Fun with Peeps

Hey… I just made a pretty little lunch for the roomie today. 

It was a slightly failed attempt at a cocoon in my opinion.  I was trying to make the pepper the cocoon and the tomato slices the wings but it just did not work.  The peach slices on a cloud though look nice.  I will have to work at this.

However my attempts at peepshi turned out better, far better in my opinion. 

This was my first attempt at peepshi.  Granola bars with peeps and fruit rollup strips.

I first saw peepshi over the Easter season.    A friend of mine on Facebook put up this link Peepshi and well I thought I would have some fun with it.

 This is my second attempt at peepshi.  Yes that is a peanut butter cup cut in half and put on the granola bar.  I wanted to do a really neat hand roll for the front of this box but the fruit rollups did not want to unroll, so I must go on the quest for appropriate fruit rollups for peepshi.  The little rolls are half peeps with Mike n’ Ike’s in the center as well as this new feature from my previous attempt.

The new feature is … “wasabi”. 

I know the picture is very very blurry but this is what it is…

 I cut those little buggers in half and added them this time.  It was a fun.

Coffee Mug Girl's Coffee

I finally got the pictures.  Yep here it is the 76 coffee house.

Here is the front... right next to the best hot dog place ever.

Nice sign to show the hours that they are open.  They used to be open 24/7 but they just were not getting enough business between 4am and 9am to pay their employee, or the bills.

A wonderful little coffee house that serves home roasted coffee and has a set of baristas to die for.  They are a good blend of down to earth and social know how, with savvy show off style with their drinks.  Every time I go in this establishment I get a consistent cup of coffee or a latte that tastes like it was made with precision. 
When I first walked in, after parting the smoky haze because it was a smoking establishment, was the thought of the old beatnik’s poet café’s where everyone was dressed in black, wore their little berets and sat talking existentially on the worth of street lights.   Now however they were dressed in Punk and Goth wears.  They got me to keep coming back by the fact that they make a mean cup of joe.  And that is saying something because I do not smoke.

It is cash only, because credit cards are evil, and has a wide selection of made drinks as well as a variety of brewed coffees on pot.  It is worth the time to go check it out and support local businesses.

BRAINS!!!!!

Okay... I had intended to have it all done but due to the fact that there was a knitting explosion on Wednesday, I did not get it done for Friday.  But I will be finishing this one. 

So the prompt was "The wheel is going but the hamster is dead."  and what did I think of ... Zombie Hamsters.. yep.  I am knitting a zombie hamster.  It is going to be quite cute when it is done.  But this is as far as I have gotten at this point in time.  Soon though I will have rotting hamsters to show you...

It is the body and the beginning of the bottom.  I have the ears, feet and hands, tail and eyes to do yet and of course sewing it all together.  I hope you enjoy.

Freely Creative Fridays: Starfall

So I managed something for the Freely Creative Fridays but it is not what I initially intended.  I wanted to put up a page or so comic, but alas time got away from me so… you get just a little bit of writing. 

FCF Starfall:

 

Star Souls
 

by t.f. kit
 

  “Daddy!! Daddy!!!”  A little voice excitedly squeaked.  “Starfallingup!”

   Older eyes looked down at his child, her curly hair bobbing with excitement, then up into the sky full of bright stars.  “Where honey?”  He asked softly as he came and picked her up.

   She squirmed slightly in his arms and shook her whole body in negative.  “NOoooo over there.” Her short arm pointed straight out from her body out into the field of summer flowers. 
 
   Confused he set his eyes towards that direction, but he did not see what she was talking about.  There was no view of the horizon here.  The trees on that side of this little meadow blocked it. 

   “THERE!”  She shouted and pointed, more firmly.

   A small chuckle came out of his chest as a glowing dot flickered to life drifted upward than down before winking out.

   “Yes dear, those are fireflies, the wandering souls of the stars.”

