2012 October

Happy Halloweenie…

October 31, 2012 by Peabody · 4 Comments

Happy Halloween everyone...some of your are probably already back from getting your candy. Crazy Cocker Spaniel is just getting ready. Don't worry she just looks sad because she is bacon and can't eat herself. These are a quick and fun project to do with the kids. Here is MDP's step son learning the joys of piping royal icing. :) They are just a half a marshmallow (full size), a chocolate graham cracker, white royal icing, and a black food coloring marker. Hope everyone was/is safe tonight and got some good candy...now on to November. … [Read more...]

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Happy trees…

October 30, 2012 by Peabody · 8 Comments

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Growing up I loved watching Bob Ross on PBS…even as a teenager (did you know he was on for 31 seasons! That’s a lot of happy trees). So much so that I convinced my dad to get to use his oil paints (he used to paint). It’s not that I really every think I wanted to paint. I think it was that Bob Ross and his happy trees was just so darn happy that I thought maybe if I painted myself something in sky blue and Van Dyke brown my happiness would come too. It was probably just the paint fumes. :P Anyway I painted a variety of things…all landscape of course and I made what Bob Ross would call happy accidents a lot (as he would say “we don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents”). My first ones were mostly blobs but my father hung them proudly and my mother followed along and hid them in the dark corners of the house. :) I wasn’t just randomly thinking of Bob Ross…yesterday he was on the Google page and several people “thought of me” when they saw it and asked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cookbook Review, cupcakes, Fun Food, peanut butter · Tagged With: Banana, Captain Crunch, cookbook review, Cupcake, peanut butter

Judge away…

October 25, 2012 by Peabody · 13 Comments

I talked about Dog Shaming in this post and have often wondered if people had to walk around with a sign saying what wrong they had done if less people would do the stupid and hurtful things they do? For some I would assume yes, others sadly it probably wouldn’t deter them in the least. While I am of course a HUGE Pinterest fan… other than the political b.s. that creeps in there as of late then number one thing on Pinterest I hate is this quote: “Go ahead. Judge me. Just remember to be perfect the rest of your life.” And I’ll tell you why I hate it…because the people that post it that I know in real life are the idiots who are being judged. Usually for pretty good reasons. But I don’t call that judging…I call that moron detection. So no worries…I’m not judging a single person. But I will say that my moron detector does go off a lot around certain people. And one does not need to be perfect just because someone else sucks as being a person. I don’t have to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: breakfast treat, Krispie Treat · Tagged With: Bar, Krispie Treat, Pumpkin