Sister-in-laws (should be outlawed) (plus a hidden pintry)

It's not a secret that I'm not a fan of my sister-in-law. When my brother first started bringing her around to family things, I tried to get to know her and be friendly, and for a couple years sure she had her flaws, we all do, but we got along quite well. Then slowly true colours emerged. The engagement happened, bridezilla reared, I stood my ground, big fight, ugly words, hurt feeling ensued. An (empty) appology was issued, with "plans" to try and ammend things. I've struggled and sorted my feelings and I'm working on trying to be civil with her, its a work in progress. (and this is going to be another place where I can vent).

My latest baffleness when it comes to her and my brother is the following:

Sunday was remembrance day. In school I used to go to the ceremoy either with girl guides, scouts, or with the class, after high school and college, I sort of developed a tradition of going to the rememberance day services with my dad. So on Friday I informed him I'll be out for breakfast on Sunday then we can go to the services, he agreed, said mom might even come too since there's no stairs (mom's having knee issues with arthritis and something about her miniscus). So I show up Sunday morning, and I'm not sure why I was surprised but mom had invited brother and sister-in-law out too, ok fine whatever. We have breakfast homemade egg McMuffins (and the eggs were cooked in a muffin tin via the oven -something I saw on pinterest and passed on to my mom as an easy way to cook eggs so they're all ready at the same time for xmas morning....dad was cooking and over cooked the eggs slightly making them dry but otherwise that Pinterest pin was a success and will be tried again xmas morning). Over breakfast, I heard that my brother traded his wifes perfectly good snowsuit for a plow for his quad. WTF!? Really?!? Then in the next breath tells my dad he's got a job to do now, go open up the driveway BEFORE my dad goes to work, so people can drop their kids off at sister-in-laws half assed day care, then go back after his bus run and finish cleaning the yard. My dad said he'd go after his run but not before. Now in my head, I'm thinking WTF why can't sister-in-law be useful and open up the drive way before her 'clients' get there. Is she so helpless and lazy?!? I wish I could pull that crap and get my dad to come clean my driveway everytime it snowed -I even have a quad with a plow for him. And if she can't use the quad, use a f-ing shovel!!! They live in town -my driveway is easily 2 if not 3 times the size of theirs. Oh and heres another idea -they could get this free-loading basment dwelling "friend" to keep the yard clean. (that is another story in itself which I will get to one day -its a whole other ball game and emotional mess I'm trying to sort out). So apparently I'm some kind of mutant independant woman of this day and age to look after myself and clean my own yard...who does that these days??? Next she has the balls to ask who all is going to be at the remembrance day services...um does it matter? You go to show your support for the vetrans and those currently fighting. Go to support your husbands family history of great uncles and grandparents that fought during WWII, who cares who else is going to be there. Needless to say she didn't come, which to me is very disheartening, selfish and a few other things too. I was pleasantly surprised that my brother came and didn't cave to what the wife wants (this time).

Rant over...for now...she irks me in the worst possible way and most of the time I feel like no one else see it and that I'm the crazy one that is making this crap up, but then there are those one of two folks that see what I see- Thank goodness for them or I very well could be in the loonie bin.

Pin-tries

I have 2 pinterest reviews to talk about today, plus I also have a couple other topics I hope to get caught up on blogging about. But right now while I wait for my dad to go to work so I can sneak off to the parents place for a little mission of mine, its about the pin-tries.

#1- Super cute mini cupcakes. Sounds simple and it is. Use your favorite cake/cupcake recipe and instead of using muffin tins for the cupcakes you us those tiny condiment cups you get at fast food restuarants to put your ketchup in -or in my case the tiny little paper cups generally used for jello shots. And now that I'm thinking about it I actually tried a 3rd thing I saw on Pinterest that went along with the cupcakes. So put cake batter into cups, fill about half way (I did mine 2/3 to 3/4 and some over flowed while baking), and bake as per usual, though do keep an eye on them after 15 mins. The pin I saw recomended spraying the cups with Pam to help with the removal/eating ease, I did NOT do this, and I can eat them just fine. And a little trick with the paper cups is that if you pull along the ridge of the cup the paper folds come apart, do this all around the cup and cupcake is removed easy peasy! The other pin I tried along with this project was colouing/marbling the cake batter. Instead of adding the food colouring to the batter in the bowl, or many bowls depending on how many colours your going for; you add the food colouring to each cupcake and swirl with a toothpick until desired effect is acheived.

Both these Pins worked for me and I'll probably do them again.

#2- The second project was to use Sharpie markers and decorate ceramic dinnerware. You draw whatever on the outside, bake it in the oven, and it's suposed to stay on the dinnerware. I tries it on an soup bowl and sandwich platter thing, I dont really use. Application of the marker was fun and uneventful, as was the baking part. However the test wash did not go well. Some, not all the colours came off when I washed the dishes. I'm not quite ready to give up on this one yet, I'm going to try some different types of ceramic dishes to decorate. I'll update if I find success and my method that lead me to succeeding.

Pin-try

The problem...tangled up ear bud headphones.

The concept...make the wires a bit thicker and less pliable to reduce or elimanate a big tangled mess. to do this the pin on Pinterest took embordering thread -like you would use in your tween years to make friendship bracelets, and tie/knot the thread around the wires of the earbud headphones.

My attempt started with a trip to moms to scrounge up some thread, after a thorough search I finally found some. That night I started the project. First off as a tween I did make a few friendship bracelets so I knew the knot used in this process but let me say the 6 or so inches you need to make a bracelet with is nothing compared to the seemingly endless length of the wires on the earbuds. It took me roughly 3-4 hours in front of the tv to cover the wires. A long process, but so far no tangles!!!

(I'll try and remember to post a pic of the finished project.)

Pin-tries

I‘m not a full fledge addict yet but it is a good site to waste time and for this full time procrastinator anything that helps my cause is worth a shout out. The website i‘m talking about is Pinterest.

There are hundreds and thousands of things on the website, food, decorating ideas, quotes, crafts, everything!

I‘ve found a couple things on the site that i‘m going to try. My mom said she heard about this one person who tries things from Pinterest then blogs about it. I thought it was a cool idea soo as I attempt my Pinterest projects I‘ll blog about results and call them Pin-tries.

This weekend i hope to have two successful Pin-tries to report on.