Blue Cheese and Bacon Burger #FoodPicFriday

When Mom sent up all that cheese last week, one of the flavours was Danish Blue Cheese. I wasn't exactly sure what to do with it, but we were talking about having burgers for dinner and I knew they had to have blue cheese on them. And bacon, obviously.

We made homemade beef patties, buns, and had homemade fries on the side. It was absolutely delicious! The blue cheese was so tangy and it paired with the beef wonderfully. We had enough for leftovers too - so I got to eat this deliciousness twice!

Cookie Cutter Collection

I celebrated a birthday last month, and my awesome friends Brendan and Colleen, surprised me with a gift of baking supplies. They know I enjoy baking, as I often take treats to their house for gaming night. It was so thoughtful of them to think of me. They picked a wide assortment of cookie cutters, an amazing gift, as my previous cookie cutter collection consisted of just one cookie cutter. I'm looking forward to taking some cut out cookies to gaming night soon, as I have lots of options to choose from!

Here is the awesome collection of fun shapes, picked out by my fun and dear friends.

Slippers for Him and Her

The cold weather hit and so did my urge to knit. I'm always knitting dishcloths, but I really get excited for new patterns in the wintertime. John and I both needed new slippers, so I spent far too many hours on Ravelry looking for a free pattern at my skill level. I found one that looked quick and easy and even found a Knit-along on YouTube in case I ran into trouble.

John got a pair made with Super Bulky (#6) chunky yarn, using one strand of yarn.

My slippers were made with Medium (#4) worsted yarn, so I held two strands together. I had leftover yarn from my Harry Potter Gryffindor scarf, so I made myself some Gryffindor slippers.

Car Cookies

A friend of ours recently got her driver's licence, and I celebrated by making her some car shaped cookies. I didn't have a car cookie cutter, but as with my d20 dice cookies, I made my own. Cookie cutters are really easy and fun to make, and really cost-effective if you want a shape that you might only use once.

I learned how to make cookie cutters from this blog tutorial. I hopefully will do a tutorial of my own here soon, I just couldn't get it together to take photos this time around.

Here is the cookie cutter I made/used:

And here are the adorable car cookies made from my favourite gingerbread cookie recipe:

Hand Me Down Santas

Last year I posted about all the snowmen decorations that take up residence in the house in December. I still have them, but have added a number of Santa figurines to my collection, as Mom cleared out a lot of her Christmas goodies and handed them down to me. Some of these figurines I grew up with so it is nice to see them.

Now if I could just get my ass in gear to decorate the house for Christmas... I'm normally a December 1st decorator, but because I think it's still June, I am slow moving this year.

Santa Figurines "from around the world". 
I loved these growing up. 
Mom would place them on the bookshelf on a bed of fake snow. 
When these guys went up you knew Christmas was on the way.

Toy Maker Santa Figurine

Cool Santa Shelf Hanger. 
This guy sits and hangs over a shelf. 
I always thought he looked so laid back and cool. 
He fits in at our place. :)

Wooden Snowmen

Tree Ornaments. 
I'll set them out as figurines.

Santa Moon Figurine. 
It lights up.