First up, Thanksgiving. I found some cute brown corduroy in a scrap bin at the fabric store. I figured there was just enough for a cute jumper for my Peanut. And it would have been if a) she didn't decide to grow up, and b) I had a good pattern. I got a free pattern off Burda Style, put up by a member. While the instructions were very simple, straight forward and clear. The pattern itself was a little lacking, the back and front didn't match up at all, they were different sizes and not cute to the same angle. I was able to fix it, but I lost some fabric in the process. So here is the finished product:

Next up, a hostess gift. I like bringing a little homemade treat that my husbands Aunt can serve her family and enjoy the next morning before they all head to the airport and back to their own homes. This year, I had bananas on hand so we made Marbled-Chocolate Banana Bread.

Marbled-Chocolate Banana Bread
Makes 1 loaf, 16 slices
2 cups all purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
1/4 butter softened
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 bananas)
2 eggs (or 1/2 cup egg substitute)
1/3 cup vanilla yogurt (plain low-fat yogurt)
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 350
- Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt stirring with a whisk.
- Place sugar and butter in a large bowl, beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 1 minute). Add banana, egg, and yogurt, beat until blended. Add flour mixture, beat at low speed until moist (don't over mix)
- Place chocolate chips in a medium microwave-safe bowl and microwave on HIGH 1 minute or until almost melted, stirring until smooth. Add 1 cup batter to the chocolate, stirring until well combined.
- Spoon chocolate batter alternately with plain batter into an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Swirl batters together using a knife
- Bake at 350 for 1 hour 15 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. cool 10 minutes in pan on wire rack, remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack
Next I was inspired by Alexis from My Mama Made It to make the kids some Christmas Pajamas. I wanted them done in time for St. Nicholas day which was this weekend. I found some super soft flannel and got long sleeve t-shirts for $3 from Wal-Mart. the kids love them! Monkey helped design his shirt and had a ton of fun doing it, the iceberg on the bottom was his idea and made with some white felt I had leftover from making our Christmas Stockings. Here they are:

Finally, stocking stuffers made of stockings! This project took me literally 5 minutes, I did while waiting for dinner to cook. it was awesome. I took a pair of my husbands old rag socks that he wouldn't throw out because "they were warm, and expensive" but the heel was totally worn threw! I used Natasha's tutorial here and made them into leg-warmers!

My husbands response when we showed him? "So you can make them into something different for Peanut but you can't darn them for me?!"
Darn? Who darns socks anymore?
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