Here is the finished product. It looks great in our dining room and blends in instead of sticking out like a sore thumb. I had to turn the fabric on the back of the chair to make it fit, but I figure I won't notice that, especially when it is covered with spaghetti. :)
Remember that little documentary my husband made in place of a Graduate Thesis? Well, it's back in the spotlight. It is a humble work, the film only cost about $10,000 but we funded it ourselves (I have no idea how). He went to school full time and recieved a $900 stipend each month and I worked for about $12 an hour full time while we juggled our new baby Max who was a surprise (yes, I cried when I found out). I thought it couldn't have been worse timing.
It set us back more than a few years financially and when it was all said and done, honestly...I was a little bitter. Two years of busting our butts and going broke only to have people pat you on the back and say, "good job".
BUT! :) Since the film has been made it has shown in 3 film festivals in Salt Lake City, New Orleans and Brazil. This month Steve was featured in the Desseret News Entertainment Section. Go here to read the article. His Film will once again be shown, this time at "Utah's African History: Storytelling Through Art and Craft," a month-long event held at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.
So my bitterness to this film is diminishing rapidly, I can now appreciate the hard work and years of struggle. Congratulations Honey! You will never ever let us down as long as you follow your dreams!
If you would like a copy of this film you can go here to get one!
This box contains 2 red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, 2 vanilla cupcakes with butter cream frosting and last but certainly not least, 2 dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
We started eating from left to right throughout the weekend. The first were the red velvet, I thought they were amazing and was sad I ate them first. Then I had a bite of the vanilla and thought they were actually better than the red velvet. On Sunday Steve whispered to me while the kids were around to go and eat the chocolate cupcake and to do it fast before he got to it, apparently he had just eaten the first chocolate and was fighting temptation.
I ate it and I had a Ratatouille moment, you know in the movie where he puts the cheese and bread together and eats it and all of a sudden fireworks go off in the sky? Well, this was my moment. I have never in my whole life eaten a cupcake like this. The frosting is fudge, I swear it is, there is no way it is just chocolate frosting. The chocolate cake is heavy and rich but incredibly moist. Wow.
Thank you universe for inventing chocolate and fudge and cupcakes. Thank you Sweet Cake for putting them all together in one delicious edible creation.
My sister Rozlynn who now lives in Alabama (boo-hoo) is one FABULOUS cook and much to my delight has started her very own cooking blog! It is called Rozlynn's Homemade Goodness. Above is just one of her many delectable delights and a Nelson family favorite, Bradford Sugar Cookies. Seriously, the best sugar cookie recipe ever!
We had the plumber come out today to clean our pipes because they have been backing up on us.......only to find that our pipes have big deep roots growing in them!!!
Yep that is thousands of dollars worth of new pipes....pretty #$%! sweet. So five foot privacy fence that was going to close in our entire yard this Summer, peach trees, window boxes and patio; I guess we'll see you in 2011. :(
I am getting very excited for Spring and daydreaming about the things I am going to do with our yard and outside of our house. One of the things I would love to do (budget pending) is add these black flower boxes under our windows. These are vinyl (if you know me you know my feelings on vinyl in any form). If I could find them in wood painted black that would be ideal.
Our house is a deep red brick with white shutters and white vinyl siting :( on the addition (you can kinda see it behind the trees) the previous homeowners did about 5 years ago. I am going to get black shutters for all of the windows and a black front door and these black window boxes I think would look really sharp and compliment the white and red.