Life, the universe... you know, everything...

Life has been getting in the way.  Just letting you know.  ;)

My new blog :)

I have a new blog that is devoted to all things food, from recipes I have tried, food I would like to make, cool food sites and food in the news.  I call it "Recipe Micellany"  basically, because its a web recipe scrapbook.  Check it out if you are the hungry type too lol

http://recipemicellany.blogspot.com/

Food funny of the day

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It's kind of funny, because in my internet travels last night I had seen the Rachel Ray's brownie message bite things, and thought, 'if they were coated in different coloured white chocolate and placed in different shapes you could totally have tetris brownie bites'.  Now obviously this isn't brownies, it's waffles, however I was happily surprised to find food in the shape of tetris.  I should tell the people over at snackordie.com about this.  That is this great little food blog about cookies and stuff you can make into video game omages.  Brilliant.

baby update

It's been a while since I have been on to talk about the little man, so I thought I would take a moment to gush about the achievements of my now 8 month old son. 

He is growing up so big and tall for his age, everyone who sees him thinks he is much older than he is due to his size.  He is using things to stand up all the time since 7 months, his top teeth are now poking through to join his bottom two (groans about the new breastfeeding pains)

 I am trying as much as I can to follow the baby led weaning ideas, although he still gets some purees and mush for a quick, easy meal, I try to feed what can be best described as toddler food to him to get his chew on.  However, although it is easier to get him steamed carrot sticks, bread cut into rectangular sticks, partially peeled bananas and broccoli (today's lunch, he loves broccoli) I find the problem is that he loves the food soo much he trys to shove it all into his little mouth, and it takes some restraint not to immediately rescue the poor little guy, because he isn't choking, he is learning to chew and is gagging, completely different.  Still, even though he hasn't turned 'blue' yet lol, I may have gave into my protective urges occasionally and fished out the half a cookie he decided he just must have entirely in his mouth...  I hope he learns smaller bites soon for my sake, like I said, he isn't choking, it's just hard to watch.  (most of the time he is just fine though, no need to worry, a child is more likely to choke on purees especially when being fed instead of controlling the feeding themselves.)

Well, there is always lots to say about Evan, but for now it is more that this is all the time I have to write about him ;)

A Great Way To Recycle

Hey, everyone is talking about the environment this month (if they weren't already) and I stumbled across this great article from Junk Mail Gems that has a creative way to use old plates and vases to make cake stands :)
Check out the rest of the blog too, they have some great ways to save money and re-use things in interesting ways, I actually came across it while looking for DIY changing pad kit patterns.  (Her's was more of a tote though, so I am still searching for 'the one' I want to make)

Check out the article here:
http://junkmailgemsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/recycled-cake-stands.html

And here is a picture of the cake stand she made that made me fall in love with this particular article: