The skull is connected to the rib bone....

So I haven't officially made anything for this week, but I have a craft in mind.

Since I am a teacher, holidays are always a fun topic to cover and there are lots of cutesy things that we can do with our students. This year as a food craft, we are going to attempt a skeleton coming out of the dirt.
Supplies needed:

• brownies
• white chocolate covered pretzels
• marshmallows
• black edible decorating pen
• lollipop sticks
• clear bags

The one thing I don't have is the black edible decorating pen, but I do have NEON colors! I don't know if it will have the same effect,  but I will update with our version when we do it tomorrow.

Here is a picture of the original post I saw on Pinterest.

Coming soon: OUR version.

Fifty shades of what?!

Alas, another bachelorette party is amiss. I find I have no time to cook or craft because I am so busy fulfilling invitation orders in my free time!

I created a bridal shower invite a few weeks ago for my friend Alex, and got a special request to do the bachelorette party. After a summer obsessed with "Fifty Shades of Grey", she decided that was the theme she wanted!

I like the end product and I think she will too!

(And yes, I am patting myself on the back.)

Mexican Fare

We had Mexican night courtesy of moi'!Ole'!

I have to give thanks to my old pal Trappey's for helping with the beans again. I also bought the HEB fully cooked shredded chicken and some corn tortillas. I heated up some oil and dipped the corn tortilla in there, then filled it with chicken, and put it back in the oil to fry it up. I made chicken flautas with guacamole and shredded Monterrey Jack cheese, and rice and beans. I CAN cook rice. It's one of the few things I do well. Here is a picture of it all cooking. And it was scrumptious!

Life's a Crock

Mission:
Make something edible to eat

Recipe:
Pinterest Crockpot "Easy" Recipe

Taste Tester:
My guinea pig husband Jerry

So, I finally took on the task of cooking a meal. I didn't want to do anything over my very basic skill level, so I found a Pinterest recipe that had 5 ingredients and a basic throw it all in the pot set of instructions.
The ingredients were as follows:

• 4 thawed boneless/skinless chicken breasts
• a box of Cornbread stovetop stuffing
• one can of Cream of Chicken
• 1/2 cup of sour cream
• 1/4 cup of water

These are the pics I got to take of my mission before anything actually cooked.

 Here are the directions I followed:

• layer the four chickens side by side
• pour the box of stuffing on top
• mix the can of soup, sour cream and water in a small bowl
• pour the mixture evenly over the stuffing
• cook on low for 4 hours

This is what the thing looked like while cooking. Doesn't look too good, does it?

Although I don't have a final picture of how it all came out( because I finished at 11:30pm!), I will tell you that we each took it for lunch at work the next day. It tasted really good! Almost like a turkey dinner! Not bad for an amateur!!