Cooking, Collages, and Crafts

     The past two days have been productive in a crafty sort of way.  Being that I am beginning to feel a bit better but still can't move around to much I have been looking for little projects I can do sitting down.  I am happy to say that I have beans cooking in my slow cooker right now!  I had my Warrior Ninja put the ingredients in a ziploc for me last night (the smell of the necessary onions and garlic I still find hard to manage due to the pregnancy sickness).  This morning I simply had to pour the beans and other ingredients into the slow cooker and add some chicken broth and water!  Looking forward to trying them!

     I also began to put together a recipe book.  I so often print out the pages of recipes and then they get lost or thrashed.  I filled the binder with page protectors so it will be that much more convenient for me to put the recipes away if I like it, plus the page protectors will be easy to wipe off should they get dirty.  I enjoyed the process of putting the binder together and especially making it look special!  In time I will probably add dividers of some sort.  I might do a section of slow-cooker recipes, another for freezer meals, breakfast and dinner and/or ethnicity rather then breaking it down into type of foods.

     I decided to see if I could crochet a hat to work towards my goals in "Ways to Raise".  I am not planning on trying to raise any money from this right now but I figure if I ever was to do that I better learn how to crochet and perfect the art.  Also I have thought this would be a good way to save money for Christmas presents for my nieces and nephews and friends who I think would like it.  I watched this video by DZCrochetCreations to learn how to crochet last night.  I remember that I was taught how to crochet a hat in college but now that 5+ years have passed since that time I don't remember the first thing about it besides the basic single stitch!  After watching this video, repeating steps, pausing and unraveling for an hour or so I finally found my groove and I believe I am on my way to a nice little crocheted beanie!