I bought this bookcase off of Craigslist a few months ago for $5. It was defiantly nothing special to look at, but who can resist a bookcase for $5?
And I just happened to have a quart of paint from Glidden just waiting to be used, so Saturday I set to work and I ended up with this....
The blue is a little brighter than I thought it would be, but overall, I am pleased with the result. It was so fun totally changing the look of this bookcase (the back was in pretty bad, so that's why I took it off.) I can't wait for my next painting project (the kitchen chairs)!
It's been pretty hot here recently, so we got Lincoln a fan for his room last week. I went in to check on him during a nap one day and he was sticking his little feet out the bars of his crib, I think he likes to feel the cool air on his feet. :) He's also been enjoying cruising around in nothing but a diaper because of the heat (as I'm sure you can tell from the last few posts.)
This was an actual conversation between Hillary and I. Maybe you won't think anything of it, but I thought it was odd.
Jonathan: "Do you have any mints or gum?" Hillary: "Yeah, I bought some on clearance the other day." Jonathan: "You bought gum . . . on clearance?
Two things: 1. They put gum on clearance? Seriously? Does slashing thirty-five cents of a seventy-five cent pack of gum really start moving merchandise? 2. We may be poor, but I'm pretty sure we're not so hard up for cash that we have to wait until gum goes on clearance before throwing down for a pack of trident.
. . . and no, this was not some sort of economy size/family pack, just your average, run-of-the-mill pack of trident being clearanced out at P&C.
P.S. What's weird is that Hillary doesn't even like gum.
This weekend the three of us decided to make the trip to some nearby batting cages. Jonathan and I love to go to batting cages because, let's just all be honest, batting is the best part of baseball! The only problem is these cages aren't as "nearby" as we'd like them to be, but such is life in Ithaca. Here I am:
I'm much better at taking batting cage pictures than Jonathan is....
And here's Jonathan. He also tried batting left handed a few times and I was surprised by how well he did. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of that though.
The driving range was right next to the batting cages, so we decided to hit a bucket of balls too. We are both really, really bad at golf (I mean really,) but this was also a lot of fun. We sort of got the hang of it after a while and stopped having to swing 3-4 times before making any sort of contact with the ball (okay that was mostly me) which made it even more fun.
(Yes that is the golf ball still on the tee at the end of Jonathan's swing...)
And I would like to point something important out. I hit that plane. With a golf ball. I was so proud of myself!
So, I should have written this post a while ago and just post dated it, but I didn't so I'm going to have to do my best to remember my experience making these cookies. I did this challenge the day it was announced (which is pretty unusual for me since I'm such a procrastinator) because it was a Dessert Wednesday anyway and these cookies just looked so good!
The cookies consists of three parts: the cookie base, the marshmallow filling, and the chocolate coating. The recipe says the cookie base is supposed to be cut with a 1- 1 1/2 inch cookie cutter, which I don't have, so I used the wide end of one of my piping tips, which I measured at 1 inch. This cut probably 200 cookies. Maybe I rolled the dough out too thin, I don't know, but it just made way too many, so we've still got a freezer bag full of naked cookie bases waiting to be used for something else.
This was my second attempt at some sort of homemade marshmallows and I think it went well. Make no mistake, it was a sticky mess, but it sure tasted good.
In the end I had almost 100 completely finished cookies, but they were small so it wasn't too bad. This was a great challenge, but I probably won't make these again. They were good, but I'm not sure they were good enough to be worth the hassle. The July Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.
Four weeks ago I saw a commercial that said Glidden was giving away free quarts of paint. Of course I went straight to the website and ordered my quart of Cool Cobalt and the Fedex man brought it to me today! I am so excited, but now I have to start the arduous task of deciding what to paint...
The driving range was right next to the batting cages, so we decided to hit a bucket of balls too. We are both really, really bad at golf (I mean really,) but this was also a lot of fun. We sort of got the hang of it after a while and stopped having to swing 3-4 times before making any sort of contact with the ball (okay that was mostly me) which made it even more fun.
And I would like to point something important out. I hit that plane. With a golf ball. I was so proud of myself!
The July Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.
Four weeks ago I saw a commercial that said Glidden was giving away free quarts of paint. Of course I went straight to the website and ordered my quart of Cool Cobalt and the Fedex man brought it to me today! I am so excited, but now I have to start the arduous task of deciding what to paint...
