What do you do with a gallon of frozen blueberries in the freezer and another picking trip in the works… you bake! Now that we are budgeting our food more, I have been thinking of things I can make. So today I broke out this seasons first bucket and baked a blueberry focaccia, and made a lot of freezer jam. We gave away half of the focaccia and the rest will probably be gone by the end of the weekend, but the freezer jam will last awhile (the ones we keep at least.) Thankfully, Seth helped me clean the kitchen afterward. It was a rather sticky place.

Last week, Seth got laid off from work. There was a big waive of people who were let go. It was a huge surprise and is rather scary, however, he didn’t care for it much anyway. The scary part is not knowing when we will be making enough money again to keep our lifestyle. On the other hand, it is exciting that he has had this to push him into another direction and let him realize he didn’t have to work there forever. I am so proud of everything he has done in the past year and half. He has had HUGE life changes and accomplishes, and something like this is one of those falls that happens when your achieving and doing. There are so many options, and as long as that doesn’t overwhelm us,  we will use it to our advantage. Soooo, because he no longer is employed with his previous company, he lost his work phone, which was his only phone. Yesterday we made a LENGTHY trip to verizon, added him on my plan, and both got new phones. Thankfully mine was free and he got a huge discount. This is our new toy(s)…

It is pretty nifty. Of course Seth is finding out every little thing possible he can do with it, and I am taking from that only the things that I am interested in. I am not quite used to the touch screen yet, but I am sure it will get better over time. My pudgy fingers don’t care for the small buttons. Right now we are having fun making ring tones.  I am trying to get the song from David the Gnome. All the recordings online are really scratchy so we are going to try and pull them off the DVDs. Oh David the Gnome, how I love you!

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.

P.S. Colleen may be having the baby booge soon! *eeeeep*

Yesterday was the first true snow fall. The morning started warm and rainy then grew cold and snowy.  Rowan watched the large puffy flakes from the front window. It was the perfect day to try a new scone recipe and make some felt hats with ears.

I found this scone recipe at What Do I Know? It may be my favorite Ive made. Just the right amount of sweetness. The only problem is they are rather soft and I prefer more hard scones. I baked the scones cut down to 16 instead of baking the 4 rounds then cutting them. I think next time i will cut the 16 down to smaller ones before baking them. Mmmmmm… so good!

My birthday is Tuesday the 11th, so this was my ‘birthday fun weekend.’ It is always a good time when Jean and Sam are around. Ma, Pa and Lily also came today. Lily wanted to be Rowan, Oliver, and Muca’s best friend so most of their time was spent hiding in the pigloo and under the bed with Lily waiting for them to emerge. Mom made a red velvet cheesecake… SUPER awesome. This picture doesn’t show, but this cake was about 4 inches tall.

Besides having birthday fun, we have been unpacking studio things onto new shelves. Almost everything is out of boxes from the bedroom and in the studio YAY. Maybe someday we will have the work tables done.

The cats love all the boxes and toys on the slippery floor. If it can’t be used as a studio yet, why not a cat playroom!

Annual fall trip to the Magical Forest

An indescribable weekend between everything

The morning started with a trip to the title office in Bowling Green. My car is officially mine now. Now I just have to save enough to sell it and get something else. I am thinking Scion TC (as long as I can find one used and can put a rack on it for kayaks). Then, we picked up this…..

Sam and I have been in need of a whiskey night. I think we have had 1 or 2 since we have been back from Ireland. This is a little fancier than our usual Paddy’s but I am sure we will have just as much fun. After coming home I made plum clafouti. I used a recipe from Orangette. It turned out super amazing.

Now…. before whiskey night, and Seth’s Dad’s Birthday party tomorrow, I have to clean the new ‘studio’. Everything from the old Studio is stuffed in a tiny second bedroom that can barely be walked in. The thought of all I need to find space for is daunting. I hope that once I get space to work, this blog will turn more creative and artistic, like it was meant to be in the first place.

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