Sock Bouquet

My father is super difficult to buy stuff for.  To make matters worse, his birthday is the same week as Father's Day, so I have to come up with 2 gifts.

He does have a thing for argyle socks-but that's a pretty lame gift for the man that's responsible for my very presence on the planet. 
 I saw cute sock bouquets on How Does She, and thought it might make my super lame gift a little better. 
If I had planned ahead, I could have even added leaves and had my kids write things they loved about him on each one, but I didn't.

What did you give your father this year?


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Will Link for fun #46

I think it was 105 here today-that's too hot to even go to the pool. Much too hot to do much else but work on projects.  Here's some fabulous ideas that were linked up last week:

Most Viewed link:
Upcycled Shirt Dresses

Mushroom Stool (too cute)

Patriotic Skirt

Stromboli



Now it's your turn.

Anthro Crop Shirt-AGAIN

 I think this is the 5th crop shirt I've sewn for my daughter, but I just can't help myself.  I can make her a cute original shirt for less than a yard of fabric and be done in under an hour.

The back is my favorite part.

Pleated Back Crop Shirt 

Crop shirt w/ exposed zipper

30 minute Crop shirt


Sheer Crop Shirt

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Pinterest taste test: Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies

When you put 2 awesome things together, you expect that their original awesomeness will exponential explode into ultimate awesomeness.  Sometimes it does-like peanut butter cups.  Other times the awesomeness somehow cancels each other out -like when too beautiful celebrities have really homely children.

My very favorite treat in the world is a chocolate chip cookie.  My favorite store bought cookie is an Oreo. People all over Pinterest are baking Oreo's inside of chocolate-chip cookies and my daughter was dying to give it a try. 

They weren't disgusting, but I don't think I will make them again either.  They are just something that sounds better than they taste.  I think they might be better without the frosting.  It adds a weird over-processed food taste.  

Final Verdict: Good, but Oreo's and Chocolate Chip cookies are better separate (although i did eat 4).

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White-bean and Sweet Potato Burger

I decided pick June for my 30-day Vegetarian Challenge b/c I knew my hubby would be gone for most of it.  Since I don't cook a lot while my hubby is gone, my plan kinda back-fired and there have been way too many cold cereal and frozen pizza dinners.  He's back, and so I am cooking again.

I found a recipe for Sweet Potato Veggie burgers and thought I'd give them a test run.


I used salt, pepper, 1tsp cumin, 1 tsp garlic powder for the spices.  


My burger mixture had the consistency of mashed potatoes and so I ended up using quite a bit more oil than I wanted. Next time, I think I will make them more as "nuggets" than patties.  


All 5 of us ate them (my kids will eat anything fried), so I declare it a success.  Most of us just ate them plain and not on a bun.  The kids dipped them in ranch, or BBQ sauce.  I just topped mine with plain avocado.  I think  they would be awesome with my mango-avocado salsa.



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Will Craft for Fun #46

So while, I've been super busy driving my kids around to all their summer activities, you've been busy making wonderful crafty things.  Here are some of last week's favorites.


Raegun Ramblings-Taggie Blanket (she used ribbons from the parent's wedding-genius)



Snickety Things-This has been on my to-do list forever.  I'm afraid that if I start taking decent photographs, you will all think you have the wrong blog and you'll leave.

And last week's most viewed link:
Dip Dyed Hair
(am I too old to pull this off, b/c I think it is super fun)


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Downton Abbey Blessing Dress

Are you a Downton Abbey fan?  I would watch it for the clothes alone. As I watch, I am torn between the thoughts:

"Why don't we dress like that?"

and

"Gee these sweatpants are super comfy".

I really wanted to sew something inspired by the show, but since we don't exactly "dress" for dinner around here, I don't have a lot of opportunity to wear a lot of silk and lace.

One of my goals this summer is work on my neglected Etsy store.  What do you think of my Downton Blessing Dress and bonnet set?

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