Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Baking, Sewing, Love and Pizza

We were extra domesticated this weekend. The family I work for is having a baby tomorrow and I wanted to make something for the baby, plus something for the big sister. I looked around for easy newborn ideas and decided to make a few sets of burp clothes for the new little guy.  Oh and of course, a princess dress for his sister.



In between projects we ordered a no cheese pizza from Papa John’s after finding out their dough and sauce is vegan. They were having a sale for a large pizza with up to seven toppings for ten dollars so we ordered mushrooms, black olives, green peppers, pineapple and onion. The boy sprinkled some mozzarella Daiya on his slices and we both added the “parm” cheese I made last week. We usually buy the frozen Amy’s no cheese pizza but having Papa John’s was a nice change and not to mention…delicious.


I attempted making a three grain bread recipe from Vegan on the Cheap this morning and just enjoyed a slice with a generous slab of earth balance butter. It turned out awesome! We plan on using it for sandwiches and for dipping in sauce and soup. The prep was easy enough to do once a week but I’d love a bread machine to cut the work in half!

While I was finishing sewing my boyfriend started making these amazing oatmeal, chocolate peanut butter cookies, also from the vegan cookbook, that turned out to be a hit! I think I’ll keep him.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

First Human Sized Dresses

I tried making my first human size dress this weekend. I thought a jumper would be the easiest style to attempt.
 Hey, look! It's a Little Miss dress!


Next I thought I'd try a dress with sleeves. It took me all day but I finally finished this afternoon. I decided that a pattern was the easy way out, and being as stubborn as I am, I did everything with just measuring tape, lots of pins and my brain.



They aren't perfect and I have a lot of learning and practice ahead of me, but I'm up for the challenge.

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