Moving into Summer

Salutations!

     I’m so glad that Summer is finally here! I really reeeally don’t like being cold, plus you get to go out and do all kinds of fun stuff. I want to have a picnic in the park with a badness now. Maybe something like some finger foods, take some chilled wine, sit under a shady tree with a blanket. Picturesque, right? Yep. So let me show you what I've been working on lately. 

These little sparkle babies were requested to be made. 

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Speaking of food adventures, I cooked a new dish last night from SkinnyTaste.com simply titled Thai Fried Rice. I must say that I've been very apprehensive to make this dish. So apprehensive in fact, that it’s taken me months to even make it. You must understand that me and rice… we aren't always the best of friends. Mainly, because rice likes to get an attitude and be all finicky which isn't kool. However, you have to face your fears at some point right? Right!

 The recipe calls for chicken, so I decided to take the easy route and bought canned chicken, because it takes less time and sometimes raw chicken kinda gives me the creeps! I think it’s all the fat and veins and blood & junk that you have to deal with. I have the same trouble with fried chicken. It just gets gross. If for some reason the world went through anything like on the show Revolution where there is no more electricity… Which means no more nicely packaged meats… I’d have to just become a vegetarian, because there is no way I could slaughter an animal, drain the blood, clean it, and then cook and eat it. Nope!  Anywho, now that we've gone all off subject! So I followed the instructions of making the rice on the dry side and voilà! I had fluffy rice. I was extremely proud of myself. Chopping and adding all of the vegetables weren't too bad, especially since I have a bad ass knife to do it with! Add fish sauce & soy sauce to taste and wham you have a pretty quick, easy & healthy meal. Definitely a repeat performance.

So until the next time kiddies!

A. Sparkle

And After a 6 Month Hiatus...

Greetings!

I've missed you my friends. :) Let's see, what's been going on... The holiday season went awesome and now it's time to research and relax a little for the warmer months. I'm still living it up in the ATL and I've found the lid to my pot, my partner in crime, better known as The Love of My Life! We're very in love and I'm thrilled about it! Yay me!

On the crochet side of things, I've been forced to slow down now, because my hands are mad at me for overworking them. This just gives me time to read up on all of the articles I've been shoving off to the side. You know how it is... You have all of these ideas in your head and you just want to bang em out and get them shown and you can do all the non-creative business side of everything later. Looks like now is later!

Inbetween fights with my hands, I've still managed to do a little work. The idea here is headbands! Great for warm and colder months. :) 

I plan on sewing on some ribbon on the ends that way it's a 'One Size Fits All' kind of situation. So far this is one of two prototypes. Not sure about these yet, so we'll see how it goes. What's your opinion on headbands. Is it a yay or a nay?

In other news... I'm excited that I've gotten a new order for this swirly necklace!

I've been given creative freedom on colors and I'm thinking that purple will be the main color, but I have no idea about what other colors I want to use. Orange? White? Yellow? Who knows for now, but I'll make sure I let you know when it's in the works. I think this necklace is an awesome piece for street style, and I look forward to seeing it worn.

So what are you working on currently? Let me know!

~Peace~

A. Sparkle