So I decided to move in another direction with my website. I've had tiptoefairy.com for years and it didn't really go well with my pattern designs, so I chose a new domain name today for my site. So now I will be sewingchickstudio.com. The computer with all my website, tutorial stuff, etc, is currently being tuned up by dad. I should get it back in a day or two, and my kids are going to their dad's house today. So I'm crossing my fingers that by this weekend, the tutorials will be back.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
New Website
So I decided to move in another direction with my website. I've had tiptoefairy.com for years and it didn't really go well with my pattern designs, so I chose a new domain name today for my site. So now I will be sewingchickstudio.com. The computer with all my website, tutorial stuff, etc, is currently being tuned up by dad. I should get it back in a day or two, and my kids are going to their dad's house today. So I'm crossing my fingers that by this weekend, the tutorials will be back.
Apricot Cream Cheese Crescents
While I was working and pregnant, there was a time I rarely cooked at home. Now I am so proud of myself, lol, I cook every night during the week and most of the weekend.
I love apricots and I was trying to think up something that would be like my rustic tart, but less messy and more bite size, so I whipped these up. My family devoured them and wanted more, lol.
Apricot Cream Cheese Crescents
1 can of crescent rolls
1 can of apricots in lite syrup
4 oz of cream cheese - softened
3 tbs of sugar
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix 2 tbs of sugar with cream cheese. Drain apricot syrup into bowl and mix with 1 tbs of sugar. Roll out crescents. Spread a spoonful of cream cheese mixture to each crescent roll. Place one apricot in center of each roll, then roll up. Pinch edges closed around cream cheese. Brush the syrup on the top of each roll. Bake 10-12 minutes until golden brown. Let cool several minutes.
I love apricots and I was trying to think up something that would be like my rustic tart, but less messy and more bite size, so I whipped these up. My family devoured them and wanted more, lol.
Apricot Cream Cheese Crescents
1 can of crescent rolls
1 can of apricots in lite syrup
4 oz of cream cheese - softened
3 tbs of sugar
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix 2 tbs of sugar with cream cheese. Drain apricot syrup into bowl and mix with 1 tbs of sugar. Roll out crescents. Spread a spoonful of cream cheese mixture to each crescent roll. Place one apricot in center of each roll, then roll up. Pinch edges closed around cream cheese. Brush the syrup on the top of each roll. Bake 10-12 minutes until golden brown. Let cool several minutes.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
So...the plan
Working in a lab has made me a rather organized in a neat-freaky kinda way, so I've come up with a plan, per se, for my blog. So I know what day I post about what. I'm definitely doing a tutorial day, recipe day, and book review day. I have a couple of picture days planned too. I'm thinking 5 to 6 days of content, then 1 day or 2 days off. I miss my blog, lol, so I'm leaning toward just 1 day off.
Duma Key
Holy Hell, what a book! I finished it about 2 days ago and I'm still creeped out. It's very good. I love long novels. My hubby got me into Stephen King last year. We were sitting outside an ice cream shoppe, under the awning while there was a summer rain all around us, eating our ice cream, and he read me one of King's short stories, Quitter's Inc. The pinkie finger!! I was hooked after that and have read many of his short stories since then; this was my first novel by him.
The tale of Duma Key is weaved around a middle-aged man named Edgar Freemantle who has a horrible accident involving a crane and loses his right arm and nearly his life. He's retelling the tale of how he got back to himself again. He becomes a very angry man after his accident, so for a fresh start, he moves from Minnesota to Florida to start his "other" life. He begins sketching and soon finds a whole new life as an artist, but his pictures have a supernatural quality to them you soon discover. The mystery unfolds through his pictures until the climax at the end that terrifies you. As you turn each page the anticipation of where the story will go just makes you wonder when something terrifying is going to jump out and scare the hell out of you. I would have all the lights on at 2 AM while nursing the baby and eventually I'd have to put it down and put some mindless tv on like Jersey Shore to get my pulse down again. If you like intrigue and mystery with some scare thrown in, this is a wonderful long read.
The tale of Duma Key is weaved around a middle-aged man named Edgar Freemantle who has a horrible accident involving a crane and loses his right arm and nearly his life. He's retelling the tale of how he got back to himself again. He becomes a very angry man after his accident, so for a fresh start, he moves from Minnesota to Florida to start his "other" life. He begins sketching and soon finds a whole new life as an artist, but his pictures have a supernatural quality to them you soon discover. The mystery unfolds through his pictures until the climax at the end that terrifies you. As you turn each page the anticipation of where the story will go just makes you wonder when something terrifying is going to jump out and scare the hell out of you. I would have all the lights on at 2 AM while nursing the baby and eventually I'd have to put it down and put some mindless tv on like Jersey Shore to get my pulse down again. If you like intrigue and mystery with some scare thrown in, this is a wonderful long read.
