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Bits and bobs

Christine — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:26:58 +0000

I came across a super cute pin cushion pattern on Ravely the other day, but when I clicked to check out the pattern i came across this! Unfortunately I can not read Danish! Now, from looking at the pictures, I’m pretty sure I could puzzle it out, but i always like to be sure. Then I had a thought, the Q*bee has tons of members from around the world, I bet someone could translate it! And ta da! The lovely Connie was able to translate it for me. So here it is.

Oh, and by the by, last Tues was my good friend T’s Birthday. There are two things in the world that T loves most.

Bacon and cupcakes. So i decided to combine them for Wednesday’s D&D game. I think they were a hit. <');" src="http://www.crumpledpaper.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/doh.gif" alt="><" />

Have any of you guys come across the unhealthy obsession the western world has with bacon? Take a look here, here ¹, and here.

Here’s an interesting article I found that addresses the obsession that the Internet had with bacon.

So tell me,

What do you think of bacon?

I was sad to see that I wasn’t the first to think of bacon cakes although I should have known

My Gingerbird House

Christine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:46:35 +0000

As I’ve mentioned a few times already this year, I am just brimming with Holiday cheer. So it was only the next logical step in my Christmas to-do list that I would attempt to make a Gingerbread house from scratch!I hadn’t made one since I was a wee youngin’ with my mum so I decided the time had more than come!

My enthusiasm was so infections that Andy was inspired by the Christmas Spirit and thought of a great idea to bring to his Staff party. My hunnyb works in telecom so his grand idea was to make a gingerbread phone! A very ambitious project for our first time making ginger bread but I knew we could do it! Constant Vigilance!!1

<');" src="http://www.crumpledpaper.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_blush.gif" alt="><" /> After 12 cups of flower, half a liter of molasses, and enough icing sugar to sink a boat, here are our results.

Isn’t it super awesome??? Come here little birdies!! Tweet tweet!

My bird perch started to droop a little and both my mum and my sister told me it looked a little.. umm.. you know!

There’s my boy in all his cuteness. The hat says Christmas cook! A super cute find i purchased from the dollar store.

And there’s the final results of the Ginger Phone! Totally awesome eh?

His staff party was on Wednesday and I heard it was a great hit! More pics, or larger ones can be seen on my flicker page here. Oh! We also watched Trading Places while we worked! If you haven’t seen it, I super recommend it.

Buttons and Crumble

Christine — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:51:50 +0000

I’ve had a most delicious night filled with crafting and sorting and crocheting and fruit crumble. I’ve discovered how to make the most incredible crumbles I’ve ever eaten. I’ve never been overly fond of the baked fruit crumble desert thingies ¹ and now that I’ve mastered it…. I want to make it all the time! It’s a good thing my dear friend Sarah is back from Europe because I need my work out buddy asap

I also sorted my buttons tonight! Oh how I love sorting. This case used to hold odds and ends from a decade ago when I used to bead small trinkets and bracelets and things. But my random bags of buttons were grower more out of control by the day, ² and my solution to store them in recycled plastic containers was no good. It had me toting around 9 containers of buttons! So this was absolutely perfect and when i saw it i thought, isn’t this ideal? and fun to do too. I got to sort by color, size, type and favorites.

Buttons are so beautiful to look at.

And now I’m feeling rather sleepy. Good night internets.

mostly because i never knew how easy it was to make one
fueled by my inability to not buy buttons if i see them at a reasonable cost