Photo a Day 2-7

Hard Work- Laundry is my least favorite chore!

 Up- My pick-me-ups for the day!

Exercise- This stays in the living room and I often sit on it instead of the couch.

Empty- Jars that I plan to reuse somehow.

Circle

Pathway




 And here's the Artist Trading Cards that I made this week.

Brownies

My Grandmother loves brownies so when I visited her last night I baked her some with Reese's Pieces in them. And they were delicious! Plus no fancy recipe needed, I just used a boxed brownie and added the Pieces after mixing all the other ingredients.

I'm still doing The Idea Room's Photo-a-day challenge but I've decided I will upload one weeks worth of photos at a time. Next Monday I will have an update of both photos and ATCs.

September Photo-a-Day Challenge- Day One: Inspire

I've always wanted to do a photo-a-day challenge, but every time I saw one I was way to late to start and thought maybe next time. Well this time I have no excuse! I found this one from Amy at The Idea Room yesterday and I knew it was time to challenge myself. 

The first one ended up being a painting of the day. For a while now I've wanted to create a wall full of things that inspire me and since that was the first prompt I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to pant something. I used extra paint I have from my chair project, watercolors, and an extra 4x4 Canvas that I had lying around. The photo after is where it lives on my wall.

After finishing my painting I was feeling crafty so I pulled out my Artist Trading Cards and decided to make a new one. I like how the flowers turned out on this, but overall this is too busy for my tastes. Live and Learn. I would love to continue making an ATC for everyday of September on top of the photo, but that may be too much. We will see.

 

 

Bonus Photo! 

Here's my cat sticking his tongue out at me. He rarely does this so I had to grab my camera and blind him with my flash since it's so late.

Lemon Bars

I bake when I'm stressed so I've been baking a lot lately. These lemon bars are my most recent baking adventure. They are so delicious, I would make them again in a heart beat! The book I got the recipe from is now one of my favorites since they are easy and all have beautiful large pictures.

Quick Snack

I am a weight watchers member that loves to find new lighter snacks to try. Last night I decided my light popcorn needed some sweetness added to it. Since I had some candy coat chips left over from making cake balls, I just melted some in a bowl and mixed in the popcorn. For fun I melted some vanilla flavored chip and drizzled that on top. 

Result: Amazing!

Staining Wood

I spent most of Monday visiting my grandparents which is always a great way to spend the day. Especially because they have allowed me to set up a painting studio in one of their extra bedrooms. Since I quit my job back in June I've been really unmotivated when it comes to painting but Monday was a good day. While painting I found a blank wood panel that I decided that I was going to stain for my next project... so I did! And since I had already set up a little working station it was the perfect time to finish up a project that I started way back in March. There is still some work to do on the chair but at least I made progress!

I love how both of these projects turned out! I can't wait to finish them up.

Before

In progress

Now the second half is ready for painting and staining.

  

And here's a picture of my poor cat who was so hot because our AC was on the fritz. He spent the whole day staying low to the ground when he usually likes to be up so that he can see out the window.

Busy Weekend

Here's some snap shots of my busy weekend!

I finished up this blanket which was started last week. http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/windsor-ripple-throw

 

http://www.cookingonthefrontburners.com/2013/07/lemon-blueberry-bread.html 
This was delicious! I would definitely make this again.

Set up a sewing station in my bedroom.

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/11/healthy-stuffed-green-peppers.html

I made this for my grandparents who loved these stuffed peppers.

http://craftystaci.com/2012/08/27/gathered-shoulder-altered-t-shirt/

One of the sewing projects that I finished.

Since I have lost 50 lbs over the last year, I've decided that I need to alter some of my t-shirts so that they fit my new body. Here is the first one that I tried there will be more in the next couple of weeks.

 

Recent Crochet Project that I worked on.

Dying some of the t-shirts before I alter them.