Pinterest Pledge {recipe & craft}

It's been a really long time since I've posted anything. There are two things to blame. The first is Instagram. It's so much faster than blogging. The second is my new job. I'm super busy all day long, plus, I feel guilty about doing personal, frivolous stuff while at work. I will try to post more often but I'm just not motivated when I'm home. Anyway, I made a pie and a picture this past 3-day weekend. The pie (and crust) came from this Butter Crumble Apple Pie recipe.

I have never made homemade pie before, at least not on my own, and I've certainly never made pie crust. It always seemed so time consuming and complicated. This pie crust, called Wham Bam Pie Crust, seemed easy and fast. That should have been my first clue.

Here's the pre-bake photo. The crust bakes and then you add the filling and then sprinkle on the topping. This was a messy pie because it had too many apples. I think 4 or at the most 5 apples would have been plenty. Six was causing me problems--sugar/cinnamon coated apple slices were falling all over the place. Adding crumbly topping was even worse. Chunks of sugar butter spilled onto the counter and floor.

 

The pie came out looking pretty darn yummy. I let it cool a little and then added a slice and too much vanilla ice cream to a bowl. The pie crust was bad. Very crumbling and bland. It had no butter or sugar so I shouldn't have been surprised. The pie part had too much butter. The apples were perfectly cooked but as a whole this recipe was a waste of time and money. I won't be making this again. The next day, instead of cleaning the dining room, I made some art. I bought a larger punch after seeing this on Pinterest:

I liked the geometric shape and how easy it seemed to put together. I never could figure out where to put such a large art piece like this one in my house. I like geometric art but I'm not into mid-century modern crap. So I bought the same shape in a smaller punch and used the same craft paper I'd already bought for the larger project. 

The paper colors reflect the color scheme of the room: navy, taupe, white, cream, and some shimmery bronze mixed in for fun. This project took about two hours. I really like it and none of these pictures look as good as it does in person. 

It was a pain to glue each piece together but at least I didn't hand cut anything! The collage (clockwise from top left): Waterlogue app photo of our puppies, a wedding photo (the only one I like of the two of us), the rocks/twigs Pinterest piece I did a while back, photo of my grandpas playing Scrabble, the new geometric art, and a fencing chart I purchased from Etsy.