Author: Sometimes Homemade

August Wrap Up

August Wrap Up

Labor Day weekend is coming to a close and as always (along with every other person in the northern hemisphere) I am wondering where did summer go? I have to admit, fall is my favorite season, but summer just seemed to fly by before I knew it! I managed to squeeze out a few projects

Team Colors Braided T-Shirt Bracelet

Team Colors Braided T-Shirt Bracelet

It’s unseasonably hot here right now with temps in the high 90’s to over 100 this week. The hottest week of the year, yet this weekend is the start of college football season. Even if it doesn’t feel like fall, it’s time for tailgates and cheering on favorite teams. In our house, we’re Iowa Hawkeyes

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 8) Wisconsin Dells Vacation

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 8) Wisconsin Dells Vacation

This week we took a long weekend vacation to the Wisconsin Dells. More details on what a great time we had a little later. We were leaving early Thurs. morning and I was trying to take off Wednesday from work in order to try to get packed up for the trip. I was trying to

Nail String Art – Initial and Chevron

Nail String Art – Initial and Chevron

You’ve probably seen nail string art projects on many diy sites or Pinterest. I’ve been working on a project for a friend and decided to give it a try. I love it when a project really turns out to be as easy as this one was! I decided to do an initial version and one

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 8)

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 8)

Once upon a time I was motivated to try to get in better shape, eat better, and break some of my unhealthy habits. That time was about 7 weeks ago. For some reason the last 2 weeks have been terrible. Last week started the downhill slide, and I’ve just been in a funk ever since.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bites

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bites

Chocolate peanut butter bites are a perfect bite-size dessert combining peanut butter cookie dough with a fudge filled center.    Chocolate and peanut butter is one of my favorite combos (tied with mint and chocolate!). In a pinch, during a raging sweet tooth, I’ve been known to dip a spoonful of chocolate chips into the

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 7)

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 7)

Not a great week this week on my goals. I had work events 2 nights this week, which did motivate me to get up two mornings to work out, but caused my eating to go out the window. 1) Average 10,000 steps per day. This was my worst week on steps since the first week

Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade – Light!

If you love Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade, you’ll love this easy recipe for a lighter version with a fraction of the calories!  I think I’m one of the few adults I know who doesn’t drink coffee, aside from my husband. Everyone told us when we had kids that we’d convert, but we never have – maybe a

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 6)

Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat (Week 6)

I did so-so on my goals this week, not great, not awful, just meh… I’m still doing better than I was when I first started this series, but not moving as forward as I wanted this week either. 1) Average 10,000 steps per day. I seem to be a little stuck here. I did better

July Wrap Up

July Wrap Up

Seriously, how is it August already? I seem to say this every month, but July seems like it flew by so fast! We had a good 4th of July. I made bleach pen t-shirts for the first time for my son and I to wear to the fireworks. My husband politely declined.