Rainy Day Organization

 It's raining today so I decided to organize my floss.  I had separated the floss by numbers and so it wasn't too hard to refile (?) them back in. 

Of course that is only my stash.  I also have individual containers which hold the floss that I already have pulled for individual projects.  I've tried different methods but this one seems to work best for me.

That's about all that I have done today.  Well that and eating butterscotch cookies.  I have to hurry them up and eat them because they turned out yummy.  Butterscotch is one of my favorite flavors so I am having a hard time stopping eating them.  I finally froze about a dozen of them,  Perhaps with them being frozen and out of sight I won't be as tempted to eat them.  Then I pulled around 8 and bagged them to give to Dan the next time I see him.  

I hope everybody has a great day.

Adventures in Baking

 What a start to my day.  I decided to make a new cookie ( new to me anyway) and everything was going ok until....

I'm getting ahead of myself.  Let me backtrack a little bit.  I decided to make Butterscotch Cookies today.  It sounded easy and I had all of the ingredients or so I thought.  As I was going through the ingredient list:

sugar

brown sugar

butter

egg

vanilla

flour

baking soda

salt

cream of tartar

Oops.  Cream of tartar?  I didn't have that so I went to good ol Google and search for substitutes.  I found that if the recipe calls for BOTH cream of tartar and baking soda, you can substitute baking powder for the cream of tartar.  For every teaspoon of cream of tartar you substitute 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda.  That was an easy substitution so I preheated my oven to 325 F and started to put everything together.

It was a standard recipe where you cream your butter and sugar and then add the vanilla and egg and cream it again then add all your dry ingredients and mix.  I was on a roll.  You roll out teaspoons of dough (like with peanut butter cookies) and then roll them in sugar and put them 2" apart and bake.  

SIGH!  I thought the mix was a little "loose" but it wasn't until I took out the first tray that I realized my mistake.  Instead of 2 1/2 cups of flour, I only put in 1 1/2 cups.  OOPS!  Those cookies will be eaten by me.  they tasted good but just wasn't holding their shape.

So now what?  That is when I realized my mistake with the flour.  I wasn't sure how much to add in for the rest of the cookies so had to play it by ear.  I didn't do too bad and the rest of the cookies kept their shape.

Lesson learned  Double check your measurements and don't keep a conversation on the phone with a friend (Josephine) while measuring.  It sort of made me remember the old scene in the original One Day at a Time where Valerie Bertinelli's character was mixing up browning while chatting on the phone and she lost count how many times she had stirred the mix.  Back then if it said to stir it 200 times, you stirred it 200 times.  LOL.

I will make the recipe again and am totally happy to munch on the misshapened cookies that had less flour in them.  Actually I kind of wish they didn't taste so good.  My waistband would appreciate it I know.  LOL.

Time to munch on some cookies while the rest of them finish cooling off and I decide how I will store them (and not inside of my stomach),

Have a great day!

My Day

 I decided not to do any crafting today that would stress my eyes,  If I do something every other day than that will be plenty for quite a bit.  

So instead of starting my day with thinking what to do, I started out my day with getting mugged by kittens.

There are far worse ways to start the day!  :)

After that, I came inside and decided it was finally time to refile back some of my floss.  I usually put the floss after using it in a project in a large baggie and then when I get enough of a collection I will refile it back into the storage containers until I need them again.

I'll take a picture of my floss containers after these get added back in.  :)  Of course this doesn't include the projects where I have already set aside all the floss for those projects.

I'm not sure if I showed you this or not yet so I will post it just in case.  :)  A friend of mine send me some fabric that she had dyed.  These are five inch squares which is a good size to get.

Thanks Deb!  You did a great job.  Not sure yet what I will use them for but I will definitely use them.  

That's it for this trip.  Time to get off the computer and do another load of laundry.  Sigh,  LOL.

 

Have a great day/wonderful evening everybody!

Progress on cross stitch and doctor's report

 Today wasn't too bad of a day.  Still have to type on my notebook and will need to take in my laptop to the repair shop but at least I have y notebook.  Other good news was concerning my eye doctor's appointment.  I don't need to go back to him until another year goes by or my eyesight gets worse.  He gave me two prescriptions that I can use IF I want to.  One is for a single lens prescription and the other ones is for a bifocal.  I can use them or just continue using the readers that I get from Dollar Tree.  It was nice that he showed me what things would look like without any prescription and then what it would look like with the glasses.  I couldn't the difference with the long distance so he thought that the readers would work just fine for now.  I do need to start to decrease the doses of the steroid drops and just watch for changes in eye strain etc.

With that good news I decided to dig out the mini owl HAED cross stitch pattern and made some progress on it.  I managed to get 200 stitches done!  

Now it is time to stop using the eyes so much and relax a bit.  :)  

I hope everybody has a great day!