New home for us

I've decided to move to another blog because Blogger has been driving me crazy. I'm now located here on Wordpress. So update your bookmarks or feed and I'll slowly be changing everything over to there.

Nursing covers

I've been making nursing covers for a while now. I love the funky fabric. I order it online, usually from Etsy because selection of cool fabric is extremely limited at our local Fabricland. I like being able to peruse through the vast amounts online and it comes right to my door!

Another day in the life...

Don't ask me why Maya needed 3 bathing suits on all at once while sitting in a plastic bin, eating her snack!

I love baking!

I really can't help myself. Honestly whenever I look at a recipe book the first thing I do is turn to the dessert section to see what kind of desserts and sweet things are in the book. That's pretty much how I determine if it's a good cookbook or not. I like to bake when I have some free time...sure beats cleaning any day! I came across this recipe on a blog and immediately I had to make it. They're M&M cookie bars and cookie bars are so much nicer than individual cookies because I detest taking too much time to bake things (and not using more than one pan if I can help it!) I happened to have gone down to the States shortly before this and had a stash of peanut butter M&M's, mint M&M's (side note: those ones are seriously to die for; I pretty much inhaled them), pretzel M&M's, and regular M&M's (do I have a problem?). There was a plethora of M&M's in my bars. They were fantastic! UPDATE: Here's where I found the recipe

Another genius recipe!

I often have a lot of overripe bananas sitting around and I forbid Dave to throw them out because they're delicious in smoothies but especially banana muffins and banana bread. I came across this recipe - banana bread with a coconut lime glaze - and thought it sounded divine. It came out delicious and I had to limit people from eating the entire loaf in one go! UPDATE: Ok, so I guess I should post my recipes in case people care!! This one can be found here

Diaper Bag

This time around I decided to get myself a proper diaper bag. Then I thought I'd splurge and get a really cool one. I love the red and it's so nice! It's made by Petunia Pickle Bottom and it's their "Cake" line.

Baby announcement

So Rylan is just about 11 weeks old and I finally got around to doing a baby announcement. Maybe I'll eventually get them mailed out too!!

Things I Love...

Here are a few products that have made my life more livable (especially on those days when very little sleep has been had). I feel much more human with a few of these puppies in my arsenal!

Ahhh, the flat iron. Makes me feel polished and sophisticated (also I can't say enough about a great salon haircut)!

I love love love this colour, although I don't own it....yet!

This liquid eyeliner is wonderful (with some practice)

Urban decay eyeshadows...lots of colour, pigment, love them!

Mac lipglass - I have a few different shades. I always inhale their scent, they're all vanilla-y.

Mac fluidline (another eyeliner) - my current shade is blitz and glitz (black with tiny gold flecks)

Amazing! Urban decay eyeshadow primer potion. NO CREASING!! Also having good eyeshadow helps with that too.

Mac prep and prime - great for those days when kids interrupt my routine. As long as this is on, I can come back to foundation when the children are distracted (even though I end up doing my makeup at the kitchen table!)

Mac pro lash mascara. I love trying new mascaras. This one is quite nice. I also have the waterproof version, and I must admit, it's my first waterproof mascara ever!

The crowning glory! Unfortunately I have not been endowed with lovely creamy smooth perfect skin. Therefore I need a little (and some days a LOT) of help with that! This has been the best foundation ever! I wish I could get away with mineral foundation or something like that, but this is it for me for now!

Rylan James

This is Rylan James. He was born December 31, 2009 at 6:54 am. He was 7 lbs 10 oz and 21 inches long. Of course now he's 8 weeks old and growing like a weed! He had his last midwife appt today and he now weighs 11 lbs! Yay! He's been sleeping very well and is a joy to us! Maya is being a great big sister (even if Rylan gets hit every so often!)

Valentine's sugar cookies

Dave wanted to bring his seminary kids a treat for Valentine's Day so I jumped at the opportunity to make some sugar cookies to decorate. (He was going to just pick up some cookies or doughnuts, but I said, "Nonsense, it has to be something homemade and Valentine's appropriate) I must say I LOVE sugar cookies but always hated decorating them, but since discovering royal icing, it's pretty much a breeze to decorate and they look much more appealing than having some frosting slathered on them with some random sprinkles (although they still taste good).

Apparently the kids totally thought they were store bought (apparently it was too early for them to really see them) and just loved the flavour. Royal icing is notoriously terrible tasting but I bought some potent flavouring (blueberry) and that did the trick! I was quite pleased and still have a long way to go with learning how to decorate well, but it's fun and the results are delicious!

The outlined cookies

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