More about Moon Pie

Wishes do come true. My wonderful mother in law, Chyrl reads my blog. She brought my family a few Moon Pies Saturday!

I've had a few people ask me what my obsession with Moon Pies is. So here is a little more about Moon Pie. A Moon Pie is made of two graham cracker cookies with marshmallow center dipped generously in chocolate.

As a kid Mardi Gras parades meant Moon Pies. In the early days of Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast,  paraders threw Cracker Jack boxes, to the hungry partygoers. You can imagine getting hit in the head with a  corner of the box  wasn't so great. Looking for a popular snack with a softer landing, Moon Pie won the vote in the early 1970's. I caught the most Moon Pies when we went to Mobile, Alabama for their parades because they were really popular there.

In the South lots of men like my Dad carry a lunch to work that doesn't get refrigerated. Because Moon Pies are sold year around down there it often made a great companion to  Dad's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. 

Moon Pies were created in Tennessee and in Bell Buckle, Tennessee they have an RC Cola and MoonPie festival. Check out this video I found on the city's website.

My favorite way to eat Moon Pies is slightly warm from the microwave. Yum. Thanks again Chyrl! You made me feel like a kid again.

Wishes

So I really want the band, Standard Fare to come to Utah. Yeah they are from the U.K. and it's really far away and all, but one can wish right? While I am wishing can the come to Provo and play at Velour?

This is their song, Wow.

and this is Darth Vader.

Thanks for finding them for me Rob.

Oh how I wish there was somewhere in Provo I could buy a moon pie. It's Mardi Gras dang it. 

Free Merry Christmas Printable Gift Tag

My Christmas tradition in the past was to wrap my gifts in brown paper 

and draw on them with gesso and ink.

I think this gift tag will go along with the tradition.

Down load it here.

Print it on card stock and you are ready to go.

If you like it please leave a comment. Thanks.

Free Christmas Card Download

Merry Christmas to you!

Here is a new Christmas Card design what do you think?

If you haven't a Christmas card and 

you fancy this one please feel free to download it. 

All that I ask is for a comment on this post.

Free Recipe Card Download

Well Hello there December.

Hello Christmas lights.

(this is a picture of the floaty bubble lights

 on the water at Temple Square 

that my husband took)

Hello Pixel. 

(a pic of our awesome orange cat that I got for my birthday)

Hello awesome apple pie cookies I now crave. 

(You can find this fabulous recipe at Smitten Kitchen.

 I tried it out on Thanksgiving and it tastes as good as it looks. 

The kids loved having their own apple pie.)

Hello new recipe card design that I can share my new recipe on.

Just click on the image to download and print and share your recipes too.

I have a few more printable recipe cards in the works so check back.

Handmade Victorian Cuff

So I went to this awesome wedding for the lead singer of the band Eyes Lips Eyes, Tony, who is also my husband's cousin and my good friend. I absolutely adore his new wife Jackie, she chose a victorian theme for their wedding and it was epic!

Check out this picture. Don't they look awesome?

If you really want to be blown away watch this video.


Jackie & Tony - The Narnia Estate from Amy Johnson, One Fine Day Prod. on Vimeo.

For such a posh event I knew I needed a cool accessory.

When I saw this I loved it. Of course its antique and it's sold and I probably could have afforded it
anyway.

This one is from Third Floor Antiques.

So I kept looking and I found some really cool fabric victorian cuffs available as well.
Like this one.

Violet fabric cuff from DaWanda.

 And this one that I love.

Grey cuff from Crescendoh

I really wanted something to go with the brown skirt I planned on wearing so I decided to make my own. I decided to do an asymmetrical design kinda like the antique silver one above, with fabric and buttons I had on hand. Here it is.

Robot Onsie

Check out the Robot Onesie I made for my good friend Julie who is having a baby boy soon.

This was my first try at this kind of embroidering.  

The silver thread and the googly eye is my favorite part. 

Baby boy themes are harder for me to think of for some reason. But I love the robot. I think it would be fun to draw a slew of them and offer some templates to embroidery from.

Do you have any ideas for other baby boy onesies you'd like to see templates for? 

Please share.