Pinterest Is Making Us Fat!

Close-up of the finished crescent cinnamon rolls. I had to put this one first! It looked the yummiest!

Ok, I confess, you CAN get healthy recipes from Pinterest but what's the fun in that? I like to try new things, change it up a bit. My husband would be satisfied with the same 4 or 5 things every week for dinner I think (the man orders the EXACT same thing in every Mexican restaurant we go to without ever looking at a menu). I love all sorts of food. I love cooking all sorts of food. That's probably why I have several boards dedicated to recipes with a huge variety of recipes. I do eat healthy for the most part but sometimes I hear the siren call of something sweet. I also love to make breakfast.

Canned cinnamon rolls cooked in a waffle iron (they don't look too bad)

They were hard like hockey pucks but if I make them again maybe I'll take them out of the waffle iron sooner. 

I've tried some real bombs too. The mac-n-cheese in the crock pot  (lumpy, dry), making waffles out of canned cinnamon rolls (like hockey pucks), man-pleasing chicken (way too much mustard didn't please anyone!) just to name a few.
So lately I have found some I really liked (and tweaked the recipe just a touch). The crescent cinnamon rolls from howto-simplify.com were easy enough but had too much cinnamon. I made mine bigger. Also, when you slice them it helps immensely to chill the rolled dough then slice with a serrated knife. They kind-of mush together and lose their shape if you don't.

On the left, the dough un-rolled, spread with butter, sugar, and cinnamon. On the right, rolled and sliced.

This plate didn't last long!

Simple but Elegant

Dining room curtains have a 4 inch self-border in the inner edge.  That's where the fabric is turned "inside out" to make a contrasting border.

This is a close-up of the dining room curtains. I should've taken a better close-up to show the border better. The fabric is a textured matte gold and the border (or wrong side of the fabric) is a shiny gold.

Bathroom curtains with ruffle top (with our spokes-model, Tina!).

Close-up of bathroom curtains, black shantung silk with fleur-de-lis embroidered on fabric .

Bedroom curtains: I added gold bands to the blue curtains to make them longer. The rod is mounted higher than the window to make the window seem taller. This was an alteration. She had the blue curtains already but didn't like how short they looked. 

Throw pillows I made to match.

Up to My Eyeballs in Quilts!

This is a college quilt. The squares on the left edge are 4 smaller squares comprised of the four directly to the right of those. I used the backs for the larger squares and the left square is what was on the front of the shirt.