2009 – Page 44 – the long thread

February 14, 2009February 14, 2009

Winner of Baby Giveaway

Well, we’re not giving away a baby! I loved hearing about the deserving little ones in your lives. I also enjoyed reading so many inspiring stories about overcoming infertility and choosing adoption. It’s never easy to have a baby — so here’s to you, Mamas and Papas of the world!

The winner of the baby goods giveaway is comment #32 submitted by Jen of Desert Juniper. Congratulations! Be sure to visit the inspiring shops of our excellent Etsy sellers:

little sapling toys
strawberryluna
sweetbeets
coco + milkweed

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February 14, 2009February 14, 2009

All you need is love…and cupcakes.

vegan-cupcake

Happy Valentine’s Day! I made these vegan chocolate cupcakes from Chow that I posted about earlier this week. The basic chocolate cupcake recipe is excellent and you could fool anyone with this. This recipe was given the kid stamp of approval! I used dark cocoa powder.

I made the icing recipe suggested with some beet juice added for color (you can’t taste it and it’s natural). I would recommend adding some other flavoring to it as it needed something — maybe peppermint, lemon, chocolate or the sandwich cookies they offer as an option. You can also see that it didn’t come out silky smooth, but my icing piping thinga-ma-jig isn’t working, so that might have helped.

I love these cards from some e cards. They totally fit my cynical sense of humor.

February 13, 2009

Sheep Wall Hanging

sheep-wall-hanging

Here is a little gift for a one-year-old. Not very exciting to her as she can’t chew it, but I think it turned out to be sweet. I’m planning to make more of these wall hangings and might sell them. My daughter has a project that she’s been working on that has pushed me to try to do some local selling with her. I can’t squash a six-year-old’s entrepreneurial spirit! More details soon.

February 13, 2009February 13, 2009