Creativity update

Per last week's happiness challenge, I made what seems like a lot of stuff. Here are some pictures!

The most actively creative thing I did was sign up and take a painting class at my local Michael's craft store. It looks so good!

 

We had some icing we needed to finish off and I wanted chocolate so voila! Homemade oreos! Super easy recipe too: 1 18.25 oz box Devil's food cake mix, 1/2 cup shortening, and 2 eggs. Mix it all together, bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes, cool, then frost, then eat :) So good!

 Not really a creation, but our tomatoes are doing well.

 Our harvest!

 Delicious! I was proud of myself for making this up. Vegetable pasta with a white cheese sauce and our tomatoes on top. It was fun to eat something we had grown ourselves.

 Kyle and I and some friends of ours went on a date to the pottery studio I frequent. These are the results of our labors! Michael and Chelsie made the cup and the vase, respectively. Not bad for their first time! I did the bowl and the pitcher. Fun fun!

Personal Happiness project: week 3

This week is brought to you by the letter C and the week's challenge is "Create something exciting." I have a few ideas for this. I'm going to focus on the artsy-craftsy aspect of this challenge because that is more exciting than creating a family budget or creating an empty receipt box.

I bought a canvas a few months ago that I have yet to do anything with besides shove it in a cupboard. But the challenge in a few weeks is to paint, so maybe I'll save it for that. There are a few crafty things around the house I want to try, but they're not super exciting, just moderately. Pottery is my go-to creative outlet because I'm good at it and there are a few techniques I've been reading about on Ceramic Arts Daily that I want to try. I'm looking forward to the products from this week's challenge because {hopefully} it will be something tangible. Pictures to follow!



In other news, we harvested our first tomato and it was delicious! It was really sweet. We will soon be harvesting another one that is bigger than the first, and when I checked yesterday, other tomatoes are starting to change colors too! I love having a garden.

previous week's challenge

Our little garden

We have a couple of window boxes in which we planted some stuff. We've also gotten to harvest some stuff!

Strawberries!

My big, strong hunter gatherer

 We also have a tomato plant that produced a lot of flowers but no fruit until May 23rd when I saw...

 Since then, the plant has just exploded with fruit--we have over twenty tomatoes! Unfortunately they're all green. Except the other day I noticed our first little tomato...

It's red! Well, orange. But it will be red soon! Then we shall feast! Well, it's only about the size of a golf ball. But it's ours and it's cute! The strawberry plant only produced four berries. I'm really bad at remembering to water the plants so I think it's almost dead. The tomato plant is alive and well though. So is our geranium. The ranuncula we had died and I guess I didn't get any pictures of it.

This is almost exactly what ours looked like. Yellow too. *sniff* It's my favorite flower. 

Anyway, things are blooming in the Jepson home!

 

Photo credit here.