I'm back!!! Sort of... (Toddler Backpack)

I'm back!!!! Well, not entirely but I do have a sewing room again and I have started some sewing.  

If this is the first time you've visited my blog, I'll give you the 5 bullet update: 

1. We moved out of our house
2. We moved in with our parents
3. We moved out of their house
4. We moved into our new house
5. We are overwhelmed with the volume of work that needs to be done with the home

We're starting to adjust to the new place.  In the day, I take care of the kidlets and at night, we work on the home.  The bright spot in my day is that I have a dedicated sewing room now WITH A DOOR!!!   My last room was an open room which I shared with the camping gear and our elliptical machine.  Needless to say, I feel quite at peace in my room as I am surrounded by fabric and my supplies.  I love it!!! 

Alright, this post is supposed to be about a toddler backpack so here are the pics!  I forgot to take a pic of the back of the bag and the handle but if you scroll through the "toddler backpack" posts, there are plenty of pics there too.

I always send the mock up first for approval...even if I've done the design before (like here)

No changes?  Then I applique the design and sew in the lining.

 

And that's a wrap! Time to package it up!

Happy Sewing!

Toaster Oven Challenge: Crunchy and Moist Banana Bread

Crunchy and moist banana bread? Yes! It's totally possible!  This was made in my toaster oven.

Most likely all the ingredients are already in your pantry:

So all you need to do is mix the dry, then mix the wet, mash the bananas and throw it all together.

Enlist a helper to mash the bananas

Butter the pan and then dust with flour.  I used my round pan again because I didn't have a loaf pan.

I dug a little well in the middle of the batter so that the banana bread would look less like a cake and more like banana bread. 

And this is what it looks like out of the oven.

When it's fresh out of the oven, the top is nice and crunchy while the inside is nice and moist.  Le yum!

Here's what you need:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
1 egg
1/8 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup flour
1 pinch of nutmeg
2 large bananas
1 tsp of vanilla

Instructions:
1.  Mix sugar, butter, and egg in a bowl.  Set aside
2.  Combine baking powder, baking soda, flour, nutmeg
3.  Mash bananas
4.  Put it all in one bowl, add vanilla, and mix.  Don't overmix!

Put it in your pan and bake in the toaster oven at 300F for 1 hour. 

Enjoy!

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Toaster Oven Challenge: Cake Mix Cake

So today was pantry cleaning day and I had a box of cake mix that we purchased at some point.  In the spirit of continuing my toaster oven challenge, I decided to use it.

Originally, bunny and I were going to make mini cupcakes since the trays fit in my toaster oven.

Seemed like a good idea.  We followed the box instructions and filled the wells up high.  Then we followed the box instructions for baking but added an additional 10 minutes of cooking time.

They looked so cute but it was so hard to pop them out so we ate them right out of the baking pan. 

Since we weren't too successful with the mini cupcakes, we used the remaining batter in a standard 9" cake pan. 

Not a pretty looking cake but a little icing sugar and some berries will do wonders in making this a prettier cake.  

Verdict?  Stick to my tried and true recipes like my chocolate bundt cake.  If these mini cupcakes were for school, I'd be scrambling to make something else.

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