Weekend Scenes

I meant to blog this on Monday.  And here it is Wednesday, and my scenes from the weekend are kind of irrelevant.  However, here are my photos from the weekend.

My bed always becomes the place everything is deposited at instead of being put away.  Then at night when I stumble into my room ready to fall into bed, I have a task ahead of me.  So I just move it from this pile to another.  Bad habits die hard, guys.

Sorry for the blurry photo.  I just about finished this scarf.  I started it last January.

New glitter manicure - love it!

Hope you're all having a good week!

Weekend Photos

Welcome back from the weekend folks!  I hope you had a better-than-usual Monday. 

Mondays are usually pretty good for me, I have a great job that I'm very thankful for (I get to work with all my immediate family, as I have been for the last 7 years...and we all still like each other!) and today was sunny.  I'm talking bright, blaring sun, which was very welcome after the unexpected snow we had yesterday. 

So, yes, photos. 

I painted my nails with another new Essie polish, "Orange, It's Obvious" - another new favorite.

I also used a new-to-me topcoat, Seche Vite.  It's a wee bit pricey, but worth every.single.penny.

I got on the treadmill, ran 2.5 miles (for the first time a while), and walked another couple of miles.  While I walked, I finished another square for my blanket.

On Sunday, I made granola.  I want to blog the recipe, but I got it from a friend, and want to get her permission first.  It's a very good recipie, I can assure you, since it was approved by my Dad.  And it's no small thing for my Dad to tell me that granola actually tasted good :)

On Sunday, while i was making granola, it was snowing.  This was very unexpected, since we have had barely any snow all winter, and it had already snowed on Friday.  The good thing about snow this late in the season, though, is that it does melt quickly.

So there were a few things from my weekend.  I didn't get all the things I hoped to do done, but that's ok.  I think I'll keep enjoying low-key, low-pressure weekends for as long as I can - I probably won't have that luxury forever!

Pinterest Weekend

I've been writing this post all week.  This should show you how long it takes me to write a blog post.  I didn't want to re-write the whole post, so I just left it alone.

So this past Saturday I was able to put four Pinterest Pins to use.  The first was painting my nails in a color from Essie's new Spring 2012 line, which I first saw on Pinterest - Ole Caliente, now a new favorite.  I don't know if it's in stores yet (it should be), but I got mine on Amazon.

My new favorite color, Essie's Ole Caliente.

We had guests over for dinner that night, and I made four desserts.  Yes, I know, sugar overload.  I got three of the recipes from Pinterest, and all of them were delicious!

{Pinterest Link}

The first recipe I made was Strawberry Heart Oreos.  The recipe only made 12 - 15 oreo cookies and I had several people to feed, so instead of making them oreos I simply frosted each individual cookie.  They were absolutely delicious.

The second project was Gooey Neopolitan Cake Bars.  These came out delicious, but not pretty, which was completely my fault.

{Pinterest Link}

These were delicious, but they didn't come out looking very good.  The main reason was that the aluminum foil I lined the pan with didn't reach all the up the sides of the pan, and the sweetened condensed milk that gets poured over the top trickled down the sides and got stuck to the sides of the pan.  When I was trying to lift the cake out of the pan with the foil it stuck and the cake cracked and broke in several places.  Again, this was totally my fault - if I make this recipe again (and I would) I would use two layers of foil and make sure they came up the sides of the pan.

The third recipe I made were Pecan Pie Bars.  These were so good, and I'll definately make them again!

{Pinterest Link}

Unlike Pecan Pie, these bars use brown sugar and honey as their sweetener.  My Dad actually said they don't really taste anything like Pecan Pie, but they were still delicious :)  The bottom is shortbread-like and the top is made on the stove. 



The fourth recipe I made was one of our family's favorite recipes, which I'll share next time.  Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!