easy pickled eggs

after doing pickled beet eggs again I wanted to see what else I could pickle eggs in that was already on hand in the fridge.

beet juice, onion powder, and sugar

 regular pickle juice

sweet gherkin juice

banana pepper juice (our favorite)

black olive juice
(Matt said this one tasted like pickled fish)

Worcestershire, apple cider vinegar, and brown sugar

pimentos, apple cider vinegar, and distilled water

they're real easy and all ya gotta do is boil your eggs, de-shell, and soak in whatever ya want for at least a day in the fridge.  I soaked mine for two days.  I also made an extra egg to cut into and check the yolk for doneness after boiling them... which mine was, but all the ones I pickled (minus the pimento) looked not quite done after I opened them.  weird.  anyway, it was fun to try different flavors but I think banana pepper is the one I'll be keeping stocked in the fridge.

simple necklace

I found some bezels with sticky epoxy domes at Michael's - pack of two for $4 - and thought it'd work great for putting Jack's sonogram profile picture in :)

it came to me that I could use sticker paper and not have to mess with glue and worrying about it soaking through the back of the paper and mucking up the ink when I tried to put it into the bezel, so I pulled out my folder of crap that I save to see if I had any sticker paper.

I had a couple of packing slips from old diaper deliveries that had a mostly blank adhesive label on them, so I measured out where that spot was on the paper and how big it was, and sized two of my pictures of Jack in to that area and printed them out.

 

I pressed the epoxy sticker onto the sticker paper and cut around it.

 then all I had to do was peel the back off the sticker paper, press it into the bezel, and put it on a chain.

 

I love how it came out and I can't wait to see his little button nose in person :)

pumpkin spice cookies

I'm in a baking mood (even though it's sticky and warm today), and when I saw this instructable for these cookies I wanted to give them a go.

the two ingredients are pumpkin puree and a spice cake mix. you can also add chocolate chips, but I did pecans and then drizzled the tops with leftover cream cheese frosting I made from Leo's birthday. yums.

most nights Matt has been disappointed if we don't have anything sweet to eat after dinner, and last night was one of them :( so he is in for a surprise tonight! :D