Diving into ebay...

Today I put my first ever item on ebay. I am still amazed how much people are paying for old rubberstamps. And now am bummed that I didn't put some of them on ebay much sooner. I also have put some on etsy as well. Just to see which store does well.

I have so many rubber stamps, and so many that I don't stamp anymore. I figured that it would be better for someone to have it who actually will use it. Unlike myself the hoarder. It's that releasing items back into the world thing again. Can you imagine? I still am having a hard time releasing some items into the world. But eventually they will find other homes.

I've finished most of the feed store shirts, I just have to find 5 more tshirts, then deliver them all. I have a few more art designs to do as well, so I'll post those as I finish them. I want to get some things up and running, and try to figure out how to make a little ebay widget if I can.

Happy Saturday everyone!

Crows on a wire Embroidery

So a friend of mine wanted me to do an embroidered design for her with crows on a wire. I guess the group that she works with is nicknamed "Crows on a Wire" so she wanted something to do with that. So I thought of a crow telling a story, cause they like to talk story, and then the rest of the crows listening to her.

I couldn't find a good clip art of crows on a wire, so I made mine up. I was first going to do a country crow kind of drawing, but they looked too plain. This way they look a little more animated.

I think it looks kinda cute! :) I am going to embroider the wings and tails in black, but I used grey to show her the lines.

I hope she likes it.

New batch of kittens

So the mom cat had 7 more kittens. Count 'em, 7! Well, you can only see the bum of one of the kittens. LOL But OMG, I can't believe she had so many. I think she's pregnant yet again, so we can't take her in to get fixed yet. But when she's done she's SO going in to get fixed.

I like the darker grey striped one, but I think that one is more of a calico. It's got a lot of different colors in her coat.

They're getting a bit more friendly, it's really funny watching them play in the yard during the day. I love watching kittens.

Pizza Dough

Yesterday I made Pizza Dough in the bread machine. It was my second try. The first try I made a 2 lb batch of pizza dough, and used it all on one jelly roll pan. Big mistake! It was really thick. And I like thinner crust pizza.

So this time I split the dough ball in half and made 2 pizzas! I think that I should bake the dough a bit before putting the toppings on, so it will be more crispy.

This is what the second pizza looked like. We used the spagetti sauce from the night before. It had chunks of hamburger in it. So all I had to do was put the cheese and the pepperoni on top.

Here's the recipe from the Oster manual:

Combine the following ingredients into the bread maker (I put the liquids in first, then the other ingredients with the yeast last)

All ingredients must be at room temperature (70 degrees F - 80 degrees F)

1-1/4 c to 1-3/8 c Water
3 Tbsp Olive Oil
4 Cups All-Purpose Flour
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp. Active Dry Yeast

-Combine all ingredients into the bread pan
-Select Dough Setting
-Press Start/Stop button. When the unit signals and the display reads "0:00" press the start/stop button and remove dough.
-Pat dough into 12" x 15" jelly roll pan or greased 14" Round Pizza Pan
-Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
-Spread pizza sauce over dough and sprinkle toppings over sauce.
-Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

I made mine in an Oster Bread maker, yours might differ. Consult your manual.

enjoy!!

Dr. Horrible on the Emmys

I just love Dr. Horrible!!

Fremont Falcons Logo

This is the Falcons logo I was working on this week. I think it turned out pretty well. I'm going to stitch it out later and then put it on 2 sweatshirts.

I'm also working on a Crows on a Wire design plus a tennis design. So I'll let you know how those turn out later today.

What I've been up to for the past few days...

Sorry I haven't been blogging in a few days. I've been kinda sad cause our kitten Cujo is missing. Phil let him out on Friday morning, and he hasn't been around since. We're hoping that someone gave him a good home. I miss him a lot cause he was so much fun to have around. I think the other two kitties are not sad that he's gone. :( I'm still hoping that he'll find his way home, but that's pretty rare around here. But who knows, some of the other cats in the neighborhood go missing from our yard for a few weeks then come back.

