Firefighter Embroidery Pattern

My boss is a local volunteer firefighter.

She asked me to digitize and embroider this design for her.

Here is how it turned out.

I created the embroidery design for my Brother sewing machine.

The file is in .pes format.

If you want it, let me know.

Valentine's Day Card

I saw an image of this card going around on Pinterest.

You can click here to see the picture.

I thought that this would be a hilarious card to make for my husband this year.

Since there was only an image going around Pinterest,

I thought I would make a quick tutorial of how I made the card.

I started by doing a google image search for "hammer clipart".

I ended up find this one and I used it for my template.

If you want to download it, click the picture, then right click on it and click save as...

I cut out the star with pink construction paper and outlined with a red marker.

Then I cut the hammer handle with brown construction paper and outlined with a black marker.

I used grey construction paper for the hammer head and outlined with a black marker.

Then used a small heart punch on red paper for the nail heads, which I drew smiley faces with a black marker.

Then I cut little purple slivers for the nail bodies...is that the right word?

I took 1 piece of white cardstock paper and folded it in half for my card.

Here is a picture of all of my supplies.

 Then I glued it to the cardstock paper with a glue stick.

Then I wrote my message.

My husband reaction was priceless!

He said that it was cute and told me that he loved it.

It is a perfect card idea for the love of your life that has a sense of humor. :)

Breakfast B.L.T.

I used to work for a company in Utah that had an amazing cafeteria.

I discovered that they had this DELICIOUS breakfast sandwich called a Breakfast B.L.T.

Since I was an employee, I only had to pay $2.50 for it.

I ate it quite often.

My husband and I decided to recreate it a few years back.

I had bacon in the fridge that needed to be used, so we had this for dinner tonight.

I took very thorough picture instructions of how to make it.

:)

This is just how I am.

Ingredients (for 2 sandwiches):

•  4 eggs
• 1 TBSP milk
• Salt & Pepper
• 3 pieces of bacon, cut in half
• 1 tomato
• 1 lettuce leaf
• 4 slices bread
• Butter
• Mayonnaise

- Cook bacon until crisp on medium heat (3-4 minutes per side).

          - If you have a cast iron bacon press, place it on the bacon after it has been turned.

It will help the bacon cook more flat, which will sit better on your sandwich.

These are AMAZING to have in your kitchen!

- While bacon is cooking, crack eggs into bowl.

- I know my picture shows 5 eggs, but it ended up being WAY too much egg for 2 sandwiches.

- Add milk to eggs.

- This will make the eggs more fluffy and creamy.

 - Use a fork or a whisk and scramble the eggs.

- Once bacon is cooked, place on a paper towel to cool off.

 Doesn't that look delicious??

- Drain bacon grease from pan, don't wipe grease out, just let it pour out of pan.

 Here is our little secret of discarding bacon grease.

Put tinfoil in a GLASS container.

Pour grease into tinfoil lined container.

Carefully add 1-2 ice cubes.

You can see how the grease is bubbling like crazy.

Water and hot grease are dangerous.

Ice cubes and hot grease are less dangerous and it cools it quicker. 

Let sit for 30 min and grease will solidify.

Grab tinfoil by the sides, wrap it up and throw it away.

Or you can save it and use it in your cooking.

 **You might think I'm silly in posting this...my husband did.

But I never thought about discarding grease this way until we met.

It is very handy!**

- Pour eggs into bacon greased pan on medium heat.

 - Let eggs cook until bottom is completely cooked (approx. 4-5 min).

Do not salt eggs at this point.

Salt will actually change the texture of eggs.

Eggs shouldn't be salted until the last minute of cooking time.

 - Flip egg over.

- Salt and Pepper to taste.

I didn't do a very pretty job of flipping the eggs, but it still tasted delicious.

 - Butter your bread with a thin layer of butter.

- Toast in toaster oven until golden brown.

 If you don't have a toaster oven, broil the bread in your oven.

Move the rack to the top position and broil for less than 2 minutes.

Keep an eye on it. It will burn REALLY quick.

- Add mayo to your bread and assemble your sandwich.

The following order is from top of sandwich to bottom:

• Bread
• Tomato
• Lettuce
• Bacon
• Egg
• Bread

 Hmmmmm....this tastes AMAZING and it is so easy to make!

If you want to save calories:

- Leave out the butter and just toast the bread.

- You can also omit the mayonnaise.

If you don't care about calories:

- Use pesto mayonnaise in the place of regular mayonnaise.

- Add an extra layer of egg.

- Add more bacon.

Let me know if you try it!