Grandma and Grandpa's house!

For my 13th birthday my cousin Emily and I went to my grandparents house for a couple days, together! Did did a lot of cooking, and I have a lot of pictures! Some of the highlights of the trip were our visit to MCC to knot a quilt, our visit to Michael's the craft store, and making our own cook book of foods we ate while we were there. (Plus we illustrated it!) We also watched a couple cooking episodes of Laura Calder, she cooks french meals.

I'll warn you ahead of time, this is a LOT of pictures:)

 

The whole thing I like about things we baked at Grandma's house was the simple and easy and oh so delicious!

Puff pancake! We just mixed a couple ingredients together and baked it, and the sides puffed up to form a bowl! Then we added some chopped up fruit!

Emily and I had tea every evening! Good Earth, yum!

This is Carrot and Orange soup and chicken salad sandwiches, except in special bread...a croissant.

This was the BEST openfaced sandwich ever! Toasted bread, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, several kinds of meat, cucumber, avocado, salt, pepper!

Tart au Chocolate! (French pastry) We made the pate brisee (pie crust) and filled it with melted chocolate.(chocolate and a couple other things) PS isn't the flower beautiful! Mini carnations.

Pizza! Pizza crust is also in our recipe book.

Emily, Grandma and I

Emily, Grandpa and I, right before our special outing with Grandpa. We went to a Chinese buffet! Yum! 

 

We made such wonderful memories there!

 

A lamp for my bedroom!

This past week I was at my grandma and grandpa's house, (I hope to post about that soon) and for my birthday present they gave me a lamp! It is has a simple base, round and tall and clear.

 

I know the space above my bed is still empty but that will soon change when I paint a big floral design and hang it there! (I got a big, empty canvas from my siblings for my birthday)

Room Makeover!

Okay, well maybe not a complete makeover, but it feels like it! For my birthday my parents are letting me paint my room. My birthday isn't until February 17th but we did it ahead of time anyway☺. We (Dad and I....I couldn't have done it without him☺!) painted and I got a new comforter. I'm planning on making curtains yet but I just wanted to post about what is finished already!

You can't post about painting a room without doing a before picture☺! I had already brought all my furniture into the middle getting ready to paint.

 

Dad Drywalling....

 

Painting the Ceiling!

 

Picking a Color!!!!!!!!!!!☺

 

Paint Cans

 

Painting the walls! Finally! No more yellowish gold!☺

 

One of the funnest parts of the process is taking off the tape and seeing the trim next to the wall.

 

I painted not only the walls but me also☺

 

With my beautiful comforter!



 

 Sorry for so many pictures! It's so hard to pick a small amount of pictures to post for big projects! I also will be making curtains and I will post about them when I make them....Don't expect it to be that soon though☺.

 

PS I know the walls look closer to blue in the photos but on the wall it looks like it is greenish blue...which it is☺!