I've also been working on getting the shirts out for the feed store. I am trying to figure out colors for the embroidery, because the guy says he didn't care what colors we used. GREAAAAAAAT. I know what colors I would use for me, but I don't think everyone wants purple. LOL

Also working on a logo for the Falcons football team too. Will post it when it's finally done.

Enjoyed the Lord of the Rings weekend on TNT. Although I do have it all on DVD, it's always fun having it play in the background. And I loved that they played all 3 movies in a row.

Phil went to the tournament this weekend in Davis, the girls came in second. I spent this weekend catching up on the feed store shirts and getting some rest. And hoping the kitten would make it home.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. :)

Julie & Julia and other things...

Today we went to see Julie & Julia. I LOVED the movie. Loved it cause of course it had to do with Blogging. LOL

It was so neat seeing how Julia Child began to learn how to cook. And even more interesting, how long it took to create a cookbook. OMG, just thinking of typing all those pages, and multiple times. Cause you couldn't just turn on the computer and print. It makes me remember all those years of typing high school and college papers, and thinking back then that I wouldn't have to learn how to type cause I'm going to be a drafter. How wrong I was! LOL

Loved all the food that was in the movie, made me want to eat beef bourginon. It looked so darn yummy in the movie!!

It was so interesting to see how much Julie learned not just cooking, but life lessons as well. I wish I could have read her blog from the beginning. I'll have to go and find her book.

It made me come home today and shred all of that zucchini for future bread recipes. And I remembered today that I have a food processor. DUH! Made shredding that zucchini so fast! I got a total of 16 cups of zucchini in the freezer, and 3.5 cups on the counter waiting to be baked.

If you haven't seen the movie, go out and see it! I loved it!

Zucchini Bread

So when Phil came home from camping yesterday, he handed me three HUGE zucchinis. He said that Diane has put in an order for Zucchini bread. OMG, I don't think I've ever seen a Zucchini that size before. I mean, that hand trowel is a normal size hand trowel, and the zucchini is bigger than that!! OMG, it's crazy.

So I went about finding more recipes for Zucchini Bread. I had one from Paula Deen through the food channel, but that one used 3 cups of sugar, and who really needs that much sugar in their bread??

I found a good recipe for the standard zucchini bread at allrecipes.com It was a good recipe, Phil has already taste tested it. LOL



Another recipe that I found was for Chocolate Zucchini bread. This recipe was from the Land O Lakes site. Phil just tried it and he said it was good too. Well, he said it was "Interesting" so I had to clarify, was it good? Yes, it was good. :) LOL

So from that really HUGE Zucchini, so far I got about 9 cups of shredded zucchini. And I still have about 1/3 of it left! Plus 2 more zucchinis. I'm gonna have zucchini bread coming out my ears! Good thing so many people like it, the ones in my kitchen are all spoken for, plus I have to make Diane hers. Guess the Ehara Bakery will be in full swing this week.

Caramel Rolls

These were so Yummy! DeeArland's mom made them for us on Sunday. I didn't get to see her make them, and she doesn't have any measurements cause, she just throws it all together. They were really yummy!

She put Dark Brown Sugar in a pan, I think she lightly packed it in a pan. Then poured in some heavy whipping cream and mixed it with the brown sugar. Phil says it was a soupy like consistancy.

Then she put refrigerator biscuits in the mixture. She says the smaller ones work the best, not the ones like the grands, but the smaller regular biscuits.

She then mixed together sugar and cinnamon and sprinkled that on top of the biscuits.

They are then put in the oven I think it was at 350 degrees. Throughout the time it baked, she turned them over a few times. I think you bake them for however long the package says. Just keep flipping them.

Then when they're ready, you turn them over onto a plate or another pan lined with foil. I would turn them over onto like a jelly roll pan then put them on a plate. They were very gooey and very good!