Pup, Plates, and Puffs

Stopped by Rite Aid and ran into this precious animated pup. Squeeze its paw, music plays, and the little fella bounces around and shakes his head. Half-off so couldn't resist picking one up for little Hazley.

Here's Hazley in all her glory at 14 months. Isn't she sweet?

Christmas is coming so started some holiday crafting:

Air dry clay snowman.

Gnomes.

Picked a couple of Santa vases for a quarter each at a garage sale this past summer. Snagged some Christmas plates and made a couple of treat plates.

Picked this up from Goodwill but for the life of me can't figure out a scene for it.  Glued a candle stick to the bottom and hoping inspiration will hit.

Bought three glass transformers and added battery tealights to them. They needed a little height so snagged Dollar Tree candleholders, painted them gold, and they work perfectly. 

Have some Tim Holtz vintage looking black and white paper people to use. 

Decided to make a painted air clay moon then embellished the vintage girl to sit on it. Added lights and done.

Decided to funkify a pair of my beat up jeans. Cut up silver metallic fabric and used E-6000 to glue them behind the holes. Happy with the result.

This weekend had the baking urge, probably due to the fact I was binging the Great British Baking Show. I decided to make cream puffs which didn't seem so hard. I last made pate a choux decades ago but figured they were like a bike - once you made them before, you were golden. 

Well not exactly. I made the dough, beating in five eggs by hand until it reached the smooth, letter V dropping consistency.  Filled the piping bag then squeezed them on the tray. Quarter of the way through, nozzle slipped out of bag and it was a mess. Ended up plopping the dough into attempted circles and let them cook.

They looked done, although a few had baked into each other. Marked a hole in the bottom of each to let out the steam. Turned to make the frosting, looked back and my pate a choux had turned into flat mini-pancakes! Plowed ahead and attempted to fill a few of the puffs. It was a disaster!  Saw the writing on the wall so dumped the whole batch into the garbage can and bid adieu. Merde!!

Thankfully, dinner of fish and copy cat KFC coleslaw turned out much better (and edible) than the demon puffs!!

Weekend over and Monday will soon be here!  Thankfully, it's only a 3-day week due to Thanksgiving.

Enjoy the holiday everyone and stay away from the cream puffs!