Friday Favorites
This week flew by fast! I guess having Chris home on Monday helped make it seem shorter. We always like having Daddy around to help entertain baby Andrew.
Things I am into this week:
PomPoms! I found this cool pom pom maker at AC Moore this week and used my 40% off coupon to buy it. I recall seeing it on Julie's blog a while back and thought it would be fun. I always loved making pom poms as a kid, but then I wrapped the yarn around my hand. I was always trying to make the perfectly groomed pom pom. 
So with my new tool, I whipped together 25 pom poms in pink and white and created the pom pom boa from One Skein. This will be gifted to a certain little girl who is turning five soon.
Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: This is such a cute book about how yarn is made. I read it to Andrew last night, although he is clueless. I am surprised to see it is unavailable on Amazon!
Oatmeal: I've been on an oatmeal kick lately. I love the homemade kind with lots of raisins and brown sugar. It takes too long to make most days with an inpatient infant, so the instant kind works too. I just found a new type at Wegmans: Quaker Simple Harvest. It has much more texture to it than the regular mushy instant. If you click the link, there is a place to request a sample.
Kraft Food and Family Magazine: It is really a big ad for their products, but this free quarterly magazine has some great easy recipes. Tonight we are having slow cooker BBQ and orange pulled pork. Hopefully it will be tasty, even if I didn't use their brand of BBQ sauce!
Slow Cooker plastic liners: My friend Teresa turned me on to these and what a time saver they are! They really make clean up easy, especially with sticky sauces.
I am almost finished Andrew's Baby Surprise Jacket. I have about three rows left. I need to find good buttons for it. I found some leather covered ones that I loved, but they cannot be washed easily, which sort of puts a damper on my goal of having a simple, easy to care for, baby sweater. The search will continue! 
Happy Friday!
