A Productive Day

As you may have noticed in the title of this post, I had a productive day! Or at least I feel like I did.

I got up this morning and did a few random things, like eating a piece of amazing sour dough bread toast for breakfast and checking my e-mail (nothing interesting in case you wanted to know).  I then did my Bible study, which was good as always (being able to read God's Word is wonderful).  After Bible study I did all the dishes I could find (except for that one pan that I realized I missed later... oops).  Afterwards I tidied up the kitchen and vacuumed.  Then I (this part actually isn't productive) played Mario Party with Tim, Nate, and Sean (I suppose this could count as bonding time?) and I lost terribly.  I haven't lost that badly...ever.  Then I did a few random things before I finally got to my jewelry making!  I only made a couple Polymer clay items, but at least I got SOMETHING done.  I'm now watching (while I write) a guy movie.

I'm hoping to take pictures of my Polymer items tomorrow, but until then hopefully pictures of stuff from yesterday will tide you over. *grins*

On Valentine's day I made a heart necklace committioned by my Mama.  It's not super easy to see in this picture, but the blue beads are hearts.

I also made these earrings for my mom as a present.  They are supposed to look like peacock feathers, and I'm REALLY happy with how they turned out.

I decided to make cookies last night too.  I was trying to reproduce some cookies I got at Raleys once.  They were amazing. I used the recipe for short bread cookies in the America's Test Kitchen Baking cook book.  They turned out surprisingly well.  If I did them again I'd do them a little differently, but they tasted very good. I decorated them with dark chocolate and white chocolate. They do not look amazing, but again, they tasted good.

I also took a couple pictures of our cats while I was looking at the sunset.  It was so pretty! There were shafts of sunlight coming through the clouds.

Cute kitties, huh? Well, I suppose this post is long enough now? Mmhmm......