Coffee Cup Girl Speaks Out

   Hi there and welcome to my weekly coffee house review.  I am not going to necessarily review a coffee house this week…  because I do not have a picture of the place I want to talk about.  I want to have at the very least a front shot and hopefully they will let me take a couple of shots inside.  One never knows.  Instead I am going to enlighten you on me and coffee.  I am slightly passionate about it.
 
   Coffee is one of my favorite things in the world I love it.  I find it like a good wine.  I do prefer it more as an accent to foods but drinking it on its own is good too.   Now my love for coffee started way back when one of my high school friends (thank you Rebecca) started drinking it and somehow dragged me into drinking it.  This was when there were only about two coffee shops in town and a Starbucks was unheard of.    The only way I could drink it was as a mint mocha and if it was too coffee tasting, I was not overly happy.  It took time for me to start to appreciate coffee.  It like wine is an acquired taste.  I had friends who drank it and like me liked it.

   Now I am an admitted coffee snob.  I worked at a local roaster, in their retail shop and well that did me in.  I could walk back pick up a bag of warm beans, bring it up, grind it, brew it and drink it, very fresh very good coffee.  I enjoyed it.  I learned and informed myself on coffee, how to brew it what made a dark roast, different styles of brewing and what makes each flavor come out.  I was well versed, I had to be it was my job.  I was there five days a week, and I knew my stuff. 

   I will always love coffee and will always drink it now.  When I left the coffee house I gave it up, for almost a year and a half.  I was an avid tea drinker, with soda as well.  But coffee drew me back.  I doubt now that I would ever give it up again. 

   I am now surrounded by tea drinkers, people who look at coffee and ask me how I can drink that and tell me that it tastes horrible.  I simply respond, ‘it is an acquired taste, kinda like me.’ And smile.  I am a Coffee Cup Girl around Tea Shop Friends but I am okay with that. 

   Coffee is a meditation for me, much like tea is for others.  Honestly my favorite method of brewing coffee is the French press method.  Coarsely ground coffee is put in a cylinder hot water is poured over it and let to steep.  After about five to ten minutes the plunger is pressed down and the grounds are pushed, mostly, to the bottom.  Then you pour and drink.  It is in my view point the riches, fullest flavor of coffee. 

   Next week hopefully I will have a couple of good pictures and we can see what I can come up with on the coffee houses in my area, and maybe eventually when I travel.

Freely Creative Friday: Starfall

Okay still working through the kinks of running a weekly blog push, so please bear with me.

Freely Creative Friday

Last Week:

Dream a Little Dream

Deii's FCF: Dream a Little Dream

This Week's Push:

Starfall

Now remember it could be anything that is inspired by this word.  Just have it done by Friday next and put a link in the comments.

In other news:

I will eventually work all this out; maybe do a link back to this page sort of thing, but for right now an old pickle jar, some scraps of paper with writing,  my two blogs, and a small amount of time to keep myself moving.  So as I said at the top, bear with me.

FCF-Dream a Little Dream

   Well here it is my post for the FCF... Dream a Little Dream

   Yes not a great picture but a fun one.  The story behind it is Dim Su, the ferret curled up sleeping, went to bed just wanting to rest.  Ergo dream a small little dream.  Instead a sandman, one of the masters of the dream world, got a little exuberant with his dream dust and poof, she is in the adventure of a life.  Fly, raisins, digging to China and all that other fun things.  She also has a fondness for oranges. 

   But I wanted to share... it was the first time I used a fine tipped sharpie instead of an extra fine tipped sharpie or other type of pen.  I don't know if I like the outcome that much.

   In other news for the FCF, I am on the look out for a really neat jar or container to put the little slips of paper in for the random... yes they will be random, drawing of the push.  I have glanced around a Michael's and at Hobby Lobby.  Was thinking about checking out an antique store or some place like that.  But I also need to check my basement (smiles and winks) that is a fun place to check out as well. 

   I am hoping to have a new weekly entry to go up here on Wednesdays but I just did not have everything relatively in place this week to make it happen.  So next week.  And the entries for my FCF should go up either Monday or Tuesday.