Tasty Tuesday - chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

½ cup coconut oil/butter/margarine (you pick)

½ cup packed brown sugar

1 egg

Vanilla – I don’t measure… just splash some in

Cream together

Add:

1 cup oatmeal

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

¼ tsp salt

Mix

Add chocolate chips or whatever other goodies you’d like and stir

Bake @350 until just barely golden around the edges.

I’m not saying a time because it depends on how big you make your cookies.

For me, my small cookie scoop takes 6 min…. big cookie scoop takes 9 min.

I just keep an eye on them.

These are hugo’s favorite!

it is MARKET TIME!!!

Etsy - Made in Canada Sale


when: September 27th 10am-4pm

where:
latitude 53

come see all the super awesome stuff that will be there!
come buy warm cozy things from me!


xo
kabukikreations

aka Amanda

foto friday - Once in a while we dress up...

i know i don't usually have anything to say with these posts but i just had to say hot damn we do clean up nicely or try to.... once in a while. hehe

this was for a wedding a couple weekends ago :)

i'm ready. almost

i LOVE summer
more than anyone i think.

but....
i know it can't last forever so i have to come to terms with the fact that it is going to be fall soon... and i will be cold for at least the next 6 months.

so in order to be prepared for this refrigerator called the great outdoors i have been crocheting hooking... hehehe.... like a crazy person and one of my favorite cozy accessories is boot cuffs.
i cannot for the life of me find boots that fit so i pretty much am guaranteed drafts and snow drifts go right into the tops of my boots. blegh.

these handy dandy little leg cozies fix that problem and keep my legs nice and roasty toasty.
perfect with dressier boots, amazing with my cowboy boots.... i am having a hard time parting with some of them but this mama only has so much time to build stock for the upcoming market/craft sale season so i'm going to have to use some self control and keep just a couple for now.

and just because i want to i am going to offer up a made to order pair of these lovelies...

anyone who comments on this blog post with their leg measurement will be entered to win a pair!

good luck!!

tasty tuesday - zucchini goodness

this cake....
hugo LOVED.

picture and recipe straight from here:

http://www.thebakerupstairs.com/2013/08/chocolate-zucchini-cake.html?m=1


i love that it uses 2 whole cups of zucchini!

amazing.

Matching mama baby woollies

made these matching mama baby toques this week....
too adorable not to share :)

RIP little earth buddie

hugo got this cute little guy at a birthday party... he was doing pretty good.

then someone decided to leave him sitting on the counter right next to the stove while frying eggs in a tiny frying pan on the big burner.... POOR PLANNING DADDY. POOR PLANNING

i tried to save him but he was toast. literally.

TOAST

sorry hugo.

this guy is a goner.

foto friday - puddle love

Space invaders

fernando has been bugging me for YEARS.
finally he gets his toque.
not going to lie.... didn't love making this since i have to pay attention to what i'm doing in order to keep the little bugger the right shape.

but it is done.

and since it didn't kill me.... i will i suppose be taking custom orders for these.

how?

this is what hugo wants to be for halloween.... not exactly sure how i'll pull this one off....

and a cat... again.

he sure loves his cats.

last year he was a cat.
this year he wants to be a cat.

i wonder what cat he will decide to be next year. HA!

definitely open to suggestions on this.
thankfully i still have a bit of time to try and figure it out.

Tricycle Fail

this is the sort of thing i have nightmares about... but also as a super accident prone person, fully expect because that is just the scales evening out.
ps. sorry mom and dad because i know i put you through shit like this A LOT.

so long story short...
this is what happens when the big boy tricycle gets used and daddy doesn't want to run to keep up... uneven ground and bam, faceplant.
i'm super grateful that its just a tiny chip and nothing major. he actually survived fairly unscathed considering how bad this could have ended.
and for the record that is half chewed oatmeal on his lip. or some lovely part of the oatmeal cookie i used as bribery so i could take this picture.

now my solution to this is attaching a leash to the bike and tying it to fernando so he HAS to keep up.

think he will love my genius plan.

photo friday - this one is tardy but hot damn this kid loves icecream cake

purge purge purge!

i filled the entire backseat of my car with things to donate to the hope mission and the reuse center....
AMAZING.
felt really good getting rid of it and since it was all stuff that has just been floating around taking up precious space it really needed to go.

plus if someone can use it then why not let someone else enjoy it!
since i see them peeking out i thought i would bring it to attentions that i'm pretty sure i will never have any need for size 11 red snake skin pants. if they fit... YES.... i would probably rock them... but my craftiness has its limitations... i wasn't even going to try tackling that alteration. some pants are next to impossible to easily make smaller. if i really want snake skin pants maybe i will have to find myself some comfy snake skin leggings.

also now that fernando has quit drinking (he's doing amazingly with it so far!) i was finally able to get rid of all those silly promo beer cooler bags that he'd stashed in the basement! there were a bunch of them and usually he'd want to keep them.... NO MORE!

lots more to go through and get the rest organized but this was a big haul and i've already got another bag of crafty bits that i will likely never use ready to go to the Reuse Center in the trunk 

if any of you edmonton peeps haven't been to the Reuse Center in its new awesome location you should check it out!

http://www.edmonton.ca/for_residents/garbage_recycling/reuse-centre.aspx

Tasty Tuesday -puffed wheat squares

another old one...

it actually amazes me how many people have no idea how to make puffed wheat squares.
they're super simple.
and really delicious!

though i do find that it is getting harder and harder to find puffed wheat in the grocery store... seems like a lot of stores don't carry anything but the sugar coated ones that you definitely don't need for this recipe.

WIP (work in progress)

i'm all about geometric patterns this year!

lots more of these to come for my fall/winter 2014 goodies!

the attack of the MONSTER ZUCCHINIS!!!

this picture is actually from a few weeks ago... this bad boy is still sitting on my floor patiently waiting to be chopped/shredded/sliced.... SOMETHING.

i just don't know why these things are so out of control this year. normally this size zucchini is reserved for the very end of season when you rip out the vines and find the sneaky ones... not early august! 

just to give you an idea... i can't fit both hands around this thing and touch my fingers together.

i can't even imagine the ridiculous size it would have been had i not picked it when i did. 

SAY ZUCCHINI!

foto friday - my boys

thankful thursday.... i love my family

this picture makes me happy... 

that is all.

it's that time....

it may only be the beginning of september but HOLY HELL it is cold in the mornings!
maybe i'm a wimp about it but i would like to go on record that i did not once complain about the heat (oh lovely heat) in the summer so i feel like it is totally acceptable to complain bitterly about being cold.
one or the other people. one or the other
if complain about it being too hot in the summer incessantly then you'd better not whine about the cold in the winter... at least not around me if you don't want me opening my big yap to tell you to stop your moaning.

i digress...

this lovely is already sold and in its new home but these cowls..... I LOVE THEM!
nothing makes me happier than random pops of color and geometric patterns.

my first market of the year will be September 27th for the first Mercer Collective of the season which is also an etsy event. FUN!

i'll post details soon about that....

but for now.... that is all.

Tasty Tuesday - grandma's way

what she called fudge squares i call amazingly easy brownies.

super quick to throw together and super YUM!