Who lives in a pineapple under the sea??...

It was my niece's birthday this past week and I just miss that little girl so much that I wanted to make her a "home-made" something. She is an avid watcher of that Spongebob character, so I thought I'd make her a Spongebob card, of course! Here is a pictorial of the finished product....

Yeah...it took my like 2 hours to complete :)

It's Blueberry Muffin Time!

A couple of days ago my roommate Cammie and I went for a little blueberry picking adventure. The bushes are nestled behind an older couples house in our neighboring town of Opelika. They were selling the blueberries for $5 a gallon. Pretty good deal right? Upon getting there, they let us know that 15 gallons had been picked that very morning so the bushes were a little sparse but we were able to get a 1/2 gallon each. It was tedious work but lots of fun, also wanting to mention that my room mate happens to be hilarious so it was very enjoyable to pick berries and sing loudly at the same time.
Getting to the point of my blog post, I made a a most delicious blueberry muffin recipe straight from my all time favorite chef, Paula Deen! Yes, lots of butter and sugar. Just the way I like it! ;)
Ok...I know they look like I sprinkled...dirt on them.. but it's brown sugar alright? :) They may not look too pretty but they tasted mighty fine!

Crafty aren't I?

Wanting to get back into sewing for quite awhile, I searched the internet for a fairly simple project and stumbled upon this little "clutch" tutorial. Aren't they adorable?

It took me seriously an hour to measure and cut the material because I was WAY too particular but I got as far as sewing the strip across the front. The rest should be pretty easy. I need to get pictures of my actual project and post on here but I got excited about posting something else on my new blog so.... be excited for me :D

My 1st Tri Adventure!

So... around March or Aprilish my roomie Cammie mentioned she was going to do a triathlon. I actually didn't really know what kind of race that was other than it sounded exhausting and it involved...running?? :D  I thought about it for around 10 seconds and I decided, "I wanna do that with you!" After that, it took me around two months to start training, ha ha, but once I started it was really fun and I started looking forward to either running/swimming/biking everyday.
When we got to the "velvety" beaches of Sarasota I couldn't wait to see how this triathlon would be the following day. It turned out that we almost got kicked out of the race because we missed registration not once, but twice. :) Also, my bike tire was flat, and I had about zero minutes to fill it up. Despite this, a very gracious woman named Mercedes got us into the race in the nick of time, and an extremely nice man filled my bike tire up for me while I was frantically filling out insurance forms that were required to even race.
It ended up that all went well, and I raced a pretty good beginners time of 1:31. My roommates did excellent as well, both hitting the time mark that they wanted. It was a great experience and I plan on doing more of these triathlons in the future but only on one condition that I promised myself. I have to be there AT LEAST an hour early for registration....the night before the actual race. :D