Michigan Adventures

Have you seen these giant marshmallows? They make the gooeyest s'mores!

Front Door before it was painted white.

Stairs use to have a painted rocking horse that said welcome.

House Work

It's the Frankie's B-day this month.  He'll be 31.  Since we were in the process of getting married last summer we did not throw him a big Happy 30th party.  This year I'm trying to make up for it.  A group of his friends are coming over to celebrate.  That means we have the motivation to fix some things up.
The list includes:
newly painted front door
new basement door
new shoe moulding
new crown moulding
new wedding pics and frames hung
newly painted red stairs

It's been awhile

I have been a canning fool lately.  This is all that is left after the 75 pounds of tomatoes, 70+ ears of corn, 2 pounds of green beans, 20 pounds of peaches, and countless canning jars.  Hubby had to make an emergency run for more pint jars last night.

The bowl is a goody, but check out the recipe box it's next to.  Grandma cleaned it up for my wedding present with her recipes still in it.  What a blessing.

Being Crafty

This month of June has really got me down. I've got the blues. I'm spending all my time doing homework and not being crafty. June and July are so important for me to recharge and I'm not getting to do it. After a hearty fit last night I decided to do some crafting today. Here is the picnic basket I redecorated. It came with this heinous red, yellow, blue, white striped liner. Tore that out, used it as a pattern and came up with this. The lid is my own design. What do you think?

Yummy Oatmeal

I'm super excited about this new oatmeal I found at Target. It's not really instant oatmeal. It's whole oats that you microwave with yummy blueberries in it. I like instant oatmeal but it normally turns into some kind of gruel and you're never quite sure what they used as flavoring.

Old but not forgotten

Remember this one? I started it back when Frank and I were dating. I cut it out then anyways. Right now I have so much grad school homework it isn't funny but I thought I'd work on this one in between homework. All work and no play makes Erin a very dull girl indeed.

My dilema right now is how big to make it? I have the material to make it a king. Teresa keeps asking me how many kings do I need for my bed. Can one ever have too many quilts for your bed?