Mardi Gras

I just love holidays...This time it was Mardi Gras!

My new boss is super sweet! She was leaving on a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and before she left she brought in a bunch of beads for us, as well as bracelets and little keychains, for the holiday. She wanted us to have some fun that day, while she was gone having fun. So I decided to bake some yummy cupcakes to add to the celebration.

Did you know that Mardi Gras is also known as “Fat Tuesday”…LOL!! Well, you can’t go wrong with chocolate on a day like that!!

Mardi Gras Cupcake = Devils Food Cake with Chocolate Fudge Frosting…and the Mardi Gras traditional colors of purple, green, and gold sprinkles.

When my boss returned from her trip, she didn’t arrive empty handed. She brought each of us a cute little souvenir from her celebration down south. We each hung them in our cubes at the office.

Hope you too had a nice holiday!!

Super Bowl Crochet

So its Super Bowl Sunday...an exciting day for so many! Giants vs. Patriots (Go Patriots!), delicious homemade chili (made by yours truly), awesome corn bread, lil smokies, veggies, meats & cheeses...and great friends! A fun day all around!

As you already know, I have to crochet something every day this whole year of 2012. So today, I made something that went along with the football theme of the day....

A FOOTBALL BEANIE!
(with a fun poof-ball on top)

I was hoping to get it done before the game started, but no luck. It took me longer than I thought. But it was done by half-time and then I wore it thru the rest of the exciting game. Sad that the Patriots lost, but it was a good game. Its always nice watching sports when there's cute guys playing! LOL :)