Sundays are for stuffing my face

One of my favorite things to do is use the ingredient search function at allrecipes.com to use up the random stuff in the kitchen. I happened to have a stray jalapeno, half a container of cream cheese, a plain bagel and some mexican blend shredded cheese. Even though I didn't really follow any of the recipes I came across on allrecipes, I did get some inspiration.

I toasted the two bagel halves in the oven (because Lou set fire to our toaster oven when he unsuccessfully tried to toast some bread, ugh...boys). Then I layered a generous helping of cream cheese, diced jalapeno and a mountain of the shredded cheese on top. Might I recommend NOT scratching your nose after chopping the jalapeno. You'd think I'd learn to remember that by now. But instead, my entire nose is on FIRE. Anyways, I left it in a 350 degree oven until the cheese got nice and melty on top. And wow, it tasted just like a jalapeno popper, except it was easier to eat! Am I the only one that takes one bite of the popper and the whole jalapeno slides out and burns my bottom lip? Or I take a bite and all of the cheese squirts out the back and burns my hand? Yeah, those little poppers are live hand grenades if I've ever seen it.

They might not look award winning, but trust me, freakin delicious.



Aside from food experimentations, I managed to finish up most of my craft show table display. Everything is tagged, bagged, mostly packed, organized, printed, blah blah blah, etc etc. I just have a few loose ends to tie up, a few more supplies I need to buy, and everything will be ready to go! I can't believe it's only a week away. Will I be ready???? I hope I don't forget anything.

Spike was more than willing to help with the table cover fitting, which I think came out pretty good! Folding it was a nightmare though. I hope it stays wrinkle free in time for the show! I hate wrinkly tablecloths.

craft fair preparations

I finished my banner for the craft fair the other day. My lovely friends helped me tediously cut out lettering which I then ironed on with some "stitch witchery" stuff, which annoyingly enough was just as tedious to deal with as cutting the letters out themselves. I'll have a photo of the banner soon. And some others of my other craft table display elements. It's coming together super cute!

For now...here's a photo of just a hint of the things I'm working on to sell there. I have a TON of goodies that I haven't listed in my Etsy shop. I also plan on bringing my Etsy stock with me, so if you're reading this and have seen something in my shop that you were thinking of buying, now's the time to buy before someone else possibly snatches it up!

one month until the craft extravaganza!

It's going to go by in the blink of an eye. I've been really slacking with my promoting and blogging and marketing, etc etc, so on and so forth. There's so much to do in preparation for this craft fair I'm going to, that I just haven't had the time to do much of anything else! I'm thankful I have three wonderful friends who have agreed to come and help me. The craft show is December 5th, so I'm assuming after that date is over, I'll be able to get back into the swing of things.



These are the promo items I made that all of the vendors were asked to contribute for little grab bags to be handed out to customers who come to the craft fair. I have my business card, a teeny button, a little Plini head charm, and a special coupon. It's a secret!

Aside from my craft fair prepartations, I FINALLY got my website up and running. It still needs a bit of work, but it's definitely to the point now where I can show it to people and not feel the need to have to tell them "oh don't worry, I still have to fix that" "don't look at that page" "that'll look different, I'm still working on that". I have to add a few more links and fix the background...maybe rearrange my little gallery page. But I'm really happy with it! Thanks to Lou, of course, for all of his help and patience with my dumb questions about html and ftp.

http://www.jamieferraioli.com