When Pies Go Bad

I made two strawberry meringue pies with lemon curd for Mother's Day and things didn't exactly go as planned. When I baked the crusts, they shrunk down into the pie plates and bubbled up really big in the middle. Nice. But after I assembled them, I thought they looked good enough to snap a picture of, so I did:

What I didn't snap a picture of was the next morning when I took them out of the refrigerator and the juice from the strawberries had soaked into the crust! They were a mess. One of them even leaked onto the backseat of our car on the way over to my parents' house. But despite all this, they still tasted pretty good. And my husband (who is not a big fan of pie crust) said that it was the best pie crust he had ever had! Note to self...strawberry juice-soaked pie crust is good!

Sketchbook Peek Saturday

I've been thinking about doing a feature here where I share something from my sketchbook every other week or so. I think it will be fun and hopefully it will also keep me motivated to draw on a more regular basis! Ok, so this isn't exactly from my sketchbook, but here's just a little something I worked on last night:

It's pretty simple and it really didn't take me that long to do. It's for a little project I'm working on. Hope you enjoyed this little "peek", and happy weekend!

The season for growing

Our lettuce is growing! We planted spinach, red leaf, and just some regular stuff about a week and a half ago. The last time we planted spinach from seed, none of it came up, so we were pretty excited to see those green sprouts popping up this week. Hopefully we will be eating some yummy salads in a few weeks!

I'm thinking we need to plant some tomatoes, too. Aren't they so much better home grown than store bought??

Weekend Project

This weekend I finally worked up the motivation to start a project. I've had so many ideas rolling around in my head that I think it's been hard for me to decide which one to actually start with!

We've had this media shelf for probably about 4 or 5 years; I think we got it at Big Lots. It was super packed with dvds until we weeded some out and my husband went through and recorded some digitally to our computer. There ended up being some empty shelves, but I couldn't get to them because of the spot in our living room we had it in.



See how it's really crowded with that end table there? By the way, I took this after I had cleared off about 3 shelves and then realized I would probably want to have a "before" picture. I never liked how the lower shelves weren't that accessible, and the black backing with its black hole-ish, sucking-the-rest-of-the-living-room-in quality was really starting to bother me. After seeing some ideas on Pintrest, I decided I would scrapbook the back of our media shelf!



I used Mod Podge to glue the paper to the back and then brushed another layer of it on top to seal it a little. I also moved the shelf to a different spot so it would be more accessible. And with the dvds more spread out, I was able to put some other little things in amongst the dvds to make it look more home-y.



Ta da! I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. My husband didn't like how "frilly" the paper was that I chose, but he did approve of the way I arranged everything. :o)



Yay for weekend projects! What projects are you hoping to get done soon?