Food Plans

It's Yumi once more~~So I'm planning on making a few things just because [and Shii doesn't know it yet, but he will be helping], cooking is fun and where I live, it's not like it won't be eaten.
First of all, like I said earlier, I really do want to make spaghetti with homemade sauce. But, that's no longer at the top of my list of cooking priorities. Now I'm excited to make a few things besides this more. ^w^ I guess I get too excited. And a little besides the point, we just got a new store specializing in Asian groceries and that's great for when Shii or myself makes bentou. Which is another thing I haven't made since Summer has started that I'd like to make again. I find it to be better tasting than a microwave meal. Haha. Well anyways, for the things I'd like to cook/bake...
I really had this craving to make a homemade white cake and then put rainbow sprinkles in it. I know I could just buy a Pillsbury Funfetti Cake Mix but I really like doing things homemade. However, if I must, I'll settle and buy the cake mix. Anyways, also I got a little inspiration from the Food Network home page to make blueberry muffins, which I love anyways. ^-^ Also, I recently Wok-fried a banana which I breaded in flour and milk. I gave it to Shii for his desert and he told me how it was good. I made a little sweet cinnamon sauce to go with it. I tried a bite of the banana in the sauce and it was quite good. So that's something I'd like to make again. Also, I want to make more egg rolls. =] They're so delicious! And, I think I'd like to experiment some more with how I season and fry my chicken and what I fry it with. Lastly, I want to make a homemade pizza. Haha. What a list. I want to get it done~ and more =]

Oh and then it almost slipped my mind that I have about 10 recipes from the Food Network website that I'd love to try making. I have to remember that~ =]

My Grandfather's Spaghetti

[Yumi here~] It's amazing. The sauce I think is probably really what makes it more than good to me though. It's really very good. I thought it might be homemade sauce but I wanted to be sure. To my surprise, my grandmother tells me, it's not. But she won't say anymore. And it's not like I see jars of spaghetti sauce around here so I'm actually quite confused.
Anyways, I also had one of the sausages that he makes with his spaghetti and meatballs. And, I'm not really the sausage fan, but I have to say, that's some of the best sausage I've had. I could eat it all day. Haha.
As for the pictures, it doesn't look so appetizing in the paper bowl with the plastic fork, but that's how I was eating it. Haha.
I think very soon, I'll make my own sauce and spaghetti and post about it. Pictures too!

Cute Arm Band

<---The outcome

Yumi again~~The other day, I needed a toy for my bunny who looked really bored with his bouncy ball and chewstick. I know he likes to throw things so I gave him a stuffed animal. It had this lacey elastic ring around its neck with a ribbon so I decided to rip it off before I gave the stuffed animal to my rabbit.

It was really cute and I was thinking of things to do with it. And I thought that putting a strip or pink plaid fabric behind it would be cute because then I could sew the ends together and make an armwarmer. I think it's pretty cute~

Weaving~

Yumi again~ obviously. Hah. I'm the only one who likes to weave out of the two of us. So, I made a little yellow and blue cell phone case out of yarn. I really like it. I've given this one away to a penpal but, I've got a teal one in the making now.

Anyways~ the picture is the cell phone case I made before I gave it away.

Purple Velvet Cake and Sea Foam Green Icing

Good morning everyone, Yumi here. I was just thinking about the things we've recently done and I was thinking about the Fourth of July, when Shinji made a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. The cake was very moist and thick. It tasted amazing. And the icing, was my favorite part. He made this wonderful cream cheese icing that I was eating from a bowl of it he stored in the freezer. It was very delicious.

Anyways though, he decided that we should make all different colors of velvet cakes. Well, I wanted to make a bright green velvet cake with light purple icing. But, there wasn't much green or yellow food coloring so we had to switch to green icing with a purple cake.

I'm almost positive we made the cake a little too purple. It looked like black and green cake instead of purple. But the icing, was this really pretty sea foam color. It was like an extremes cake. Where the cake was really dark and the icing was really light.

But, in the end, the second time the velvet cake was made, it tasted better. So I can't wait til the third time :3

My first try with Liquid Stitch

Yumi again :3

Good evening. I happened to be in the crafts section last time I was at WalMart and I noticed a product in a white tube labeled "Liquid Stitch" The name attracted me really, I thought, "Oh for those lazy days, I could just have a bottle of that!" So, I picked it up. It was around 3 or 4 dollars. Why not try it out?

So, I got home and decided immediatley that I was in a crafty mood. And I remembered a pattern I did about a year ago for a change purse, so I made it larger and decided to make it into a purse and add a strap.

Well, really, this was so I could see what I could do with a tube that does my sewing machine's work for me.

The outcome? Well, it's been a month or so. The bottom corners did not hold up so well. They seemed to bust open within the first few days of using the purse. And now, very recently the side has began to come open.

Overall, I'd say Liquid Stitch is a handy product but if you can, still handstitch or use the machine instead.

The purse~

Arm~warmers in the Summer -_-

Yumi here. How intelligent of me to sew a pair of armwarmers for Shinji in late July. Well, I guess with boredom comes an act that is not always the smartest. Anyways, I had an old shirt lying around, the pattern was very cute, but the shirt happened to be sort of small. And I saw very much potential in the sleeves of that shirt!

Just to talk about the shirt for a second, the tag reads "love by design" It was really an adorable shirt. It was so cute, I've had it for at least 6 months and have never worn it once [obviously if it doesn't fit] and I haven't had the heart to throw it away.

And, I haven't been out much lately. So, all of the fabric I had besides the shirt sleeves to work with was a yard of lime green twill and also a yard of pink plaid cotton fabric. The choice was hard, but in the end, I chose the lime green twill. The cotton fabric seemed more for baby blankets and such.

There my project began~

First, I cut the sleeves off of the shirt straight across. Next, I grabbed the trusty seam gauge and cut strips of lime green twill to use to stop the cut ends from fraying. With the seam gauge, I gave the lime green lining about an inch all the way around the tops of both armwarmers, pinned it down, and began to sew.

Well, I wasn't at home at the time so my machine wasn't with me. This meant only one thing~ handstitching. Oh joy.

I can only look forward to trying at this point so I just began to sew. Eventually, I realized, a pin had slipped and I had sewed the lining to the lining, right above the actual top of the armwarmer. I think I was very discouraged...maybe I almost quit.

Anyways, I had these seriously adorable large, colorful buttons. And I had a quick fix idea! So, there was still a little room where I could slip the armwarmer back into the lining and I did, but of course, it wouldn't go past the stitch that was already there. So, I sewed on a button and it looked just fine! ^-^ I was very pleased. It had an even cuter appeal with the button!

Lastly, I cut in thumbholes and sewing around the edges so they also wouldn't fray.

Unfortunatley, the picture I can provide isn't good quality because I currently do not have my camera. But, I hope you like them!