Thursday, July 08, 2010
She's Alive!!
Yes I am alive. I'm sure y'all thought I forgot about this here lil blog, but I haven't. Getting my website fixed has been a bit of an issue. Hopefully in the very near future, I will have the tutorials all working again...very soon.
Big News...I'm officially a stay-at-home mommy again!! The last two months have turned us upside down. I had a baby, we moved, and my hubby started a new dream job. We've moved to a wonderful new house in a wonderful neighborhood with lots of kids and a neighborhood pool from a tiny shoebox apartment (starting life over is HARD!) . My hubby is studying for his stockbroker exam and getting paid to do it. He's performing with flying colors and at the end of the month, he will be an official stockbroker. So we made the decision that I can stay home, so I quit my job last week. It was hard...I worked for a breastmilk bank...I actually pasteurized the milk and was in charge of the lab. I have never loved a job more, and hopefully I can go back there to work in about 3 years when Miss Molly enters preschool. I hope to become a donor mom myself (feel free to email me about how to do that if you want to as well) when the baby is no longer exclusively nursing.
And the reason I'm a SAHMommy again? This adorable thing...named Molly Elizabeth...aka Punkin or Ladybug or Mollyball...born in April, she's 11 weeks old and the strongest baby I've ever had. She can nearly sit up alone, it's freaky....Her big sister and brother think she is THE most adorable thing ever and are the best little babysitters when I need them. She has the funkiest hair too and came out with a lot. When they gave her a bath in the nursery, she came back with a faux hawk and her hair naturally turns into faux hawk style, lol. She has adorable little ringlets of reddish blonde hair. 
Anyway...because I am now a SAHMommy again, I will be restarting my blog again with NEW tutorials and book reviews and more. Just give me a couple weeks to settle the website issues so that all those tutorials will return and I will be posting regularly starting next week. WOOHOO!! I will also be starting eBay auctions for my fabric hoard and an etsy store for my obsessive sewing to help me stay home with my kidlets.
Also...email changes...if you would like to contact me until I update all the stuff around here...try stephanickety at yahoo.com
See ya!
Big News...I'm officially a stay-at-home mommy again!! The last two months have turned us upside down. I had a baby, we moved, and my hubby started a new dream job. We've moved to a wonderful new house in a wonderful neighborhood with lots of kids and a neighborhood pool from a tiny shoebox apartment (starting life over is HARD!) . My hubby is studying for his stockbroker exam and getting paid to do it. He's performing with flying colors and at the end of the month, he will be an official stockbroker. So we made the decision that I can stay home, so I quit my job last week. It was hard...I worked for a breastmilk bank...I actually pasteurized the milk and was in charge of the lab. I have never loved a job more, and hopefully I can go back there to work in about 3 years when Miss Molly enters preschool. I hope to become a donor mom myself (feel free to email me about how to do that if you want to as well) when the baby is no longer exclusively nursing.
And the reason I'm a SAHMommy again? This adorable thing...named Molly Elizabeth...aka Punkin or Ladybug or Mollyball...born in April, she's 11 weeks old and the strongest baby I've ever had. She can nearly sit up alone, it's freaky....Her big sister and brother think she is THE most adorable thing ever and are the best little babysitters when I need them. She has the funkiest hair too and came out with a lot. When they gave her a bath in the nursery, she came back with a faux hawk and her hair naturally turns into faux hawk style, lol. She has adorable little ringlets of reddish blonde hair. 
Anyway...because I am now a SAHMommy again, I will be restarting my blog again with NEW tutorials and book reviews and more. Just give me a couple weeks to settle the website issues so that all those tutorials will return and I will be posting regularly starting next week. WOOHOO!! I will also be starting eBay auctions for my fabric hoard and an etsy store for my obsessive sewing to help me stay home with my kidlets.
Also...email changes...if you would like to contact me until I update all the stuff around here...try stephanickety at yahoo.com
See ya!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sorry about the website thing and baby news
I haven't had time to be around here in awhile. I just realized my website expired about 2 months ago. I'm in the midst of updating it and will have the tutorial information back on in the next few days, just need to point the DNS servers the right way. Sorry!!
Oh and....the baby is a girl! She likes to clap too, lol. We had my big sonogram about a month ago and she kept clapping her hands in utero. It was quite weird, lol. I think I have a video I can upload here of her clapping. Her first name will be Molly....I'm not sure we have a middle name yet, we were both leaning toward Anastasia, but it wasn't definitive.
Oh and....the baby is a girl! She likes to clap too, lol. We had my big sonogram about a month ago and she kept clapping her hands in utero. It was quite weird, lol. I think I have a video I can upload here of her clapping. Her first name will be Molly....I'm not sure we have a middle name yet, we were both leaning toward Anastasia, but it wasn't definitive.
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