A Slice of Sunday

Envelope fun

Whilst I am getting some of my lil metal signs ready to ship out for those of you that are waiting for them, thought I would share my favourite envelope material.  These ones are slightly puffy and not sitting quite as nicely as I would like because of a layer of bubble wrap I have added to the inside ( to protect from sharp lil corners). Just need to make my self up some nice labels now and ill be laughing ( I'll add it to my very long "I want to do list").

Ps I still have at least three more I can giveaway.  Email me ( button on the side)!

Size

A little size comparison for you. My hands I have been told are on the dainty side ( dont know if this is true, but just letting you know they are not freakishly big or anything!)

Scrap Tuesday

On a wednesday. Its been a very long time since our last one due to everyone getting sick, and actually our third member is still out for the count ( blogless Cindy) , But I actually got stuff done today , some I cant show due to it being secret swap business. But I can show 2 lil bits I worked on.

First a really quick lay out Ive had in my head for a bit. I knew I wanted to keep it quiet simple and let the joke be the star of the page. This is Very very Sweet Middle. He has hit the age of becoming joke central.

This sweet lil wreath, I was hoping would fit in one of my mini boxes, but is slightly too big, so when I hit spotty tomorrow ( am I the only one that goes into shops, and can never quiet remember to get everything on my my list?!?) will see if I can get a slightly bigger one. Its a tiny cane ring, a lot of tiny cut out leaves, a couple of red sequins I had lying around, glue and a lot of fiddling!. 

Ps what is everyone reading, Im about to finish Time travelers wife and then I will be starving for a new novel. Will be hitting the library tomorrow ( haven't gone for nearly 2 weeks, Im suffering withdrawals here!) what should I look out for?

PPS I updated this post to give a quick walk through of what I did. Also, Daph said when she saw it, she didn't realize how small it was, it fits roughly the size of my palm.

Pink Fluffiness

I cant show you anything crafty, cause everything is sitting half done, some waiting other supplies, other waiting five spare minutes that are not taken by cleaning, sons, husbands, or sorting out mortgage refinancing ( YUCK!) But I do have these pink morsels of goodness to share. 

MY FIL asked me to do him some spicy hot nuts, which I gladly did, and with the nuts left over, I decided to make my BIl a treat for watching the horrible screaming Kook ( stranger danger screaming stage).  He loves sugared peanuts, and I gotta say even though mine were pink ( no red food colouring left), These tasted a lot better then the stale store brought ones!!

There will be more in my future, very hard not to eat these instead of giving them away!

Sarahs Sugared Peanuts

1/2 cup water

1 cup sugar 

roughly 2 cups peanuts ( I had less then this, still worked fine)

Preheat oven to 150. Dissolve the sugar into the water in a heavy pan, add colouring if desired and stir in peanuts. stir often until it chrysalises and the mixture starts to stick well to the nuts, Pour into a baking dish, and spread out, sprinkle with salt, bake for 20 minutes giving a stir occasionally, then allow to cool. As I had excess mixture I had to break mine up slightly. Then hide from yourself if you plan to give as gifts. 

On The Hunt

Im on the look out for some more busts like this one. She was just a simple paper mache one from spotty, but now they dont have any. I want to do a vintage one for my aunt. I was so well behaved when I went in there this morning. Only spent $12, because I avoided the fabric, trim buttons and yarn and stuck to the craft section only!  I did get another lil box to try another mini, like my Let it snow.

Not counting Coffee with Daph!