My Little Crafty Corner

Archive for October, 2009

I need to get back into this.  I haven't touched my scrapbooks in over a year.  I don't even want to know how far behind I am.  Let alone know how many pictures are waiting for me to upload to be printed.

I love this fall layout design.  

I will have to see if I can get together with some friends a few Saturday's this winter to try and make a dent in my piles of pictures!

As many times as I have been to the dentist in the last year and a half, you would think they would offer some kind of dental discounts! I fear I will be having more dental work in the near future, and probably will be going to see him without dental insurance, if we do go ahead with this new job situation.  The money we could save I could then buy more yarn.  I was just at the yarn store today and loved all of the new yarns they had.  Just wish I had some extra money to actually buy some!  Time to finish up some projects so I have some free cash to spend!

1    package Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix
1/2    cup water
1    cup mashed very ripe bananas (2 medium)
1/2    cup butter or margarine, softened
2    teaspoons ground cinnamon
3    eggs
1/2    cup chopped walnuts
Cinnamon Glaze
1/2    cup Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy cream cheese ready-to-spread frosting
2    to 3 teaspoons milk
1/4    teaspoon ground cinnamon
        
        
1.    Heat oven to 350°. Grease 12-cup bundt cake pan with shortening; lightly flour (or spray with cooking spray; do not flour).
2.    Beat cake mix, water, bananas, butter, cinnamon and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in walnuts. Pour into pan.
3.    Bake 43 to 53 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Turn pan upside down onto wire rack or heatproof serving plate; remove pan. Cool completely, about 2 hours. Stir all glaze ingredients in small bowl until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over cake.

Gloves that is.  These are for a friend, hopefully they keep her hands warm while she is in the hospital…

So many things on my to do list, I don't even know where to begin or pick up. I have lots of knitting projects in the works, books to read, a house to clean and Christmas shopping to start. I look as the the things I have to knit, and thinking that I have yarn in the color I need in my ever growing bin of yarn, only to find that I don't. So off to the craft store I go.

As for the Christmas list, I need to get the boys to give me some ideas, whether it be a iPod, MBT shoes, or clothes. They need to give me ideas. I want to find things as I go each week leading up to Christmas, as I need to work it into our budget.  I know of one item Trent wants, so hopefully I can find one for him.

So who's ready to go shopping with me?