Frozen Dinners

Now that I work nights, Mark is home every night making dinner for him and the boys. I wanted to make it easier on him, so I spent an entire making 21 dinners and freezing them. There's not much to write about this, except it was so fulfilling!! I cooked all the meat together, assembled the rest of the recipes while it cooled, and then added it to the bags. I labed all the bags, including a simple note as to how to cook it (crock pot, bar b que, skillet, oven), and then laid them on cookie sheets to freeze. Once they were frozen I can now stand them up in my freezer, all nice and organized. I have the complete cooking instructions stuck to the fridge, and we just pull one out of the freezer in the morning, and by the afternoon he is ready to cook it up! I managed to hit REALLY great sales when I bought all the ingredients, and it spent less than a hundred dollars on 21 meals.

STOP

Last week I turned this......
to this
My handsome little nephew has a car bed, and they are working on decorating his room in a correlating theme, and a while back I suggested road signs. Well, we had these wobbly three-legged round tables, and one of them broke on me, so I decided to take the round top and make a stop sign. It was a fun project; not too hard, but with just a hint of problem solving. The first task was to make a perfect octagon. I basically divided the circle into 8 segments, so I divided 360 degrees by 8 to get the angle of the triangle. Then, I found the radius of the circle, that would be the two equal sides of the triangle. Once I had a triangle of that size cut out, I just marked up the circle, creating an Octagon. I painted the whole thing white, then taped off the border so I could paint one side black, the other side red. Before painting the red I cut out the four letters, and used a spray adhesive to make them stick. When it was all dry, I peeled of the tape and the letters, and voila! I had to touch up the letters where the red bled under the paper, but it looks great!
It was so fun to give it to him!! He was so proud of it, and didn't want to leave it inside. He showed it to his sisters, "I got a stop sign, its a big one!" Once his mom hung it on the wall, "it's beautiful! It says, STOP, no girls allowed" That little guy.....