Swap-bot: Digital Photo Email Scavenger Hunt - February

I enjoy a community of swappers at Swap-bot.com. One of the regular swaps I join is a photo scavenger hunt. This is my swap for February. Swap-bot username: 3stairs

1 - Something messy
My desk - and this is actually relatively clean! I know know it's a disaster compared to most people's desks, though.

2 - Something that crawls
a doll at the church nursery where I work - you set her down and she crawls and turns her head back and forth and babbles

3 - Something with multiple buttons or levers
the radio/CD player at the nursery

4 - A landscape or cityscape you find interesting
the view up the hill to my house - the driveway is on the right up there where the road curves off

Bonus: the view from the other direction during our day of snow here in east Texas - a rarity!

5 - Something layered
the skirt on one of the baby dolls in the nursery

6 - A group of people
worshipers during the early, contemporary service at the church where I work in the nursery

Swap-bot: Digital Photo Email Scavenger Hunt - December

Swap-bot username: 3stairs

1 - Some kind of ticket (clothing, speeding,meal, movie...)

A ticket to an Irish music and dance (Michael Londra) concert held at a local university. I had a grand time and learned my first Irish phrase. :)

2 - Something with 4 legs

Our last surviving cat, Spot. She has become much more affectionate towards me since we lost our Bootsie. I think she misses him. 

3 - Something with at least 2 compartments

My medicine box - and I've taken my meds every day this week - go me!

4 - Something with a buckle

The buckle on my youngest child's booster seat that attaches it to a chair

5 - Something decadent

My first pair of chandelier earrings - totally not my usual style!

6 - A wrapped package

My gift to my husband - it's taking a lot for me to not give it to him early!

Swap-bot: Digital Photo Scavenger Hunt - November

My Swap-bot user name is 3stairs.

1 - Something with the word "LOVE" on it: a well-loved tote bag given to me in a swap long ago

2 - An item you use daily: the cotton coaster I crocheted that resides on my desk

3 - Something or someplace peaceful: my beloved teddy bear given to me in high school by a cousin waiting for me on my pillow and sheet in my favorite color

4 - The word "assembly" on a package or sign: assembly instructions for a personal heater we purchased for our daughters' room recently

5 - A souvenir from a trip or vacation you or someone took: a Lego photo from the trip to LegoLand that my mother took our children on

6 - A trophy or award you received: the Brownie Girl Scout Leader pin that I received after taking leader training

Swap-bot: Digital Photo Scavenger Hunt - October

1 - Something illuminated

My charm bracelet and the necklaces I wear most often hanging from my desk lamp

2 - Something tangled

The top drawer next to my chair with a tangled mess of yarn

3 - Something crooked

My daughter reaching for candy to hand out at the block party downtown

4 - Something tempting 

the chocolates in the refrigerator door

5 - Something that makes you happy 

owl folders that my mom got for me

6 - Something in triplicate or a trio

three of "my" babies handing out candy

Swap-bot: Digital Photo Scavenger Hunt - September

1 - Something that is a mixture of a few or many things;

The top of the cabinets in my kitchen with lots of tins, some glassware, and my bridal bouquet

2 - Something green;

My dish towel and tablecloth (green is my favorite color)

3 - Something dirty (in a clean, family-friendly way, of course!);

My stove after making hamburgers!

4 - Something with sharp edges;

My tomato knife from Pampered Chef - my best knife

5 - Something you climb;

The footstool in the kitchen - being only five feet tall makes this a daily necessity! (Those are my toddler's feet)

6 - Something you pack.

My crochet bag - it goes everywhere with me and I always pack my current project into it to work on whenever I am stuck waiting

Apple Dumplings

I finally got around to making apple dumplings again and taking pictures to share with you, so without further ado... *Warning: long post with lots of pictures*

Start with two rolls of cheap crescent rolls, two wedged, peeled green apples (Don't eat any! Moral to come later in our story), and cinnamon-sugar mix.

Preheat the oven to the temperature on the rolls (375F in this case), and line your cookie sheet with foil so clean-up is easy.

Roll out the first can of rolls and sprinkle liberally with cinnamon-sugar mix.

Take a close up picture and be really proud of how it turned out considering you're using an iPhone.

Place an apple wedge on the wide end of the triangle of dough.

Roll the dough around the apple wedge from wide end.

Wrap the corners of the wide end of the triangle around the apple so that the three points of the triangle meet.

Place the roll so that the gathered points of dough are on the bottom of the dumpling. Space the dumplings an inch or two apart.

Repeat with second can of dough. 

Make sure you don't eat an apple wedge while you're wedging the apples or you'll have a lonely, sad, apple-less crescent roll like me.

Bake according to package instructions (13 minutes for the Great Value brand) until light golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

Become the apple of everyone's eye when you declare that these are for dinner.

Take another good picture and pretend you're a real foodie/photographer.

Enjoy!

Six Word Saturday: Life with Kids

fast, crazy, messy -

but worth it

...eventually

My $1.07 reward for this week's work on #OperationSam :D

Crystal Arcand
http://3stairs.com

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For those that think I win every Words With Friends game...

I get slaughtered, too.

Crystal Arcand
http://3stairs.com

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