Eggs and Bacon Boxes

The idea of fried egg swiss dots with bacon rickrack makes me smile. I'm thinking of designing some fabric to print on Spoonflower to make an apron with toast patch pockets!

I hope you enjoy these boxes. I used the 2x2x2 template and the 3x3x1 template for this mini-set. 300 dpi, click on the images to get the full sized version. Print on card stock, cut, score, fold, glue. Should I make a matching recipe card set?

Thank you for all the birthday wishes I'm getting today!

Today, while my husband is at work, I'm going to make up some teriyaki sauce for him to use when he grills dinner tonight. He's planning on some sort of seafood. I'm not sure yet if that's going to be shrimp, salmon or halibut. It will be Alaskan wild caught whatever it is.

I added a new bracelet pattern for sale in my Etsy shop for my limited edition patterns. I like keeping my prices fairly low, so an average blank template in my shop is 1.60 and commercial use okay. My pattern collections are around 3-4 dollars each for several patterns. Because people keep telling me that underprice my work badly, I decided to do some limited edition patterns, the patterns are 3 dollars each, I'll sell 10 each then permanently retire the patterns. Making them up for sale is fine. The limited edition patterns all say that they are are limited edition, and there are 3 so far, all bracelets, Ninja Beader, Cherry Pie (inspired by the Warrant song) and the one below, inspired by Alice Cooper. "Your skin/so wet/black lace/on sweat"

Corsage bracelet and update

You can find instructions for this bracelet here.

My daughter is thrilled with it, and planning to make one for herself soon. I'm currently working on a couple skirts, including a pair of half circle skirts that use a 90 inch round table cloth, so the skirts are already hemmed. They just need a seam and elastic to finish them. Unfortunately, I got everything cut out and ready to go and then couldn't find my black thread. The math is fairly simple. For a fold over elastic waist,  you cut a circle out of the center of the table cloth (find by folding into quarters) that is your hips+ease/3.14, then cut the now donut shaped table cloth in half and each half makes one skirt. The length is 45 inches- 1/2 of the above diameter, so if you decided on 40 inches for hips+ease, the circle would be 80/3.14=25.47 or round up to 26, the radius of that is 13, so 45-13=32 which is a nice long skirt.  The table clothes I'm using were marked down at Sam Clubs for having a torn package and are a cotton/poly blend. Now if I can find 120 inch ones I can make half circle capes for the ren fair. 

My husband is planning to grill fish and veggies for my birthday Monday. Yum yum. We were also talking about a wood grilled version of the crab bread that is served at the hotel he works at. It's so very good. 

Dad is doing a lot better now, and is planning to go back to work on Monday. He's also fairly sure that everyone is ganging up on him because every time he talks to one of his friends, me, his grandkids or my husband the first thing we ask is "How are you feeling?" followed by "Have you eaten today?"

William and I have gotten hooked on GetGlue. If you don't know about GetGlue yet, it's sort of like a combination social networking site and marketing site. You like and check into books, movies, albums and tv shows. Some new releases earn virtual stickers, after you've collected 20, you can have them mailed to you once a month. We joined because HEY! Doctor Who stickers!  I got my first order of stickers in the mail a few days ago. My husband was tickled by the Burn Notice stickers which he plans to put on his next laptop. My daughter was thrilled with both Fringe and Doctor Who. The physical stickers are shiny, glossy round stickers.  You can get information on how to unlock and earn stickers from the GetGlueStickers.com forum.

Winged Heart art for digital scrapping

Okay, I'm done playing with that heart for now. So here it is for any digital scrappers who want to make tags or other things with it. 300 dpi, transparent PNG format. Click on the images for the full sized versions.

Some matching background tiles. These are 1 inch x 1 inch except for the dotted tile which is a half inch by a half inch. PNG format. The dots are transparent so you can put them over the stripes if you'd like.

Dad update- He's home from the hospital, and feeling a lot better.
Car update- Still not fixed
Birthday plans- I've had a cake from the same bakery every year since I was 12. This year I *will* have my cake, but it will be a week or two late.  My daughter is planning to bake a small cake for the day of, and Mike's planning on grilling one of my favorites for dinner. Best present of course is just that dad's home and that he's going to be okay.  I'm also planning to post the recipe for the cake I made for my mom's 40th birthday here. It's sort of like a Versunkener Apfelkuchen, but with some modifications because I didn't have all the ingredients on hand that first time. Mom loved my variation better than the original recipe that I was working from and it's still a family favorite. 

Winged Heart Purse Box

I really meant to get this posted Monday, but life got in the way all weekend.

So, the 3rd box from this set, a little purse box. The other two are a tea box and a cube. This one also includes a matching dot print. I printed the dots on one side, then the purse on the other side. Cut out and assemble according to the instructions on the purse printable. The dots can also be used with the other 2 printables to create a design inside the boxes.  If you'd like the blank template, it's available in my Etsy shop for 1.60.

300 dpi, click on the images for the full sized versions.

How life took over the weekend -

Friday night, my husband and I had to take my dad to the ER, he was admitted to the hospital and has been there all weekend. He's going to be fine and should be getting released today or tomorrow. Then Saturday, coming back from the hospital after visiting him, we stopped for dinner because all of us were entirely too exhausted to consider cooking. When we got out of the restaurant, our car wouldn't start. Something with the fuel pump is Mike's best guess. Since Dad wouldn't go straight to the ER and wanted to go to an urgent care center first, our budget is pretty much blown right now.  I'm still very, very grateful. It could have been so much worse than it was. Dad's nearly "fixed" and the car will be fixed soon. It's fairly warm so having to take the bus isn't the inconvenience it could have been. The financial department at the hospital is finding ways to help pay the bill and being very helpful. So we will be eating lots of soup and other inexpensive meals for the next bit of time. I'm just so glad Dad's going to be okay.