Thing-A-Day #'s 7, 8 & 9 - I'm lagging behind!!!

So... tomorrow this means I have to make 2 things to be all caught up. It's been a bit of a crazy week this week for some reason.

Anyways - today I made things 7, 8, and 9. I made 2 different creative packages for 2 different swaps (Thing #7 - Tea Time for Two packets that look like teabags. The actual teabags are inside the "teabag" that I made. Thing #8 - Simple Recipe Swap envelope to hold the recipes I send... my bubble letters are not what they used to be!). After that I crocheted myself a pouch to hold my wooden crochet hooks in. They are not supposed to mingle with the metal hooks, so they needed their own home.

Tomorrow I'll be making things 10 & 11... so I'll be all caught up going into the weekend! It'll be nice - I hate being behind. :P


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Danielle Athanas
email: dmathanas@gmail.com
phone: 978.273.5486
blog: http://daniellesbrainbits.blogspot.com

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Thing-A-Day #6 - Bookmarking & Recycling

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I have piles and piles of greeting cards hanging around, and have been trying to figure out things that I can do with them. Recently I discovered that one of the things that can be done is to take the pictures from the cards, mount them on card stock, and make bookmarks! I secure them down with Mod Podge to make it sturdy. These are for a "spend no money" swap that I'm doing, but it's definitely a fun craft that I'll probably do more often (we have a LOT of cards...).


 

Thing-A-Day #5: Banana Oat Bran Cookies - My Own Recipe!!!

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I had 2 super ripe bananas that I needed to either pitch or throw away. I could not bring myself to waste them because they make such wonderful, nutritious goodies - so I invented a recipe for banana oat bran cookies!

The recipe is loaded onto Livestrong and can be found here: http://www.livestrong.com/recipes/banana-oat-bran-cookies/. I will be posting a blog post later on my blog which can be found here: http://daniellesbrainbits.blogspot.com - so feel free to check it out.

I will say this: They are vegan and they passed the husband taste test. Score!

 

Thing-A-Day #4: Book Thong

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My first attempt at a book thong... it's stretchy so it will fit all sizes of books. This is for the same swap as the coaster. Admittedly, I'm not sure how I feel about it so I think one of my next things (on Sunday maybe?) will be a couple of recycled bookmarks as well for my partner's package.

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Danielle Athanas
blog: http://daniellesbrainbits.blogspot.com

 

Thing-A-Day #3 - Coaster!

I am participating in a swap that requires me to send one person 1 coaster, 1 bookmark, and 1 teabag. Tonight I made the coaster for the swap. I really like the colors; I might make a 2nd matching one!

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Thing-A-Day #2 - ID Badge Lanyard

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I recently lost my ID badge for my job. While this isn't the biggest deal in the world, I was bummed because it also meant that I lost the handmade lanyard I had bought from a co-worker's daughter a couple of years ago. I was about 3 seconds away from purchasing one on Etsy when I remembered that I should really make one - because it's Thing-A-Day month!

So here's my new lanyard. It will make its debut today. :)

 

Thing-A-Day #1 - Cinnamon Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies

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I love to modify recipes and come up with something similar but yet different than what is described on the page. So for today, I modified a vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe I have to come up with Cinnamon Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies!

All I did was half the chocolate chips (OK... maybe I added even more of them after I halved them), added slivered almonds, and added cinnamon and VOILA! Quite yummy... and will be given quite overdue to my 2 Secret Santa recipients. :)

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