Cream Cheese Stuffed, Bacon Wrapped, Hotdogs

Yes, as my friends would say, this sounds like a heart attack. Which is humorous cause I made this right near the end of when I was getting over the flu. I had been browsing on Pinterest (I know big surprise!) and I saw a picture with these little 'delicacies' and since I know my boyfriend has had a history in which he ate many hot dogs I figured I would try this little food remodel. The process is incredibly simple:

• Take thawed hot dogs and create a thin slice in the middle leaving a couple centimeters at the ends uncut.
• Then take your cream cheese and work it into the cut you've made.
• Take thawed bacon and wrap around hot dog

This is the where my little experiment took a turn. The original picture that I saw showed the hot dogs being cooked on the BBQ which could not be done due to snow and generally freezing cold weather. Instead I lined a baking sheet with tin foil and place my hot dogs on top. I cooked them at 360 for 15 minutes and then rotated the hot dogs. I then turned the oven up to 400 and cooked them for another 15 minutes. This seemed to work okay, but I'm thinking BBQ is definitely a better idea.

Trying to get that cream cheese in the slice down the center.

Hot dogs wrapped up and stuffed, ready for the oven

After cooking, and they were quite delicious compared to just a plain hot dog.

Spring Fever!

Lately I've been a little down, having trouble focusing on school work. It's been hard to get motivated and quite honestly I think I'm going to blame it on the weather. Th snow is staying and accumulating more and more, and since I do not believe I will be getting anymore skiing in this year (lack of willing courageous to go with me, not to mention quite expensive) I'd rather see some beautiful flowers and be able to walk without a heavy coat and mittens. To get me a little bit out of my mood, I decided it was time to take down my mustache snowflake from outside my door and replace it. As a result I was inspired to break out my scrapbook paper and circle template and draw out some simple circles.

This was the result. Such a simple little idea to spruce up my college room and make it more unique (especially right next to my roommates sign the say Caution Sharon/Rachel's room). 

Another little element I used to brighten my room was a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Sure I didn't by them myself (they were an amazing gift from an amazing man) but they sure helped brighten my spring fever mood!

New Arrangements and My Valentine's Day Gift

So as some of you may know I had a little dilemma with figuring out where to stay next school year. Oh no, I'm not speaking about how I couldn't find a place. No sirree, I'm talking about how I had too many options and couldn't decide which was best for me. Well turns out I decided and then upon inquiring about the place once again I was told that they were no longer interested in having so many tenants. So that was out of the question. I then looked into a bunch more places as well as discussed with the owner of the house I am currently in on what sort of arrangements could be made. After checking out a house close to Fanshawe and making some arrangements with her, I decided that her house would be the best location, as well as the shortest bus ride. As a result I have become recently excited to move out of my current place and get settled in the new one. Sure I'm not done school yet for this year, but hey I can be excited still can't I? I mean a new place, a new room, a new kitchen, a new owner, and even new roommates! I must say though, I really am going to miss my closest here.... it's ginormous! Definitely the best part of where I am staying now.

In other exciting developments, I have finally received my Valentine's day gift. Before you all begin to think, about how late that is, I should clarify that it was done on Valentine's day, but I sent it back to get stained. So it's my fault it has only arrived now, and I love it!! All handmade by that amazing boyfriend of mine! He sure knows what I love.

Another cool little find of mine as well. The two damask type style magazine holders on the ends are actually from goodwill. They had their original price tag on the bottoms, turns out they were from home sense for $8.00 a piece. I bought them for $2.00 a piece.

Typewriter - My little Piece of History

For a long time now, I have had a great interest of things from the past. Whether it was studying Ancient Egypt in class, or watching a couple of specials on the Discovery Chanel, all of it I found quite intriguing in mysterious. It wasn't until the time in which I began to decorate an outfit my very own scrapbook/craft room that I truly found an interest in antiques. 

  A little background on my little interest in buying by way of bargains: As a child my mother would take my bothers an I to garage sales each year. We would jump in the car and try to stock ourselves up with cheap toys that became our new found treasures. As I got older the appeal just increased. I was allowed to make bigger purchases and collect more and more stuff in order that I might fill my room to the brim. One year I even bought on of those low up chairs (unfortunately everyone thought this was quite awesome and regular visits would be taken to my room in order that it might be sat upon and tortured until it popped).

Once I began researching different craft room design, i quickly became enthralled by the idea of storing almost everything in jars (perhaps one day I'll post a mini tour of my craft room). These were cheapest to find a different thrift stores. All this lead my to the introduction of a overcrowded flea market in Petrolia. I quickly formed on obsession of searching through the glass cabinets and boxes to find new storage solutions and treasures.

It wasn't long after that I widened my search and began collecting various different pieces that I could clean up and re-purpose and in some cases revamp (as I have now collect a great variety of pieces for some extraordinary projects to complete).

This particular piece was one that my mother (though I wish I could claim it was me) found on kijiji. For sometime i wished for a variety of rather large (which had the tendency of also being pricey) display pieces. The asking price i believe was $50, but I offered the man $30 and he agreed that was fair. Upon driving to pick up this little treasure the owner explained that his father had bought this typewriter himself back when he was a young boy. The typewriter was heavy and taking up a fair amount of space, and as a result the son was attempting to sell off a few of the items he had inherited.

After a little clean up with the air gun, this piece was looking as wonderful as could be. Turns out it even works! The ink tape is slowly starting to wear out, but if just thought it was neat that none of the keys were sticky even. It was a truly great find. What was even better is that afterwords I was talking to a lady in Port Huron who told be she sells hers anywhere between $60-$80, which means the price was great.

Overall it turned out to be an amazing piece, now the only problem is finding the ultimate place to display it at.

(p.s. I finally decided to update every Monday - trying to keep it consistent - so check up then for a new post)

Ugly Sweater Anyone?

This is another one of those posts that is well over due. Back at Christmas time, the Wyoming Young Peoples had their annual little Christmas get together. As in past years, to try and make it a little more exciting it was decided that they have a little dress up theme to keep it creative and humorous. And of course to follow a now trending holiday tradition, we had to do the ugly sweaters. We searched high, and we searched low, but it was actually hard to find an ugly Christmas sweater. Upon asking a clerk at Value Village if they had any she simply said that within a week of arriving they're snatched up. Clearly we weren't the only ones with this idea.

 Our rather delicious meal. Mmmm!

And of course... what you've all been looking for. Sure the food is great and there are a lot of interesting sweaters, but nothing can beat those slightly embarrassing (or maybe I should just say interesting) pictures. Oh yes, if you were there you know what I speak of. Our little version of Minute to Win It games.

Our first challenge: Take one Spaghetti noodle and after placing it in your mouth attempt to pick up the other (hollowed out) noodles. Then place in the bowl!

Our Second Challenge:  Get a dot a Vaseline on the tip of your nose and then attempt to use said dot to pick up cotton balls. Then one of the bigger challenges came (Unless your name is Ted and you can't get the Vaseline on your nose for some silly reason) shaking the cotton ball off into another bowl.

Our Third Challenge: Last but not least... those Ritz crackers. Simple: Place cracker on forehead, and without using hands, eat it. Boy it sounds easier than it was.

Our wonderful Michelle who fed us our crackers of challenge.

I'd like to take credit for all these photos, but I believe the camera circulated through a couple of different people throughout the night. Believe me, you'd be able to tell if I had posted all the pictures, like the close up of Michelle's face, or perhaps the picture of the dirty cloth. Overall it was a great night of friends and fellowship.