Baking/Crafting

This one is for you Missy.  Melissa.  Whatever they call you....

So, I make these delicious Corn Starch Cookies and I was bragging on them the other day...So I decided instead of just typing them for one, I would type them for all.

Corn Starch Cookies

1 cup butter, MELTED

3/4 cup corn starch (that's right)

3/4 cup powdered sugar

1 cup flour

Mix in first three ingredients in a medium bowl and blend well.  Beat in flour until mixed thoroughly.  Drop by small teaspoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Flatten them out with flour-covered bottom of a glass.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.

Now, for the best part:

Cream Cheese Frosting

3 oz cream cheese, softened.  I like to put mine in a mixing bowl on top of the stove while the oven preheats.  That way, it is softened, but not melty.  And perfect.

1 cup powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla...or more if you like.

Beat together until smooth.  You can even add color if you want.  If the frosting isn't runny enough for your taste, add more vanilla or you can even add milk in teaspoons if you like.

Frost the cookies.  And just you wait.  They melt in your mouth.  And they are tasty.  Tasty.  I might have to make some tonight.  Dang it.

And might I just add this:  Cream Cheese Frosting could cure all of the world's problems.

And now for the crafting part of this blog...

I found a quote the other day that made me laugh and so I made it for my bathroom.  I then showed a coworker.  And I made one for him.  It said, "Wash your hands and say your prayers cause germs and Jesus are everywhere."

So anyway...I have been crafting a lot lately, and I have come to feel that it is a great way for me to handle stress in life and a great way for me to feel like I am doing something worthwhile.  Even if I'm the only one who sees most of the stuff I make, at least it makes me happy.

Right?

 Anyway, Happy National Beauticians Day (Shoutout to Amy Garfield) and also Happy National Chocolate Pudding Day!  I shared my puddin with you!

:)

Have a great day!

Books

Wow.  I just finished the first book of  The Hunger Games series.  Wow.  I hated the ending, not in the this ending sucks way, but in the way she treats Peeta.  Poor guy.  If you haven't yet read these, you probably will like them if you do.  I'll admit that the first 100 pages were slow for me.  I kept thinking that I should be more in love with the people and the book itself.  But then once I got past that I couldn't put the book down.  I was reading it while testing people at work.  It was a two minute typing test they did three times.  So I read for two minutes, got up, helped them start a new one after recording the score, and then read for two minutes, on and on for nine hours.  It was quite humorous.

I will admit, I feel like I don't know enough about him to be team Gale.  I am team Peeta currently.  I think Gale was a great friend to her, but Peeta loves her.  And I think if you went through the crap they did together, you would need each other to recover.  I guess we will see what Catching Fire and Mockingjay bring.  I already hate President Snow.  Such a jerk.  And I hated Cato as well.  I think Foxface was quite tricky, but I'm glad she didn't win.

Favorite character:  Rue.  No Cinna.  No.  Rue.  Okay...its a tie between them.  I love Rue and Cinna, both.  Oh.  And Haymitch.  At first I thought he was weird, but I really liked him by the end.

Oh, I guess I should say that I saw the movie prior to reading the book.  I like to do that so the book isn't ruined by the movie.  I think they did great casting the movie.  I heard people complaining about the girl who played Rue, but I think that she was fabulous.

Anyway, read a book.  It is good for your soul...
And you don't want a book to kill itself because you didn't read it...
Seriously.
Read a book.

And have a great day :)

Books

Seriously.

How lucky are we to have access to such great and powerful objects?  I have been rereading a favorite book of mine.  Its called The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

This will be the third time I've read it...  And each time, new things stand out to me and I fall in love with it for a new reason.  Its about a little girl named Liesel who moves in with foster parents during World War II.  The street where she lives has lots of great characters on it.  At first, I hated Rosa Hubermann because she calls everyone she loves mean names.  But then that is just her way of showing them she loves them.  I know its opposite of what it should be, but that is how she does it.  The book is narrated by Death.  Weird?  Not even.  Totally awesome.

I cannot recommend the book enough.  It is sad, happy, funny, heart wrenching, and just wonderfully amazing.  Its a lot like life is really.

Its about losing.  And gaining.  One of my favorite quotes from Death is this, "I witness the ones that are left behind, crumbled among the jigsaw puzzles of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs."  So from Death's point of view, and my own personal point of view, its much worse to be the ones who live on.  Seriously.

Anyway, if you like good books, read this one.  If you don't like good books, I just don't know what to say...other than this:  We need to talk.

Enjoy.