I’ve been trying hard not to get sucked into vacation mode. Mr. balanced is off work for 2 weeks for his birthday, but I’m not. It’s difficult for me to stick to my “schedule” when he’s here. Not that I don’t want him here!
Anyway, we made some plans, but the weather has been horrible so we keep pushing them back. We have, however, had a lot of success out in the garden. During the small breaks of good weather.
It’s a bit out of the way, but c’mon. How charming is this!?
And the view!
I can’t imagine I would ever be uninspired.
I can only eat so many bananas, so I made us some delicious Banana Bread the other day using this recipe from Simply Recipes.
It’s an easy peasy recipe, took about 5 minutes to throw all the ingredients together. That’s my kind of recipe!
I went with 3/4 cups of sugar and added some mini White Chocolate chips. It’s a good thing I took these photos of it when it came out of the oven because it’s all eaten up now!
… her new “beanbag” pillow.
This was something I sort of just threw together a while back. I got these great yards of Amy Butler fabric in a trade on Etsy and they had been just sitting around in my craft room. I basically just folded one of them, hand stitched up the sides and then stuffed it with some styrofoam peanuts I also had lying around. Ginger loved it as soon as I gave it to her!
Recently though, it dawned on me… dark fabric, light haired cat. It might have been wise to install a zipper? to be able to wash it easily? perhaps?
So, that’s what I did. And then to make the stuffing easily removable during washings I just put it all in a plastic bag that I can just take out and put back in. Voila!
Of course after all this hand sewing, because I don’t own a sewing machine, Ginger was not interested in her pillow at all. Cats!
It sat around unused for a couple days, but yesterday I caught her. You can hear her on it with all the noise from the peanuts.
She loves her pillow once again.
Bob is a dinosaur plant that we got ages ago. He’s been sitting lifeless for about 8 months in some rocks on the windowsill. I can’t remember why we named him Bob, but I’m sure we had very good reasons. Or not.
Yesterday we brought Bob back to life. Enjoy!
