Rocking Chair makeover

When I bought this rocking chair for the nursery, I wasn't to thrilled about the color. Too pink! But we got it for dirt cheap and we just couldn't past it up. That was 2 years ago and last weekend I finally got around to giving this chair a new look.



I made a couple of cute Mary Engelbreit pillows to go with the chair. The ME fabric were left overs from a quilt I am making for Juliana, which I will post in the near future. I am super excited about this quilt btw!!



I picked a orange polka dot print for the backside of the pillows.



Now time to grab a good book and relax in this cute comfortable chair.

Basket lining for a bike

Summertime is almost here and what better way to stay cool this summer but by going for a bike ride and feeling the cool breeze. This is what my sister will be planning on doing anyway. She bought a cute pink beach cruiser last summer, something similar to the one shown below.

photo courtesy of Gossip Girl

So my sister asked me to make her some basket linings for her bike.

So this is what I created.





Now she can enjoy a bike ride to the park, along the beach, or where ever she wants, in style.

Happy riding!

Just Because...

When you have this...



plus this...



it equals this...



I saw this on a blog months ago and thought about it every now and then. And today I had to try it.



Maybe if I eat it in the dark the calories won't find me?

Honey Walnut Shrimp

Oh how I love Honey Walnut Shrimp! My husband was craving this last night and suggested we try making it. My first thought was its 7pm and its time to put DD to bed and I am in no mood to go the store, buy everything we need, come back and cook it and finally eat it at around 9pm. I was thinking more like take out instead. But I am married to a very passionate guy who if his heart is set on something he will try everywhich way possible to make me agree with him. So that is what ended up happening. Thankfully he found an easy recipe on the internet and luckliy we had everything in stock. So no need to go the store. Yeah.

So we attempted this recipe and here is what it looks like.




Mmmmmmmm. I am so glad we made this because it was sooooooo good! It was so easy as well! Here is the reciepe we followed.

Ingredients:

1 cup water
2/3 cup white sugar
1/2 cup walnuts
4 egg whites
2/3 cup mochiko (glutinous rice flour)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 lbs large shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 tablespoon canned sweetened condensed milk
1 cup vegetable oil for frying

Directions:

1. Stir together the water and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and add the walnut. Boil for 2 minutes, then drain and place walnuts on a cookie sheet to dry.
2. Whip egg whites in a medium bowl until foamy. Stir in the mochiko until it has a pasty consistency. Heat the oil in a heavy deep skillet over medium-high heat. Dip shrimp into the mochifk batter, and then fry in the hot oil until golden brown, sbout 5 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
3. In a medium serving bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, honey and sweetened condensed milk. Add shrimp and toss to coat with the sauce. Sprinkle the candied walnuts on top and serve.

There is one thing that I must admit. We cheated and had a pre-made bag of "Honey Glazed Walnuts" that I bought a couple weeks ago for a future salad. We deceided to use it for this receipe instead which saved us time and it came out delicious!

Stuffed animals

Awhile ago I bought this pattern at Joanne's for only .99 cents! I am so glad I did because it was Sooooooooo easy! I thought it would have taken me all year long to make this but after the first one....



I decided to make some more!






The soft baby blue giraffe shown above has found a new home last week. I sent this one over to my sister who just had a baby boy.

I also added a cute little lanalulu label on each one.



The red polka dotted bunny was my first ever attempt in making a stuffed bunny using a Mary Engelbrit pattern from this book that my mother in law gave me for Christmas. So I thought I'd showcase him here.



I almost forgot....I went to Patchwork Pottery and followed their tutorial to make my labels. Aren't they adorable! This tutorial is also on the right side of my blog so that way I can easily go there for future references.

Iron on appliques

This month was my sister's birthday so I decided I wanted to make her something and decided to try the iron on appliques. I have never tried this before and wanted to see how easy or hard it was. Well, it was both. The process was very easy as long as you pick a simple design to cut out and iron on. My sister is a marathon runner so I chose a runner for one shirt, the number 26.2 on another shirt, and really wanted to put an image of a really cute little chick on the other shirt with the words underneath "running chick", but there was so many letters and so tiny so instead I put another runner on that one. So this is what I ended up doing.





so what does 26.2 mean? I guess only a marathon runner would know what that means.

Hooded Shirt

This is my attempt at trying to sew a hooded shirt, with no pattern!

This is the view from the back.



This is the front view.



Yeah, I think the hood is way to big. Opps! Kind of reminds me of that little green character from Star Wars. Yeah, my husband (HUGE star wars fan) would be a bit disappointed that I don't remember his name. Oh well.