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Peanut Butter Eggs

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These peanut butter eggs were adapted from other recipes. I wanted eggs that weren’t so sweet and were also soft, not crumbly. Here’s the recipe:

  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
  • 4 Tbsp (1/2 stick) butter, softened
  • Chocolate candy melts, about half a bag
  1. Combine peanut butter, sugar, and butter. Mix until well combined. Scoop about 1 tablespoon’s worth and roll into an egg shape. Repeat until the peanut butter mixture is all gone. These will be fairly soft, but should hold together. You can add more confectioner’s sugar if the mixture is too soft.
  2. Freeze the eggs for about 20 minutes (longer is okay) to harden them up for dipping.
  3. When ready for dipping, melt the candy melts according to package directions. Depending on your microwave, it will probably be about 2 minutes on 50% power. Don’t microwave the melts on high power, you’ll probably ruin them.
  4. When the chocolate candy melts are fully melted, carefully dip the eggs in the chocolate, making sure to coat all sides. Gently remove from chocolate and place on wax paper. Having the wax paper on a cookie sheet is a good idea. If the eggs get too soft to work with, return to the freezer or refrigerator for a few minutes.
  5. Enjoy!

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Daisy Wallet and Fob

A sewing project I’m currently working on is a matched wallet, bag, and key fob. If those go well, I may also make an iPad case, too. So far, the wallet and fob are done:
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I don’t normally go all matchy-matchy with my accessories (at least on purpose). This all evolved out of the bag project (more on that later). Because I had an excess of coordinating fat quarters–bought the wrong set, initially–I figured it wouldn’t hurt to create a unified collection. Plus, I needed a new wallet.

I wanted to approach this design project with a certain amount of planning.
Draft of the wallet’s interior:
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Exterior:
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Pattern pieces all cut out:
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Key fob pattern pieces:
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Monkey Done (and Elephant, too)

The lollipop “tree” project is done (yay!). I’m pleased how the two boards turned out and it was fun to reconnect with my paints and paint brushes. I refined the original sketch of the juggling monkey. He’s more cartoon-y and now has roller skates (easier than trying to draw monkey feet). Here’s the sketch:

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And here’s the finished panel:

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The other panel sported an elephant balancing on top of a ball. Here’s the sketch:

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And the finished panel:

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I used gold spray paint on the boards and acrylics for the characters. The red and blue areas were given extra treatments of glitter paint. Because everything is better with glitter. Am I right?

 

 

 

 

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Wreaths of Grapes (Vines)

Today I pruned my two little grapevines. Hopefully I did it right and hopefully I didn’t jump the gun and prune them too soon. I figured since we were having such a mild winter so far that maybe it was a good idea to go ahead and take care of that task. Grapevines, apparently, need a lot of aggressive pruning in order to produce fruit. Since this is only my first year growing grapes (they’re supposed to be a seedless Concord variety), I din’t expect to see grapes for at least another year. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the fruits of my labor. Check out the wreath I made from the pruned vines:

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Monkey See

I was inspired recently to take up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing again. There are a few people I can thank for this, among them is the muse Necessity. I volunteered to help but on a carnival at my son’s school in the spring and have found myself on games and crafts. Below is a sketch for a monkey that will (hopefully) adorn one side of a lollipop “tree”. This will be a pegboard with lollipops stuck in the holes. Some pops will have painted sticks. Kids can pick a pop and if theirs has a marked stick, they also win a prize. The other side will likely have an elephant, but I haven’t finished that sketch, yet.
So, monkey see:

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