I do wish it had a third column so I could put more widgets, but I only have what I have and I’ll just have to make do. I would like to put another tab at the top and do a weekly, if not daily “What’s on the menu” type feature. I made my list of things I wanted to cook in the immediate future and last night I crossed one off my list. I made the Creamy Carrot Soup and ended up substituting a few ingredients because I didn’t have basil on hand. I used fresh dill that I got last week. I also love the sweet/salty thing, so I sprinkled Feta cheese crumbles all over the top. So fabulous! I ate both big cups of soup! By myself. I won’t think about how many calories were in the half and half I used! The rest was healthy, so I’m going to just go with that! I could try using plain yogurt next time. I’m thinking that it will taste slightly more tangy and less mouth round fullness because it won’t have that fat in it. I love me some fat!

Anyway, now that I totally went off on another tangent, I will just say, I love my new look…hope you do to! Look for more cool things to come now that I’m all updating and wordpress likes me again.

Not me! I scour store after store for something quirky like say super cute striped Halloween hand towels with black ball fringe and happy spiders paired a coordinating black and orange polka dot towel. Then I would take said towels and continue to look for a creative way to give them, like maybe  in a clear glass pumpkin shaped jar with lid and 3 small bags of candy. That really wouldn’t be cute enough on it’s own because hello!, I am creative. (Sometimes it’s a curse really.) So off to the house with  my new purchases to create a masterpiece!! After much trial and error, I decide to incorporate the three components together. I took the black and orange polka dot towel and lined the inside of the pumpkin jar,  then I mixed Hershey miniatures, caramel apple, and candy corn kisses together and poured them inside. I folded the spider towel to fit over the candy but under the lid, so just a peek of the spiders shows through the jar.
A normal person would stop there, but not me! I would rifle through all my scrapbook stuff (p.s. most creative people are kind of unorganized) looking for that cute Halloween paper I bought before my favorite scrapbook store went out of business. While I was at, why not use glitter glue and some ribbon?! Um, yeah. I ended up with a cute little tag with cream and large black polka dots with a black ribbon trim on the bottom and black and copper glitter stickles saying something like, “No trick Just treats”. It ended up on the top of the lid with an orange ribbon. Whew!! And then I made dinner. Ok, well I heated up dinner, but I fed my family and that is what is most important, right?

So how did this gift go over with the gals at KENO?

Let’s just say it was stolen a couple of times and oohed and ahhed over when it was revealed. I felt so proud. And tired. You know,  from all the crafty creativeness. I didn’t even get a picture of it. I did however save myself some caramel apple kisses because have you tried those? They really are very yummy, almost too yummy as they could get a girl in trouble if she eats the whole bag.

Today is not only Michael Jon’s 6th birthday, but his obsessively creative mother would like to make his day special. Usually we do gift opening at home and to green the kids after school, Mom decorates the dining table with a table cloth, balloons, a cake, and plates with napkins.

I’ve been known to use boxes of candy as balloon weights! Awesome idea right?? I know- and cheap too! And speaking of cheap; most of the creative people I know don’t have a lot of money, so we have to find ways to satisfy our need to make things awesomely cute and balance out the price point. I don’t always find what I want, but most of the time I do pretty well. My kiddos love that I do this for them.  I love it too.

Because today is also Wednesday and we have church activities, we are moving the house party and decorations to where we’ll be. I plan on going to the church before I pick up the boys from school and decorate one table. I’ll pick up some balloons and ice cream cups to share with friends. We will open presents at home though and I foresee Michael not wanting to go to his classes because he’ll want to play with his new presents!

As if that wasn’t enough (are you still here? Well if you hung on this long, I’m almost done) I am going to the bank, Target, Party City, Sam’s club, dollar tree, and figure out something to have for dinner that’s portable and cheap. I just love a challenge!!