: Pumpkin Pie Latte

In one of my halloween recipe magazines, i saw this one for a pumpkin pie latte, sounded amazing. And it was!.

I loved it, i just like chugged it while drinking it. It has some coffee in it but not over powering compared to the pumpkin taste. I really did feel like i was drinking a pumpkin pie.

if i didn't have to use the blender for part of it, i would make this probably every day, or even multiple times a day. i just don't like having to clean the blender so i rarely use it.

Here's what it looked like without the whipped cream

And for some reason, our can opener didn't want to open the can of pumpkin.....so i just attacked it until i got it opened lol

Food Chat: Foot Meatloaf

So from one of my halloween magazines, there was this foot meatloaf. i've been wanting to try it for a few years i think. Well we finally made it. i mostly just shaped it, didn't actually follow the recipe for the meatloaf. My mom makes good meatloaf, so we went with that one while i shaped it. After it was cooked, you just add some ketchup to make it look bloody lol.

This was fun to do. Just would of been better if more than just me was excited over it.

Here's a picture of it before it was cooked.

Kaylee Time: Making Pizzas

So my daughter has been getting real into wanting to help with cooking. She's always asking me to stir things. She'll even grab a wooden spoon and sit at the table and go "Stir. Egg. Stir." I usually don't always have something she can actually help with so she usually walks off pouting.

Anyways, so one day i finally decided to take the time to make pizzas with her. It was from a pizza kit that i had bought. I thought i had a picture of it before using it, but i can't seem to find it. The kit had premade and shaped dough, sauce pouches, cheese, and pepperoni.

I let Kaylee put on her sauce. She liked the brush to just paint it on. I liked it because was a little better than dealing with a spoon.

Then she got to add her cheese. Though she tried to paint the sauce back on it after the cheese.

Cleaning the table while cooking the pizzas.

I made one of the pizzas myself and added pepperoni. Kaylee doesn't like pepperoni, but since she saw me do it, she wanted one on hers.


It was over all fun to make the pizza with her. Just too bad she doesn't always want to eat. I ended up eating her's because she wouldn't.
I was surprised just how good these were. I normally don't like crust, but this crust was so good. I need to buy this again sometime. I remember what the box looks like and that i got it at walmart.