Let's make our own!

Everything went well at the ENT the other day. He looked up my nose with the camera and said there was no sign of polyps. I don't have to go back until December. I would think that in future I may only have to see him a couple of times a year. Things are ok now, but it will be interesting to see how I fare come the winter months too... but so far, so good.

We weren't very successful at Ikea looking for bean bags. Does anyone know a place where these are easily available? Target had some in, but they were either pink, or embroided with sports motives, and the balls inside of them felt really large! After Ikea we popped across the street to Petsmart. Kristen wanted a new ball for Boo, one that he can actually pick up. He loves playing with balls but he gets frustrated because he can't get his little mouth around most of them to pick them up and bring them back to you. What he needs is a 'soft toy' kind that he had before. We were lucky to find him the perfect one. CLICK HERE to see. Kristen then spied another toy that she liked for him. When I looked at it I realized it was simply just fleece braided together! You can CLICK HERE to see it, but I had a better idea. We went right next door to JoAnns Fabrics, bought a yard of fleece (on sale for $5) and made our own 'Fleecy Clean' toy.

Of course if you want to really go all out, you would buy 3 different colors of fleece, but fleece can be expensive. When not on sale, this one cost $10 a yard! It had 3 colors in it so I thought it would do.

You can see above that the fleece is doggy themed, with little dog houses and bones on it. I cut tassels on either side of this piece to make a 'blanky' for Boo (as per Kristen's request) and there is still another piece left this size if we want to make another toy for a doggy friend. And of course if you have bigger dogs then you just make the braid bigger and thicker.

And while I was in the mood for making stuff I decided to try a new recipe. I posted this on my Facebook page when I found it, but I'm showing you 'my version' here. I made more pesto with my fresh basil on Thursday, and went looking for a recipe in which to use it. I came across THIS ONE from Allrecipes.com. It's called 'Phenomenal Chicken and Pasta in Creamy Pesto Sauce. I didn't follow the recipe exactly but to simply things I just sauted onion then cooked the chicken pieces, added a little wine, 2 tblsp of Pesto and then some heavy cream. I boiled some low-carb pasta (forgot to mention I am trying to eat very low carb at the minute, to help shift these stubborn 10lbs!) and added that to the chicken and sauce. Served with a small side of my home grown zucchini. . . . and voila!


Today Kristen is off to a friend's birthday party, then she's actually staying the night. She is very excited about the sleepover. The little girl was her 'best friend' in 2nd grade, she's called Hannah. It would be nice if they got in the same class again this year, but there's no telling if that will happen.  Jason and I will have the evening all to ourselves! Not sure what we'll do yet either. Perhaps a movie? dinner out? or the usual. . . . .  a movie at home with our feet up ;-)