EKO's Crafty Life

This week I patched some of my Jeans that had some holes in the knees I dont know why but I seem to wear out the left knee.  The Tutorial  is now up.

Little Gifts for a One Year Old On The long weekend I had a 1st Birthday to go to and while I had bought a gift already I wanted to add a little something to go with it so I pulled out some flannel (receiving blankets that were no longer needed) and some too small baby bath towels from my sewing stash and made a few little gifts to go with it.  and finally since I keep all of my daughters paintings to re-use, That is what we warped the gift up in. A Crayon Roll ( this actually contains some really chunky Preschool Crayons Crayon rolled all rolled up Large Bibs I made this pattern for my oldest daughter and make them any time i have scraps that are large enough  All Wrapped up

Salsa Night Last week I took an evening after picking up 25 Lbs of Ontario tomato at the store for 6 dollars along with a good sale on peppers and onions I decided to try my hand at canning some salsa. I was afraid it would not be spicy enough  however my husband seems to like it and could not stop dipping chips into the big vat as I was simmering it down so I guess I should take that as his approval. So as promised here is the recipe for the salsa I made last week. 12 lbs Roma Tomatoes (after being peeled and cored) 4 Onions diced 1 Large Green Pepper 2 Small red Peppers 6 Large Jalapeño Peppers 9 Cloves of Garlic minced 1/3 C Coarse picling salt 3/4 C Vinegar 3 Tbs Brown Sugar 2 Tbs Paprika 1 Can tomato past Combine all ingredients in a large pot bring to a boil and let boil gently uncovered for at least 60 min.  halfway through I took a potato masher to break up some of the larger ...

This past week has been a busy yet crafty week a few of the projects I completed are displayed below. I had a wedding to go to and found myself in need of a formal dress length garment bag, so the first thing i did this week was, take a bolt of bold flowered fabric that I picked up at the local thrift shop for 6$ and make a bag for my dress some think the pattern is too bright but i really like it I have a white vintage Samsonite over night bag the goes wonderfully with it as far as I am concerned but please let me know what you think. Garment Bag from vintage thrift store fabric My next project was to get a dinner put together for a new mom in my mommy group.  I started by making a little taggy style blanket for the baby, some crayon rolls for the older siblings and then cooked a lasagna, breakfast bars, baked some croissants ( not from scratch) , made some jam, baked some cookies and some cereal snack mix so that she not onl...

I just wanted to let you know that I have not forgotten my promise to put up my 1st tutorial on making melt proof Popsicle.  I was almost ready to put it up when one of my dear daughters pulled on my laptop cord and broke the dongle.  I have ordered a replacement but it will probably be 2 weeks so until I receive the cable I will not be able to retrieve the pictures I need to finish the tutorial.  In the mean time I will try and post some pictures and descriptions of crafty things I have been making on the last few weeks.

I hope this posts this time! I really should try and get to sleep even if I don't feel sleepy! As it is late and I am unable to fall asleep I thought I might test out making a post from my blackberry and share some of year crafty goodness I did today. I made chocolate zucchini cupcakes with a zucchini from my good friends garden, you can visit her Blog www.skulegirl.ca . I am hoping some of my zucchini will grow but it is not looking good at the moment. I will let you know about my garden another time. For now I hope this post worked and as I am done feeding my littlest I will try and get some sleep, please visit my friend in the mean time. Sent from my BlackBerry device

I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you to my blog and let you know what I have planned for this space at the moment.  I am a stay at home mom of two beautiful daughters age 3 years and 8 months.  I would like to use this space to share my craft projects that I work on, mainly for fun.  I plan on sharing some tutorials, and recipes.  I also would like to have some discussion on topics that mater to me including frugality, health, the environment and any other topics that may come to mind  Primarily thought I intend for this to be a place to share my crafty endeavour with you. I hope you enjoy and to start off I will be posting a how to make melt proof popcicles  for you latter in the week so please keep a look out.