Sunday, August 30, 2009

Ethan's 3rd Birthday -- Part I

So, I am a little bananas about my boy and his birthday. I admit that I might go slightly overboard in celebrating, but I love the idea of making him his own special cupcakes and cakes. It's difficult for me to pick just one, and since there were multiple opportunities to break out my "mixter" as he calls it, I decided to go ahead and make him as many birthday cakes as I wanted. The sad part is that as much as Ethan gets excited about me making his birthday in my mixer, he doesn't really LOVE cake. He does LOVE cookies, so I had to be a little creative. Therefore, after much thought of how I could stick cookies and candy on a cupcake I decided naturally on a cookie monster cupcake.


I thought for a long time about what to use on the eyes. As it turns out, one of Ethan's new favorite things is marshmallow, so I used black food coloring and painted pupils on large ones cut in half. I then shoved a Chips Ahoy cookie in the mouth and wah-lah ... Cookie Monster cupcakes. I took them to school for all of his buddies and the best part is that I saw another mother a week later and she told me her son came home with a detailed description of Ethan's Cookie Monster cupcakes. They were a hit. And that makes me happy.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Too much on my plate

So I have come to realize that I have too much going on in my life and I need to cut out some of the "extra" things that cause me unneeded stress and worry. That's why after months of ignoring my blog, I decide to actually write a post. That makes a ton of sense. Actually, I just want to be able to post pictures of my son's birthday party (which is probably my real source of stress -- only because I am going to be embarrassed by the rock quarry and mud mounds in my yard.) I really should have had a construction themed party. It would have been perfect.

Anyway, just to get back in the swing of things. Here are two items I have knitted in the last couple months. The first is a set of booties for our neighbors who had their third boy. You can get the pattern from here: http://www.bekahknits.com/. Or if you are on ravelry, from here.

The second pattern is from Debbie Bliss' "Essential Baby." It's just the little baby vest pattern, but I added the monogram "R" using intarsia. It's my first time making of my own intarsia design. I just basically created a grid of the stitches and Xed the blue ones. It was pretty easy.