Outside There's a Boxcar Waiting

I love being crafty! My schedule has been much more manageable the past couple weeks, so I've been doing a little more of it. I decided to post pictures of a couple things I've done. I realize they're not the best, but I did have a blast experimenting, and I don't think they turned out too bad considering. :)

This is a CD case I made for my cousin's birthday. It took quite a bit of time for how little it is, but it was pretty fun when I wasn't picking out stitches. Basically I picked out a main fabric (the brown sparkly stuff with pink flowers that you can only see on the far right), then chose the other fabrics from scraps Walmart had. I ironed some really thick, double-sided interfacing to the main fabric, then sewed the flaps on. I ironed on the other piece of main fabric to the other side of the interfacing. The border is just some pink bias tape I picked up. Voila! I'm thinking about doing these for Christmas...

Here's the back. You can see the main fabric a little better here... oh, and the elastic that holds it to the visor, durrrr... hehe. :)


Anyone who knows me knows that I love to cook... and experimenting in the kitchen is one of my favorite things to do! Usually I wind up doing desserts, but tonight I happened to be making dinner, and I wanted to get some use out of my spring form pans. So I finally unpacked them, washed them, and used them for the first time in Riverton (and for the first time got some other use out of them besides cheesecake). The idea was to make a Chicago deep-dish pizza:

For the record, I do realize this is entirely too much pizza for three people. One would have been perfect, or even a little much, but the one closest to the camera is made with gluten free crust. That's prolly why it looks all funky. Though I guess the normal one isn't much better, it has a massive tumor (I totally ate it too, and it was delicious. Mmm, tumor...).

Here's the inside. There's the bottom/side layer of crust, that holds in the sausage, peppers, onion, mushrooms, tomatoes and most of the cheese. Then there's a layer of crust on top of that. On top of that crust I put the sauce, a thinner layer of cheese, then pepperoni and olives. Yeah, this is basically a heart attack waiting to happen. Was it worth the 6-mile run? Aaaaaabsolutey! Next time I think I'll experiment a little more - maybe stuff it with mushrooms and spinach and use alfredo sauce somewhere? We shall see!