Post Superbowl Chilling!

Superbowl 46 invite.

We had a great night last night watching the Superbowl with JT and her Hubby. We ate a lot and drank a lot of beer.

The menu consisted of Chicken cooked by my Ma, jacket potatoes and corn on the cob. JT made crack bread - brilliant idea, a loaf, ranch dressing, butter, cheese and bacon, then grill - yum!

Crack Bread

She also made 7 layer dip which is one of my fave things.

7 Layer Dip

I made a vanilla layer cake (Martha Stewart's Versatile Vanilla Cake), which was lovely, but not moist enough as I got the temperature a bit wrong! Next time, next time.

Picture of the day is of the card I made for our friend Jamie - he insisted that he hadn't had a formal invite!! So I made this for him - when I got home slightly worse for wear at Midnight on Weds evening! I think it came out pretty well considering!

As the Superbowl finished at 2.30am I had today so I mooched about, making some cards and doing the prep for Otis' bunting. I'll show you pics later in the week and I have a tutorial for making really pretty flowers.

It's been a really fun weekend, I had a great day out with Karen and JT at the Range and then lunch. The Superbowl party was fun, looking forward to doing it again next year!

Cx

Yummy, yummy, yummy for my tummy!

Hello!

Hope you all had a super weekend! I had lots of fun, dinner with some friends and hubby on Friday, lunch and theatre with Hubby on Saturday - which was excellent, and yesterday was spent food shopping, baking and relaxing.

Today's picture is of the cupcakes I made using the Hummingbird Bakery book I was given as a birthday gift (thanks Lemon). These bad boys are Chocolate and Banana and they are totally yummy and really really bad for you!

I also managed to squeeze in some crafting, although I might need to review some of the things I made over the weekend - too much vino tinto means some of the items might be a bit crazy and have to re-locate to the sale box!

Which leads in nicely to a top tip - the first craft fair I did was run by an amazing woman, she gave me these 2 tips:

1 - give a free gift - no matter how small, people getting excited (at Christmas I give Candy Canes)
2 - have a sale box - people LOVE a sale box - it is also a good place, for selling the items that are not quite right - be it broken, damaged or just weird, they ALWAYS sell if they are in the sale box. Which is great, as you don't waste things that aren't quite right.

Also both the free gift and sale box are good talking points, often people will stop and ask what is the free gift - I always say 'you'll only find out if you buy something......' I find that if people stop and talk to you, they will often buy something - so remember to smile and be friendly (and preferably not hungover and smelling of booze!!!)

Short post today, it's a bit busy today, but I promise more on Weds!

Cx