A weekend of cooking and crafting

Over my long weekend I spent time cooking and crafting. I should have spent more time cleaning, but sometimes that doesn't work out.

I finished the quilt for my friend Ashley's baby shower. It is supposed to be a shadow quilt, but I struggles and instead it's just a stripey triangle quilt.

You can't see it in the picture, but the very edge is green. I was going to finish it with the backing, but I'm so happy I added the green. It really makes it look complete.

I did some cooking in preparation for my first Pampered Chef Party this weekend. The first thing I made was a three-cheese garden pizza. It was so good. I ate like half of it for lunch on Saturday. The best part was the three cheese (cheddar, mozzarella, and Parmesan) mixed with a teaspoon of Italian seasoning. It gave it the perfect pizza flavor.

The crust was a refrigerated roll and would have been better if it were homemade, but the rolls are fast and work in a pinch.

The second recipe I tried was mint-chocolate triangles, which turned into mint-chocolate rectangles because the triangles would not cut right.

The looked pretty anyway, and are now stored in the freezer for my party on Saturday. I don't like the combination of mint and chocolate, but I'm assuming that they were pretty good because Alex and Dave finished off all the mess-ups and scraps in a matter of days.

I've got a ton more cleaning to do tomorrow, but my craft room/office is actually put together now and looks like a nice room. After work I'm just going to start in the back of the house and work my way forward or the other way.

I accidentally-on purpose tore the wall paper off the walls in the dining room. It looks better than it did, but there is still a ton of glue on the walls making the paneling look worse than normal. So tomorrow I must clean those walls, and hang a few pictures. Both bathrooms need cleaned. The entire house needs swept and the kitchen needs cleaned after I do some major food prep. Hopefully I can get it all done in 6 or 7 hours. Then I won't have to worry about those silly details Saturday morning.