Butterscotch Trifle Recipe and Thirty Two.

So after Feb is for Finishing was over (emails have been sent to the last week's winners!) I immediately and completely dropped into a pot of dye. 



Really pretty dye:



Good thing I had some help getting ready:



Destination Yarn had a fantastic show at Yarn Cravin'


And somewhere during all of that we also celebrated my husband's 32nd birthday:


We had a lovely celebration as a family at B-spot burgers which - a-maz-ing.  We've been trying to get there forever but needed an occasion.  My only complaint?  We didn't load up on enough tony Packos on our first trip through the pickle bar.  Also that I didn't think of putting booze into milkshakes sooner.  Seriously rum in a milkshake?  Heaven.

My daughter's reaction when I asked her the question "So what do you think of this milkshake with dinner thing?"

The girl and I also made my husband a delicious trifle:



It's butterscotch.  Which is one of my husband's favorites.  Because he is an old lady.  But since it was way more delicious than a werthers I thought I"d share the recipe with anyone else out there who is into butterscotch.

What you need:
Box of Yellow Cake Mix (and stuff required to make it.  Usually 3 eggs, some water, some oil)
Box of instant Butterscotch Pudding (and stuff required to make it.  Usually 2 cups of milk)
Tub of Whipped Cream (if it's frozen stick it in the 'fridge for a few hours to dethaw)
Bag of butterscotch chips (I used about half a bag)
Rum.  Maybe.

Bake the cake in 2 round cake pans:


Make the pudding.
Allow the cake to cool completely and the pudding to set completely.  Then layer in a trifle dish:

1 of the round cakes (I cut it up into wedges first)
1/2 the pudding
1/2 the whipped cream
Butterscotch chips to taste

I attempted to chop the chips.  It did not work.  At all.

Then repeat the layers:
the other round cake
remaining pudding
remaining whipped cream
Butterscotch chips to taste.

Done!

Super delicious, super impressive looking, and super simple.  It tastes very butterscotch-y.  Which led to a discussion that it might be missing something... but we weren't sure what.  My mom in her wisdom suggested rum.  AWESOME IDEA.  So if I were to make this again (and was in a situation where I knew my kids wouldn't be eating this) I would pour rum over the first layer of cake.  Enough to soak it completely.  Then add on all of the layers.  I imagine that cake would be beyond delicious.

tasty even without the rum

Happy Birthday, Matt!

Feb is for Finishing - Contest #3 Winner

So the Week 3 February is for Finishing Contest winner is.... JULIE Z!  She won with this fantastic River Run Scarf:

Love the stripey rainbow-y goodness!  And it's a sock yarn scarf which as a dyer of sock yarn I always find fun.

Anyways Julie I"ll be emailing you soon to get you your prize.  And even though it's March 1 there's still a bit of time left to enter the final February is for Finishing contest!

In other news I've been dying like a madwoman getting ready for the Destination Yarn Trunk Show at Yarn Cravin' next Saturday.  Should be a pretty fantastic show... a preview: 

Yeah instagramming yarn is about the funnest thing ever.

Hope to see you there!

Leap Day Wordless Wed

Things I've finished today in a frantic February is for Finishing wrap-up blitz.  Details on these projects coming but for now some quick 'n dirty instagram fun.  Also don't forget that while Feb may be over the last Feb is for Finishing contest runs until Friday!




 Happy Leap Day!!!

February is for Finishing - Contest #4

Gah!  So I meant to post this on Friday as per usual but a combo of out of town guests and head colds pretty much ended that plan.  Better late than never, though, right!  And since I'm late posting it I'm going to extend the contest until this Friday.  So a couple of days into March as a bonus to finish everything up.

Anyways on to the last week of fabulous prizes!

Lake Michigan Treats Prize Package 

This package of delicious treats was put together by Lori - a fellow Great Lakes Enthusiast:


The photographs are mine but this wonderful package of deliciousness includes:
A loose Tea set, tea mesh ball, and honey from Light of Day Organic Teas
Grocer's Daughter Chocolates (Holy, yum, batman)
Cherry Berry Nut Mix, Chocolate Covered Dried Red Tart Cherries from American Spoon
Cherry Berry Spoon Fruit, Black and Blue Spoon Fruit from American Spoon
Tart Cherry and Wild Blueberry Nibblers from Just Good Chocolate

Seriously amazing package.  All of it is local to Michigan - specifically Little Traverse Bay.  I'm such a sucker for local food.  Also Chocolate.  Thanks so much, Lori!!!

Crafty Goodness Class
The second prize is from the store Crafty Goodness in Lakewood, Ohio.  I love this store and I love what it's doing for the crafting community so I"m thrilled that they wanted to play along:

This prize includes a beautiful fused glass necklace and a voucher for a buy one get one free class.  Here's there class list so you can see their many offerings.  Lots to choose from in lots of different mediums! Anyways because obviously this prize is only applicable for people who live nearby if you want to be entered into the drawing for this one please put CLE after your name.  You will still be entered in to win the Lake Michigan Prize Package as well!

Once again this linky is open until midnight on Friday, March 2!

Full rules listed below.  Yay for our last contest!

Full Entry info and Contest Rules:

Every project that you finish in the month of February can be a new entry into one of these contests!  It doesn't have to be knitting or sewing related.  Anything creative that you started before February will count.

To enter post a picture of something you finished in February to the linky in this post.    It doesn't have to be on a blog - flickr, facebook (hint you can find a link to share a gallery if you go to that gallery page), ravelry, will all work.  If you leave the url portion of the linky blank it will give you an option to upload an image from your own computer.  That's fine, too.  You must also include an email address so that I know where to contact you if you win.

If you finish something made out of Destination Yarn you receive an additional entry per project.

To receive an additional entry per project:  Link back to this site wherever you post your picture.  (again blog, facebook, flickr, ravelry, wherever.)

To receive another entry per project:  Tweet the project and a link back to this page.  Include @Sourire11 so that I know that you tweeted it.

So for every project that you finish you can earn up to 4 entries into a contest! 

The linky will be live until next Thursday at midnight when I will close it out and pick a winner.  Then the next day I will post the contest for the next week with it's own linky.

Happy Finishing!!! 

Yarn, a Hat, and Mobility

So first of all this:


Yay!  I had such a blast at my show with Yarn Cravin' last year we decided to try it again.  Should be funtimes.  Plus I have a couple of new colorways in the works that should make this show extra special.  Hope to see you there!

Until then I did list a few skeins of the Frozen Great Lake colorway due to popular demand...

In other news I finished a hat:


It's the Queenie pattern by Woolly Wormhead on Ravelry here.

Honestly I'm pretty meh on the whole thing.  The yarn was picked by my daughter.  I took her to River Colors awhile ago where she immediately went to their pile of Destination Yarn and told me she wanted it.  Um... no.  Sorry, kid.  You can get that at home.  Anyways she then had a great time telling me she wanted all of the yarn.  No, really.  All of it.  I understood how she felt.  But eventually she zeroed in on this sequined white cotton and some bright, BRIGHT pink Cascade 220.


Wouldn't have been my first pick.  At all.  So I started this hat for her and then quickly abandoned it for the kitty hat that she had no creative input into.  But since this is Feb is for Finishing I dusted it off and finished it for her:


The pattern was very well written but I'm just not a huge fan of the proportions of the finished hat.

She looks a bit... odd.  Perhaps it's just too big for her still.



Finally, the dude is MOBILE.  I mean I know his name means "Man of the World" and we wanted him to be up for adventure and all of that but I didn't really think that would apply LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER HE STARTED CRAWLING.  Seriously, this kid has no fear, is speedy-quick, and just wants to go exploring.  It's amazing how far he can get / what he can get into the second my back is turned or my hands are occupied.  I'm pretty sure this development as derailed the rest of my Feb is Finishing goals.  GAH.